Alberto Lacaze is the founder of Forterra. Forterra has raised $541M in total funding. Latest round: Series C. Based in Clarksburg, Maryland.
Alberto Lacaze is the Founder and President of Forterra, an autonomous military ground vehicle company he co-founded in 2002 with Karl Murphy, both former researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The company operated for 19 years as a bootstrapped SBIR/STTR contractor before raising $228 million in a SoftBank-led Series A round in December 2021, and later rebranded from Robotic Research to Forterra in February 2024. Forterra reached a valuation exceeding $1 billion after closing a $238 million Series C round led by Moore Strategic Ventures in November 2025.
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