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What does Fontinalis Partners invest in?
Fontinalis Partners invests most often at Seed and Series A (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Sustainability, Industrial and Industry 4.0.
Fontinalis Partners highlights
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4 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 60% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 5 rounds, median $2.5M
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3 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Investing in early-stage startups on the new frontiers of mobility, industrial innovation, and energy.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- SustainabilityIndustrialIndustry 4.0
- Based in
- Detroit, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first65 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Jul
- May
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
3 rounds
- Sept
- Jun
- Mar
- 2024
6 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Apr
- Mar
- Jan
- 2023
4 rounds
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- 2022
3 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- 2021
3 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- 2019
4 rounds
- Jun
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2018
3 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Jan
- 2017
3 rounds
- Nov
- Jul
- Feb
- 2016
1 round
- Sept
- 2015
8 rounds
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
CWChristopher Welles CheeverManager of General PartneriFiling they signed
CTChristopher Taylor StallmanManager of General PartneriFiling they signed
LALaura Anne PetterleChief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer & Managing PartneriForm ADV
RHRalph H. Booth, IIManager of Fontinalis Partners, LLCiFiling they signed
RHRalph Harman BoothRetired Managing PartneriForm ADV
We also hold 17 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$247Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Fontinalis Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 161242
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
22 of 47 we have independently watched raise
Automated case pickingAutonomous dispatch & routingAutonomous flightB2B autonomous vehiclesChipflowDigital manufacturing atEnterprise fleet managementFreight intelligenceFull-stack autonomous vehicleHighlandfleetsML-enabled custom battery cathodesMachine learningMobile driving analyticsOn-demand deliveryOver-the-air (OTA) connectedServerless geospatial dataSilicon carbide wafersSimple and flexibleSpace & AITransportation network ipoZero-touch warehouse intelligence systemZeroriscAir cargo e-commerce softwareClean hydrogen decarbonizing industryE-commerce deliveryEnergy management systemsEnterprise carpoolingFlexible microtransitFrontier inference clustersGeospatial data mappingHigh-efficiency solar technologyInfra for theLIDAR perceptionLP PortalLocation-based social appMobile parking paymentNovel flexible circuitsOperating system for roboticsPeer-to-peer carshareSchool bus fleet managementSemiconductor fabSimulationSoftware for electriciansSupply chain &Supply chain integrationsSupply chain managementUnsupervised learning
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
ParkMe, Inc.Bought by INRIXUndisclosedSept 2015
WheelzBought by TuroUndisclosedMay 2013
Everyday SolutionsBought by Synovia, Inc.UndisclosedSept 2012
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.