FEBE Ventures’ identify stands for “for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs,” and true to type, it’s persevering with to help seed-stage startups with the launch of its second fund. Focusing on $75 million, Fund II is 2.5 instances bigger than FEBE’s first fund and 90% has already been dedicated. As a part of the launch, FEBE Ventures additionally introduced a co-investment partnership with Tekton Ventures.
FEBE Ventures was co-founded in 2019 by managing accomplice Olivier Raussin. Thus far, FEBE Ventures has backed greater than 35 corporations, together with Locad, Zenyum, Tindle, Silverbird and Manatal. New members of its management group embrace Nicolas El Baze, who was a normal accomplice at Partech and likewise based a number of startups, together with Microsoft-acquired Softway Programs; tech entrepreneur and angel investor Aditya Pendyala; and Tekton Ventures managing accomplice Jai Choi.
Fund II’s anchor accomplice is Otium Capital, a global household workplace based by Pierre-Edouard Stérin, a serial entrepreneur whose startups embrace Smartbox Group. Otium Capital, which additionally backed FEBE Ventures’ first fund, manages $1.4 billion AUM in 100 investments and has seen greater than 25% IRR because it was began.
Whereas FEBE Ventures’ first fund targeted on Southeast Asia, its second fund’s wide-ranging funding thesis is pre-seed and seed-stage corporations throughout totally different geographies and sectors.
“We love B2B, however we additionally love healthcare. We love sustainability and local weather tech,” Raussin tells TechCrunch. “However we’re very people-driven, founder-centric and founder-driven. We at all times think about that founders know greatest, so we allow them to shock us and we’re very happy to find new industries and new themes.” Its typical verify measurement will probably be round $250,000 for pre-seed startups and $750,000 for seed-stage corporations.
FEBE II will nonetheless make investments rather a lot in Southeast Asia, Raussin says, however one of many causes it’s taking a extra world strategy is due to new collaborations that develop its community around the globe.
FEBE Ventures’ group
Febe Ventures’ new accomplice Tekton Ventures is the San Francisco-based tech funding arm of Partech founder Vincent Worms’ household workplace. Choi led its investments in unicorns in numerous nations, together with Coupang, Toss, Merman, Newports, Flutterwave and Signifyd. The partnership will allow FEBE Ventures and Tekton Ventures to share their networks in Southeast Asia, Silicon Valley, Latin America and Europe and spend money on extra corporations around the globe, particularly in rising economies.
The partnership will see Choi and El Baze tackle roles as Companion and Enterprise Companion, respectively, at FEBE Ventures.
All 4 members of FEBE Ventures’ management group are former entrepreneurs who, between them, have launched dozens of corporations and labored as traders around the globe, Raussin says. In backing startups, they search for the sort of providers and merchandise they dreamed of once they had been beginning corporations.
That additionally influences the best way they work together with founders, he provides. “We attempt to be very candid and genuine and share with a number of humility the errors we’ve carried out previously to ensure that them to avoid wasting time. We even have a mindset of constructing sustainable companies that generate EBITDA and revenue in the long term.”
FEBE Ventures and Tekton Ventures determined to work collectively as a result of each have world funding theses. “We’re very geographically complementary and that’s the reason we determined to craft these unique and long-term partnerships to work along with the co-investment scheme,” Raussin says. “We will probably be sharing our deal circulate and co-investing collectively.”
By way of FEBE Ventures’ collaboration with Otium Capital, Raussin mentioned, “[Stérin] reached $1.4 billion ranging from scratch, so he’s actually additionally an entrepreneur. We share the identical human values and the identical entrepreneurial mindset, and we collaborate effectively collectively.”
