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Adrian Fortino

Founder of Great Lakes Investor Association

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2014

    Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm. With $300 million under management, Mercury focuses on entrepreneurs and technology innovation originating in the U.S. Midcontinent. Our investment themes target SaaS, Cloud, and Data Science/AI platforms that make the industrial ecosystems of Middle America more competitive and efficient.

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    A rising tide lifts all boats. An exclusive VC community for Managing Partners and General Partners to collaborate, build trust, share deals, and co-invest. GLVCA is dedicated to fostering a thriving venture capital network within the heartland.

  • Board Director

    2024

    Our vision is to help people live more meaningful lives through the power of XR. To give them time to be more present. For purposeful work, deeper relationships, and a better world.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Michigan Founders Fund is a network of entrepreneurs and investors who have pledged 1% of equity, carry or profit to support impactful local organizations throughout the state who are doing the work to better our communities and enrich quality of life.

  • Board Director

    2020

    Aclaimant gives companies new ways to reduce the cost of risk and keep people safe. We bring loss prevention, incident management, and analytics into one connected platform that removes complexity, saves time, and produces better outcomes. We uncover problems that companies may not know they have, and fundamentally change the way organizations actively manage risk.

  • Board Director

    2021

    After working on visibility platforms directly with large global retailers and freight shippers, logistics providers, and software vendors for 15 years, we experienced first hand the friction, slowdowns, and wasted time, energy, and dollars that were poured into integrations.

  • Board Director

    2017

    Ambyint delivers an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven automation and analytics solution for artificial lift optimization that builds on traditional physics-based techniques. Built on 10+ years of domain expertise, Ambyint automates diagnosis, automatically adjusts operating parameters, and predicts failures, resulting in improved production and reduced LOE. Customers deploy the Ambyint Production Optimization Platform either with existing customer SCADA systems or with Ambyint's High Resolution Adaptive Controllers, which enable higher resolution data acquisition and automated control for artificial lift systems.

  • Board Director

    2020

    Construction marketplace for the next generation of skilled labor.

  • Director

    2019

    The Michigan Venture Capital Association seeks to increase the amount of capital and talent available to venture and angel investors so we can fund Michigan’s most innovative entrepreneurs and work closely with them to transform breakthrough ideas into new companies and industries that drive Michigan job creation and economic growth.

  • Lecturer

    2015

    Venture capital & entrepreneurship class providing students exposure to new venture development and venture capital.

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