Forestay Capital

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.