# Aaron Verstraete

> Aaron Verstraete is a seed investor at Forethought backing Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Forethought
- Location: New Albany, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averstraete/

Aaron Verstraete is a seed investor at Forethought in New Albany focused on Software and Analytics. Aaron Verstraete is the VP of Strategic Alliances at Forethought. He has 20 years of working across company boundaries as a product manager, consultant, and partnerships specialist. Aaron started his career at Microsoft before joining Bain & Company as a consultant in their Chicago, São Paulo, and San Francisco offices. Since then, he hasfocused on enterprise SaaS as a PM and partner leader at Box, DataFox, unitQ, and Zendesk. While at Zendesk, he spearheaded partnerships with tech giants like Amazon Web Services and others.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Analytics | 2 | 25% |
| Health Care | 2 | 25% |
| Data Integration | 2 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 25% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Ireland | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SimpleStudy | SimpleStudy focused on the topics that matter, the study solution combines digital classroom features with audio-visual learning material and self-evaluation timed exam papers. They are an all-in-one study solution for every student's digital backpack as every teacher requires in the classroom. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| XetData | XetData is a startup in its early stages that specializes in collaborative data control for unstructured data management. XetData is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2021. | $7.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 10, 2023 |  |
| NurseWallet | NurseWallet empowers nurses to make and manage money with a mobile app built specifically for their needs. Nurses input their shift schedule to get an accurate view of their take home. From there, NurseWallet creates a personalized financial plan and surfaces work opportunities that fit the nurses financial goals and credentials. NurseWalletpartners with providers to hire and retain nurses. | $3M | Seed | Oct 17, 2022 |  |
| Tag.bio | Tag.bio enables organizations to securely derive insights using data-as-products in a data mesh architecture. Customers use Tag.bio’s data science platform to discover, share, and unite diverse siloed data sets and execute workloads using no-code/low-code data mesh framework. The data science platform (available in AWS and Azure Marketplaces)combines data sets, smart APIs, statistical and machine learning algorithms into data products (application layer) for users to discover insights via apps and/or GenAI solutions. Learn more at https://tag.bio. |  | Seed | Jun 04, 2021 |  |
| Tag.bio | Tag.bio enables organizations to securely derive insights using data-as-products in a data mesh architecture. Customers use Tag.bio’s data science platform to discover, share, and unite diverse siloed data sets and execute workloads using no-code/low-code data mesh framework. The data science platform (available in AWS and Azure Marketplaces)combines data sets, smart APIs, statistical and machine learning algorithms into data products (application layer) for users to discover insights via apps and/or GenAI solutions. Learn more at https://tag.bio. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 04, 2021 |  |
| Hurree | Hurree is a mobile marketing and engagement platform. Hurree provides solutions for mobile marketing through automated content creation, delivery, CRM integration, and reporting platform. |  | Seed | Jan 31, 2021 |  |
| BRAINBox Solutions | BRAINBox provides objective evidence of injury and prediction of patient recovery. BRAINBox Solutions' multi-modality approach is led by the leaders in the industry. It includes blood biomarker panels available on a point of care instrument and standard laboratory systems. | $23M | Series A | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| unitQ | UnitQ is an AI-enabled product quality monitoring platform that empowers companies to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues faster. The company's customer feedback platform empowers users to identify quality issues simultaneously with their customers, pinpoint the impact of product launches,releases, or ongoing features generating the most bugs or support tickets, and delve deep into issue origins across various sources, platforms, devices, customer segments, and beyond. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dreamit Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dreamit-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Genoa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/5-prime-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Astia Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astia-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Astia Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astia-angels-af95) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bioventures Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bioventures-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Forethought

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge.

5 contacts available at Forethought.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Verstraete | VP of Strategic Alliances | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-verstraete |
| Al Martin | Head of Solutions and Client Services | — |
| Cindy Zhong | Head of Sales Engineering | — |
| Dan Watkins | President | — |
| Deon Nicholas | CEO and Co-Founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Aaron Verstraete invest in?

Aaron Verstraete invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Aaron Verstraete?

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### When did Aaron Verstraete last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aaron Verstraete closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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