# Marty Sprinzen

> Marty Sprinzen is the co-founder and CEO of VANTIQ, a Walnut Creek, California-based platform company building real-time AI orchestration and agentic AI systems for mission-critical environments. A serial entrepreneur with a BSEE from Cooper Union (class of 1970), he previously co-founded Forte Software, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems for over $1 billion in 2000. After a 15-year hiatus spent flying planes, skiing, and sailing a Russian nuclear icebreaker to the North Pole, he returned to found VANTIQ in 2015 with a mission to apply software to the world's toughest challenges - from disaster response and healthcare to smart cities and defense.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at VANTIQ
- **Organizations:** VANTIQ, Forte Software, Ingres, Candle Corporation, Nastec Software
- **From:** Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BSEE (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering), The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- **Known for:** Co-founded Forte Software, sold to Sun Microsystems for over $1 billion in 2000, Named among The Software Report's Top 50 Software CEOs of 2024, VANTIQ wins 2025 CODiE Award for Best AI Solution for Healthcare

## Career timeline

- **1970** — Graduated with BSEE from Cooper Union, New York
- **1970s-1980** — Electrical engineer at ConEd, doing software programming for blackout detection
- **1980-1984** — VP of Product Development at Candle Corporation (performance monitoring for IBM mainframes)
- **1984-1988** — VP Engineering at Ingres, SQL database company competing with Oracle
- **1988-1989** — CEO of Nastec Software
- **1989-1991** — VP International Operations at Ingres
- **1991** — Co-founded Forte Software with Paul Butterworth; raised VC from Sutter Hill and Greylock
- **1990s** — Forte Software powers NYC's 911 system and early home banking infrastructure
- **2000** — Sun Microsystems acquires Forte Software for over $1 billion
- **2000-2015** — Personal sabbatical: learned to fly planes and jets, developed skiing skills, served on boards
- **2010s** — Traveled on Russian nuclear icebreaker to the North Pole with children and climate scientists
- **2015** — Co-founded VANTIQ to build real-time software platforms for mission-critical applications
- **2019** — SoftBank leads VANTIQ Series B investment round
- **2020** — VANTIQ raises $27.75M in latest funding round (December 2020)
- **2024** — Named among The Software Report's Top 50 Software CEOs of 2024
- **2025** — VANTIQ wins CODiE Award for Best AI Solution for Healthcare; keynotes at Davos and Smart Cities Summit

## Achievements

- Co-founded Forte Software, sold to Sun Microsystems for over $1 billion in 2000
- Named among The Software Report's Top 50 Software CEOs of 2024
- VANTIQ wins 2025 CODiE Award for Best AI Solution for Healthcare
- VANTIQ named to Inc. 5000 as one of fastest-growing software companies three years in a row
- Built VANTIQ platform powering Japan's national disaster resilience system (D-Resilio)
- Raised $65M+ in total funding including SoftBank-led Series B
- BSEE from Cooper Union, one of the most selective engineering schools in the United States
- Speaker at World Economic Forum related events (Catalyst of Impact Summit Davos 2025)

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — VANTIQ wins 2025 CODiE Award for Best AI Solution for Healthcare
- **2025-02** — Keynote speaker at Catalyst of Impact Summit Davos 2025
- **2025-01** — Named among The Software Report's Top 50 Software CEOs of 2024
- **2025-01** — Keynote at SCC Smart Cities Summit North America 2025 on agentic AI
- **2024-12** — VANTIQ platform continues expansion in healthcare, defense, and smart city deployments

## Links

- Website: https://vantiq.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marty-sprinzen-b8158910a
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/315cj
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/VANTIQHQ/

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