# Gurtin Ventures

> Gurtin Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 12%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Gurtin Ventures is a VC fund in Fort Lauderdale focused on Information Technology and Machine Learning. investor

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$8.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $435k–$1.3M |
| Series A | $6M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 4 | 24% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| Finance | 2 | 12% |
| Software | 2 | 12% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 41% |
| Canada | 2 | 12% |
| Singapore | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grant Gurtin | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-gurtin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CopilotKit | CopilotKit is the full-stack framework for building user interactive agents and copilots. The company behind the AG-UI Protocol. | $20.5M | Series A | May 05, 2026 |  |
| PeakMetrics | PeakMetrics provides a narrative intelligence platform that helps enterprises and governments identify and combat emerging online narrative threats. Using state-of-the-art ML technology, PeakMetrics analyzes more than 1.5 million media sources and 10 different social media platforms to identify media manipulation and adversarial attacks inreal-time, before they cause damage. Organizations use PeakMetrics to discern source credibility, understand how audiences spread narratives, and quantify risk and response scenarios — without spending millions on crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis. Detect, decipher, defend at peakmetrics.com.The internet is manipulated. Narratives are engineered, accelerated by AI, and amplified by algorithms before most organizations even see them coming. PeakMetrics is an AI-powered narrative intelligence platform built to help enterprises, agencies, and public sector organizations see through it. We built AI agents that surface where threats are coming from, who is driving them, and where they are headed next, so teams can protect their brand, their reputation, and their bottom line before it reaches the headlines. | $6M | Series A | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Take2 AI | take2 is an online marketplace platform that provides a place for job seekers to display the skills required to land a job. | $14M | Series A | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Surgicure Technologies | Surgicure is a biotechnology start-up company that is dedicated to building effective medical instruments to prevent unnecessary harm while promoting safety and efficiency for both its patients and practitioners during surgical procedures and healing processes. Its product secures medical tubes intubated within a patient's mouth while relyingon the patient's oral cavity.Founded in 2018 by Irena Volkov, Surgicure Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Unified API | One API to integrate them all | $807.6K | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2024 |  |
| Take2 AI | take2 is an online marketplace platform that provides a place for job seekers to display the skills required to land a job. | $5M | Seed | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| Aura Finance | Aura is a fintech firm that offers a platform for wealth and asset management, personalized portfolios, trading, and financial well-being. | $435K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Escalate USA | Escalate USA is a frontline retention platform helping employers retain talent and creating pathways for entry-level talent. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Atlas | Atlas is a provider of a credit card service platform for consumers. It connects to customer banks to get a spending limit that can be offered, sets up autopay, and reports on-time payments with instant transaction alerts. | $7.2M | Seed | Sep 08, 2023 |  |
| Fêtefully | Fêtefully is an online platform integrating human talent and AI-driven functions to provide couples with affordable and personalized wedding & event planning services. Couples save money on professional planning, while planners make money in their spare time. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Gurtin Ventures invest in?

Gurtin Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Gurtin Ventures's check size?

Gurtin Ventures typically joins rounds of $200k–$8.4M at Seed, $435k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gurtin Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Gurtin Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Gurtin Ventures?

The team at Gurtin Ventures includes Grant Gurtin (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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