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Michael Fertik

Founder of modelcode.ai

United States

Overview 

Michael Fertik is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist known for founding and leading companies like modelcode.ai and Reputation. He has made significant investments in various startups, including Mperativ and Electric Monster, and is currently the Managing Partner and Founder of Heroic Ventures. Fertik's career highlights include being dubbed the "Robinhood of the blogosphere" and the "Sherlock Holmes 2.0 of Databanks" by Handelsbatt, showcasing his innovative approach to entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. His leadership roles in companies like Reputation and modelcode.ai demonstrate his expertise in building successful ventures and strategic partnerships.

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.

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