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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 127 co-investors found.
- 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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