{"id":43530,"date":"2020-11-18T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newserver.fyb.de\/inven-capital-leads-50-million-round-of-investment-in-forto\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:25:21","slug":"inven-capital-leads-50-million-round-of-investment-in-forto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/inven-capital-leads-50-million-round-of-investment-in-forto\/","title":{"rendered":"INVEN CAPITAL leads $50 million round of investment in&nbsp;Forto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank\u00adfurt a. M. \u2014 The inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal law firm Weil, Gotshal &amp; Manges LLP advi\u00adsed Inven Capi\u00adtal SICAV, a.s. (\u201cINVEN CAPITAL\u201d) on its invest\u00adment in Forto GmbH. The $50 million funding round led by INVEN CAPITAL also included parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion from <strong>Iris Capi\u00adtal <\/strong>and exis\u00adting inves\u00adtors such as<strong> Maersk, North\u00adzone, Cherry Ventures, H14 <\/strong>and<strong> Rider Global<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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 custo\u00admer. The company now has more than 2,000 custo\u00admers, inclu\u00adding compa\u00adnies such as Home24, Miele and Viess\u00admann. Foun\u00added in 2016, the company is growing rapidly and curr\u00adently employs around 300 people.<\/p>\n<p>INVEN CAPITAL is the venture capi\u00adtal arm of the \u010cEZ Group, whose invest\u00adment focus is on invest\u00adments in clean-tech and new-energy companies.<\/p>\n<p>Weil\u2019s Frank\u00adfurt office regu\u00adlarly advi\u00adses INVEN on its invest\u00adments, inclu\u00adding the recent finan\u00adcing round at 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&amp;Heat Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies GmbH and the recent finan\u00adcing round at Sunfire GmbH.<\/p>\n<p>The Weil tran\u00adsac\u00adtion team was led by Frank\u00adfurt-based Corpo\u00adrate Part\u00adner Dr. Chris\u00adtian Tapp\u00adei\u00adner. He was supported by Coun\u00adsel Konrad v. Buch\u00adwaldt and Asso\u00adcia\u00adtes Julian Schwa\u00adne\u00adbeck, Stef\u00adfen Giolda, Sara Afschar-Hamdi, Simon Stei\u00adner, Mario Kuhn (all Corpo\u00adrate), Mareike Pfeif\u00adfer, Lili\u00adanna Ranody (both Labor Law), Markus Cejka (Finance), Alisa Prei\u00df\u00adler, Dr. Chris\u00adtian Widera (both Tax) as well as Para\u00adle\u00adgals Nata\u00adscha Sp\u00e4th and Kris\u00adtina&nbsp;Thiel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weil, Gotshal &amp; Manges<\/strong> is an inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal law firm with more than 1,100 lawy\u00aders, inclu\u00adding appro\u00adxi\u00adm\u00adately 300 part\u00adners. Weil is head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in New York and has offices in Boston, Dallas, Frank\u00adfurt, Hong Kong, Hous\u00adton, London, Miami, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Prince\u00adton, Shang\u00adhai, Sili\u00adcon Valley and Washing\u00adton, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank\u00adfurt a. 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