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.

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
• Thomas Klocanas
• Neil Harounian

Announcing our investment in Liquality

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

• Sep Alavi
• Thomas Klocanas

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
• Thomas Klocanas
• Jonathan Brun

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
• Thomas Klocanas
• Neil Harounian

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
• Jonathan Brun

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
• Jonathan Brun

Dialogue Goes Public: Our Journey from Series A to IPO

Dialogue went public today at a market capitalization reaching C$1B (US$798m). We share our key learnings from this fantastic journey so far.

• Jean-Francois Marcoux
• Christophe Bourque
• Sanjay Zimmermann

White Star Capital’s 2020 Year in Review

As this unprecedented year comes to a close, we reflect on the accomplishments of our portfolio companies and our team in 2020.

Car Access Over Car Ownership: Backing finn.auto to Make Mobility Fun and Sustainable

When we met Max-Josef in the summer of 2020, we were certain we’d found the team to solve the car ownership problem at a global scale.

• Nicholas Stocks
• Alex Wilson

Freshly Acquired by Nestlé USA for $1.5 Billion

Huge congratulations to Michael, Carter and the team at Freshly who we’ve been fortunate to back since their earliest days.

• Eric Martineau-Fortin
• Karolina Mrozkova

Expanding White Star Capital’s Canadian presence, General Partnership and Operations

Today is a special day at White Star Capital as we make exciting announcements about our team in Canada and our global General Partnership.

Mapping the Gaming and Esports VC Landscape

The gaming industry finds itself today at the center of social media, e-commerce and media trends. We assess the gaming sector as a generalist VC.

• Eddie Lee
• Thomas Klocanas

Consumer: Past, Present and Future

With a team of experts in branding, community, and marketing, arfa is creating a platform for the creation of new CPG brands and products of tomorrow.

• Christophe Bourque
• Karolina Mrozkova

Pushing New Borders for Food Delivery

Headquartered in Malaysia, Dahmakan is building an OS powering the entire food value chain from product development to last-mile delivery.

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

Announcing Butternut Box’s Series C of over £20m

Butternut Box has raised a Series C of over £20m led by L Catterton, who brings a wealth of global experience with brands and dog food in particular.

• Eric Martineau-Fortin
• Nicholas Stocks
• Alex Wilson

White Star Capital’s 2019 Year in Review

As 2020 begins, the White Star Capital team looks back at the achievements of our portfolio companies and the scaling of our team in 2019.