James Murphy
Angel Investor @ Forum Ventures
New York, United States
James Murphy is a pre-seed investor at Forum Ventures in New York focused on Wellness and Health Care. As a founding partner of Proton Enterprises, James has been a serial founder of natural product brands. His current focus is as CEO of LMNT; on a salty rebellion to restore health through hydration. He is also an active angel in brands (more than 50) and emerging VCs. James work in health & wellness has centered around dietary andlifestyle interventions to chronic inflammatory health conditions (Ie, most the things humans die of today). Partnering with leading health authorities, James and his team have built multiple brands - ranging from digestive health to hydration. Some have “worked” with hundreds of millions in sales and some haven’t. Failure has been a powerful teacher. James stays fairly connected to his alma mater through leadership within alumni organizations and has been invited as a guest at Yale Law and facilitator at Yale School of Management. James lives in Montana and enjoys spearfishing, skiing, and weekend construction projects.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Wellness 2 (50%)
- Health Care 2 (50%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (50%)
- Consumer Electronics 2 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (50%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 2 (50%)
- Angel 1 (25%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
Investments
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| We aim to revolutionize work using accessible tech. Creating smarter ways for people, machines, and systems to work together. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 18, 2022 | ||
| Eight Sleep is the first sleep fitness company. It leverages innovation, technology, and personal biometrics to restore individuals to their peak energy levels each morning. Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator, it was named by Fast Company in 2018 as one of the Most Innovative Companies in ConsumerElectronics.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States. | Angel / Jun 09, 2021 | ||
| Eight Sleep is a company that creates sleep technology and products. Its core product, the Pod, is a smart sleep system that dynamically adjusts temperature, elevation, and sound based on biometrics. The system also includes a health check feature that monitors heart rate and breathing without wearable devices. | Series C / Jun 09, 2021 | ||
| Prepared offers an AI-powered platform designed to enhance emergency response operations. The platform integrates functionalities such as automated triage for non-emergency calls, real-time translation of audio and text in multiple languages, and situational awareness tools including live video and multimedia sharing. It also provides qualityassurance features that allow supervisors to evaluate call-taking performance in real-time. By consolidating these tools into a single interface, Prepared aims to assist public safety answering points in managing calls more efficiently and effectively. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Dec 18, 2020 |
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About 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 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
Forum Ventures Contacts
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Alexis Clarfield-Henry
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Bocar Dia
Partner
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Christina Zerka
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Collin Gutman
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Darwin Ling
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What does James Murphy invest in?
James Murphy invests primarily in Wellness, Health Care and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 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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