Ferst Capital Partners - FCP

Ferst Capital Partners (FCP) is a private investment firm which invests in venture capital, private equity, public markets, sector-focused funds and crypto assets. We have an interest and expertise in consumer fintech, digital assets and search funds.

Jay Ferst

Managing Partner

Mazhar, Laviva

Analyst

21 past transactions

auticon

Venture Round in 2020
auticon is the first German company to exclusively employ autistic people as software testers and offer their services (Software-Tests) on the free market. This innovative approach gives the client the advantage of special high-quality workmanship.

Moka

Series A in 2019
Moka (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app and we're on a mission to help people around the world achieve their financial goals. Moka makes it easy to save more, spend less, and invest smarter. The Moka app automatically rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change, which makes it possible for everyone to start investing with no minimum investment, lifestyle change or financial knowledge required. Since launching in 2017, the app has been downloaded by 750,000 Canadians and earned thousands of 5-star reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded to France to make it possible for more people to round up —but investing spare change is just the first Moka feature designed to help people save more, spend less, and invest smarter. Moka is developing new products driven by AI and human expertise that will reduce expenses, accelerate debt repayment, provide financial coaching, deliver valuable cashback rewards, and ultimately empower everyone to make the most of their money.

KNØX

Seed Round in 2019
Backed by leading institutional and venture partners, KNØX provides digital asset custody with comprehensive insurance coverage for the full value of holdings. KNØX blends simplicity with uncompromising security to help institution meet their fiduciary obligations. All clients have access to KNØX’s secure end-to-end system using a dedicated terminal to manage assets. The insurance protection for client assets is subject to the full terms and conditions of the policy.

NorthOne

Seed Round in 2018
NorthOne develops a banking app that focuses on delivering powerfully simple financial tools to small businesses across America. NorthOne's app is available on iOS, Android and desktop.

Moka

Seed Round in 2018
Moka (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app and we're on a mission to help people around the world achieve their financial goals. Moka makes it easy to save more, spend less, and invest smarter. The Moka app automatically rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change, which makes it possible for everyone to start investing with no minimum investment, lifestyle change or financial knowledge required. Since launching in 2017, the app has been downloaded by 750,000 Canadians and earned thousands of 5-star reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded to France to make it possible for more people to round up —but investing spare change is just the first Moka feature designed to help people save more, spend less, and invest smarter. Moka is developing new products driven by AI and human expertise that will reduce expenses, accelerate debt repayment, provide financial coaching, deliver valuable cashback rewards, and ultimately empower everyone to make the most of their money.

Covera

Seed Round in 2017
Covera takes care of insurance re-shopping for you. We build a detailed profile on your behalf and, before your policies expire, present you with a small number of curated alternatives that can be purchased in minutes. If you can get smarter insurance coverage with a different insurance provider, Covera does all of the work to switch you over in time. If you're already with the best possible provider, we keep you exactly where you are. Best of all, using Covera doesn't cost you a penny.

CoPower

Venture Round in 2017
CoPower is an online platform that simplifies clean energy investing. We help investors place capital into energy efficiency and renewable energy generation projects that offer solid returns, along with measured environmental impact. Since late 2014, CoPower has placed over $2.5 million in clean energy loans. CoPower is a proud Certified B Corporation. Visit copower.me to learn more.

Moka

Seed Round in 2017
Moka (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app and we're on a mission to help people around the world achieve their financial goals. Moka makes it easy to save more, spend less, and invest smarter. The Moka app automatically rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change, which makes it possible for everyone to start investing with no minimum investment, lifestyle change or financial knowledge required. Since launching in 2017, the app has been downloaded by 750,000 Canadians and earned thousands of 5-star reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded to France to make it possible for more people to round up —but investing spare change is just the first Moka feature designed to help people save more, spend less, and invest smarter. Moka is developing new products driven by AI and human expertise that will reduce expenses, accelerate debt repayment, provide financial coaching, deliver valuable cashback rewards, and ultimately empower everyone to make the most of their money.

Zensurance

Seed Round in 2016
Zensurance leading the technology revolution in the insurance industry, and demystifying insurance for start-ups and small businesses. The company uses data and analytics to identify the most common risks so the company can able to create curated insurance packages ideally suited for each industry. Small business owners no longer have to wade through endless forms and play phone-tag. They can learn about all their needs and purchase at their own convenience within minutes online. Zensurance works with the leading insurance companies and industry experts to build the most cutting edge insurance solution. Leveraging the latest innovations in user-experience design, and analytics.

Goodfood

Seed Round in 2016
Goodfood is a home meal solutions company that delivers fresh ingredients and recipes with free delivery. It aims to take the hassle out of cooking, leaving subscribers with the fun part - cooking, sharing with family and eating. Subscribers select their favorite recipes from a variety of original dishes online. The Company prepares a personalized box of fresh ingredients and delivers it to the subscriber's doorstep with easy step-by-step instructions. The company's administrative office is based in Montreal, Quebec. Jonathan Ferrari, Raffi Krikorian, and Neil Cuggy founded it in 2014.

NorthOne

Venture Round in 2016
NorthOne develops a banking app that focuses on delivering powerfully simple financial tools to small businesses across America. NorthOne's app is available on iOS, Android and desktop.

Lendful Financial

Debt Financing in 2016
Based in Canada, Lendful Financial provides a better way to borrow, offering Canadians quick and easy access to loans at interest rates that can save them up to 30% when refinancing. It offers three-to-five-year, fixed-term loans to credit-worthy borrowers with a credit score of 650 and over. Lendful Financial helps its users avoid poor customer service, signing unnecessary paperwork, unexplained high interest rates and bank chargers, and rejection. It aims to provide its customers with the means and time they need to build their lives. Lendful Financial was founded in 2015.

Lendful Financial

Seed Round in 2016
Based in Canada, Lendful Financial provides a better way to borrow, offering Canadians quick and easy access to loans at interest rates that can save them up to 30% when refinancing. It offers three-to-five-year, fixed-term loans to credit-worthy borrowers with a credit score of 650 and over. Lendful Financial helps its users avoid poor customer service, signing unnecessary paperwork, unexplained high interest rates and bank chargers, and rejection. It aims to provide its customers with the means and time they need to build their lives. Lendful Financial was founded in 2015.

Moka

Seed Round in 2015
Moka (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app and we're on a mission to help people around the world achieve their financial goals. Moka makes it easy to save more, spend less, and invest smarter. The Moka app automatically rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change, which makes it possible for everyone to start investing with no minimum investment, lifestyle change or financial knowledge required. Since launching in 2017, the app has been downloaded by 750,000 Canadians and earned thousands of 5-star reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded to France to make it possible for more people to round up —but investing spare change is just the first Moka feature designed to help people save more, spend less, and invest smarter. Moka is developing new products driven by AI and human expertise that will reduce expenses, accelerate debt repayment, provide financial coaching, deliver valuable cashback rewards, and ultimately empower everyone to make the most of their money.

KOHO Financial

Seed Round in 2015
KOHO Financial provides an application-based banking platform to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day-to-day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations to let users manage their expenses and banking operations on the go. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Planet DDS

Venture Round in 2015
Planet DDS is the leading provider of cloud-enabled dental software solutions serving over 10,000 practices in North America with over 60,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of solutions for dental practices, including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx XVWeb Cloud Imaging, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices in North America. To learn more, visit planetdds.com.

Algolux

Seed Round in 2014
Algolux is an award-winning AI software company delivering the industry’s most robust and scalable perception for all conditions, addressing both existing cameras and new designs through cloud-based tools and embedded software. The company was founded on groundbreaking research at the intersection of deep learning, computer vision, and computational imaging. Our computer vision and image optimization solutions address the mission-critical issue of safety for automotive ADAS, autonomous vehicles, fleets, autonomous mobile robots, and video security.

Mirametrix

Series A in 2014
Mirametrix develops consumer electronics integrated with proprietary attention sensing technology to enable human-computer interaction processes. The company also offers Glance by Mirametrix, a software platform that enables customers, OEMs, and ISVs to create user experiences across all devices. Mirametrix was founded by Helge Seetzen in January 2010 and is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Microdea

Venture Round in 2013
Microdea is a rapidly growing enterprise software company focused on the development, sale and support of document management and business process automation technology for the transportation industry. Over the past 20 years, we have helped the fastest growing transportation companies preserve and manage their information, as well as streamline historically manual, labor-intensive, and paper-intensive business processes.

Castle Rock Innovations

Venture Round in 2013
Castle Rock Innovations is a state of the art enterprise technology services organization that utilizes technical expertise and business knowledge to create value for our clients with focus on Financial Services Industry for over 15 years. Headquartered in Chicago IL,Local offices in CA, CT, NY, NJ, FL,TX, AL. 2009 & 2010 Inc500 fastest growing private companies in US. CRI has developed the AXIS Retirement Analytics Platform™ (“AXIS”), a leading retirement analytics and compliance solution.

Minitrade

Seed Round in 2013
Minitrade.ca, a Montreal based online clothing consignment service, has announced a seed round of $630,000 from several investors. The startup offers busy parents the opportunity to purge their cluttered closets and purchase new and pre-loved top quality clothing brands at 70 percent off the retail price. In the last year it grew its customer base to 6,000 active Canadian members. With a professional background in fashion, Minitrade.ca founder Isabelle Doucet created the site in 2012 through her own need, recognizing of a gap in the marketplace through personal experience. “Prior to having children, I would have scoffed at the idea of purchasing previously worn items for my children,” said Doucet. “But once I experienced the frustration of investing in my children’s wardrobe and having expensive items outgrown while still in absolutely pristine condition, I knew there was a better way to dress my children…while having it make more sense financially.”
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