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Michael Cortez

Partner at Forgepoint

United Kingdom

Overview

Michael Cortez is a Partner at Forgepoint, an early-stage VC firm, with a focus on investing in cybersecurity startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has successfully invested in multiple companies like Gutsy, demonstrating a strong track record in seed-stage investments and portfolio management.

Work Experience

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Forgepoint Capital

Partner, Forgepoint Capital International
2024 - Current
Michael is a Partner at Forgepoint Capital International. Based in London, Michael focuses on new investments in transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure software companies across Europe, Israel, and Latin America. mcortez@forgepointcap.com

Forgepoint Capital is a venture capital management company to invest in cybersecurity startups mainly in Europe, Latin America and Israel.

forgepointcap.com

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Gutsy

Seed Investor
2022

Gutsy is a new way to do security governance, enabled by applying process mining to cyber for the first time

Raised $51,000,000.00 from Mayfield Fund, Mickey Boodaei, Chenxi Wang, George Kurtz, Udi Mokady, Assaf Rappaport and YL Ventures.

gutsy.com

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Opus Security

Seed Investor
2022

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Piiano

Seed Investor
2021

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Valence Security

Seed Investor
2021

Valence enables organizations to find and fix SaaS risks, with comprehensive SSPM, threat detection, and risk remediation.

Raised $32,000,000.00 from Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, YL Ventures, StoneMill Ventures, Alumni Ventures and Michael Fey.

valencesecurity.com

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