🚨 Last Call for Nominations! 🚨 Founders, don't miss your chance to recognize the investor who's been a true game-changer in your journey. The Founder-First Investor Award is all about celebrating those who go beyond the capital—providing mentorship, strategic introductions, and unwavering support. 🏆 Nominations close on August 30th, so make sure your investor gets the recognition they deserve. Let’s highlight the best of the best in Chicago’s thriving tech ecosystem. Submit your nomination today! 👉 https://lnkd.in/exsB5MAa #FounderFirstAward #ChicagoTech #InvestorImpact
Forum Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
New York, NY 13,680 followers
Investing in and supporting the B2B SaaS journey from Zero to One
About us
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
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https://www.forumvc.com/
External link for Forum Ventures
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- SaaS, Enterprise Software, Incubator, Accelerator, Startups, b2b, fintech, healthtech, FoW, and Vertical AI
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43 W 23rd St
4th Floor
New York, NY 10010, US
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169 Gore Vale Ave
Toronto, Ontario M6J 2R5, CA
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149 Natoma Street
2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105, US
Employees at Forum Ventures
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David Lee
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Kathy Leake
Board Member | AI & technology expert | CEO | Entrepreneur | Innovator | M&A | ESG | SaaS
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Jeff Wallace
Keynote Speaker/Startup Advisor/Global Kinetics/Angel Investor/SVIYP/Batchery/Adjunct Instructor @ UC Berkeley Extension
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Karen Page
General Partner at B Capital
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Congratulations to Matt Hawkins, Nick LaRovere, David Istrati and for launching Pryzm out of stealth and announcing its $2 million pre-seed round, led by XYZ Venture Capital and Amplify.LA 🚀 These founders saw firsthand how convoluted the process of bidding for military contracts is. To find a contract, companies have to spend hours sifting through disparate government websites to figure out which contracts it has a shot at winning and who the key decision makers are. Pryzm gathers data from sources like contracts, congressional hearings, news reports, and delivers clients a personalized dashboard. We've been thrilled to be on this journey with you! https://lnkd.in/dwv_6iNM
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Its time to celebrate Founder-First Investors in Chicago -- the investors who have made a real difference to your startup journey beyond just providing capital. 🎉 #Chicago has blossomed into a tech powerhouse, and it’s thanks to the incredible ecosystem and growing investor network. If you know an incredible investor who has: - Provided mentorship - Made valuable introductions - Been a steady hand during the tough times - Gone above and beyond It's time to give them the recognition they deserve! Nominate them for the Founder First Investor award 🏆 Nominations close on August 30th. 👉 https://lnkd.in/exsB5MAa #ChicagoTech #FounderFirstAward #CelebrateInvestors #TechCommunity
Forum Ventures | Chicago Founder-First Investor Award
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Coffees have been hot! ☕ Over that last week, we hosted a number of B2B SaaS coffee meetups in Chicago, Toronto and NYC They have become a fantastic opportunity to connect with early-stage B2B SaaS founders, investors, and operators and have been vital in building a strong, collaborative community that supports innovation and diversity in tech. Ripple Ventures Neal Sarraf Katie Ko Olivia O'Sullivan
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Another great B2B SaaS coffee meetup in Boston! ☕ Thanks you to our sponsor SVB and event partner The Artemis Fund for collaborating on this event to connect more founders, investors and ecosystem partners in the Boston tech scene! Jesse Aranda-Comer, Hani Azzam, LaRay A., Leigh Harris, Derek Bugley Next Boston coffee meetup on September 26: https://lu.ma/emwhdspf -- SVB Startup Banking (a Division of First Citizens) has a dedicated Founder Success team comprised of serial entrepreneurs, operators, and builders who lean in to help our clients grow their business, raise capital, and hire talent. Check more startup banking resources - https://lnkd.in/eqP4tF-M. The Artemis Fund invests in female-founded, seed-stage companies modernizing wealth via fintech, caretech, and ecommerce tech.
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This August, we onboarded 17 new companies into our portfolio of category-defining B2B SaaS companies from industries across #AI, #RealEstate, #HealthTech, #VerticalSaaS, #Logistics, #ECommerce and more. 🚀 Every year we review thousands of startups and invest in the top 1-2% of those companies. These 17 companies are joining a community of 400+ best in class B2B SaaS startups who are changing the way we work, live, and operate. Stay tuned as these companies build, and scale throughout the Accelerator Program! 🎉 This month, we're excited to welcome: CARA Systems Inc - Prithvinath Reddy Garigapuram, Srushti Katore Fixpliance AI, Inc. - Vic Bhatia ProcureSpark - David Mansi, Prateek Sahay Priya AI - David Akerman Encode Energy, Inc.- Nishu Lahoti, John R. Whitcomb Tune Health - Kyle Henry, Richard Sallari Thalorin - Dmitry M., Mark Johnston Sphere - Kyle Buckingham, Alexandra Taylor Cedar AI - Greg G., Beier Cai Scorify - Daniel Kafie, Sebastian Brarda, Angel Freire, Samyra Barros Osgil Defense Inc. - Ben Zimmerman, Mehmet Yilmaz Humelan - Gil Kaminski, Michal Luntz, MD Big Rentals - Pablo Fernandez, Paul Pelentay, Ryan Keen The Furniture App - Colby St. Clair, Madeline Boatwright, Peace Chen Gratis Intelligence - Mike F., Andrew Sanderson Loadpartner - Garrett Allen, Nicholas Sorrell ReLease - Terry Wang RxCare.ai - Gustavius Smith
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The advent of LLMs has sparked an explosion of GenAI tools in the data and analytics space. With tall promises of increased data capabilities and "AI-powered insights" its challenging to discern what's real and what's hype. Lumi AI released an article to provide a clear framework to map out the current landscape of these tools, helping stakeholders navigate the noise and understand the true potential and limitations of different applications. 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gjjdRAEz
Post ChatGPT, there has been a lot of AI tools promising "talk to your data capabilities" and "AI-powered insights”, making it hard for executives (and investors) to discern what’s real and what’s hype. And so, we put together a framework to map out the current landscape of these tools into six distinct categories to help stakeholders navigate the noise and understand the true potential and limitations of the different applications. Anything we missed? Link to full blog: https://lnkd.in/dQPE_h3h #data #AI #landscape
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On August 19, we're partnering with SVB and The Artemis Fund for a B2B SaaS coffee meetup in Boston! ☕ Come meet Derek Bugley and other founders and investors to grow your community and discuss all things tech! There are a few spots remaining and we'd love to fill them with pre-seed/seed female B2B SaaS founders in Boston. If you know any founders who might be interested, tag them below! https://lu.ma/urw9e3r9
Early-Stage B2B SaaS VC/Founder Boston Coffee Meetup · Luma
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As the market leader in Network APIs, Shabodi continues to attract industry leaders and titans to its ever-growing team who represent the ecosystem they are serving. The newest expert additions to their advisory network enables them to leverage the capabilities of programmable networks to power use cases around Industrial Automation and IoT. CEO Vikram Chopra said it best, commenting how "Enterprises want solutions that deliver an ROI on their investments in 5G private enterprise and other next-generation networks, and our existing and new Advisory Board Members understand the economic benefits of adding a software layer that dramatically improves application performance and control. We are honored to have an assembly of successful, visionary, and highly regarded advisors as our company grows."
🌟 Exciting Announcement from Shabodi! 🌟 Today, in addition to our current members, we are thrilled to announce the expansion of our Advisory Board to further strengthen our strategy and positioning as we drive industry transformation through advanced networks. 🔗 Introducing the newest members: 1. Nikesh Kalra A seasoned investor and board member with over 25 years of experience. Nikesh has played a pivotal role in ventures from inception to exit and has held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Equinix. 2. Asha Keddy A visionary leader in technology ecosystems, wireless networks, and edge computing. Asha has a track record of revolutionizing consumer and enterprise experiences, previously leading Private Wireless & Innovation at Intel. 3. Tony Thelen Founder of The River Coaching and Consulting, LLC, with a 30+ tenure at John Deere, working his way up from plant level to Chief Product Officer. Additionally Tony is an executive coach with 35 years of experience coaching and developing executives. 🚀 Together, we’re transforming advanced networks into intelligent assets, driving innovation across industries. Stay tuned for more updates! Joseph M. Bradley . Vishal Gupta . Glenn Lurie . Steve Holland . Angel S. #Shabodi #NetworkAPI #5G #Innovation #AdvisoryBoard #Leadership #TechTransformation #future #exciting #connectivity #AI #InustrialIoT
Shabodi Expands Advisory Board, Naming Industry Leaders Nikesh Kalra, Asha Keddy, and Tony Thellen
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