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Fortitude Ventures
Fortitude Ventures is an early stage venture firm based in San Francisco. It partners with ambitious founders leveraging AI, robotics, and frontier...
Overview
Fortitude Ventures is an early stage venture firm based in San Francisco. It partners with ambitious founders leveraging AI, robotics, and frontier technologies to advance how we live and work. It invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies, typically writing initial checks between $500K–$1M.
General information
Firm type
Venture Capital
Year founded
2025
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
San Mateo
Corporate office
San Mateo, CA, United States
Principals
Sungjoon Cho
Managing Partner
Joan Kim
Principal
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Does Fortitude invest exclusively in autonomous systems, or does it also back pure software companies?
The firm draws a line between two domains: 'AI autonomy of knowledge work' and 'robotic autonomy of the physical world.' In practice, this includes both pure software — Coval builds conversational AI agents, Cashmere enables AI-content monetization — and hard-tech plays like Current Surgical's autonomous cancer ablation or Poseidon's unmanned seaplanes. It is not a pure deep-tech fund, but it explicitly avoids SaaS tools that do not involve autonomy or transformation of legacy industries.
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