Forum Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Forum Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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 anactive 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.Learn more at www.forumvc.com
- Total investments:
- 636
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
- Fund size:
- $9.4M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Forum Ventures invests in
Stages Forum Ventures invests in
Countries Forum Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 216 (34%)
- Artificial Intelligence 142 (22%)
- SaaS 101 (16%)
- Information Technology 79 (12%)
- Health Care 54 (8%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 381 (60%)
- Seed 113 (18%)
- Convertible Note 78 (12%)
- Series A 15 (2%)
- Funding Round 6 (1%)
Country
- United States 391 (61%)
- Canada 57 (9%)
- United Kingdom 14 (2%)
- Mexico 3 (0%)
- Australia 3 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexis Clarfield-Henry
Head of Marketing
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Head of Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Bocar Dia
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Christina Zerka
Investment Analyst
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Investment Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Collin Gutman
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Darwin Ling
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 20 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polly—our patented AI—uses the trillions of available public online posts she monitors every day to accurately predict population trends. Polly can learn the behaviour and likely reaction of any target market and coach you to create advertising and messaging that gets the results you want. You can even tell Polly what goals you want to achieve andshe will tell you what it will take to get there!Polly can be used to actually predict future trends and test messages before releasing them to the public. Some of our most popular services include: • Predicting Sales Trends • Competitive Analysis • Measuring Advertising Effectiveness • Message Testing • Conjoint Analysis • Public Opinion Research | $3M / Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Brdg is an AI-native construction finance platform that produces lender-ready reports in minutes rather than weeks by automating draw operations. | $613K / Pre-Seed / Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Allen Control Systems develops autonomous defense technologies designed to detect, track, and counter unmanned aerial threats. The company provides the Bullfrog product family, a series of autonomous weapon stations that integrate passive drone detection, fire control software, and target engagement capabilities for protecting vehicles, vessels,formations, and fixed assets. Its solutions combine machine vision, artificial intelligence, and autonomous targeting systems to support counter-drone operations while integrating with existing command-and-control environments. Allen Control Systems also offers passive drone detection technology and synthetic training data generation tools that help improve computer vision models and threat identification systems. The company focuses on creating software and hardware platforms that enhance the precision and effectiveness of legacy defense equipment against evolving aerial threats. | $200M / Series B / Jun 05, 2026 | ||
| Paralign Health is a primary healthcare organization that delivers in-home preventive care and community paramedicine. It partners with fire departments and EMS to provide health assessments, monitor chronic conditions, and coordinate care for patients in underserved areas. | $3M / Seed / May 20, 2026 | ||
| Ardina AI automates supply chain finance workflows, helping companies reconcile financial data and recover margin faster. | Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2026 | ||
| The AI engineer for developers on call. TasksMind takes an alert, investigates the issue, gathers context, proposes a fix, tests it, and opens a clean pull request. While you sleep. | $150K / Pre-Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Elmeeda is an AI-driven platform that optimizes fleet operations by automating maintenance scheduling, breakdown management, and warranty claim processing. It integrates real-time vehicle diagnostics, telematics, and service data to coordinate between fleets, repair shops, and service providers, reducing downtime, improving operational efficiency,and enabling data-driven decision-making across truck and fleet management systems. | Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| The holy grail of customer service is high quality affordable phone support. Previously? Impossible. Now? Easy. | $20M / Series A / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| We make PCBAs for fast moving hardware companies | $635K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Cornucopia Biosciences automates ELISA and qPCR workflows using AI and robotics. Labs can run assays through natural language, either on their own machines or ours. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| See all 636 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Forum Ventures invest in?
Forum Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 636 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Forum Ventures?
The team at Forum Ventures includes Alexis Clarfield-Henry (Head of Marketing), Bocar Dia (Partner) and Christina Zerka (Investment Analyst), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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