Chris Fortunato
Vice President at CRH Ventures
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President
2022 - Current
CRH Ventures is the venture capital arm of CRH, the world’s leading building materials company with more than 70,000 employees across 29 countries. CRH Ventures aims to be the best partner to entrepreneurs developing the technology around Decarbonization, Digitization, Industrialization, Marketplaces and Next Gen Products that will drive our industry forward. Read more at CRHVentures.com.
CRH Ventures focused on investing and with companies tackling 5 themes that make industry safer, smarter, more efficient and sustainable.
Investor
2021 - 2022
Soma has been an early investor in more than 25 unicorns and its portfolio companies have a combined enterprise value of more than $50 billion. Soma has been early and growth stage investors across a number of notable companies such as Cruise, Deel, Ramp, Rappi, Rippling, Ironclad, Razorpay, Flutterwave, Lattice, Jeeves, Misfits Market, Embark Trucks, Nowports, and Astranis among others.
Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.
Director
2018 - 2021
Manhattan West Asset Management is an alternative investment platform active in Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, Private Debt. I led the firm's venture capital fund where our portfolio included emerging Seed managers and direct investments such as Databricks, Jetti Resources, Kraken, Lambda School, Reonomy, SpaceX, TechStyle, TripActions, and Vise.
Principal
2012 - 2018
KEC Ventures was launched out of the family office, KEC Holdings. The firm made early stage venture capital investments with over $100M in AUM across two funds, the second of which raised a significant amount of outside capital. My closest portfolio involvement included Aclaimant, Arsenic, Ayehu, The Bouqs, BuzzPoints, Canvs, Codeverse, Elementary Robotics, Feed.fm, FireBlade, Gem, Kanvas, MaestroQA, Mighty Buildings, Sanctuary, TeamPay, and True Anthem.
Principal
2012 - 2018
KEC Holdings is the family office for technology entrepreneur, Jeffrey Citron. *Sourced, evaluated and managed all Limited Partner investments that comprised of more than $400M in commitments across Real Estate, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Collateralized Credit and emerging managers across asset classes. *Served on the board of two companies owned by the family office, New World Aviation and Craveable Hospitality Group (fka David Burke Group). *Helped launch a patented-derivative that was enabled by the unbundling of dividend-paying stocks.