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Frederic Court

Universita Bocconi (Milano)

ESSEC Business School

ESSEC

Founder and Investor at Felix Capital

London, England, United Kingdom

At Felix, we are building a venture capital firm for the Creative Class, operating at the intersection of technology and creativity. We focus on digital lifestyle, investing in brands and related enabling-technologies.
Our mission is to be a partner of choice for entrepreneurs with big ideas, and help them build strong brands that stand out and move the world forward. We are based in London, and operate across Europe and the US. We have c. $600m under management and we announced our latest $300m fundraising in January 2020, with the capacity to invest early as well at growth stages in breakout companies, always in line with our thematic investment strategy.

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Felix Capital

Founder

AMI PARIS

Investor & Board Member

Juni

Investor

Ledger

A social marketplace providing digital assets, tools, and inspiration for a global community of creatives.

Creative Fabrica

Forter is the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, processing over $250 billion in online commerce transactions and protecting more than a billion consumers globally from credit card fraud, account takeover, identity theft and more.

Forter

Our sole purpose as a company is to make it easy for people to turn what they eat and drink into personal moments of healthy joy without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources in the process. Public on Nasdaq (OTLY).

Oatly

Munich-based food-tech brand which designs smart food solutions for a modern generation

YFood Labs

Investor and Board member

Adverity is an intelligent marketing analytics platform specialized in enabling data-driven marketers to make better decisions and improve performance, faster and easier.

Adverity

Global company that creates and distributes fun and safe content for children

Moonbug Entertainment

A direct to consumer fine jewellery brand founded on the belief that luxury should be accessible, fun, and part of every day.

Mejuri

B2B2C travel technology company partnering with brands to enable them to build a packaged travel offering based on PerfectStay's platform

PerfectStay

Investor and Board Member

A female-led womenswear company with a global, omni-channel presence.

ANINE BING

YOOBIC enables retailers to instantly monitor the deployment of their in-store operations thanks to a mobile data collection and collaboration app with real-time analytics.

YOOBIC

Digital lifestyle brand where food, shopping, and mindfulness collide.

goop.com

The marketplace SaaS platform that empowers both B2B and B2C organizations to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale

Mirakl

Investor & Board Observer

La Ruche qui dit Oui ! is an online marketplace where users group themselves around communities to buy food directly from their local farmers.

La Ruche qui dit Oui !

The Business of Fashion is a next-generation media company conceived for today's global, digital and connected world, Founded in 2007 by Imran Amed.

The Business of Fashion

First investor and Board member at <a href="http://Farfetch.com">Farfetch.com</a>, a global online platform for fashion & luxury. I backed Jose Neves' vision early in 2010 and have worked with him to help grow the business, team and investor base since then. Farfetch went public in September 2018 at $6bn market cap (NYSE:FTCH) growing to $15-20bn since then. I left the board in 2019 (Felix no longer an investor in the company)

Farfetch

First Investor and Board Member (2010-2019)

Peloton is reinventing fitness by bringing live and on-demand boutique-style studio classes to the convenience and comfort of your own home.

Peloton Interactive

Highsnobiety is one of the leading lifestyle platforms on the web today. With over 21m unique visitors reached across all platforms, Highsnobiety sits among the most visited global sources for inspiration in the areas of fashion, sneakers, music, art and lifestyle culture. In July 2022 Zalando (ZAL:MU) acquired Highsnobiety and Felix exited the company.

Highsnobiety

Deliveroo

Olapic is a NY-based SaaS vendor enableing brands to visually communicate in a new way, using real customer images and videos in every touchpoint. Acquired by Monotype (NASDAQ:TYPE) in 2016.

Olapic, Inc. (now MONOTYPE)

Leading social media marketing SaaS business, based in the US. Co-led $17m C Round with Scale Ventures. Helped Vitrue expand in Europe. Acquired by Oracle in June 2012 (undisclosed amount, rumoured > $300m).

Vitrue (Now ORACLE)

Board Observer

Leading developer of 3G and LTE small cells for residential, enterprise and public access networks. Co-led investment for Advent, board member. Cisco acquired the company for $310m in June 2013.

Ubiquisys (now CISCO)

Lead European investor in Zong, a mobile payments provider for gaming and social networking companies started in Switzerland, expanded in Silicon Valley. Zong enables seamless payments for over 1.5bn users worldwide on over 1,000 online merchants, including social networks (Facebook) and online gaming companies. In August 2011, eBay purchased Zong for $240m to combine it with Paypal. David Marcus, Zong Founder and CEO, is now President of Paypal.

Zong (now EBAY/PAYPAL)

Board Member

Co-led Advent's investment in Dailymotion, one of the world's largest video sites (top 30 site in the world). Sold to Orange (c. $170m) in 2012, currently owned by Vivendi.

Dailymotion (now Vivendi)

Mobile services company helping media groups monetize their audience through mobile. Spin-off from Zong (Mobile payments) and acquired by its management team in 2012.

Echovox

Joint-venture between Echovox and the French leading media group M6. It was sold to M6 in 2010.

echo6

Led Advent's Series A in Fizzback, a SaaS provider of customer experience management. NICE Systems (NASDAQ:NICE) acquired Fizzback in October 2011 for $80m, a return over 5x to Advent.

Fizzback (Now NICE Systems)

Investor and Board Member at Qype, Europe's leading local search and review site. Acquired by YELP (NYSE) in October 2012.

Qype (now YELP)

Advent invested in the Cartesis (enterprise performance management software) buy-out and co-led the turnaround of the company and subsequent sale to Business Objects (now SAP) for $300m.

Cartesis

Investor and Board Observer

Advent acquired Snell & Wilcox (video processing technology) in 2002, brought in new management and repositioned it for profitable growth (sales >$50m). Sold in 2009 to Probel to form Snell.

Snell & Wilcox

Advent Venture Partners was one of the early venture firms in Europe, investing in world-class technology and life sciences businesses. I was a Partner focused on tech investments.

Advent Venture Partners

General Partner

Co-founded ETEXX in France in 1999, an online marketplace for the European textile industry (with premium content, community features, e-collaboration and online transaction tools). Venture capital backed (Partech International, Upfront Ventures (GRP), CIR).

Etexx

Entrepreneur

Corporate finance - based in London, Milan and New-York over 5 years. Started as generalist advising FTSE100 companies on large, complex cross-border transactions (mainly M&A), then co-founded Lazard's Telecom and Technology group in Europe in 1997 (London). Moved to Lazard's New-York office in 1999 with focus on Wireless and Internet sectors.