# Bo Ilsoe > Bo Ilsoe is a Series B investor at NGP Capital (Geneva) backing Software and SaaS. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [NGP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nokia-growth-partners) - Location: Geneva, Switzerland - Total investments: 16 - Last investment: Sep 2025 - Lead investor: 31% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://ch.linkedin.com/pub/bo-ilsoe/0/12/946 - X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Ilsoe - Website: https://www.ngpcap.com/ Bo Ilsoe is a Series B investor at NGP Capital in Geneva focused on Software and SaaS. Bo Ilsoe is the Managing Partner at NGP Capital - a global Venture Capital firm investing from Series A onwards across the US and Europe. Bo has over 35 years of experience in the venture capital and technology sector. A technologist at heart, he believes in the transformative - and at times the magical effects technology can deliver to everyone.He always applies a global view to business challenges. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Software | 3 | 19% | | SaaS | 2 | 13% | | Internet | 2 | 13% | | E-Commerce | 2 | 13% | | Marketplace | 2 | 13% | 52 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series B | 5 | 31% | | Series C | 3 | 19% | | Series D | 2 | 13% | | Series A | 1 | 6% | | Series E | 1 | 6% | 8 stages tracked in total. ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | France | 3 | 19% | | Israel | 2 | 13% | | Germany | 2 | 13% | | United States | 2 | 13% | | Denmark | 1 | 6% | 6 countries tracked in total. ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Scintil Photonics | SCINTIL Photonics is a fabless company that develops silicon photonic integrated circuits. SCINTIL solutions combine the best of Silicon (Si) and Indium Phosphide (InP) materials using wafer-scale bonding of InP on Si and rely on commercial silicon foundry processes to build fully integrated photonic circuits (comprising multi-wavelength lasers,waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors). | $58M | Series B | Sep 09, 2025 | | | Shippeo | Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers.Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughoutEurope for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers. | $29.9M | | Jan 15, 2025 | | | NIL Technology ApS | NIL Technology ApS (NILT) takes optical applications to a new level of performance, efficiency, and compactness, by combining diffractive, refractive, and meta optics. As a result, NILT creates competitive advantages with flat optics in optical applications for 3D sensing, consumer electronics, machine vision, autonomous vehicles, and VR/MRdisplays. Products include optical elements and components, waveguides for AR/MR, and masters. | $31.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 07, 2024 | | | Shippeo | Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers.Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughoutEurope for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers. | $40M | Series C | Oct 24, 2022 | | | Perception Point | Perception Point offers cybersecurity solutions that protect organizations from advanced threats. It focuses on real-time threat detection and response through its platform. Its services include email security, web security, and cloud security. The industries served include finance, healthcare, and education. | $28M | Series B | Apr 21, 2021 | | | Shippeo | Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers.Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughoutEurope for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers. | $32M | Series C | Jan 14, 2021 | | | GetYourGuide | GetYourGuide operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide. It offers tourist services online via the Internet and mobile applications. The platform sells tours and excursions, activities including cooking classes, and tickets to many tourist attractions.GetYourGuide runs a thriving and viral businesscurating, and selling tickets for running walks and other exploration experiences for people touring different parts of the world. The business model for GetYourGuide stipulates that it does not offer its tours or activities, but rather, acts as a mediator between customers and providers. The service is free for customers, but the provider of the tour has to pay GetYourGuide a percentage of its revenue.GetYourGuide, an online customer review system, enables potential customers to assess the quality of tour providers. Additionally, the platform removes providers who consistently get bad reviews from its inventory. | $121M | Convertible Note | Oct 29, 2020 | | | Shippeo | Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers.Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughoutEurope for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers. | $21.8M | Series B | Feb 11, 2020 | | | Moovit | Moovit is a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world’s #1 transit app. Moovit simplifies your urban mobility in +2700 cities all around the world, making getting around town via mass transit easier and more convenient. Moovit has more than 300 million users, and was named Best Local App of 2016 by Google and Best of 2017 app by Apple.By combining information from public transit operators and authorities with live information from the user community, Moovit offers travelers a real-time picture, including the best route for their journey. The Moovit community sends active reports about their travel experience, such as bus congestion levels, cleanliness, and more to help others have a better travel experience.Moovit generates up to four billion anonymous data points a day that comprise the world's largest repository of transit data. The Big Data gathering is aided by Moovit’s network of more than 500,000 local editors, called “Mooviters”, who help map out and maintain local transit information in cities that would otherwise be unserved.Moovit is available for free on iOS, Android & Web in over 2,700 cities, across 86 countries worldwide, and can be used in 44 languages. | $50M | Series D | Feb 21, 2018 | | | GetYourGuide | GetYourGuide operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide. It offers tourist services online via the Internet and mobile applications. The platform sells tours and excursions, activities including cooking classes, and tickets to many tourist attractions.GetYourGuide runs a thriving and viral businesscurating, and selling tickets for running walks and other exploration experiences for people touring different parts of the world. The business model for GetYourGuide stipulates that it does not offer its tours or activities, but rather, acts as a mediator between customers and providers. The service is free for customers, but the provider of the tour has to pay GetYourGuide a percentage of its revenue.GetYourGuide, an online customer review system, enables potential customers to assess the quality of tour providers. Additionally, the platform removes providers who consistently get bad reviews from its inventory. | $75M | Series D | Nov 02, 2017 | | 10 of 16 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together - [H14](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holding-italiana-quattordicesima-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Bpifrance Digital Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance-digital-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [ETF Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etf-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together ## About NGP Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States NGP Capital is a global thesis-driven, early-stage VC with a vision to unleash the magic of technology. With an AUM of 1.6B, NGP invests in B2B companies from Series A onwards in Europe and the US in enterprise software, industrial tech, cybersecurity, and infrastructure. For nearly two decades, NGP Capital has invested in more than 100 companiesof which 18 are unicorns and 11 went on to IPO. 5 contacts available at NGP Capital. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Marjut Puttonen | Administration, Europe | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marjut-puttonen | | Atte Honkasalo | Vice Presiden of Data and Analytics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atte-honkasalo | | Bo Ilsoe | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo-ilsoe | | Christian Noske | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-noske | | Debjit Mukerji | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/debjit-mukerji | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund - [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Bo Ilsoe invest in? Bo Ilsoe invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Bo Ilsoe last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Bo Ilsoe closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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