Industry Analysis

Exploring the Mobility Industry

In our Mobility report, we take a look at the industry’s growth over the last decade, and how leaders like Uber, Grab, Citymapper, and others are reshaping the way people and goods move around the world.

Industry Analysis

Exploring the AI Industry

In our AI report, we explore how AI has evolved to become ubiquitous across every industry. We also discuss various use cases and where we see opportunities for most significant disruption.

Industry Analysis

Exploring the Foodtech Industry

In our Foodtech report, we explore the landscape of online grocery, food delivery, D2C food companies, and more. We also present social and economic trends shaping this industry.

Industry Analysis

Exploring the Industrial Tech Industry

In our Industrial Tech report, we explore the new wave of industrial automation and focus on innovative segments such as logistics marketplaces, mass customization, and robotics.

Industry Analysis

Exploring the Wellbeing Industry

In our Wellbeing report, we explore businesses improving our everyday lives and overall happiness. We dive into areas such as fitness and nutrition, beauty and personal care, and mental health.

Industry Analysis

Exploring the Fintech Industry

In our Fintech report, we provide an overview of the evolution of Fintech into one of the most active startup industries globally and identify the key players shaping this sector.

Industry Analysis

Exploring the Future of Work Industry

In our Future of Work report, we explore how the global workforce is adapting to the new normal using software tools, as well as new opportunities and challenges for these technology platforms.

Industry Analysis

Exploring the Digital Health Industry

In our Digital Health report, we focus on the global digital health ecosystem and dive into areas such as virtual care, mobile health, software, and communication tools.

Diving into Poland’s Venture Capital Landscape

In our report, we dive into the technology landscape in Poland, unpacking the progress and outlook of this rapidly growing ecosystem in Europe.

Diving into Greater China’s Venture Capital Landscape

In our report, we dive into the technology landscape in China, and also the rapidly growing ecosystems in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Diving into the Nordic Venture Capital Landscape

In our report, we explore the benefits of The Nordic Model, the growth drivers of the ecosystem, and the opportunities available to venture investors.

Diving into South East Asia’s Venture Capital Landscape

South East Asia is the fastest rising region for venture investment this decade with deal volume, size and value expanding over the last five years.

Diving into Germany’s Venture Capital Landscape

Our report unpacks the current progress and outlook for the German ecosystem and highlights Germany’s unique positioning in a global playing field.

Diving into the US East Coast’s Venture Capital Landscape

New York is the 2nd largest venture market in the western world. Our report looks at how the US East Coast is keeping incredible pace.

Diving into Canada’s Venture Capital Landscape

The Canadian market is stronger than ever before, with larger round dynamics, the continuation of the VCCI program, and funding activity by state.

Diving into France’s Venture Capital Landscape

We look at how Paris became the second largest tech hub in continental Europe, only behind London, with a very robust ecosystem.

Unpacking the UK Venture Capital Landscape

Our report delivers a vote of confidence for the UK’s fast-growing businesses and the wider ecosystem during an important period for the nation.

Congratulating our new General Partners in Asia

We’re thrilled to announce two new promotions within our Asia-based team as we look to scale our Asian presence.

UST/LUNA Explained and The Future of Stablecoins

The crash of UST/LUNA has been a case study for how a stablecoin should not work, and puts into question — what is the future for stablecoins?

• Florent Jouanneau

White Star Capital Co-Leads Seyna Series A to Digitize P&C Insurance

We are pleased to announce that we have co-led Seyna’s €33 million Series A round alongside Elaia.

• Matthieu Lattes
• Pauline Studer
• Duc Nguyen

White Star Doubles Down on Micromobility in Asia by Leading SWING Mobility’s $24M Series B

We’re delighted to announce our investment in San Kim and the team at SWING Mobility.

• Eddie Lee
• Shun Nagao
• Spencer Henry

White Star Capital Invests in Wrk to Simplify Workforce Automation

White Star Capital co-led Wrk’s CAD$55 million Series A round alongside OMERS Ventures.

• Christophe Bourque
• Sanjay Zimmermann
• Usamah Khan

Solving for overcollateralization in DeFi with JellyFi

White Star Capital backs JellyFi in their $4.4m round.

• Sep Alavi

White Star Backs Una Brands, The Leading E-commerce Aggregator in APAC

We are pleased to announce that we have co-led Una Brands’s $15 million Series A alongside AlphaJWC.

• Nicholas Stocks
• Joe Quinn Wei
• Sanjay Zimmermann

White Star Capital Backs Uvaro to Help Organisations Hire a Talented and Diverse Sales Workforce at Scale

We are pleased to announce that we have led Uvaro’s $12M (USD) Series A funding round

• Christophe Bourque
• Sanjay Zimmermann

Backing Sleek to become the leading back-end operating platform for SMEs across APAC and beyond

We are excited to partner with Sleek on their journey to become the go-to digital platform for all entrepreneurs starting out.

• Joe Quinn Wei
• Pauline Studer

Announcing our latest investment – DeFi on Bitcoin with ALEX

We are excited to announce our investment in ALEX!

• Sep Alavi

Partnering with Numan to Close the Men’s Health Engagement Gap

We're excited to announce that we are partnering with Numan, leading their $40m Series B round.

• Eric Martineau-Fortin
• Nicholas Stocks
• Alex Wilson
• Blanche Ajarrista

Announcing our investment in Exclusible

Exclusible is a premium marketplace for digital collectible assets in the luxury sector.

• Sep Alavi

Announcing our investment in Liquality

Liquality is building a single interface to crypto and the decentralized web.

• Sep Alavi

Announcing our investment in Superfluid

Superfluid is developing a programmable money protocol for Web3 to enable continuous and securitized cashflows that are netted in real-time.

• Sep Alavi

White Star Capital’s Views on the DAO Economy

We share our piece highlighting the fundamentals of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and where we believe they are headed.

• Sep Alavi

Backing Novisto’s $8m Series A to help companies create value from their ESG strategy, data and reporting

Headquartered in Montreal, Novisto is on a mission to democratize state-of-the-art ESG data monitoring, reporting and insight across the globe.

• Jean-Francois Marcoux
• Christophe Bourque
• Sanjay Zimmermann

Live Video Streaming – from Asia with Love

We revisit our thoughts on live video streaming in Asia that led to our partnership with Asia Innovations as we strengthen this partnership once more.

• Eric Martineau-Fortin
• Joe Quinn Wei
• Sanjay Zimmermann

Congratulations to Safello!

We share our story on partnering with Safello from Seed to IPO as it reaches another incredible milestone by going public today on Nasdaq First North.

• Eric Martineau-Fortin
• Sep Alavi

Partnering with Percent and why we believe private debt markets deserve better

We studied the history of debt markets and its current state especially in the context of technology and innovation which led to this investment.

• Sep Alavi
• Eddie Lee
• Karolina Mrozkova

White Star Capital leads A Round into Flash Coffee to democratize premium coffee across Southeast Asia

Flash Coffee aims to become one of Asia’s leading coffee chains by combining a creative menu with affordable prices and integrated technology.

• Joe Quinn Wei
• Sanjay Zimmermann