Forte
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Forte is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Forte is building economic technology for games that is secure, easy to use, and fully compliant. Its end-to-end blockchain platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industrymembers (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and Rockstar Games, among others), and is currently working with over 25 acclaimed game developers from across the globe to reimagine the economics of games.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Forte invests in
Stages Forte invests in
Countries Forte invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (29%)
- Information Technology 2 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (29%)
- Gaming 1 (14%)
- FinTech 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Corporate Round 1 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 6 (86%)
- Switzerland 1 (14%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Allen Ma
VP of Partnerships
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VP of Partnerships | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brett Seyler
Cofounder
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Cofounder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ronen Kirsh
Strategic Partnerships
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Strategic Partnerships | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ash Monif
Senior Project Manager
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Senior Project Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bela Pandya
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Notch
|
Notch provides AI-powered ad generation, animated ad building, competitor ad cloning, and ad performance optimization. | $8M / Seed / Oct 23, 2025 | |
MadMen AI
|
Sesame Labs is an internet publishing company that helps apps on Web3 with marketing automation products. | $4.5M / Seed / Feb 08, 2023 | |
Midnight
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The company is on a mission to build Web3 games with “eternal stories” and never-ending experiences that keep players coming back. | $7.5M / Seed / Nov 25, 2022 | |
Xterio
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Xterio is a game developer and publisher with a global team footprint. | $40M / Series A / Aug 29, 2022 | |
Bolt Labs
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Our mission at Bolt Labs is to build a usable, secure, and scalable infrastructure to enable everyone to securely store their assets while preserving the privacy of their transactions. Bolt’s secure computation solutions (or MPC) allow you to protect your user’s assets while providing confidentiality, ensuring integrity, and preventing misuse ortheft. A technology that is fast becoming the standard for digital asset security, MPC enables these benefits by federating trust across multiple parties and allowing evaluation of functions without decrypting private inputs. Bolt is also developing the zkChannels L2 protocol - a scalable and usable privacy-preserving payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including but not limited to public blockchains. We believe zkChannels will set a new standard for secure payments in online services, giving merchants a seamless way to comply with emerging privacy regulations and delight their customers with cryptographically rigorous respect for their privacy.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. | $4.3M / Corporate Round / May 02, 2022 | |
CryptoSlam
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CryptoSlam is an aggregator of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) collectibles data from Ethereum, WAX, and FLOW blockchains. | $9M / Seed / Jan 05, 2022 | |
Neon Media
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Neon Media produces realtime sets for virtual productions. | $10.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 12, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Forte invest in?
Forte invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Forte?
The team at Forte includes Allen Ma (VP of Partnerships), Brett Seyler (Cofounder) and Ronen Kirsh (Strategic Partnerships), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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