Forum Ventures

Forum Ventures, founded in 2014 and based in New York, is a prominent early-stage investment firm dedicated to supporting B2B SaaS startups. The company operates with a mission to simplify and enhance the journey for early-stage founders by offering pre-seed and seed-stage funding, along with comprehensive programming and resources. Its pre-seed initiative, Forum For Founders, provides $100,000 in funding alongside an intensive 15-week program that includes mentorship, events, and personalized guidance focused on market entry and fundraising strategies. Additionally, Forum Ventures' seed fund invests in outstanding SaaS companies both from its pre-seed program and the broader market. With a portfolio of over 250 companies, Forum Ventures has facilitated connections to prominent venture capital firms, helping its founders secure significant follow-on investments.

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Nick Mehta

General Partner

James Murphy

General Partner

Past deals in Big Data

Lumi AI

Seed Round in 2025
Lumi AI empowers businesses, particularly mid-to-large CPG and retail companies, to uncover valuable insights from their operational data. Its AI-driven platform allows teams to generate custom reports and extract insights using plain language prompts, eliminating the need for complex coding languages like SQL or Python. This enables faster, more informed decision-making and helps reduce reliance on overburdened data teams. Clients have successfully identified multi-million dollar opportunities hidden in their inventory, sales, and procurement datasets, driving significant cost savings and productivity gains.

Restored Cloud

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Restored Cloud is a technology company specializing in AI and machine learning. It provides a platform that accelerates model training and deployment, eliminating the need for checkpoints and optimizing memory usage. The platform is compatible with various frameworks and supports multi-cloud environments, catering to diverse industries such as AI, healthcare, and finance. By using Restored Cloud, these sectors can expedite model iterations, lower costs, and enhance operational efficiency.

Kalavai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Kalavai is a technology company that specializes in AI workflow management. It empowers organizations to develop, run, and collaborate on AI projects efficiently by leveraging their existing computing devices and integrating third-party frameworks into its end-to-end collaborative platform. Kalavai's open-source AI platform facilitates secure computation, enabling enterprises to train and deploy models to production faster in a trusted collaborative environment.

GenPF

Pre Seed Round in 2024
GenPF is an AI-powered co-pilot designed to improve investment strategies and refine risk management practices. It features an Analytical AI module that evaluates historical asset performance across different market conditions, delivering insights essential for making tactical decisions that bolster portfolio resilience. By utilizing Generative AI, the company seeks to elucidate and substantiate the historical connections between assets and economic variables, offering a comprehensive perspective on how market dynamics influence investments. GenPF is committed to enabling investment managers to make more informed, data-driven choices that are responsive to varying market environments.

Lilac

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Lilac revolutionizes Payer data analytics with a cloud-native platform that automates data aggregation, cleansing, and normalization. Our seamless, end-to-end platform turns complex data into actionable insights, leading to more profitable plans and healthier members. Data-driven decision making shouldn’t take months of lead time and countless hours of manual work. With Lilac, it doesn’t.

Biomonadic

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Biomonadic is a technology company specializing in the development of an AI-driven data platform for biotech manufacturing. The platform employs reinforcement learning and large language models to enhance the capabilities of scientists and engineers in the biotech industry. It offers real-time information, AI-based process optimization, and batch records management, enabling clients to improve the quality, speed, and cost-efficiency of their cell and gene therapy manufacturing processes.

Topology Health

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Topology Health is a healthcare technology company that specializes in developing software solutions aimed at automating and enhancing clinical workflows. Its innovative toolkit enables seamless integration with electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs), such as those from Epic and Oracle Cerner, allowing application developers to connect their systems effortlessly. By automating key tasks like patient enrollment, medication recommendations, and insurance document submissions, Topology Health enhances the efficiency of healthcare professionals, ultimately improving patient care and outcomes. The company's focus on integration and automation facilitates efficient data flow and real-time synchronizations, making the healthcare process more streamlined and effective.

Spero Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Spero Analytics specializes in designing and deploying wireless mesh networks for continuous environmental monitoring in remote and off-grid locations. Their scalable sensor arrays, capable of covering vast areas and adapting to various sensor types, require no telecommunications infrastructure. Key features include self-healing network capabilities and cold climate adaptability, reducing maintenance burden. The company focuses on automated greenhouse gas monitoring in landfills, with installations in Ontario, and is expanding to petroleum facilities and potash mines through collaborations with Environment Canada and proof-of-concept projects. Spero Analytics has raised $210,000, secured design partners, and made sales to government and international clients. Their mission is to become the industry standard for remote environmental monitoring.

Lumi AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Lumi AI empowers businesses, particularly mid-to-large CPG and retail companies, to uncover valuable insights from their operational data. Its AI-driven platform allows teams to generate custom reports and extract insights using plain language prompts, eliminating the need for complex coding languages like SQL or Python. This enables faster, more informed decision-making and helps reduce reliance on overburdened data teams. Clients have successfully identified multi-million dollar opportunities hidden in their inventory, sales, and procurement datasets, driving significant cost savings and productivity gains.

Erode AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Erode AI is a developer of an artificial intelligence-powered weather forecasting platform that aims to enhance decision-making for businesses affected by climate variability. The company provides customized weather forecasting solutions, offering access to global forecasts and tailored location-specific reports. This capability allows organizations in weather-sensitive industries to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and strengthen their climate resilience. By leveraging advanced AI technologies, Erode AI seeks to empower its clients with the tools necessary to navigate the challenges posed by a changing climate.

Vambora

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vambora is a Canadian fintech startup that develops a financial identity system aimed at enhancing trust between consumers and businesses. The company focuses on creating the Vambora Trust Profile (VTP), which utilizes open banking data and digital identity verification to address the challenges faced by credit-invisible consumers. By enabling the verification of individuals from over 200 countries, Vambora streamlines the tenant screening process for property management companies in Canada and the United States, particularly in the housing and immigration sectors. This innovative approach seeks to capitalize on a significant market opportunity while providing a reliable alternative to traditional credit assessments.

Maxia

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Maxia is a research and development company specializing in the autonomous assembly and optimization of machine learning models specifically for time series data. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes predictive modeling, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. Maxia's platform enables businesses to identify potential customers through features like lead scoring, churn prediction, and insights into high-value prospects. By leveraging advanced modeling techniques and data pipelines, Maxia helps organizations analyze behavioral patterns and generate actionable insights about the market. Additionally, the company focuses on exploratory data analysis and ML model experimentation, ensuring that its clients can effectively utilize cloud computing resources for enhanced performance and observability.

Machine Perception

Convertible Note in 2021
Machine Perception is a company focused on enhancing autonomous machines through its perception-as-a-service product, which offers obstacle detection and safe navigation capabilities. Founded by Ameer Ellaboudy, the company integrates its technology with existing camera systems to enable effective anomaly and obstacle detection, even in challenging environments. Additionally, Machine Perception specializes in dataset services that transform the construction of computer vision datasets. Their expertise includes developing search and index tools that assist in managing large datasets specifically for off-road and low-speed robotic applications. This dual approach allows businesses to efficiently filter data, ultimately reducing costs and improving operational effectiveness.

Mapped

Seed Round in 2020
Mapped is an independent data infrastructure platform focused on the commercial real estate sector, utilizing artificial intelligence to streamline the management of data from various sources. The platform automates the processes of discovering, extracting, normalizing, and enriching data from building systems, sensors, devices, and vendor APIs, thus breaking down enterprise data silos. By offering a single, standardized API, Mapped simplifies the integration of real-time data from legacy systems and disparate devices within commercial and industrial environments. This capability enables building owners, operators, and service providers to access normalized live data easily, facilitating better decision-making and driving transformative business outcomes.

StarMetrics

Seed Round in 2020
StarMetrics is an entertainment analytics platform established in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company simplifies the casting, financing, and forecasting processes for content creators in the film, television, and new media sectors. By harnessing the power of big data, StarMetrics provides instant, data-driven insights on trending talent and content. Its platform compiles and analyzes various data points on actors, including age, nationality, and critical appeal. Additionally, it offers tools for searching, comparing, and analyzing this information, empowering content creators, advertisers, investors, and other stakeholders with predictive intelligence to enhance the global value and reach of their projects.

Mergeable

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Mergeable is a company focused on enhancing organizational transparency and customer engagement through its innovative platform. The platform is designed to extract and analyze user data, providing insights that are valuable across all divisions of a business, whether in the cloud, on-site, or through various technologies such as SaaS and IoT. By facilitating better customer interactions, Mergeable aims to help organizations accelerate sales, improve customer experiences, and reduce churn through tailored account management strategies. The company fosters a culture of open communication and thoughtful discourse among its team members, reflecting its commitment to radical transparency both internally and externally.

People Data Labs

Series A in 2018
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists, offering access to 3 billion precise records. The company enables its clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and power predictive modeling and artificial intelligence initiatives. Their platform serves a variety of applications, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, talent acquisition, and market research. By acting as a data partner to data science and engineering teams, People Data Labs supports the development of innovative and efficient data-driven products and services. The company aspires to be the definitive source of truth in B2B data, catering to both enterprises and startups across various data-enabled industries.

Groundwork

Convertible Note in 2018
Groundwork AI empowers geoprofessionals helping them incorporate advanced data analytics and machine learning in their day-to-day activities. Their tailored data management and predictive solutions can lead to smarter, safer, and more cost-effective infrastructure monitoring, design and construction. They aim to design, test and deploy the best predictive solutions in the geoprofession.

Paddle HR

Convertible Note in 2017
Paddle HR is a developer of career development and talent mobility software aimed at large organizations seeking to enhance employee engagement and retention. The company's platform utilizes big data and machine learning to analyze HR data, such as past performance and potential, to recommend internal candidates for open roles. By identifying the best predictors of success for specific positions, Paddle HR enables organizations to tap into their existing talent pool in a bias-free manner, thereby facilitating internal recruiting. This approach not only helps companies find suitable candidates for vacancies but also addresses the underlying reasons employees may leave their jobs, ultimately fostering a more dynamic and satisfied workforce.

Breinify

Seed Round in 2017
Breinify Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based solutions for predictive personalization of consumer behavior. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Breinify offers a platform designed to enable consumer brands and enterprises to accurately predict individual interests and preferences. By utilizing a combination of traditional machine learning and complex temporal algorithms, the platform provides real-time personalization capabilities without the need for an in-house data science team. This technology allows businesses in various sectors, including retail, travel, and financial services, to enhance customer engagement and drive revenue growth. Breinify's clients include notable brands such as BevMo! and Hidden Valley Ranch, which have reported significant improvements in customer interactions and revenue generation. The company's mission is to democratize data science, making advanced personalization accessible to a broader range of businesses.

D4DT

Pre Seed Round in 2017
D4DT is a developer of an intelligent innovation resource platform aimed at addressing significant data challenges faced by enterprise business leaders. The company provides a solution that combines extensive data collection capabilities with predictive analytics, enabling clients to derive actionable insights through robotic process automation and trained artificial intelligence and machine learning models. With a focus on transforming data into meaningful insights, D4DT supports its global customer base from various offices worldwide, helping organizations innovate within their technology and supply chains.

Kwant

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Kwant is a technology company that specializes in construction analytics. It develops a platform designed to enhance productivity and safety on construction sites. The platform uses a proprietary low-powered sensor network to automate data collection, providing real-time project management and tracking key performance indicators. This enables clients to mitigate risks associated with cost overruns and time delays, and to make data-driven decisions using predictive analytics.

Breinify

Convertible Note in 2017
Breinify Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based solutions for predictive personalization of consumer behavior. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Breinify offers a platform designed to enable consumer brands and enterprises to accurately predict individual interests and preferences. By utilizing a combination of traditional machine learning and complex temporal algorithms, the platform provides real-time personalization capabilities without the need for an in-house data science team. This technology allows businesses in various sectors, including retail, travel, and financial services, to enhance customer engagement and drive revenue growth. Breinify's clients include notable brands such as BevMo! and Hidden Valley Ranch, which have reported significant improvements in customer interactions and revenue generation. The company's mission is to democratize data science, making advanced personalization accessible to a broader range of businesses.

People Data Labs

Seed Round in 2016
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists, offering access to 3 billion precise records. The company enables its clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and power predictive modeling and artificial intelligence initiatives. Their platform serves a variety of applications, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, talent acquisition, and market research. By acting as a data partner to data science and engineering teams, People Data Labs supports the development of innovative and efficient data-driven products and services. The company aspires to be the definitive source of truth in B2B data, catering to both enterprises and startups across various data-enabled industries.

Riskopy

Venture Round in 2016
Riskopy, Inc. is a financial analytics company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2016. It specializes in cash flow optimization by integrating conventional and alternative data sources to deliver actionable insights on financial and event-driven information. Riskopy's platform enhances company-level credit data by incorporating various data types, including legal, economic, and digital signals, such as news and social media sentiment. The company serves various departments, including sales, risk, underwriting, compliance, and reporting, catering to clients in the United States, Europe, and internationally. In May 2017, Riskopy became a subsidiary of Coupa Software, further expanding its capabilities in the business finance market. Through its proprietary algorithms, Riskopy identifies opportunities in accounts receivables and payables, enabling businesses to optimize their cash flow and improve payment terms.

Glowfish IO

Seed Round in 2016
Glowfish IO specializes in industrial asset monitoring through an advanced automated software tool that analyzes sensor data. The company employs machine learning techniques to interpret the behavior of both the monitored environment and the sensors themselves. This approach allows Glowfish IO to provide users with early warnings, helping to safeguard valuable industrial assets from potential risks. By enhancing the understanding of sensor dynamics and environmental conditions, Glowfish IO aims to optimize asset management and mitigate the likelihood of operational disruptions.

People Data Labs

Seed Round in 2016
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists, offering access to 3 billion precise records. The company enables its clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and power predictive modeling and artificial intelligence initiatives. Their platform serves a variety of applications, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, talent acquisition, and market research. By acting as a data partner to data science and engineering teams, People Data Labs supports the development of innovative and efficient data-driven products and services. The company aspires to be the definitive source of truth in B2B data, catering to both enterprises and startups across various data-enabled industries.

People Data Labs

Seed Round in 2015
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists, offering access to 3 billion precise records. The company enables its clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and power predictive modeling and artificial intelligence initiatives. Their platform serves a variety of applications, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, talent acquisition, and market research. By acting as a data partner to data science and engineering teams, People Data Labs supports the development of innovative and efficient data-driven products and services. The company aspires to be the definitive source of truth in B2B data, catering to both enterprises and startups across various data-enabled industries.

Measurence

Convertible Note in 2015
Measurence Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a cloud-based intelligence platform designed to provide insights into traffic, loyalty, engagement, and timing for retailers, particularly those in the Fortune 500. Founded in 2013, the company operates a hardware-enabled analytics platform that detects the presence, location, and activity of individuals in physical spaces such as stores, restaurants, and malls. By utilizing various sensors and beacons, Measurence abstracts the functionalities of these devices into interconnected, remotely-managed modules. This allows businesses to gather hyperlocal data, which is then transformed into actionable insights aimed at enhancing the return on investment for marketing strategies in sectors like retail, insurance, and automotive. The platform emphasizes privacy while enabling property owners and managers to effectively monitor and analyze the behavior of visitors in their environments.

D8A Group

Seed Round in 2012
D8A Group specializes in developing products that facilitate the analysis of trends, patterns, and predictive analytics derived from social media conversations. Their big data solutions aim to simplify the interpretation, visualization, and sharing of information from real-time data streams, catering to both technical and non-technical users. The company offers online surveillance tools tailored for various sectors such as City & Government, Marketing/PR, Humanitarian response, and Public Safety. Established in 2011 by Jon Gosier, who previously held the position of Director of Data Products at Ushahidi, D8A Group is committed to enhancing the accessibility and usability of data for a diverse range of industries.
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