# Forum Ventures

> Forum Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 501 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 501
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Fund size: $14M
- Last fund: Jun 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/forumvc
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/forumventures
- Website: https://www.forumvc.com/

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

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 176 | 35% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 125 | 25% |
| SaaS | 74 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 60 | 12% |
| Health Care | 49 | 10% |

305 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 324 | 65% |
| Seed | 88 | 18% |
| Convertible Note | 41 | 8% |
| Series A | 14 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 1% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 305 | 61% |
| Canada | 51 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 2% |
| Mexico | 3 | 1% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexis Clarfield-Henry | Head of Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-clarfield-henry |
| Bocar Dia | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bocar-dia-744d |
| Christina Zerka | Investment Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-zerka-7dc4 |
| Collin Gutman | General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collin-gutman |
| Darwin Ling | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darwin-ling |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allen Control Systems | 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 | 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 | Ardina AI automates supply chain finance workflows, helping companies reconcile financial data and recover margin faster. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2026 |  |
| TasksMind | 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 | 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 |  |
| Flip CX | The holy grail of customer service is high quality affordable phone support. Previously? Impossible. Now? Easy. | $20M | Series A | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| ONNYX Systems | We make PCBAs for fast moving hardware companies | $635K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Cornucopia Biosciences | 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 |  |
| Reconstructiv | Reconstructiv uses AI to convert architectural and construction data into digital models for planning, design, and analysis. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Homiere | Homiere operates an online platform that connects homeowners with service providers for home repairs, maintenance, and renovation projects. The platform facilitates project requests, professional matching, and communication between clients and contractors, helping manage service coordination and streamline the process of sourcing and hiringprofessionals for residential property work. | $145K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |

10 of 501 investments shown.

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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 501 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Forum Ventures?

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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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