# Fortson VC

> Fortson VC is a VC fund in Seattle backing Software and Information Technology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortson-vc/
- Website: https://www.fortsonvc.com/

Fortson VC is a venture capital firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 75% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Certiv | Certiv provides a runtime assurance platform that governs AI agents running on employee endpoints. The platform discovers sanctioned and shadow agents, captures reasoning chains, tool calls, and data access, and gives teams a unified view of agent behavior. It enforces deterministic, semantic, and intent-based policies before actions execute toblock exfiltration, privilege abuse, and risky workflows. Certiv works across IDE copilots, browser agents, custom frameworks, and tools like Claude Code and OpenClaw. It serves IT, security, and engineering teams that need productivity from agents while maintaining governance and control. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| Hearvana | Hearvana is a IT consulting company. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| CueZen | CueZen - A Personalization Engine for Health. Large Generative AI-based Rec Sys to transform care outcomes while reducing costs. | $5M | Seed | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Sturdy | Founded in 2020, Sturdy is an AI-forward autonomous Customer Intelligence platform that proactively identifies churn risks across all customer-facing silos. Sturdy analyzes unstructured customer interactions—emails, calls, support tickets, chats, and more—discovering revenue threats, pinpointing root causes, and delivering cross-functional insightsin real time. Sturdy has analyzed billions of customer interactions, giving it one of the largest proprietary datasets in the category and enabling its models to surface insights faster and more accurately than competitors. At a time when customer retention is a top priority for every business, Sturdy turns the noise of customer conversations into a strategic advantage. | $6M | Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Gierd | Gierd set out to build an end to end ecommerce marketplace business orchestration layer for Brands that reduces barriers to entry and enables them efficiently launch, scale, measure and manage their ecommerce marketplace sales. Gierd democratizes data, systems, tools and resources to efficiently scale B2C ecommerce business for Brands of all sizes. | $8M | Series A | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Topicflow | TopicFlow is a SaaS company that specializes in performance management solutions .Leverage AI and evidence-based practices to assess performance in real time and continuously improve it without wasting time on dreaded annual reviews. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| FarmHQ | CODA Farm Technologies' FarmHQ mobile irrigation platform preserves crops, saves waste, and relieves stress for farmers. |  |  | Mar 08, 2024 |  |
| FarmHQ | CODA Farm Technologies' FarmHQ mobile irrigation platform preserves crops, saves waste, and relieves stress for farmers. | $4M | Seed | Mar 08, 2024 |  |
| Treasury4 | Treasury4 offers data analytics services for the finance and treasury industry. The company is dedicated to delivering high-value solutions that fundamentally improve treasury and finance processes for corporates worldwide. | $20M | Series A | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Foundation | Foundation is a B2B e-commerce network that links distributors and wholesalers with retailers. | $3M | Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founders' Co-op](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-co-op) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TVF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tacoma-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Voyager Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ascend](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascend-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kickstart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kickstart-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lowercarbon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercarbon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Fortson VC invest in?

Fortson VC invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Fortson VC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fortson VC closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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