Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program. With over 250 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Our private peer community for Innovation executives -- The Innovation Forum -- brings together like-minded intrapreneurs from all backgrounds to share best practices, insights, and advice, and support one another. In addition to our incredible peer community, members get access to industry trend reports, collaborative events, emerging technology, and startup introductions. Learn more at www.forumvc.com
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 51-200
Founded date: 2014
Investment Type: Venture Capital; Accelerator
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 10.01.2024 | advancedsymbolics.com | - | Canada, On... | |
| 10.01.2024 | Arcadeques... | arcadequest.app | - | - |
| 10.01.2024 | ARCHSLATE | archslate.com | - | United Sta... |
| 18.07.2023 | Offsite | offsite.com | $3M | - |
| 15.05.2023 | Alvin Ente... | alvin.finance | - | Kenya |
| 10.05.2023 | Salsa | salsa.dev | $10M | - |
| 03.04.2023 | AutoOptimi... | autooptimize.ai | - | Canada, On... |
| 03.04.2023 | AudiencePl... | audienceplus.com | - | United Sta... |
| 03.04.2023 | Arnie | arnie.co | - | - |
| 03.04.2023 | AICON | aicon.construction | - | Netherland... |
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Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.11.2024 | AI agents’ momentum won’t stop in 2025 | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More One of the buzzwords of 2024 in AI has been agents, specifically the agentic future. AI agents have become one of... |
| 10.10.2024 | The AI Revolution: Navigating Trust and Innovation in the Enterprise Landscape | The enterprise world is buzzing. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant dream; it’s a reality. Companies are eager to adopt AI agents, but a shadow looms—trust issues. A recent report reveals that 75% of IT decision-makers see ... |
| 09.10.2024 | Enterprises are ready and willing to adopt AI agents, but trust issues remain | 75% of IT decision-makers said AI is a high priority, and almost half are already adopting AI agents Adoption of artificial intelligence in the enterprise is growing quickly: the market size for enterprise AI was estimated to be $7.02 billi... |
| 23.04.2024 | Forum Ventures report: where health systems say innovation is most needed | The report outlined four areas as a guide to help startups to sell into these systems The last five years have seen a huge upheaval for the healthcare space: starting with COVID and the move to teleheath and virtual care, along with already... |
| 19.04.2024 | Meet Jonah Midanik, COO and General Partner at Forum Ventures | Forum Ventures operates its own venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more star... |
| 21.12.2023 | Seed to Series A: Strategic insights for tech founders in the 2024 venture landscape | Mike Cardamone Contributor Mike Cardamone is CEO and managing partner at Forum Ventures, where he focuses on developing Forum’s investment strategy with the mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and successful for ea... |
| 20.11.2023 | Ukraine’s Flyer One Ventures joins $1M round for AI-powered sales tech Scalestack | Ukraine’s Flyer One Ventures joins $1M round for AI-powered sales tech Scalestack 20 November, 2023, 16:01 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> New York-based Scalestac... |
| 20.09.2023 | Ukrainian-founded startup Deskree secures €1.4M in a seed round | Ukrainian-founded startup Deskree secures €1.4M in a seed round 20 September, 2023, 11:37 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Toronto-based Deskree, a no-code cloud in... |
| 11.09.2023 | Being An Emerging Manager In The Current VC Environment | Michael Cardamone is CEO and Managing Partner at Forum Ventures. |
| 28.06.2023 | Are Small, Early-Stage Venture Capital Funds The Next Big Thing? | Michael Cardamone is CEO and Managing Partner at Forum Ventures. |
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