Fortino Capital Partners

Fortino Capital Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2013. The firm was founded by Duco Sickinghe and is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium with an additional location in Amsterdam. Since its inception, Fortino Capital has invested in various industries, including telecommunications, brand marketing, sales automation, and more. The firm's primary focus has shifted to primarily supporting software-as-a-service (SaaS) products that are in a late seed or series A stage.

Fortino has an approach for choosing companies to invest in and mandates the company to be conducting business or be headquartered in Northwestern Europe. The firm makes minimum investments of €1 million.

Fortino Capital offers access to business strategy and C-level executives with each investment it makes, allowing businesses to develop skills and support networks in early-stage growth. Fortino Capital looks for specific qualities in an investment opportunity:

• Late-seed, Series A
• B2B SaaS or PaaS
• Proven product/market fit (PMF)
• International traction/scalability
• Accelerating user adoption
• Headquartered or doing business in N-W Europe

The firm also invests in private equity growth, with investments ranging from €5-30M initial equity tickets. Fortino Capital also provides talent acquisition, operations, and merger/ acquisition support to each private equity investment recipient. The criteria the firm looks for when making these investments includes the following:

• Clear product-market fit within our scope of investment
• Minimum turnover of €5-10M, profitable in the core
• B2B SaaS and PaaS applications
• Minority and majority stakes
• Headquartered or doing business in N-W Europe