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.
Fortify Ventures’ wide investment thesis allows us to see companies tackling a variety of problem sets. Rather than investing in companies based on a criteria checklist, we build conviction holistically as we get to know companies and their founders.
Things that help our investment team build conviction about the company’s ability to succeed are:
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.
Fortify Ventures was created to provide the DC startup ecosystem with a much-needed jolt of capital and operational support.
The first Distilled Intelligence was held in Washington, DC, presenting 55 startups to over 500 investors in attendance. Fortify Ventures, along with sponsors, gave away $25,000 in prizes to participating startups.
The creation of The Fort, Fortify Ventures’ incubator in Washington, DC. During The Fort’s first cohort, 17 companies were housed on K Street in Downtown DC, just a few blocks from the White House.
The creation of The Fort, Fortify Ventures’ incubator in Washington, DC. During The Fort’s first cohort, 17 companies were housed on K Street in Downtown DC, just a few blocks from the White House.
Distilled Intelligence 2.0 was held in Washington, DC, presenting 100 startups to over 750 investors in attendance. Fortify Ventures presented $100,00 in investment capital to the top six participating startups.
At the culmination of The Fort’s second cohort, Fortify presented nice companies to a group of angels, venture firms, and strategic investors at the second Fortify ‘Investor Day’ in Downtown DC.
Fortify Ventures, Fund II, an early-stage fund with a thesis mirroring that of Fund I while expanding the scope of the fund.
Distilled Intelligence 3.0 will be held in Loudoun County, VA, hosting 100 startups and hundreds of investors, sponsors, and operators for four days of pitches and networking. Over $1M in funding will be provided by Fortify to Distilled Intelligence 3.0 participants.
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