# Michael Fertik

> Michael Fertik is a pre-seed investor at Heroic Ventures backing Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Heroic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heroic-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefertik
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/michaelfertik
- Website: http://michaelfertik.com/

Michael Fertik is a pre-seed investor at Heroic Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Michael Fertik founded Reputation.com with the belief that people and businesses have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. He is credited with pioneering the field of online reputation management and generally recognized as the leading expert in digital privacy and reputation.Fertik is an industry commentatorwith guest columns in Harvard Business Review, Reuters, Inc.com and Newsweek. He frequently appears on national and international television and radio, including the BBC, Good Morning America, Today Show, Dr. Phil, CBS Early Show, CNN, Fox, Bloomberg, and MSNBC. He is the co-author of two books, Wild West 2.0 (2010), and New York Times best seller, The Reputation Economy (2015).Michael is a NYT bestselling author, and his fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary journals.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$6.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $5M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 54% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 31% |
| Developer Platform | 2 | 15% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nozomio | How do you discover the future of software engineering? We're building it.Language models can write code better than most humans, but they often destroy codebases due to poor context management and understanding. The future isn't about replacing developers - it's about empowering them to orchestrate AI agents effectively.We're creating systems that enable small teams of developers to manage large-scale agent operations across the entire software lifecycle - from development to QA, security audits, and deployment.It's called Nozomio. | $6.2M | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Nozomio | How do you discover the future of software engineering? We're building it.Language models can write code better than most humans, but they often destroy codebases due to poor context management and understanding. The future isn't about replacing developers - it's about empowering them to orchestrate AI agents effectively.We're creating systems that enable small teams of developers to manage large-scale agent operations across the entire software lifecycle - from development to QA, security audits, and deployment.It's called Nozomio. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Triumph | Triumph is a gaming monetization platform provider. They provide iPhone games on one line of code drop-in SDK and handle the entire tournament stack by player matching, payment, arbitration, and compliance. They also transform the game into money tournaments. | $10.2M | Series A | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Hebbia | Hebbia's core software application, Matrix, ingests unstructured information from corporate document repositories, financial filings, expert transcripts, and virtual data rooms to index facts into auditable knowledge charts. The system utilizes multi-agent orchestration to automate sequential administrative processes, enabling users toconstruct comparison tables, generate investment research reports, and track compliance documentation. | $30M | Series A | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| ProntoNLP | ProntoNLP's revolutionary technology exposes a new paradigm of auto-NLP. |  | Convertible Note | Jun 09, 2022 |  |
| Anysphere (Cursor) | Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Mperativ | Mperativ design and develop marketing software solutions with a focus to increase the revenue of organizations via the platform. | $5M | Series A | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Electric Monster | Electric Monster Media is a next generation digital media company that invests in and acquires brand-friendly digital video channels to scale and build their audiences, turning them into world-class business operations. |  |  | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Walkie-talkie | Walkie-talkie allows communicating quickly and easily with friends. Walkie-talkie hosts audio rooms called “frequencies,” which can either be public or private. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| Picslo Corp. | Developer of an audio-based social application intended for easier communication. |  | Convertible Note | Jun 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Creator Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creator-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gft-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Heroic Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Heroic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in heroes - the passionate and purposeful entrepreneurs solving real problems in huge markets.

5 contacts available at Heroic Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matt Robinson | Managing Partner & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-robinson-3 |
| Michael Fertik | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-fertik |
| Alex Kirik | EA and HR; EA and HR | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-kirik |
| Claire Zhang | Partner & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-zhang |
| Itai Maron | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itai-maron |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Fertik invest in?

Michael Fertik invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Developer Platform startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Michael Fertik's check size?

Michael Fertik typically joins rounds of $500k–$6.2M at Seed, $400k–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$30M 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 Michael Fertik participates in.

### When did Michael Fertik last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Fertik closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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