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Forestay Capital

Founders Frederic Wohlwend

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$37M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 3.57
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Venture

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Database
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Storage
Summary

The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Switzerland. The main department of described VC is located in the Genu00e8ve.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Forestay Capital, startups are often financed by Auriga Partners, VI Partners AG, Galeo-Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Waypoint Capital, Highland Europe, Galeo-Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TOP Funds, Samsung Ventures, Olivier Pomel.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, CRM. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Switzerland. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nexthink, Wasabi Technologies, Kandou Bus

The current fund was established by Frederic Wohlwend. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neural Concept

Computer
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$27M03 Jun 2024 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

MANTA

Business Intelligence
Data Visualization
Information Technology
Software
$35M26 May 2022 New York, New York, United States

Convelio

Logistics
$35M07 Mar 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Stratio

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Data Visualization
Fleet Management
Logistics
Machine Learning
Mechanical Engineering
SaaS
Software Engineering
Transportation
$12M29 Nov 2021 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Howspace

Education
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$14M11 May 2021 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Kandou Bus

Electronics
Energy
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$36M17 Nov 2020 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

K2View

Big Data
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
Software
$28M11 Aug 2020 Dallas, Texas, United States

Scandit

Apps
Augmented Reality
Computer Vision
Field Support
Image Recognition
Retail
Retail Technology
Software
30 Jun 2020 Zurich, Switzerland

Wasabi Technologies

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Database
Information Technology
$30M28 May 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 25
Average round size 37M
Rounds per year 3.57
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neural Concept

Computer
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$27M03 Jun 2024 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

MANTA

Business Intelligence
Data Visualization
Information Technology
Software
$35M26 May 2022 New York, New York, United States

Convelio

Logistics
$35M07 Mar 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Stratio

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Data Visualization
Fleet Management
Logistics
Machine Learning
Mechanical Engineering
SaaS
Software Engineering
Transportation
$12M29 Nov 2021 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Howspace

Education
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$14M11 May 2021 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Kandou Bus

Electronics
Energy
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$36M17 Nov 2020 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

K2View

Big Data
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
Software
$28M11 Aug 2020 Dallas, Texas, United States

Scandit

Apps
Augmented Reality
Computer Vision
Field Support
Image Recognition
Retail
Retail Technology
Software
30 Jun 2020 Zurich, Switzerland

Wasabi Technologies

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Database
Information Technology
$30M28 May 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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