Frank\u00adfurt a. Main \u2014 The Frank\u00adfurt office of the inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has advi\u00adsed Inven Capi\u00adtal SICAV, a.s. (\u201cINVEN CAPITAL\u201d) and Iris\u00adNext Funds (\u201cIRIS CAPITAL\u201d) on their invest\u00adments in the Series C finan\u00adcing round of Forto GmbH (\u201cForto\u201d). \u2014 Both have alre\u00adady been inves\u00adted in Forto since the Series B finan\u00adcing round led by INVEN CAPITAL in the summer of 2020. The $240 million funding round now led by Soft\u00adbank (Vision Fund 2) included parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion from Citi Ventures, G Squared and other exis\u00adting inves\u00adtors such as North\u00adzone, Cherry Ventures and Unbound. With its latest round of funding, Forto has raised $360 million in capi\u00adtal to date and is now valued at $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n
Forto GmbH (form\u00aderly Freight\u00adHub), based in Berlin, is a digi\u00adtal logi\u00adstics service provi\u00adder that enables its custo\u00admers to digi\u00adtally manage global supply chains from the manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer to the end customer.<\/p>\n
INVEN CAPITAL is the venture capi\u00adtal arm of the CEZ Group, whose invest\u00adment focus is on invest\u00adments in clean-tech and new-energy companies.<\/p>\n
IRIS CAPITAL is a Euro\u00adpean venture capi\u00adtal firm specia\u00adli\u00adzing in the digi\u00adtal economy. IRIS CAPITAL invests in compa\u00adnies at various stages of growth, from start-ups to late-stage and growth play\u00aders. Iris\u00adNext is a fund of IRIS CAPITAL, backed as inves\u00adtors by leading compa\u00adnies such as Orange, Publi\u00adcis, Valeo and Bridge\u00adstone, as well as finan\u00adcial inves\u00adtors and insti\u00adtu\u00adti\u00adons such as Bpifrance and BRED Banque Populaire.<\/p>\n
Weil\u2019s Frank\u00adfurt office regu\u00adlarly advi\u00adses INVEN CAPITAL on its invest\u00adments, inclu\u00adding the recent finan\u00adcing rounds at tado GmbH and Zolar GmbH, the sale of its stake in home battery storage provi\u00adder sonnen to Shell Over\u00adseas Invest\u00adment B.V., the invest\u00adment in start-up Cloud&Heat Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies GmbH and the recent finan\u00adcing round at Sunfire GmbH.<\/p>\n
The Weil tran\u00adsac\u00adtion team for this tran\u00adsac\u00adtion consis\u00adted of Frank\u00adfurt Corpo\u00adrate Part\u00adner Dr. Chris\u00adtian Tapp\u00adei\u00adner, Coun\u00adsel Julian Schwa\u00adne\u00adbeck, Asso\u00adciate Dr. Khatera Zuschlag and Para\u00adle\u00adgal Nata\u00adscha Sp\u00e4th (all Corpo\u00adrate, Frankfurt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frank\u00adfurt a. Main \u2014 The Frank\u00adfurt office of the inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has advi\u00adsed Inven Capi\u00adtal SICAV, a.s. (\u201cINVEN CAPITAL\u201d) and Iris\u00adNext Funds (\u201cIRIS CAPITAL\u201d) on their invest\u00adments in the Series C finan\u00adcing round of Forto GmbH (\u201cForto\u201d). \u2014 Both have alre\u00adady been inves\u00adted in Forto since the Series B [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-lawyers-tax-advisors-auditors-en","category-investors"],"yoast_head":"\n