# Heather Hartnett

> Heather Hartnett is a seed investor at Forbes (New York) backing Software and Marketing. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Forbes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forbes-4d1d)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherhartnett
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HeatherHartnett
- Website: https://x.com/HeatherHartnett
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heatherhartnett

Heather Hartnett is a seed investor at Forbes in New York focused on Software and Marketing. Heather Hartnett is the Founder and CEO of Human Ventures. She previously worked at AARP as an Innovators Council Member. Heather Hartnett attended New York University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Marketing | 2 | 18% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 18% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 18% |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Breakaway Group | Breakaway Music Festival is a performing arts company of pop, dance, and hip-hop music festival series. Breakaway Music Festival hosts college students and young professionals annually, touring college campuses across the US, and activating a small army of college student ambassadors. Founded by Adam Lynn in 2016 and is located in Columbus,Ohio. | $48.9M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Salvo Health | Salvo is emerging as the leader in helping GI providers leap into a hybrid-care vision of the future of medicine, providing brick & mortar clinics with an easy to implement continuous care platform that saves time, increases revenue and improves patient outcomes.The company has announced agreements with 771 GI’s, representing 15% of allindependent GI’s in the US, to deploy wraparound care for their clinic patients. Included in its customers are five of the largest GI practices in the country, together seeing over 1.1 million GI patients a year. Salvo provides the tech and care delivery for modern, interdisciplinary care to treat chronic conditions that have surged in cost and prevalence: --IBS and IBD (over 40M affected) -- GERD and Celiac (over 50M affected) --MASH/MASLD, what was previously called “fatty liver disease” (over 80M) --Obesity (over 100M) The care benefits patients (76% of patients reported improved symptoms, five accepted medical conference abstracts on outcomes), generates incremental profit for practices (over $2M EBITDA improvement for a 100 GI practice), and reduces total healthcare costs (79% drop in GI-related ER utilization). | $8.5M | Series A | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Honeyjar | Honeyjar is the AI platform for PR teams, agencies, and marketing and communications leaders. Designed by comms professionals, Honeyjar expertly runs the entire workflow while bringing news, social, and all the critical data for comms into one intelligent, centralized workspace. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Salvo Health | Salvo is emerging as the leader in helping GI providers leap into a hybrid-care vision of the future of medicine, providing brick & mortar clinics with an easy to implement continuous care platform that saves time, increases revenue and improves patient outcomes.The company has announced agreements with 771 GI’s, representing 15% of allindependent GI’s in the US, to deploy wraparound care for their clinic patients. Included in its customers are five of the largest GI practices in the country, together seeing over 1.1 million GI patients a year. Salvo provides the tech and care delivery for modern, interdisciplinary care to treat chronic conditions that have surged in cost and prevalence: --IBS and IBD (over 40M affected) -- GERD and Celiac (over 50M affected) --MASH/MASLD, what was previously called “fatty liver disease” (over 80M) --Obesity (over 100M) The care benefits patients (76% of patients reported improved symptoms, five accepted medical conference abstracts on outcomes), generates incremental profit for practices (over $2M EBITDA improvement for a 100 GI practice), and reduces total healthcare costs (79% drop in GI-related ER utilization). | $4.7M | Seed | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Salvo Health | Salvo is emerging as the leader in helping GI providers leap into a hybrid-care vision of the future of medicine, providing brick & mortar clinics with an easy to implement continuous care platform that saves time, increases revenue and improves patient outcomes.The company has announced agreements with 771 GI’s, representing 15% of allindependent GI’s in the US, to deploy wraparound care for their clinic patients. Included in its customers are five of the largest GI practices in the country, together seeing over 1.1 million GI patients a year. Salvo provides the tech and care delivery for modern, interdisciplinary care to treat chronic conditions that have surged in cost and prevalence: --IBS and IBD (over 40M affected) -- GERD and Celiac (over 50M affected) --MASH/MASLD, what was previously called “fatty liver disease” (over 80M) --Obesity (over 100M) The care benefits patients (76% of patients reported improved symptoms, five accepted medical conference abstracts on outcomes), generates incremental profit for practices (over $2M EBITDA improvement for a 100 GI practice), and reduces total healthcare costs (79% drop in GI-related ER utilization). | $5M | Seed | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| Capsule | Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $5.7M | Seed | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| Adelaide | Adelaide develops a media analytics platform to measure omnichannel media quality. It specializes in measurement and digital ad-buying analytics and offers an omnichannel media quality score that measures attention for media planning and buying. | $7M | Seed | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Glow Labs | Glow Labs is a no-code loyalty rewards program built on the blockchain. Glow Labs is a white-label loyalty rewards program on the blockchain built by the community for the community. It was founded and led by two engineers in their twenties—Annie Reardon and Renee Russo—in 2021, and is based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. | $4.2M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Movo | Shift One is a marketplace for skilled labor in warehouse, logistics, and assembly. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3M |  | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Movo | Shift One is a marketplace for skilled labor in warehouse, logistics, and assembly. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3M | Seed | Aug 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [City Light Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/city-light-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Torch Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/torch-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/K50Ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Threshold](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/threshold) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Forbes

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Forbes.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Heather Hartnett | VC Contributor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-hartnett |

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## FAQ

### What does Heather Hartnett invest in?

Heather Hartnett invests primarily in Software, Marketing and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Heather Hartnett last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Heather Hartnett closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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