Venture Capital & Growth Equity

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Entrepreneurs,
Investors & Corporate Venture

Forté Ventures is a multi-strategy venture capital platform endeavoring to build enduring value across technology, insurance, and digital innovation. We partner with founders we believe are redefining industries.

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Our Philosophy

Building for the
long horizon

We believe the most durable returns come from genuine partnership — an operating orientation that goes beyond capital. Our team brings decades of founding, operating, and investing experience across sectors transforming the global economy.

Forté Ventures operates as a platform of specialized funds, each focused on the intersection of deep sector expertise and emerging technological advantage.

01
Sector Conviction
We concentrate capital and expertise where we have deep operating knowledge, not where the market is loudest.
02
Founder Partnership
Our value is measured by what we enable founders to build, not simply by the capital we deploy alongside them.
03
Patient Capital
Category-defining companies are built over decades. Our fund structures and LP relationships reflect that reality.
Our Portfolio

Specialized funds,
unified vision

Each Forté Ventures fund is purpose-built around a distinct thesis, backed by a team with genuine expertise in that sector.

Core Strategy
Forté Ventures
Technology · Fintech · Insurtech · Mobility
A family of funds focused on collaborating and co-investing with corporate strategic partners across diversified industries to mitigate risk without compromising return expectations.
Secondary Strategy
Avanta Ventures
Insurtech · Risk · Fintech
Avanta Ventures identifies and backs disruptive technologies reshaping the future of insurance — partnering with the most ambitious founders at the frontier of Insurtech, Mobility, and risk-adjacent sectors.
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Diversified Strategy
Hawkins Ventures
Direct · Fund of Funds
A diversified portfolio of investments across various private fund strategies, multi-stage direct investments, and real estate development projects across North America.
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Investment Strategy

Where conviction
meets capital

Forté Ventures targets Series A through growth equity stages across its platform, with a disciplined focus on companies at inflection points — where domain expertise and timely capital create the greatest leverage.

Our corporate venture relationships give portfolio companies strategic advantages beyond capital: distribution partnerships, customer access, and regulatory intelligence built over decades of institutional engagement.

The most important thing we bring to a company isn't the check. It's the network, the operating experience, and the willingness to be genuinely useful in the hard moments.

Tom Hawkins — Managing Partner, Forté Ventures
Our Team

The people behind the platform

Our Team
Tom Hawkins
Tom Hawkins
Managing Partner
Investment Committee
Louis Rajczi
Louis Rajczi
Partner
Investment Committee
David Nagel, PhD
David Nagel, PhD
Venture Partner
Investment Committee
Paul R. Dibella
Paul R. Dibella
Venture Partner
Investment Committee
John Patton
John Patton
Partner
Investment Committee
Melanie Martin
Melanie Martin
Director
Fund Administration
Board Members
Bob Pavey
Bob Pavey
Founding Partner
Morgenthaler Ventures
Skip Heizer
Skip Heizer
Managing Member
Heizer Capital LLC
LP Advisors & Oversight Committee
Ralph de la Vega
Ralph de la Vega
Former Vice Chairman
AT&T
Charles Ogburn
Charles Ogburn
Former Chairman
Crawford & Co.
Allison Dukes
Allison Dukes
Former CFO
SunTrust Banks
Mike Passilla
Mike Passilla
Former Vice Chairman
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Corporate Venture Advisors
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Grant Allen
General Partner
Schneider Electric Ventures
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Shellie Davis
CFO
Coca-Cola Global Ventures
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Alex Marquez
Global Managing Director
Experian Ventures
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Russ MacTough
Managing Director
Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures
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Tony Palcheck
Managing Director
Zebra Ventures
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Sherwin Prior
Managing Director
Orbia Ventures
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Ray Schuder
Managing Director
LG Electronics Venture Capital
Executive Advisors & Fellows
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Mike Boyle
Former CIO
Aflac & Allstate
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Harald Braun
Former CEO
Nokia Siemens N.A. & Siemens Networks
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Stanton McComb
President Medical Surgical
McKesson
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Jean-Luc Chatelain
CTO
Accenture Applied Intelligence
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Mike Cristinziano
Former VP Strategic Development
Citrix
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David Webb
Former CIO
Equifax
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Rimas Kapeskas
Former Managing Director
UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund
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Bert Navarrete
Co-Founder & Former Managing Director
TigerLabs
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Jeremy Legg
EVP & CTO
AT&T Communications
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Shane Robison
Former CTO & CSO
Hewlett Packard
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Steve Rowland
Vice President Americas
Splunk
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