Forestay Capital
VC Fund
Genève, Switzerland
Forestay Capital is a VC fund in Genève focused on Software and Information Technology. Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries in which it can leverage its entrepreneurial heritage and long-track record in helping businesses to realize their ambitions for growth. It is passionate about technologies that transform conventional models withsoftware and data to make an impact on business, practices, and people. It invests in revenue-generating technology companies in Europe, Israel, and in the US, and favors software and data-driven businesses that challenge established models.Forestay Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Geneve, Switzerland.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Forestay Capital invests in
Stages Forestay Capital invests in
Countries Forestay Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $12M–$28M
- Series B
- $2M–$49M
- Series C
- $7M–$110M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (25%)
- Information Technology 8 (25%)
- Machine Learning 4 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (13%)
- SaaS 3 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (31%)
- Series C 9 (28%)
- Series A 5 (16%)
- Series D 3 (9%)
- Series E 1 (3%)
Country
- Switzerland 5 (16%)
- United States 5 (16%)
- Germany 2 (6%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Deborah Mot
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Frederic Wohlwend
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Jonas Jeandupeux
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
David Ephrati
Senior Analyst
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Senior Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Julien van den Rul
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Fonoa
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Fonoa is a tax technology company that develops a global tax automation platform for digital businesses, marketplaces, SaaS providers, and multinational enterprises. The company helps organizations manage indirect tax compliance by automating processes such as tax calculation, tax ID validation, invoicing, e-invoicing, reporting, and tax returnpreparation across multiple jurisdictions. Its platform is designed to reduce the complexity of complying with constantly changing VAT, GST, sales tax, and other indirect tax regulations worldwide. The company provides a modular, API-first platform that integrates with existing finance, ERP, payment, and operational systems. Its solutions enable businesses to automatically determine the correct tax treatment for transactions, validate customer and supplier tax IDs, generate locally compliant invoices, and meet country-specific e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements. Fonoa supports tax operations across more than 190 jurisdictions and processes hundreds of millions of transactions annually. | $110M / Series C / May 28, 2026 | |
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Pivot
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Pivot operates as a fintech company. | $40M / Series B / May 21, 2026 | |
Convelio
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Convelio is a global logistics startup specialized in bulky, fragile and high-value items. | Series C / Apr 14, 2026 | |
Wasabi Technologies
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Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston. | $70M / Series E / Jan 12, 2026 | |
Neural Concept
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Neural Concept is an innovative AI platform focused on transforming engineering product design through advanced 3D deep learning algorithms. By integrating AI directly into design and simulation processes, Neural Concept enables engineering teams to shorten development timelines from months to days, enhance product performance in terms ofefficiency, safety, and sustainability, and facilitate the scaling of AI adoption without the need for expensive and lengthy integration. | $100M / Series C / Dec 18, 2025 | |
Datavations
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Datavations provides the home improvement channel with Assortment, Price, and Inventory Optimization to gain a competitive advantage and boost revenue. | $17M / Series A / Jul 15, 2025 | |
Buynomics
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Imagine knowing your customers’ preferences without tedious analyses, complex spreadsheets, or unreliable focus groups. Buynomics’ AI transforms all your readily available data into Virtual Customers that mimic the buying decisions of real consumers with unmatched precision.Use these instant and accurate consumer insights as the single source oftruth to make decisions on prices, promotions, products, trade terms, channel & portfolio mix. Our holistic approach uncovers the links between critical revenue levers and provides fast and reliable recommendations for best results - your key to profitable and sustainable decisions. | $30M / Series B / Mar 20, 2025 | |
Luminance
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Luminance develops document analysis software to secure big data systems for multinational and governmental organizations. Its software provides overview of various companies and picks out warning signs without any instructions; and document clustering and filtering to enable users focus on eliminating administrative tasks. Luminance identifiesrisk clauses, data visualization, and anomaly detection, as well as reviews and enables users to allocate tasks and track the progress of their team; and manages numerous mergers, acquisitions, and financings. It also helps lawyers and legal teams to categorize, review, and analyze various documents and contracts in the data room. Emily Foges founded founded Luminance in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. | $75M / Series C / Feb 18, 2025 | |
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Neural Concept
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Neural Concept is an innovative AI platform focused on transforming engineering product design through advanced 3D deep learning algorithms. By integrating AI directly into design and simulation processes, Neural Concept enables engineering teams to shorten development timelines from months to days, enhance product performance in terms ofefficiency, safety, and sustainability, and facilitate the scaling of AI adoption without the need for expensive and lengthy integration. | $27M / Series B / Jun 03, 2024 | |
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Wasabi Technologies
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Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston. | $125M / Series D / Sep 27, 2022 | |
| See all 32 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Forestay Capital invest in?
Forestay Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Forestay Capital's check size?
Forestay Capital typically joins rounds of $12M–$28M at Series A, $2M–$49M at Series B and $7M–$110M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Forestay Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Forestay Capital?
The team at Forestay Capital includes Deborah Mot (Principal), Frederic Wohlwend (Managing Partner) and Jonas Jeandupeux (Principal), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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