2017 Year in Review for Fontinalis Partners

With five exits and seven new investments, this was our busiest year yet.

January is a transitional month as people turn their attention to the year that lies ahead, and each year we try to adhere to the socially acceptable window of time to talk about the year that has passed (the standard cutoff is usually about a week or two into the new year) — but humor us as we stretch that window out a bit further this year.

You see, 2017 was our most exciting year yet, full of major developments in both our portfolio and the broader mobility ecosystem. We sprinted to the end of the year, only to be caught up in the hustle and bustle of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) that marks the beginning of each new year.

Five Successful Exits

Every company has its ups and downs and even the biggest technology companies in history have their own stories of enduring challenges on their way to success. As an investor, when you get it just right and back the right team in the right space at the right time, you find that the highs greatly exceed the lows; and when it comes time to sell the company, it can actually be hard to part with it — no matter the price. On that note, we want to congratulate the following tremendous, hard-to-part-with teams on their successful exits this year:

Seven New Investments (and Several Follow-Ons)

While we are parting with five wonderful portfolio companies, 2017 also saw us welcome seven new companies to the portfolio, including:

· FreightWaves (formerly TransRisk)— Data, analytics, and risk management tools for the road freight industry. Fontinalis led the oversubscribed $3.4 million seed financing. Read more

Seed Investments

In addition to the six companies above, we completed a seed investment in a stealth company (more on that one soon!) and supported numerous existing portfolio companies with follow-on investments as they continued to achieve key milestones.

We are already off to a running start in 2018, and look forward to exceeding the bar set in 2017. On behalf of our partnership, we would like to wish each and every one of our entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, limited partners, syndicate partners, and industry contacts a wonderful year ahead. Cheers!

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