Michael Fertik
Founder of modelcode.ai
United States
Overview
Work Experience
CEO and Founder
2023 - Current
Modelcode.ai, Inc. employs innovative, proprietary Generative AI to automate Code Modernization. The company, founded and led by Silicon Valley veteran entrepreneurs, engineers, and well-known AI experts with multiple exits, focuses on solving tech debt, including, for example, large-scale refactoring, the transformation of legacy monolithic code/service to modular code/micro-services, C# to Java translation, Python 2 to Python 3 upgrades, automated unit testing, and document generation. Modelcode.ai is revenue generating, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and funded by Bessemer Ventures and Heroic Ventures.
michaelfertik.substack.com
2022
Finally, a Letter on Books, Politics, Investing, & Guts. michaelfertik.substack.com Subscribe now.
Substack is a subscription-based newsletter publishing platform for independent writers.
Raised $100,229,219.00 from Omeed Malik, Naval Ravikant, Mark Pincus, Nate Silver and Haroon Mokhtarzada.
Managing Partner and Founder
2016
Formation and First-Money Venture Capital.
Heroic Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm.
Executive Chairman and Founder
2015
Reputation is the world's leader in digital reputation and customer experience for business. (The consumer business for reputation and privacy, known as ReputationDefender, was sold in 2018 and is no longer part of Reputation.)
CEO and Founder
2006 - 2015
Reputation empowers companies to fulfill their brand promise by managing their reputation performance in real-time – everywhere.
Raised $210,631,071.00 from Marlin Equity Partners.
Lecturer in Law
2014
Digital privacy, entrepreneurship, and law.
First Ever Investor
2016
First ever commitment, first ever investor.
Ethos Life is an insurance company that provides ethical life insurance.
Raised $413,960,000.00 from SoftBank Vision Fund, FootPrint Coalition, Roc Nation, Arrive, Google Ventures, Dreamers VC, GoldenArc Capital, General Catalyst, Vetamer and Glade Brook Capital Partners.
First Investor
2020
Hebbia is an AI platform that helps companies transform heaps of information into insights.
Raised $161,100,000.00 from Peter Thiel, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Sahin Boydas.
First Ever Investor
2017
First ever commitment, first ever investor.
First Investor
2022
Cursor.com
First Money Investor
2016
First money investor.
Sunbit offers pay-over-time technology that allows users to finance everyday expenses by dividing payments into manageable installments.
Raised $1,124,970,000.00 from JP Morgan, Waterfall Asset Management, Mizuho Bank, Citi, Ares Management and Waterfall Asset Management.