Frederic Wohlwend
Managing Partner @ Forestay Capital
Geneva, Switzerland
Frederic Wohlwend is a Series A investor at Forestay Capital in Geneva focused on Information Technology and Software. Fred is the Managing partner and Chairman of the Board at Forestay Capital SA, the Tech Fund of Waypoint Capital, Swiss entrepreneur Ernesto Bertarelli's investment Group. Forestay focuses on novel, revenue-generating technology companies, in particular in Europe, the U.S. and Israel, that challenge established models and the status-quo,primarily through software and data.Forestay is operated and managed by Forestay Capital Management Ltd in Jersey, which is in turn advised by Forestay Capital SA in Geneva. Forestay is held exclusively by its controlling shareholders and will, in no circumstances, be offered for investment to third-parties.Prior to forming Forestay, Fred spent 25 years in the digital space within the Bio-pharmaceutical industry running IT globally as Chief Information of Officer for Serono in Geneva and then Merck KGaA in Boston and Frankfurt. He was most recently the Chief Digital Office of the Waypoint Capital group.Fred holds a degree in Finance and Economics from the Geneva University.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
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Industries Frederic Wohlwend invests in
Stages Frederic Wohlwend invests in
Countries Frederic Wohlwend invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 5 (33%)
- Software 4 (27%)
- Big Data 2 (13%)
- Internet 2 (13%)
- Payments 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (27%)
- Series B 4 (27%)
- Series C 4 (27%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Country
- Switzerland 3 (20%)
- United States 3 (20%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
- Belgium 1 (7%)
- Finland 1 (7%)
Investments
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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 | |
Stratio
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We believe that in the future no transport company will succeed unless it is fully automated. We deliver the industry’s most powerful and integrated predictive maintenance solution, data-driven operations control, and the only intelligent ecodriving system available for multi-brand fleets. We will lead the transportation industry towards azero-downtime future, enabling transport companies to serve more customers, better, at a lower cost. | $12M / Series A / Nov 29, 2021 | |
Howspace
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Howspace is a digital facilitation platform that helps you deliver powerful organizational change initiatives, learning programs, and workshops. Howspace adapts to your way of working. You can build the workspaces to match your tried and tested processes. Edit the looks of your workspace, manage the participants access levels, move content around,and add new pages as you go along. | $14.6M / Series A / May 11, 2021 | |
Kandou AI
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KANDOU specializes in the design of high-speed, and pin- and energy-efficient chip-to-chip links, SerDes, and associated technologies.Demand for bandwidth in serial links has increased as industries require both high-quantity and high-quality information. KANDOU BUS has developed a unique approach to serial link design that increases the bit-rateand the reach for a given physical communications link and reduces the power consumption. As a result, more bits can be sent per unit of energy, or less energy can be used to achieve a given bit rate.Less energy means available power can be used for more speed, greater battery life, smaller dies or novel designs that shatter many of today’s constraints.Their team of scientists and engineers, based in Switzerland, the UK, and the US, is pushing the boundaries of serial links. | $36.3M / Series C / Nov 17, 2020 | |
K2view
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K2View provides an operational data fabric dedicated to making every customer experience personalized and profitable. The K2View platform continually ingests all customer data from all systems, enriches it with real-time insights, and transforms it into a patented Micro-DB™ - one for every customer. To maximize performance, scale, and security,every micro-DB is compressed and individually encrypted. It is then delivered in milliseconds to fuel quick, effective, and pleasing customer interactions. Global 2000 companies – including AT&T, Vodafone, Sky, and Hertz – deploy K2View in weeks to deliver outstanding multi-channel customer service, minimize churn, achieve hyper-segmentation, and assure data compliance. | $28M / Series A / Aug 11, 2020 | |
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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. | $30M / Series B / May 28, 2020 | |
Zenjob
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Zenjob is a digital staffing marketplace that provides temporary work to workers and employees to companies. Using the Zenjob app, talents find and book jobs on an hourly basis and can flexibly decide when, where and for whom they work. Each month, more than 40.000 workers are employed in sectors such as logistics, e-commerce, retail, and service.Zenjob was founded in 2015 by Fritz Trott, Cihan Aksakal, and Frederik Fahning in Berlin and currently employs over 300 people. | $29.9M / Series C / May 12, 2020 | |
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Kandou AI
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KANDOU specializes in the design of high-speed, and pin- and energy-efficient chip-to-chip links, SerDes, and associated technologies.Demand for bandwidth in serial links has increased as industries require both high-quantity and high-quality information. KANDOU BUS has developed a unique approach to serial link design that increases the bit-rateand the reach for a given physical communications link and reduces the power consumption. As a result, more bits can be sent per unit of energy, or less energy can be used to achieve a given bit rate.Less energy means available power can be used for more speed, greater battery life, smaller dies or novel designs that shatter many of today’s constraints.Their team of scientists and engineers, based in Switzerland, the UK, and the US, is pushing the boundaries of serial links. | $56M / Series C / Sep 23, 2019 | |
Fornova
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Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting.We are on a mission to turn data into intelligence and align the entire hotel organization (from revenue and distribution to sales, e-Commerce and operations) so they can make smarter decisions together.Fornova is the only hospitalityBI solution provider that has corporate agreements with the majority of the world’s top 10 largest hotel chains, as well as the biggest global OTAs, while also serving hundreds of smaller brands and independent hotels.Using our patented VisualScan technology, we monitor over 75 thousand websites and conduct more than 1.25 billion price comparisons every month.Founded in 2010, we have grown our team to over 150 members, with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Israel, Belarus, Ukraine and India. | $7M / Series C / Sep 05, 2019 | |
vcita
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vcita is the #1 business management and client engagement app, designed to help small businesses grow. Tailored specifically for service providers, vcita redefines the way businesses interact with their clients, driving more opportunities from the web, mobile, email and social while empowering clients to self serve. vcita includes an online CRM tomanage all client communications together with online scheduling , online payments, email & SMS campaigns, lead generating website widgets, and everything a small business needs to drive more business and provide great client service. Our team is based in Seattle, Washington and Tel-Aviv, Israel. | $15M / Jul 22, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Forestay Capital
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.
Forestay Capital Contacts
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Deborah Mot
Principal
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Frederic Wohlwend
Managing Partner
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Jonas Jeandupeux
Principal
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David Ephrati
Senior Analyst
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Julien van den Rul
Associate
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What does Frederic Wohlwend invest in?
Frederic Wohlwend invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Big Data startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Frederic Wohlwend last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Frederic Wohlwend closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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