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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Partner

Nick Mehta

General Partner

James Murphy

General Partner

Past deals in Compliance

Redii

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Redii operates a retirement savings platform tailored for international employees. It streamlines retirement benefits for multinational companies by offering seamless payroll integrations, ensuring global compliance, and managing contributions end-to-end. This enables businesses to provide secure and accessible retirement savings options for their global workforce.

Vara

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Environmental compliance made easy

Thalorin

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Thalorin is a technology company that specializes in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) management software. It offers a platform designed to simplify and automate complex regulatory compliance processes, catering to diverse sectors such as defense, healthcare, financial services, and technology. The platform integrates and automates compliance workflows, providing data-driven insights and process-centric methodologies to enhance operational efficiency. It empowers compliance, security, and audit professionals to effectively manage intricate regulatory frameworks, thereby improving overall organizational performance.

Osgil

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Osgil is a technology company that specializes in developing risk management solutions for artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the financial services sector. Its platform offers a range of features, including no-code templating for ease of use, operator ownership for accountability, and verifiable outputs for transparency. The platform also ensures full auditability, regulatory compliance, and seamless enterprise integration, helping clients enhance operational efficiency and drive revenue growth.

Gratis Intelligence

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Gratis Intelligence is a company that operates a consumer sampling and engagement platform designed to facilitate revenue growth for brands. By integrating point-of-sale systems, payment technology, and industry expertise, the company enables brands to connect with consumers in meaningful and compliant ways. This approach allows businesses to enhance customer engagement and drive growth within various venues, ultimately supporting a more effective consumer experience and better brand interaction.

Fixpliance AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Fixpliance AI is a technology company that specializes in automated compliance remediation for cloud-based systems. It has developed an API-based, private Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that identifies and rectifies non-compliant controls across various major compliance frameworks. The platform discovers GraphQL APIs and outputs results in standardized JSON format, allowing seamless integration with other enterprise tools. This enables businesses to continuously monitor and detect compliance violations, ensuring they maintain regulatory adherence.

Procuro

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Procuro, Inc., established in April 2001 and co-founded by Vincent P. Gordon and Bernard P. Lee, is a Delaware-based software and services company focused on Cold Chain Management solutions for the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. The company offers a suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) products under the PIMMâ„¢/iPIMMâ„¢ brand, which include features for cold chain monitoring, product traceability, and supply chain visibility. Procuro's platform allows customers to actively manage and enhance their cold chain operations through functionalities such as temperature monitoring, route monitoring, and asset tracking. By addressing common operational challenges faced by their clients, Procuro aims to automate processes, deliver intelligent notifications, and provide practical insights, thereby improving overall efficiency within the cold chain logistics.

Credit Mountain

Seed Round in 2021
Credit Mountain is a fintech company that specializes in providing a personalized credit platform designed to assist individuals in accessing and managing their credit ratings. The platform serves as a valuable resource for financial institutions by offering credit counseling services. It features a credit booster tool that helps users prioritize which accounts to pay off first, facilitating automatic extra payments to accelerate debt repayment. This approach enables customers to enhance their credit reports by adding positive payment history while simultaneously reducing their overall debt. By focusing on rejected borrowers, Credit Mountain aims to create pathways to credit approval, empowering individuals to improve their financial standing.

Polymer

Seed Round in 2021
Polymer is a data governance and privacy platform focused on managing sensitive information within third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Gdrive, Zendesk, and Zapier. The platform aims to protect organizations from data loss and cyber breaches, offering features like data observability, data loss prevention, and human risk management. By providing a centralized interface, Polymer enables organizations to configure, permission, and monitor the usage of sensitive data, ensuring compliance with regulations such as PII, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Additionally, the platform facilitates secure cloud migration, supports remote team data access, and allows for safe document sharing and encryption of unstructured data.

Credit Mountain

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Credit Mountain is a fintech company that specializes in providing a personalized credit platform designed to assist individuals in accessing and managing their credit ratings. The platform serves as a valuable resource for financial institutions by offering credit counseling services. It features a credit booster tool that helps users prioritize which accounts to pay off first, facilitating automatic extra payments to accelerate debt repayment. This approach enables customers to enhance their credit reports by adding positive payment history while simultaneously reducing their overall debt. By focusing on rejected borrowers, Credit Mountain aims to create pathways to credit approval, empowering individuals to improve their financial standing.

Dataships

Seed Round in 2020
Dataships Limited is a data privacy software company that specializes in automating compliance with global data protection regulations, including GDPR and CCPA. Founded in 2018 and based in Dublin, Ireland, with an additional office in San Francisco, California, Dataships provides a platform designed to assist small and medium-sized enterprises in managing their data privacy obligations. The platform offers various features such as database management, data security management, data access management, and privacy compliance obligations management. By utilizing Dataships' software, companies can enhance their data handling practices and ensure adherence to legal requirements, ultimately improving customer trust and service.

MinervaAI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MinervaAI is a company that specializes in automating risk assessment for financial institutions, focusing on identifying potential money laundering and terrorist financing risks. Its platform utilizes advanced technologies such as natural language processing, proprietary scoring algorithms, and deep learning to enhance the efficiency of anti-money laundering (AML) investigations. Accessible through a web interface or API, the platform offers consolidated and audit-proof documentation in PDF format. By providing real-time client risk assessments, MinervaAI enables banks and other financial entities to conduct thorough investigations at a significantly reduced cost, streamlining compliance processes and improving overall risk management.

Blindnet

Convertible Note in 2020
Blindnet is a company that operates from both New York and Paris, focusing on providing developer tools and cloud infrastructure services. Its platform is designed to help businesses implement privacy and security protocols for data-in-motion, enabling them to minimize the collection of sensitive user data. By doing so, Blindnet reduces the risk of data exposure in the event of a breach and ensures compliance with privacy regulations. The company's solutions facilitate the creation of privacy-preserving experiences through automated privacy intelligence and dynamic data governance, allowing companies to build products that customers can trust.

Vendorpm

Convertible Note in 2020
VendorPM is a software company that specializes in vendor management and procurement solutions for the property management industry. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, VendorPM connects property managers with a network of reputable vendors, facilitating vendor sourcing, management, and compliance for various building services. The company's innovative ranking algorithm ensures that the top vendors listed are not only qualified but also available to undertake the necessary work. By streamlining the process of connecting property managers with vendors, VendorPM enhances efficiency in fulfilling building service contracts of all sizes and scopes, while also enabling vendors to effectively market their services.

StonePaper

Convertible Note in 2020
StonePaper is a Toronto-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in data governance solutions. Its primary offering is a platform called Koncordant, which facilitates the secure verification of identity and documents. The platform utilizes blockchain technology to track data flow and regulatory compliance across various systems, allowing businesses to manage legal processes efficiently without the need for legal counsel. By integrating digital contracts and ensuring real-time updates on regulatory changes, StonePaper provides organizations with enhanced control over their supply chains and facilitates secure sharing of private documents with governments and other entities.

Polymer

Convertible Note in 2020
Polymer is a data governance and privacy platform focused on managing sensitive information within third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Gdrive, Zendesk, and Zapier. The platform aims to protect organizations from data loss and cyber breaches, offering features like data observability, data loss prevention, and human risk management. By providing a centralized interface, Polymer enables organizations to configure, permission, and monitor the usage of sensitive data, ensuring compliance with regulations such as PII, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Additionally, the platform facilitates secure cloud migration, supports remote team data access, and allows for safe document sharing and encryption of unstructured data.

GroLens

Convertible Note in 2019
GroLens Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, specializes in developing and delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software tailored for commercial cannabis producers. The company's core offerings include compliance reporting, inventory management, and grow optimization software, all designed to help cannabis growers maintain consistent product quality, identify operational efficiencies, ensure regulatory compliance, and effectively manage sales inventories.

GroLens

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GroLens Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, specializes in developing and delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software tailored for commercial cannabis producers. The company's core offerings include compliance reporting, inventory management, and grow optimization software, all designed to help cannabis growers maintain consistent product quality, identify operational efficiencies, ensure regulatory compliance, and effectively manage sales inventories.

PassRight

Seed Round in 2019
PassRight is a SaaS company that specializes in immigration management services aimed at law firms, businesses, and individuals. The company offers technology solutions designed to enhance transparency and accessibility in the visa approval process. By focusing on customer-centric services, PassRight helps organizations navigate the complexities of immigration, enabling them to effectively address and resolve various immigration challenges associated with employment applications.

B.Hold Health

Pre Seed Round in 2018
B.Hold Health is a developer of an online healthcare platform that facilitates real-time connections among patients, providers, and health plans at the point of care. The company's platform employs a multi-layered patient identity verification process alongside an integrated, cloud-based application. This system enhances compliance and addresses fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) within the healthcare sector. By streamlining these interactions, B.Hold Health aims to deliver both administrative and clinical value to healthcare entities, ultimately helping clients reduce healthcare fraud and lower administrative costs.

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.

Legalinc

Convertible Note in 2016
Legalinc is a professional service provider specializing in registered agent, compliance, and entity formation solutions for businesses across the United States. The company offers a platform that automates administrative functions and compliance processes, helping legal professionals manage their tasks efficiently, cost-effectively, and accurately. By monitoring deadlines and facilitating the delivery and storage of legal and business documents, Legalinc streamlines operations for both its team and its clients. The company's focus on people, process, and performance underscores its commitment to delivering meaningful service and innovative solutions to meet the needs of its customers.

Honcho

Convertible Note in 2016
Honcho is the only AI-powered communications protection software that coaches and trains as employees type to help compliance and HR professionals build and maintain exceptional communications practices in their companies. Our communications-protection software helps reduce the risk of non-compliant communications. Detect when users are composing potentially problematic messages, have the ability to archive official communication channels, and support supervisory review of any issues that arise. Show employees, customers, and the world that you care about ensuring an ethical and compliant workplace. And, invest in your communications now to avoid costly litigation, regulatory fines, negative press, and a demoralized culture later.

PactSafe

Seed Round in 2015
PactSafe, Inc. is a contract management company that specializes in automated and electronic signature solutions for businesses of various sizes. Established in 2012 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana, PactSafe provides a click-to-sign electronic signature platform that facilitates the management and tracking of contracts, streamlining the signing process while ensuring centralized recordkeeping. Its offerings include automated large-scale contract deployment tailored for compliance-related projects, clickwrap integration for eCommerce and software applications, and self-service contract options for customers. With a diverse clientele that includes companies such as DoorDash, Wayfair, and Angie's List, PactSafe serves a range of industries, including eCommerce, software as a service, healthcare, and financial services, focusing on enhancing efficiency in the digital contracting process.

DivvyCloud

Convertible Note in 2015
DivvyCloud Corporation develops a cloud automation platform that enables enterprise customers to automate the management of security, compliance, and governance risks in public cloud and container environments. Founded in 2012 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company provides solutions to protect against misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and identity and access management challenges. DivvyCloud's platform offers features such as real-time remediation and consolidated visibility across various public and private cloud environments, enhancing the management of IT resources. By automating policy application and enabling proactive problem resolution, DivvyCloud helps organizations maintain continuous security and compliance, allowing them to fully leverage the advantages of cloud technology. As of May 2020, DivvyCloud operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 LLC.

Nova

Convertible Note in 2015
Nova is a subscription and reporting platform designed to enhance operational efficiency through digital transformation. It provides firms with tools to improve the investor experience by allowing them to save profiles, collaborate on dashboards, and access intuitive reporting features. By integrating vendors and centralizing data, Nova streamlines compliance and operations, reducing reliance on email communications. Additionally, Nova harnesses artificial intelligence to support a more productive sales process, helping sellers prioritize their efforts and identify the most impactful actions throughout the sales pipeline. The platform also aims to build the future of open financial infrastructure by automating financial instruments, offering protocols for compliance and service facilitation in the issuance and management of tokenized financial assets on the blockchain. This comprehensive approach enables clients to automate regulatory compliance and optimize their financial operations.

Nova

Convertible Note in 2015
Nova is a subscription and reporting platform designed to enhance operational efficiency through digital transformation. It provides firms with tools to improve the investor experience by allowing them to save profiles, collaborate on dashboards, and access intuitive reporting features. By integrating vendors and centralizing data, Nova streamlines compliance and operations, reducing reliance on email communications. Additionally, Nova harnesses artificial intelligence to support a more productive sales process, helping sellers prioritize their efforts and identify the most impactful actions throughout the sales pipeline. The platform also aims to build the future of open financial infrastructure by automating financial instruments, offering protocols for compliance and service facilitation in the issuance and management of tokenized financial assets on the blockchain. This comprehensive approach enables clients to automate regulatory compliance and optimize their financial operations.

Honcho

Convertible Note in 2015
Honcho is the only AI-powered communications protection software that coaches and trains as employees type to help compliance and HR professionals build and maintain exceptional communications practices in their companies. Our communications-protection software helps reduce the risk of non-compliant communications. Detect when users are composing potentially problematic messages, have the ability to archive official communication channels, and support supervisory review of any issues that arise. Show employees, customers, and the world that you care about ensuring an ethical and compliant workplace. And, invest in your communications now to avoid costly litigation, regulatory fines, negative press, and a demoralized culture later.

Compaas

Seed Round in 2014
Compaas is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that provides cloud-based software aimed at protecting businesses from data breaches and employee negligence. Its platform offers comprehensive threat identification and compliance services, allowing IT managers, CIOs, and CISOs to monitor user activity effectively. By delivering real-time alerts on potential threats and enabling the creation of customized compliance policies, Compaas empowers organizations to disallow specific activities that could lead to security breaches. Additionally, the software analyzes user events to help businesses track activity and implement strategies to minimize risks, ensuring a robust defense against data threats in the cloud.

v2 Ratings

Seed Round in 2014
Based in Boston, v2 Ratings was founded in 2014 with a mission to extract value from financial data for clients in the institutional investment industry. Currently serving buy-side investment firms as well as smaller investors, v2 Ratings delivers timely subscription data to clients through a browser application and API products. Services include US Equity Ratings, custom signal creation, integration of internal proprietary data sets, historical back-testing, and accommodation of all compliance and site-specific deployment needs. - See more at: https://v2ratings.com

DivvyCloud

Convertible Note in 2014
DivvyCloud Corporation develops a cloud automation platform that enables enterprise customers to automate the management of security, compliance, and governance risks in public cloud and container environments. Founded in 2012 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company provides solutions to protect against misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and identity and access management challenges. DivvyCloud's platform offers features such as real-time remediation and consolidated visibility across various public and private cloud environments, enhancing the management of IT resources. By automating policy application and enabling proactive problem resolution, DivvyCloud helps organizations maintain continuous security and compliance, allowing them to fully leverage the advantages of cloud technology. As of May 2020, DivvyCloud operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 LLC.

DivvyCloud

Seed Round in 2013
DivvyCloud Corporation develops a cloud automation platform that enables enterprise customers to automate the management of security, compliance, and governance risks in public cloud and container environments. Founded in 2012 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company provides solutions to protect against misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and identity and access management challenges. DivvyCloud's platform offers features such as real-time remediation and consolidated visibility across various public and private cloud environments, enhancing the management of IT resources. By automating policy application and enabling proactive problem resolution, DivvyCloud helps organizations maintain continuous security and compliance, allowing them to fully leverage the advantages of cloud technology. As of May 2020, DivvyCloud operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 LLC.
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