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Forté Ventures

Founders Tom Hawkins

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Total investments 48
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 4.36
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 7
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Analytics
  • Machine Learning
Summary

Fortu00e9 Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Atlanta.

The current fund was established by Tom Hawkins. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Fortu00e9 Ventures, startups are often financed by Silicon Valley Bank, Foundry Group, Comcast Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Verizon Ventures, Foundry Group, Alumni Ventures Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TechOperators, TTV Capital, Silicon Valley Bank.

The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Fortu00e9 Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Marketing. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Stella Connect, RapidSOS, Integrate

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Percent

Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
$30M17 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Car IQ

Automotive
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M07 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

RapidSOS

mHealth
Mobile Apps
Public Safety
$75M28 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

Evident

Cyber Security
Identity Management
InsurTech
Internet
Security
Software
$14M06 Sep 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Sprockets

Artificial Intelligence
SaaS
Software
$10M28 Mar 2022 South Carolina, United States

Verusen

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
Supply Chain Management
Wholesale
$25M25 Jan 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Inrupt

Information Services
Information Technology
Open Source
Web Development
$30M09 Dec 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Homee

Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Home Services
Information Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile Apps
Property Management
$17M30 Sep 2021 Tampa, Florida, United States

Blueprint Title

Property Insurance
Real Estate
$16M01 Sep 2021 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
News
Blueprint Title raises $16M Series B to grow its title-focused insurtech business

– Blueprint Title, an insurtech startup working in the title insurance space, announced that it closed a $16 million Series B.
– The new round was led by Forté Ventures.
– Blueprint is different from the Roots and MetroMiles and Hippos that debuted via traditional IPOs or SPACs; it largely sells to business customers and has a very different product on offer.

Car IQ Raises $15M in Series B Funding

– Car IQ from Oakland develops a payment solution for fleet vehicles.
– Series B $15m round was led by Forté Ventures with participation from Ally Ventures, BlackBerry Limited, State Farm Ventures, and TELUS Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s business reach.

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Total investments 48
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 4.36
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Percent

Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
$30M17 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Car IQ

Automotive
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M07 Feb 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

RapidSOS

mHealth
Mobile Apps
Public Safety
$75M28 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

Evident

Cyber Security
Identity Management
InsurTech
Internet
Security
Software
$14M06 Sep 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Sprockets

Artificial Intelligence
SaaS
Software
$10M28 Mar 2022 South Carolina, United States

Verusen

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
Supply Chain Management
Wholesale
$25M25 Jan 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Inrupt

Information Services
Information Technology
Open Source
Web Development
$30M09 Dec 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Homee

Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Home Services
Information Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile Apps
Property Management
$17M30 Sep 2021 Tampa, Florida, United States

Blueprint Title

Property Insurance
Real Estate
$16M01 Sep 2021 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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