Heroic Ventures

Heroic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm established in 2016 and located in Palo Alto, California. The firm focuses on investing in passionate and purposeful entrepreneurs who are addressing significant challenges in large markets. Heroic Ventures targets a variety of sectors, including software, hardware, and life sciences, with the aim of supporting innovative solutions that have the potential to create meaningful impact.

Michael Fertik

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

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Triumph

Seed Round in 2023
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.

Triumph

Series A in 2023
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.

Anysphere

Seed Round in 2022
Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.

HiCounselor

Pre Seed Round in 2022
HiCounselor is a career accelerator that provides job seekers and professionals with the coaching and resources they need to land their next job. Its coaches and mentors are industry experts and employees from the most prestigious companies, and they have assisted numerous fellow professionals in achieving their career objectives.

Dialect

Seed Round in 2022
Dialect enables a more engaging dapp experience with timely, targeted messages and notifications.

Mperativ

Series A in 2021
Mperativ design and develop marketing software solutions with a focus to increase the revenue of organizations via the platform.

Electric Monster

Funding Round in 2021
Electric Monster Media is a next-generation digital media company that invests in and acquires brand-friendly digital video channels to scale and build its audiences, turning them into world-class business operations.

Walkie-talkie

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Walkie-talkie allows communicating quickly and easily with friends. Walkie-talkie hosts audio rooms called “frequencies,” which can either be public or private.

Loft Orbital

Series B in 2021
Loft Orbital operates microsatellites and flies customer payloads as a service. Loft Orbital offers an end-to-end service that delivers missions to orbit on a standard microsatellite bus. The company handles all elements of a satellite campaign from end to end - booking, launching, and operating a satellite, as well as securing the necessary licenses, insurance, and financing.

FlowPath

Seed Round in 2021
Your facilities and operations program is complicated. FlowPath automates work orders, maintenance, events, notifications, projects, and reporting in a simple to use platform. Effortlessly get ahead of your facilities work with FlowPath.

ClearRoad

Seed Round in 2021
ClearRoad is reassessing the value of public space and building the funding infrastructure for the future of mobility. The ClearRoad IoT platform facilitates the monetization of roads by government agencies across North America through road usage pricing. It flexibly operates under any programmatic and regulatory designs, across a range of existing and planned vehicle usage identification technologies. The company has already established itself in this nascent space, with existing per-mile programs in Oregon and Washington State, and partnerships with established leaders in the tolling and telematics industries. If we’re going to get the congestion pricing we need to reduce traffic in our cities, government agencies will need help to automate toll road pricing for any section of road without the need for traditional proprietary hardware infrastructure.

Realtime Robotics

Series A in 2021
Realtime Robotics is a developer of a specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds. They are transforming automation in its broadest sense by enabling machines to recognize, respond and decide how and where to move in milliseconds, even in variable environments. Their RapidPlan processor harnesses cutting-edge computer processing and software to end the trade-off between speed and safety that’s holding automation back today. Realtime Robotics is resolving these limitations with specialized hardware enabling fast, collision-free motion in unstructured environments, enabling vastly broader applications of robotics in industry, and autonomous vehicles that drive naturally, enabling more rapid adoption and proliferation.

Gondola

Seed Round in 2021
Gondola boosts deal momentum by enabling productive, on-brand sales conversations. Tell a frictionless story, capture-and-sync notes in workflow, and move from one conversation to the next will less hassle. Their platform enables teams to have productive sales conversations, seamless collaboration, and easy note capture.

HiCounselor

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HiCounselor is a career accelerator that provides job seekers and professionals with the coaching and resources they need to land their next job. Its coaches and mentors are industry experts and employees from the most prestigious companies, and they have assisted numerous fellow professionals in achieving their career objectives.

Haul

Seed Round in 2021
For CDL drivers looking for work, Haul is introducing a program that is a first for the industry. The business shows you the employment that best suit your lifestyle using our in-house developed algorithms. Haul was established on January 1, 2019 in San Mateo, California.

Gondola

Seed Round in 2020
Gondola boosts deal momentum by enabling productive, on-brand sales conversations. Tell a frictionless story, capture-and-sync notes in workflow, and move from one conversation to the next will less hassle. Their platform enables teams to have productive sales conversations, seamless collaboration, and easy note capture.

LandTrust

Seed Round in 2020
LandTrust is a marketplace where people can list, discover, and book private land for hunting, fishing, and outdoor experiences. LandTrust is the place for getting sportsmen out pursuing their passions on private land. LandTrust also partners with landowners like farmers & ranchers to create new revenue streams from their land's natural resources, which enables them to be directly compensated for good land management practices & continue to invest in stewarding their land.

Quipr

Funding Round in 2020
Quipr is a platform around people, culture and communication. With Quipr, Stories have finally arrived at the workplace. Anyone can create beautiful visual Instagram-style stories, and share them at work. Wherever you're working, tell your story with Quipr.

Artimus Robotics

Seed Round in 2020
Artimus Robotics works towards enabling a new generation of robots and machines that increase productivity and improve quality of life.

Botany.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Botany.io is the operating system for exceptional software engineering teams. We enable software organizations to maximize remote work, scale their engineering managers, and grow developers within critical “team” skills and behaviors. botany.io is a new workflow product being built to leverage the data interoperability of existing workplace tools. We empower teams/individuals to work smarter and better together. botany.io: - builds engineering growth & productivity through team-skills development, behavioral queues, and peer-feedback. - uses the data from existing development tools and engineering workflows to send behavioral nudges, actionable insights, and peer feedback in order to build team engagement and skill growth for the entire software development org. - is integrated directly into existing engineering workflows and dev-team tools like Slack, Github, & JIRA. - Enables and improves existing engineering workflows around pull requests & code reviews, activity feedback, data-driven 1:1s, and process "lint'ing". Initially targeted engineering workflow capabilities are within: - Pull Requests / Code Review Management (recommendations, behavioral nudges, & peer-review on feedback) - Engineering Manager Mentorship & Coaching ("data-driven 1:1 augmentation team skill-growth reports) - Development Team "Health & Skill-Growth" Tracking (behavioral nudges, activity tracking, insights & reports)

Cabinet

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cabinet is a human-in-the-loop intelligent scheduling platform. We save EAs and Admins 2 hours per day so they can provide better support to more people. Our platform includes individual scheduling, group scheduling, and calendar analytics. It also includes collaboration for Admin teams and for working smarter with your Executive. Learn more at joincabinet.com.

Totum Labs

Series A in 2020
Totum Labs is a low-cost tracking and monitoring solution. The via the rest API and secure portal includes hierarchical access, activation, configuration, and firmware updates. The tracker or monitoring system delivers long battery life. The cloud interfaces and portal enable quick startup. The subscription and billing information includes accounting logs, service plans, and payment network status by region and service.

Notivize

Seed Round in 2020
Notivize provides product managers and product marketers with the solutions they need to continuously optimize product experiences without code changes.

Left Hand Robotics

Series A in 2019
Left Hand Robotics has developed the first commercial-class, self-driving snow clearing robot capable of removing snow from sidewalks and walkways. The SnowBot Pro is controlled and monitored remotely from an online management dashboard and uses GPS to follow a pre-programmed path. Its rotating brush clears a sidewalk from edge-to-edge in a single pass to meet even the highest standards.

Totum Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Totum Labs is a low-cost tracking and monitoring solution. The via the rest API and secure portal includes hierarchical access, activation, configuration, and firmware updates. The tracker or monitoring system delivers long battery life. The cloud interfaces and portal enable quick startup. The subscription and billing information includes accounting logs, service plans, and payment network status by region and service.

Truework

Series A in 2019
Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment. It is used for employment and income verification which puts consumers in control of the data. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and developer APIs.

orthodox.ai

Funding Round in 2019
Orthodox - The Document Intelligence Platform. Orthodox is transforming how companies manage their important legal and corporate records, using artificial intelligence and automation. With Orthodox you never have to worry about your company's legal and corporate records. They are always organized, searchable and secure.

Ethos Life

Series B in 2018
Ethos Life is an insurance company that provides modern and ethical life insurance to protect life. They’re building ground-breaking software for life insurance (a $650 billion market) and the company's mission is to make protecting your family affordable, accessible, and instant. It also employs a human approach in delivering its services. Ethos policies are issued and guaranteed by Legal & General America (LGA), a large U.S. life insurance provider since 1836. They use technology to learn about what makes you unique so that they can find new and truly personal ways to cover you. Ethos was founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Left Hand Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Left Hand Robotics has developed the first commercial-class, self-driving snow clearing robot capable of removing snow from sidewalks and walkways. The SnowBot Pro is controlled and monitored remotely from an online management dashboard and uses GPS to follow a pre-programmed path. Its rotating brush clears a sidewalk from edge-to-edge in a single pass to meet even the highest standards.

Narya Security

Convertible Note in 2018
Narya Security is a reliable, one-click-recovery solution for Ransomware infections. It leverages proprietary machine learning algorithms to identify, extract and manage encryption keys, decrypt encrypted data, unlock paralyzed IT assets and remove Ransomware infection traces in minutes, with a single click.

Ethos Life

Series A in 2018
Ethos Life is an insurance company that provides modern and ethical life insurance to protect life. They’re building ground-breaking software for life insurance (a $650 billion market) and the company's mission is to make protecting your family affordable, accessible, and instant. It also employs a human approach in delivering its services. Ethos policies are issued and guaranteed by Legal & General America (LGA), a large U.S. life insurance provider since 1836. They use technology to learn about what makes you unique so that they can find new and truly personal ways to cover you. Ethos was founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Truework

Seed Round in 2018
Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment. It is used for employment and income verification which puts consumers in control of the data. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and developer APIs.

Maverick

Seed Round in 2018
Maverick is a digital creator network for a new generation of innovators, artists, and entrepreneurs - a generation of girls and women whose spirit, vision and energy will change the world. Maverick is built around skill-building challenges and positive social validation.

NextSilicon

Seed Round in 2017
Next Silicon provides a new approach to HPC architecture that drives the industry forward by solving its biggest, most fundamental problems. It believes in a smarter future and wants to create new opportunities for innovation.

Scalyr

Series A in 2017
Scalyr offers a cloud-based data analytics platform that enables high-speed log management and server monitoring. It brings a new level of speed and productivity to operations teams, replacing traditionally separate tools such as server monitoring, application metrics, log analysis, and error tracking with a single, integrated service. Scalyr's parallel backend analyzes terabytes of data in seconds, transforming the user experience. Operations teams can interactively explore their system data, spot patterns across thousands of servers, and be alerted of incipient problems before they trigger a crisis. The San Mateo, California-based company was established in 2011 by Steven Czerwinski and Steve Newman.

Scytale.io

Venture Round in 2017
Scytale was started in 2017 by seasoned engineers from Amazon Web Services, Google, Okta, PagerDuty, Splunk, and Duo Security who want to help enterprise engineers securely and easily build identity-driven, large-scale distributed software systems. They are breathing life into some select ideas we saw unlock innovation and speed at not only these companies, but also at other large-scale, global Internet companies. With the rise of cloud computing, software "containers,"​ and distributed, service-oriented engineering teams, software developers, IT operations managers, and security engineers are being challenged to operate effectively in an increasingly complex and fragmented enterprise IT environment.

Labdoor

Series A in 2016
Labdoor is a testing lab that publicly verifies the quality of consumer products, starting with supplements. On Labdoor.com, consumers can find scientific product reviews and shop for hundreds of quality-tested supplements all in one place. They also offer a "Labdoor Certified" program to companies who submit every lot of their products to us for quality control testing. From their chemistry lab in South San Francisco, Labdoor analyzes the purity and potency of popular products to find out which ones have what they claim and if they have any harmful ingredients or contaminants. Then, they grade and rank those products, write reports, and publish that information for free, so consumers can confidently buy the best supplements for their needs.

Talech

Series B in 2016
Talech is a simple yet powerful point of sale system that combines rich analytics and deep insights to help merchants run their businesses better. The product consists of an iPad based POS experience combined with a web-based dashboard. It focuses on retail and restaurant segments.

Winnie

Seed Round in 2016
Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data, and more. Child care providers use Winnie to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business efficiently. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ethos Life

Seed Round in 2016
Ethos Life is an insurance company that provides modern and ethical life insurance to protect life. They’re building ground-breaking software for life insurance (a $650 billion market) and the company's mission is to make protecting your family affordable, accessible, and instant. It also employs a human approach in delivering its services. Ethos policies are issued and guaranteed by Legal & General America (LGA), a large U.S. life insurance provider since 1836. They use technology to learn about what makes you unique so that they can find new and truly personal ways to cover you. Ethos was founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

SightGlass Vision

Seed Round in 2016
SightGlass Vision is a medical device company that develops spectacle lenses for children. Their mission is to deliver innovative, science-based treatments addressing the myopia pandemic to children around the world.

Brave

Seed Round in 2016
Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators. Brave aims to transform the online ad ecosystem with micropayments and a new revenue-sharing solution to give users and publishers a better deal, where fast, safe browsing is the path to a brighter future for the open web.

Canvas Technology

Seed Round in 2016
CANVAS Technology is a robotics company with a mission to provide end-to-end autonomous delivery of goods. We’re creating safe and powerful autonomous technology that can power both indoor and outdoor driving.

Sunbit

Seed Round in 2016
Sunbit provides a pay-over-time technology that enables users to finance everyday needs by breaking down payments into manageable installments. This service is designed for convenience and reduces the financial stress associated with larger purchases. unbit has mobile applications available on both the App Store and Google Play, allowing users to access their services conveniently from their smartphones. Sunbit aims to improve financial accessibility by approving a majority of applicants, making their services widely available to help users manage their financial commitments effectively.

Scalyr

Seed Round in 2016
Scalyr offers a cloud-based data analytics platform that enables high-speed log management and server monitoring. It brings a new level of speed and productivity to operations teams, replacing traditionally separate tools such as server monitoring, application metrics, log analysis, and error tracking with a single, integrated service. Scalyr's parallel backend analyzes terabytes of data in seconds, transforming the user experience. Operations teams can interactively explore their system data, spot patterns across thousands of servers, and be alerted of incipient problems before they trigger a crisis. The San Mateo, California-based company was established in 2011 by Steven Czerwinski and Steve Newman.
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