Overview
Fortify Ventures is a venture capital ecosystem, investing in early stage founders disrupting the status quo.
Our reach extends far beyond capital, and our network includes far more than founders. We are an organization of operators, thinkers, executors, and change-makers aligned on a mission to move us one step closer to tomorrow’s world.
Our investment thesis
When we started Fortify Ventures in 2011, we were one of the few funds placing early bets into ambitious founders with a desire to disrupt. Many of our best bets from Fortify Ventures, Fund I were idea-stage investments into amazing people who executed on their vision. It was the agility, resilience, and disruptive nature of these founders that allowed them to win and provide outsized returns to their teams and the fund. Startups are society's best tool for problem-solving. Fortify Ventures provides its portfolio companies with a robust community and operational guidance to make the largest impact possible. With that experience in hand, Fortify Ventures remains focused as follows:
Fortify Ventures invests early in people building innovative and disruptive technologies for human health, the future-of-work, and the infrastructure that powers them both.
Our broad investment thesis allows us to see a wide variety of companies, and pick those with the greatest potential for global impact, led by the best founders. We typically write $100K - $500K first checks into pre-Series A rounds, and are comfortable either leading or participating.