# Fortified Ventures

> Fortified Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortifiedventures/?viewAsMember=true
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Fortifiedvc
- Website: https://www.fortified.ventures/

Fortified Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Investors and leaders enabling the next evolution of our largest asset class - real estate.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$760k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 10 | 37% |
| FinTech | 7 | 26% |
| Blockchain | 7 | 26% |
| Finance | 5 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 19% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 78% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Argentina | 1 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lambda | Lambda provides GPU-powered hardware, cloud, and software solutions tailored for AI model development, training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its offerings include on-demand GPU cloud instances and multi-node clusters, desktop and server workstations equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, a curated software stack for seamless integration of MLtools, and consulting services that help build scalable ML infrastructure and workflows. |  | Secondary Market | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Starcloud | Lumen Space offers cloud computing and data relay to satellites in space. The company's mission is to accelerate downlink times by processing data in orbit. | $11M | Seed | Oct 25, 2024 |  |
| Starcloud | Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space. | $11M | Seed | Oct 25, 2024 |  |
| Felafax AI | Felafax AI is an open source platform for non-NVIDIA GPUs. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| DwellFi | Fractional Real Estate Ownership | $3M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| RealReports | RealReports are the ultimate tool to help agents win more listings, generate leads, and build trust with their clients. Like a supercharged "carfax for homes," RealReports provide comprehensive property data for every home in the US. | $2M | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| PropRise | PropRise provides access to real-time rental comps, source-motivated sellers, and underwrites efficiently to acquire more communities. |  | Seed | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| Foundation | Foundation is a buyer experience platform that helps homebuilders sell more homes, more efficiently to customers. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Plunk | Plunk is an analytics platform that helps homeowners, real estate professionals, and investors value and invest in residential real estate. It tracks an individual home’s price in real time and represents a new level of both comprehensiveness and transparency. Plunk’s real-time solutions are accessed by consumers, real estate professionals, and theinvestment community via a suite of data and software products, across both web and mobile platforms.It was founded by Brian Lent and David Bluhm in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Ownify | Ownify is rebuilding the path to homeownership to make it achievable for the next generation of homebuyers. Our fractional ownership platform allows first-time buyers to buy their home "brick by brick". Zero debt & no surprises. At the same time, we offer real estate investors fractional ownership in single-family homes, combiningrental income, home price appreciation, and social impact investing. | $7M | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [44 Venture Opportunities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/44-capital-management) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Fortified Ventures invest in?

Fortified Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Fortified Ventures's check size?

Fortified Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$11M at Seed and $500k–$760k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fortified Ventures participates in.

### When did Fortified Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fortified Ventures closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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