Forum Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on supporting B2B SaaS companies from their early stages through growth. Forum Ventures aims to assist entrepreneurs in their journey from startup to successful company by becoming an extension of their founding teams.

Forum Ventures

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 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 400 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise ~$1B in follow-on funding 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.

Learn more at www.forumvc.com 

Bonsai

Glassbreakers

Indio Technologies

Nova AI

Pacify

PactSafe

Paddle HR

Agora

WFHomie

ZenSports

Agreemint

Aquicore

Bbot

Dedo

DivvyCloud

Encore Alert

Rainmakers

Reesio

Roots

Sken.ai

StayNTouch

TrackMaven

☕ More coffee meetups coming to a city near you! 

Come join us and other founders, investors, and operators for a latte, or maybe a sweet treat and connect about the VC tech landscape in a low-stress environment.

August 16: NYC with Olivia O'Sullivan https://lu.ma/fasygl5a

August 19: Boston with Derek B. https://lu.ma/urw9e3r9

August 20: Chicago with Neal Sarraf https://lu.ma/y9cj6n5f

August 20: Toronto with Alexis Clarfield-Henry and Jonah Midanik https://lu.ma/92c08o89

Congratulations to Mark Fosdike and the entire Datch team on their recent Series A raise! 💰

Christina Zerka, one of our newest associates spoke at a Founders N' Funders event in NYC for a "reverse-pitch" to share more about Forum's program and how we invest while meeting some amazing founders along the way. Great job Christina! 🚀

Cheers to a great week celebrating the tech community in Seattle at #SeattleTechWeek with a Founders & Funders Brexfast and a panel on How to Raise a Seed Round.

Thanks you to our great partners and cohosts!

☕  Founders & Funders Brexfast with Brex and CoMotion at University of Washington: Conor Bradshaw, Ashlee Esteban, Caroline Hansen, Bocar Dia, & Kevin Corliss

💸  How to Raise a Seed Round with SSM: Bocar Dia, Lindsey Mignano, Kelly Lawton-Abbott, JD/MBA, and Catherine Williams of Dundee VC spoke about venture trends at the seed stage with Elvis D. of symphonie AI providing the much needed founder perspective.

Chicago Founders & Funders - please join us for a F&F breakfast during #TechChicagoWeek ☕ 🥐

This morning we hosted our first coffee meetup in Toronto, getting outside to enjoy the great Summer weather in Trinity Bellwoods Park  ☕ ☀ 

It was amazing to see so many new and familiar faces and connect the Toronto ecosystem further.

Our next one is in August. Will we see you there? 👉  https://lu.ma/92c08o89

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