Fontinalis Partners
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Fontinalis Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups at the intersection of mobility, industrial innovation, and energy. The firm typically invests in pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies, and is flexible in leading, co-leading, or participating in rounds.
Fontinalis Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Detroit, United States, founded in 2009. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in mobility, industrial innovation, energy and supply chain.
“Fontinalis invests as early as possible in founders building on the new frontiers.”
— Fontinalis Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Detroit, United States
- Sectors
- mobility, industrial innovation, energy, supply chain, logistics, autonomous vehicles, semiconductors, robotics
- Founded
- 2009
Team, as Fontinalis Partners publishes it
- Chris Cheever Founder & Managing Partner
- Laura Petterle Managing Partner & CFO
- Chris Stallman Managing Partner
- Dan Ratliff Partner
- Jake Simon Associate
- Tanya Bega Investor Relations Director
- Sharon Massetti Director of Accounting
- James Kilgore IT Director
- Melissa Kaempfer Tax Director
- Nia Julian Executive Assistant
- Ralph Booth Founder Emeritus
- Bill Ford Founder Emeritus
Names and roles exactly as listed on fontinalis.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 127 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Tech Square Ventures 3 shared companies: chain.io, freightwaves.com, skyryse.com
- G Squared Equity Management LP 3 shared companies: lyft.com, uber.com, turo.com
- InvestX Asset Management LLC 3 shared companies: lyft.com, uber.com, turo.com
- Founders Fund 2 shared companies: postmates.com, lyft.com
- Hercules Adviser LLC 2 shared companies: postmates.com, lyft.com
- Outlander VC 2 shared companies: postmates.com, lyft.com
- Energy Impact Partners 2 shared companies: robust.ai, sibros.com
- Bling Capital 2 shared companies: shipveho.com, lyft.com
- Grand Ventures Management LLC 2 shared companies: chain.io, carputty.com
- Canaan Partners 2 shared companies: tomorrow.io, turo.com
and 117 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Fontinalis Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://fontinalis.com/name, sectors, status, confidence
- https://fontinalis.com/strategy/is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description
- https://fontinalis.com/team/hq_country, hq_city, founded, people
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