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Frederic Court

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General Partner with Advent Venture Partners in London, a leading growth equity investor. He focuses on Internet services (consumer and business, fixed and mobile), digital media, mobility, e-commerce, technology-enabled services (including SAAS enterprise solutions).

Frederic currently sits on the boards of Zong (mobile payments, US), Vitrue (Social Media management SaaS solutions, US), Qype (local search, DE), Ever Team (enterprise software, FR), Ubiquisys (software for 3G femtocells, UK), Echovox (mobile media, CH), and Farfetch.com an e-commerce business (fashion marketplace with presence in Europe, Us , Brazil).

Frederic is closely involved with other Advent investments such as Fizzback (Customer Feedback SaaS solutions), Dailymotion (video portal), Cartesis (sold to Business Objects), Snell & Wilcox (merged with Probel).

Prior to Advent, Frederic was an entrepreneur (online marketplace for the textile industry, VC-backed) and before that a technology banker with Lazard (London, Milan, NY). Frederic has worked in France, the UK, Italy and the US. He lives in London with his wife (fashion entrepreneur) and his two daughters.

Milestones

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  Frederic Court added a position as Board at Farfetch. (5/1/10)
  Posted 2/27/11 at 5:50am
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  Frederic Court added a position as Board of Directors at Vitrue. (2/17/11)
  Posted 2/27/11 at 5:50am
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  Frederic Court added a position as Board at Ubiquisys. (7/1/09)
  Posted 2/27/11 at 5:50am
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  Frederic Court added a position as Investor at The Fizzback Group. (3/1/07)
  Posted 4/28/10 at 1:53pm
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  Frederic Court added a position as Board of Directors at Qype.
  Posted 4/28/10 at 1:52pm
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  Frederic Court added to Qype.
  Posted 4/28/10 at 1:50pm
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  Frederic Court added a position as Board of Director at Zong.
  Posted 4/28/10 at 1:50pm
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  Frederic Court added a position as Board of Directors at Zong.
  Posted 4/28/10 at 1:49pm
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  Frederic Court added a position as Co-founder & MD at ETEXX. (9/1/99)
  Posted 4/28/10 at 1:46pm
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  Frederic Court added a position as Investment Banking at Lazard. (5/1/94)
  Posted 4/28/10 at 1:45pm
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  Frederic Court added a position as General Partner. (5/1/01)
  Posted 3/30/08 at 6:56am
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  Frederic Court — Joined the board of Vitrue as part of C Round to focus on international expansion and in particular European expansion. (2/17/11)
  Posted 2/27/11 at 5:43am via techcrunch.com
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  Frederic Court — Joined Farfetch.com's Board of Director as lead Investor alongside Founder Jose Neves (7/9/10)
  Posted 7/11/10 at 3:13pm via techcrunch.com

Videos

Sources

1. Farfetch secures $4.5m from Advent Venture Partners (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Vitrue Raises $17 Million For To Help Brands Manage Social Media (techcrunch.com) [edit]