Felix Capital
LOCATION: LONDON
EMPLOYS: 2,000
FOUNDER: FRÉDÉRIC COURT
INVESTMENT: 2015 - PRESENT
ABOUT FELIX CAPITAL
Felix Capital (“Felix”) is a London-based venture capital firm operating at the intersection of technology and creativity that he launched in 2015. Felix manages over $1.2 billion of venture and growth capital, with a strategy to invest in digital lifestyle, across the transformation of the customer journey, backing emerging digital consumer brands and related enabling-technologies.
Illustrative investments in Europe and North America include Farfetch, an online marketplace for fashion and luxury; Mirakl, a Saas platform for Marketplaces; Mejuri, a modern jewellery brand; Juni, a financial companion tool for ecommerce companies; Moonbug, a media platform for kids; Oatly, a milk alternative brand; and Peloton, a fitness technology and subscription service.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Prior to starting Felix Capital, he was General Partner at Advent Venture Partners in London, one of the first Venture Capital firms in Europe where he led investments across Consumer and Software early-stage businesses (including Farfetch’s Series A, Zong (now Paypal), Ubiquisys (now Cisco), or Vitrue (now Oracle). Frederic’s first entrepreneurial endeavour was a VC-backed online marketplace for the textile industry which he co founded in 1999 in France. Prior to this, Frederic started his career in 1994 with Lazard, the investment bank, working across their London, Milan and New-York offices, with a focus on Telecommunications, Media and Technology. Frederic was named “Investor of the Year” in Europe by his peers at the 2012 and 2019 Investor All Stars event. Frederic has been on the Midas List Europe each year since 2017.
A graduate of ESSEC in Paris and Bocconi University in Milan, Frederic is fluent in French, Italian and Spanish.