Ferst Capital Partners

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

Dominique Ferst

Managing Partner

Marko Jelavic

Principal

24 past transactions

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.

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

Seed Round in 2017
Moka Financial Technologies Inc. develops an application that automatically rounds up every purchase that users make and invests the spare change. It uses transactional data and artificial intelligence technology to provide financial recommendations to customers in order to help them make financial decisions.Moka Financial Technologies Inc. was formerly called Mylo Financial Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Moka Financial Technologies Inc. in July 2020. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Zensurance

Seed Round in 2016
Zensurance Inc. provides online commercial insurance brokerage services for startups and small businesses. It offers business, contractors, tech, and tenants insurance. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. As of August 15, 2018, Zensurance Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Travelers Companies, Inc.

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

Private Placement in 2018
NorthOne Inc. offers digital banking solutions. It provides mobile first application programming interface (API) based bank account that helps users, startups, freelancers, and small businesses to manage their finances and transactions. The company also offers stripe, a payment processing software solution that helps to integrate all the financial tools and transaction. NorthOne Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

KOHO Financial

Seed Round in 2015
KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended 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, enabling users to manage their expenses and banking operations on the go.

Moka

Seed Round in 2015
Moka Financial Technologies Inc. develops an application that automatically rounds up every purchase that users make and invests the spare change. It uses transactional data and artificial intelligence technology to provide financial recommendations to customers in order to help them make financial decisions.Moka Financial Technologies Inc. was formerly called Mylo Financial Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Moka Financial Technologies Inc. in July 2020. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Planet DDS

Venture Round in 2015
Planet DDS provides cloud-based dental practice management software for its clients. Through its products, the company eliminates the problems associated with network maintenance, data backup, security, and a variety of other consuming tasks. It also offers also outsourced business services to dental offices. Planet DDS was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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.

Moka

Private Placement in 2018
Moka Financial Technologies Inc. develops an application that automatically rounds up every purchase that users make and invests the spare change. It uses transactional data and artificial intelligence technology to provide financial recommendations to customers in order to help them make financial decisions.Moka Financial Technologies Inc. was formerly called Mylo Financial Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Moka Financial Technologies Inc. in July 2020. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

auticon

Private Placement 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.

NorthOne

Series B in 2022
NorthOne Inc. offers digital banking solutions. It provides mobile first application programming interface (API) based bank account that helps users, startups, freelancers, and small businesses to manage their finances and transactions. The company also offers stripe, a payment processing software solution that helps to integrate all the financial tools and transaction. NorthOne Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts.

Minitrade

Seed Round in 2013
Minitrade, Inc. operates an online platform to buy and exchange women’s, kids’, and maternity branded clothing. It allows users to sell and exchange gently used girls’ clothing, such as tops, bottoms, dresses, one piece apparel, sets, swimwear, outerwear, and shoes; boys’ clothing, including tops, bottoms, one piece apparel, sets, swimwear, outerwear, and shoes; and women’s clothing, such as tops, bottoms, dresses, sets, outerwear, and maternity wear. The company also allows members to shop and purchase items less than the regular retail price. Minitrade, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Quebec City, Canada.

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.

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.

Mirametrix

Series A in 2014
Mirametrix inc. operates an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that detects presence and tracks face, eyes, gaze, and emotions. The company offers Glance, an attention sensing software that provides presence detection; facial recognition; eye and gaze tracking for consumer electronics, automotive, and mobile markets. Mirametrix inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Montreal, Canada

Algolux

Seed Round in 2014
Algolux is based in Canada.

Moka

Series A in 2019
Moka Financial Technologies Inc. develops an application that automatically rounds up every purchase that users make and invests the spare change. It uses transactional data and artificial intelligence technology to provide financial recommendations to customers in order to help them make financial decisions.Moka Financial Technologies Inc. was formerly called Mylo Financial Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Moka Financial Technologies Inc. in July 2020. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

NorthOne

Venture Round in 2016
NorthOne Inc. offers digital banking solutions. It provides mobile first application programming interface (API) based bank account that helps users, startups, freelancers, and small businesses to manage their finances and transactions. The company also offers stripe, a payment processing software solution that helps to integrate all the financial tools and transaction. NorthOne Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

NorthOne

Seed Round in 2018
NorthOne Inc. offers digital banking solutions. It provides mobile first application programming interface (API) based bank account that helps users, startups, freelancers, and small businesses to manage their finances and transactions. The company also offers stripe, a payment processing software solution that helps to integrate all the financial tools and transaction. NorthOne Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts.