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White Star Capital

Founders Christian Hernandez Eric Martineau-Fortin Jean-Francois Marcoux

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Total investments 171
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 104
Rounds per year 10.06
Lead investments 43
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 12
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Blockchain
Summary

White Star Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Apps. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dollar Shave Club, Meero, KeyMe.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the White Star Capital, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, Real Ventures, Ravin Gandhi. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Real Ventures, Portag3 Ventures, Global Founders Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, ff Venture Capital.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this White Star Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from White Star Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The current fund was established by Christian Hernandez, Eric Martineau-Fortin, Jean-Francois Marcoux. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Autoverse Studios

Gaming
PC Games
Video Games
$8M13 Aug 2024 Costa Mesa, California, United States

etherfuse

Blockchain
$3M20 Jul 2024 Irvine, California, United States

Haruko

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M15 Jul 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

RedStone

Blockchain
Financial Services
$15M02 Jul 2024 -

Blueberry Protocol

Blockchain
Finance
Lending
Software
$2M04 Jun 2024 -

Lockchain.ai

$4M01 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

900.care

Consumer Goods
Personal Health
$24M26 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Kulipa

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M12 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

ether.fi

FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$27M28 Feb 2024 Midland, Cayman Islands
News
Numan Raises $40M in Series B Funding

– Numan is a digital platform for men’s health.
– Company raised $40m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by White Star Capital, with participation from existing investors Novator, Vostok New Global, Anthemis Exponential and Colle Capital, and new investor Hanwha Dream Fund.
– The new investment will be used to continue to expand operations and its business reach, as well as the therapeutic areas it covers.

Tech-driven Butternut Box eats its own dog food — raises $55.4M to scale up

– Butternut Box, a London-based fresh dog food business, raised $55.4m funding.
– The round was led by L Catterton and joined by White Star Capital, Five Seasons Ventures and Passion Capital.
– The company bills itself as a “human-grade, fresh dog food company” with a “personalized dietary offering” driven by its own tech platform.

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Total investments 171
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 10.06
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 43
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Autoverse Studios

Gaming
PC Games
Video Games
$8M13 Aug 2024 Costa Mesa, California, United States

etherfuse

Blockchain
$3M20 Jul 2024 Irvine, California, United States

Haruko

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M15 Jul 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

RedStone

Blockchain
Financial Services
$15M02 Jul 2024 -

Blueberry Protocol

Blockchain
Finance
Lending
Software
$2M04 Jun 2024 -

Lockchain.ai

$4M01 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

900.care

Consumer Goods
Personal Health
$24M26 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Kulipa

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M12 Mar 2024 New York, New York, United States

ether.fi

FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$27M28 Feb 2024 Midland, Cayman Islands
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