White Star Capital is a global venture capital fund and multi-stage technology investment platform investing in North America, Europe, and Asia. It backs exceptional entrepreneurs globally, leveraging their extensive experience and networks to help them scale their businesses internationally.

White Star Capital

White Star Capital is a global multi-stage investment platform built by a team of founders, investors and operators with a track record of entering new markets, expanding teams and exiting companies.

Our approach to venture is characterized by a unique combination of international presence, perspective and people. 

With feet on the ground in New York, London, Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore, we partner closely with our portfolio to help them scale internationally from Series A onwards.

Glow Digital Media

IMMUNIO

Summly

Activate

Mindsay

mnubo

Adore Me

Safello

Second Home

Cryex Group

Dialogue

Digg

Dollar Shave Club

Echo

Freshly

Global demographic shifts are already having a significant impact on economies, healthcare, and social security systems. 

Looking ahead, the number of people aged 65+ is projected to double by 2050, then triple by 2100 to 2.5bn people. Meanwhile, the 25-64 cohort is expected to grow from 4bn to 5bn by 2050.

We believe that income growth across tech-native Millennials and Gen Z, along with an increasingly tech-savvy older population and the largest inter-generational wealth transfer in history, will drive huge changes in online consumer behaviours.

In our fourth and final Early Growth Fund report titled Demographics in Motion, we explore the impact these trends will have on consumer fintech, digital health, and pet tech.

You can access the full version of the report along with a summary of key findings here: https://lnkd.in/e3VQ8txj

Please reach out to our team if you're interested in discussing any of our research, or if you're building something in one of the sub-sectors highlighted!

Nicholas Stocks | Eddie Lee | Jakob Schreyer | Spencer H. | Bérénice Moustial | Jevyn Ong | Sara Schein

It's often said that the strongest startups emerge in the hardest of times.

Extremely proud of Maximilian Wuhr, Nikolai Schröder, Jürgen Lobach, Max Beyer, Jan Hansen, Karen Brandt, Andreas Stryz, Maarten van der Valk and the whole FINN team. Most startups had to adapt over the last 24 months with the shift in the funding landscape as we've gone from a "growth at all costs" world to sustainable businesses with sound economics. However, few startups also had to deal with turbulence in the auto market for the last 4 years - from challenges in sourcing vehicles initially due to chip shortages, with used car price drops and interest rate rises which have affected some of FINN's competitors significantly.

Today FINN is at over €160m ARR, on a clear path to profitability (even prior to this round), and can use this €100m to continue its growth and meet the demand for the product which we've been seeing across both B2B and B2C in Germany and internationally.

Extremely excited for the next couple of years here as we build out another international category leader out of Europe. Nathan Medlock - looking forward to working with you and the Planet First Partners team on this!

FINN closed its' Series C 🚀

We are more than excited to announce that we successfully closed our Series C and collected a total of €100M, which allows #FINN to push even more for sustainability and accelerate the shift to a fully electric fleet. 🙌

The funding round was led by the growth equity sustainable investment platform Planet First Partners with strong participation from existing investors. With our main investor, we're not just gaining financial backing but also invaluable expertise in the sustainability sector.

This partnership is set to accelerate our mission for sustainable mobility and supports our purpose to drive change for people, organizations and the planet through frictionless mobility. 🚀 Welcome to the team 🤝

2023 was a big but also challenging year for FINN. While interest rates skyrocketed 🫤 we were still able to achieve significant milestones. FINN now has over 25,000 subscriptions, translating to an impressive Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) of over €160M. 📈 These mark not just our growth but a collective step toward a greener, more sustainable future. Join us on this exciting journey – because 2024 will be even bigger! 🌍💚 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our investors for their continuous support, but especially the whole FINN team, who collectively does an excellent job and creates an impact every single day! 💙

Check out TechCrunch’s coverage of our recent round in the first comment. 👇

#SustainableMobility #Wintogether #Innovation #Funding #SeriesC

Congratulations to TIER Mobility and Dott on merging to become Europe's leading micro-mobility operator! 
		
With combined revenues of €250m and over 125 million trips a year across 20 countries, this merger positions both companies as key catalysts in providing more sustainable transport options, while reducing pollution and congestion across Europe.

White Star Capital is proud to be supporting this merger and extending our investment in a new round of funding led by Mubadala and Sofina that will enable both companies to consolidate their market positions and move towards profitability.

Catch the full story from Romain Dillet for TechCrunch 👇

We are excited to announce a preliminary agreement with Dott to bring our two companies together to form Europe’s leading micro-mobility operator. With our combined expertise, the joint entity will provide riders and cities in more than 20 countries with a safe and reliable service.

With operations in major global cities including Berlin, Brussels, Dubai, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv and Warsaw, the business will be well positioned to be profitable and support the transition to more sustainable transport. 

The deal will be backed by a mix of existing shareholders from both TIER and Dott, led by Mubadala Capital and Sofina, and including Estari, M&G, Prosus Ventures, Novator and White Star Capital, which are investing €60 million in equity to support the long-term vision of the new joint business. 

Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ek43fxEk

Super result for Valerie Grenier as she wins gold Kranjska Gora for the second year in a row! 

White Star Capital couldn’t be prouder to be supporting Valerie as she continues to make waves in the sport!

That’s a wrap! This year certainly brought its challenges, but we’re proud of the progress we’ve made as a firm and all the remarkable efforts demonstrated across our portfolio.

Having closed our second Digital Asset Fund, announced the first close of our new Structured Growth Capital Fund, and with an imminent first close for our Early Growth Fund, we are very excited for what’s to come in 2024.

This wouldn’t be a year in review without some numbers: 

💵 Despite a tough fundraising environment, 14 of our portfolio companies raised over $550m+

🤝 We welcomed 6 new startups to our second Digital Asset Fund, including Oamo, Rymedi, BoomFi, Trident Digital, and Eyeball Games

🌟 We celebrated portfolio success with Sun Life's C$365m acquisition of Dialogue and an impressive £280m Series E for Butternut Box | B Corp

👨👩👧👦 Our team grew with the addition of 9 brilliant new hires across our investment and operations teams in London, New York, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, Singapore, and Guernsey

⚡ Our second Digital Asset Fund held a final close with Ubisoft as anchor investor

📢 We announced the first close of our Structured Growth Capital Fund, a new hybrid strategy that will provide exceptional scale-ups with the capital they need to become global champions

Here’s to 2024!

Currently, over 328 billion gigabytes of new data are created each day. That's equivalent to 65 billion new feature-length films, every 24 hours! 

In our third of four reports covering the core trends our Early Growth Fund team is excited about, we explore Data-driven Transformation - showcasing the ideas, tools, and companies that will drive value in a new era of data growth. 

To make the most of this ever-growing asset we anticipate a new generation of startups and tools will emerge in data infrastructure, management, and security, to help organisations extract the most value from their data while providing high cost-effectiveness, return on investment, and low implementation time.

You can access the full report along with a summary of key findings here: https://lnkd.in/e_an-dPz

Please reach out to our team if you're interested in discussing any of our research, or if you're building something in one of the sub-sectors highlighted in the report! 💾 

Alberto Lopez Toledo | Sanjay Zimmermann | Usamah Khan | Neel Patel

After another stellar season, we are pleased to announce our continued sponsorship of Charlie Raposo, Great Britain's leading Giant Slalom skier, for the 2023/24 season. 

Charlie has been a trailblazer for British skiing, and we're proud to support his continued dedication, discipline, and commitment to the sport. 

Ahead of the start of The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) 2023/24 season, we sat down to discuss Charlie's insights on the intersection of elite sports and entrepreneurship - have a read of his thoughts in our latest blog included below. 

You can catch Charlie's first race of the FIS Alpine World Cup in Val d'Isère this weekend! 🇬🇧❄️

How the best investors work with non-dilutive funding in today's market?
Reserve your lunch break on Monday the 11th of December to find out!

We've invited:

👉 Gilles de Malbosc, CIO at Harmony Family Office
👉 Bailey Morrow, Managing Director at HSBC Innovation Banking
👉 Hemal Fraser-Rawal, GP at White Star Capital
👉 Benjamin Rieder, Founder & CEO of Levenue

... to have a conversation about:

📍 Non-dilutive funding options in Europe.
📍 Strategies to win with non-dilutive funding.
📍 How non-dilutive funding complements other funding sources.
📍 How investors and financial institutions view non-dilutive funding
📍 Success stories and lessons from those who have successfully used it.

Join an insightful virtual roundtable on non-dilutive funding in Europe on EUVC  — Registration link in the comments section.

#venturecapital #startupfunding #nondilutivefunding #europe

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