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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Thalorin
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Thalorin offers an advanced platform engineered to streamline and optimize regulatory compliance management. The platform integrates and automates compliance processes, enabling organizations across sectors such as defense, healthcare, financial services, and technology to systematically manage and adhere to intricate regulatory frameworks. Thalorin’s solution enhances operational workflows, providing data driven insights and process centric methodologies that empower compliance, security, and audit professionals to achieve superior organizational performance.
SimpleCell
Pre Seed Round in 2024
SimpleCell is a company based in San Francisco that focuses on streamlining bioinformatics through the use of natural language processing. Operating in stealth mode, SimpleCell aims to automate various bioinformatics tasks, enhancing efficiency and accessibility in the field. By leveraging advancements in natural language technology, the company seeks to simplify complex biological data analysis, making it more user-friendly for researchers and professionals in the life sciences.
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.
Granularity
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Granularity is a consumer demand hub that gives marketing, merchandising and planning teams shared access to predictions for their products based on social media and search trends. Historical sales data is no longer an indicator of future demand for retail brands. Over the last x# of years, there has been a paradigm shift. Social media is driving buying behavior. The global social commerce market size reached $995 Billion in 2023, and is expected to reach $6 trillion by 2032. In this new paradigm, social media search and trends are essential for business planning. Granularity empowers retailers to stay ahead of viral trends with an AI-powered platform that predicts social media and search trends. Founded by an ex-management consultant and data scientist who understands the challenges retailers face with rapidly changing market demand.
Eave Technologies
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Product insights are only as reliable as their underlying data. In today’s competitive digital landscape, companies rely heavily on these metrics to make growth decisions and build great user experiences. Despite companies spending $10B+ on product analytics software today, they are still left with insufficient product data obtained through manual, error-prone, and expensive pre-existing solutions. Eave addresses the root of this problem by establishing a reliable data infrastructure through automation, enabling teams to get better insights faster. Founded by a team of product and engineering from Honey, PayPal, Disney, and Amazon - Eave empowers emerging native-AI and AI-powered technologies to unlock the full power of product intelligence.
Finestra
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Finestra is a platform for patients to find prices for medical procedures and services. They are based on verified medical bills charged to real patients. They can collect millions of data points from hospitals, insurance companies, and users.
Thorium Data
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Thorium Data is a developer of an information asset management platform designed to assist organizations in monetizing their data. The platform integrates machine learning with a user-friendly data catalog, offering departments such as marketing, finance, and engineering a unified view of their data. It facilitates end-to-end search and discovery across various data sources, including databases and BI platforms, while enabling users to trace data lineage and gain context about related entities. Thorium Data emphasizes robust documentation, tagging, and fine-grained access control, enhancing data governance and ensuring the quality and relevance of datasets. By combining artificial intelligence with institutional knowledge and an agile framework, the platform addresses employee engagement challenges and streamlines data management processes.
Voythos
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Voythos is a developer of predictive intelligence technology aimed at preventing life-threatening acute cardiovascular events. The company addresses the limitations of existing diagnostic tools, which primarily expedite diagnosis without offering predictive modeling. By employing data fusion and multimodal machine learning, Voythos integrates siloed clinical data to create precise predictions regarding the progression of cardiovascular disease. Their technology analyzes medical imaging alongside a patient's specific anatomy to identify risk factors for aortic disease, helping cardiovascular surgeons pinpoint individuals at high risk for developing aortic aneurysms. This innovative approach not only enhances patient outcomes but also has the potential to reduce overall healthcare costs.
POGR
Pre Seed Round in 2022
POGR is a pioneering data analytics platform dedicated to transforming the gaming industry by offering comprehensive statistics, player profiles, and tools for developers in a single, accessible package. Unlike previous fragmented solutions, POGR effectively manages vast amounts of gaming data, including player behaviors and game performance metrics, providing real-time insights without incurring prohibitive costs. This platform enables game developers to validate their concepts quickly and affordably, positioning them advantageously against competitors. By granting access to extensive, game-specific datasets, POGR allows for the creation of customized applications, making it a valuable resource for both indie developers and established studios. Early adopters of POGR have utilized its capabilities to enhance their competitive edge, thereby establishing the platform as a foundational element in the evolving landscape of data-driven gaming and the metaverse.
Thorium Data
Convertible Note in 2021
Thorium Data is a developer of an information asset management platform designed to assist organizations in monetizing their data. The platform integrates machine learning with a user-friendly data catalog, offering departments such as marketing, finance, and engineering a unified view of their data. It facilitates end-to-end search and discovery across various data sources, including databases and BI platforms, while enabling users to trace data lineage and gain context about related entities. Thorium Data emphasizes robust documentation, tagging, and fine-grained access control, enhancing data governance and ensuring the quality and relevance of datasets. By combining artificial intelligence with institutional knowledge and an agile framework, the platform addresses employee engagement challenges and streamlines data management processes.
CoreX
Convertible Note in 2021
CoreX offers a customer data hub platform that facilitates the integration, cleaning, and synchronization of customer data. The platform enables teams to connect their various tools without the need for coding, ensuring that all customer information is centralized and up-to-date. By streamlining data management, CoreX empowers organizations to maintain alignment across teams, thereby enhancing efficiency and collaboration.
Maxia
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Maxia is a research and development company specializing in the autonomous assembly and optimization of machine learning models, particularly for time series data. The company offers a cloud-based platform that focuses on predictive marketing and sales analytics. Its services include predictive modeling, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and advanced modeling, which help businesses identify potential customers and analyze behavioral patterns. Features such as lead scoring, churn prediction, and insights into high-value prospects empower companies to optimize their marketing strategies and enhance decision-making processes. Additionally, Maxia supports data pipelines, cloud compute metrics, exploratory data analysis, and ML model experimentation, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics.
Hydrus.ai
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hydrus.ai is a software platform that functions as an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) operating system for organizations. It assists sustainability professionals by providing AI and machine learning-driven analytics to tackle complex sustainability challenges. The platform streamlines ESG data reporting and analytics, offering centralized data collection, real-time analytics, and emissions management. Additionally, it ensures data protection, enabling organizations to build trust with stakeholders through automated collection and reporting of ESG data. Hydrus.ai has a proven track record of serving Fortune 500 companies, addressing their most pressing sustainability needs.
Mapped
Seed Round in 2020
Mapped is an independent data layer focused on commercial real estate, providing an artificial intelligence-powered platform that automates the discovery, extraction, and normalization of data from various sources, including building systems, sensors, and vendor APIs. The platform simplifies the integration of disparate data into a single, standardized API, effectively breaking down enterprise data silos. By enabling building owners, operators, and service providers to access and utilize real-time data from legacy systems and devices, Mapped empowers users to unlock the value of their data and drive significant improvements in business operations. Its approach facilitates the digitization of commercial and industrial environments, allowing teams to quickly access normalized live data and enhance decision-making processes.
JiiWa
Funding Round in 2020
SaaS platform using mobile to help nonprofits and their funders understand and prove their impact through end-user data.
Prophit.ai
Convertible Note in 2020
A quick preview of our Machine Learning capabilities: select a US State, type in any item and our algorithm will determine its taxability: From all AP dataset fields, the line item description is the single best predictor. The Taxionary showcases our capabilities for making taxability decisions based on just that single field, but our full model utilitizes all fields in the dataset and therefore yields even better results.
Constellation Analytics
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Constellation helps leading insurance companies leverage publicly available data to operate more effectively. Our AI-powered platform empowers actuarial, market intelligence, and pricing teams to use rate filing data to optimize pricing, analyze markets, and track competitors across product lines and geographies.
Dataspine
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Dataspine enables users to build, train, deploy and manage AI/ML models & pipelines at scale, while staying hardware & framework agnostic.
People Data Labs
Series A in 2018
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists. With a robust database of 3 billion accurate records, the company enables clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and support predictive modeling and artificial intelligence applications. Their platform serves various sectors, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, and talent acquisition, ensuring that clients can build and scale innovative, data-driven products effectively. By acting as a reliable data partner, People Data Labs supports both enterprise and startup clients in achieving greater efficiency and success in their data-enabled initiatives.
Plot
Convertible Note in 2018
Plot pairs IoT sensors and cloud-based software to deliver facility, city, airport, and roadway monitoring. We are currently installed at Los Angeles International and Sacramento International Airports to monitor their TSA wait times and provide automated alerts to staff on changing environments. Once our sensors are installed, we are able to provide airport staff with custom reporting, as well as, provide travelers with predicted wait times. We are the only solution on the market that actively tries to reach travelers before they leave for the airport. Before renaming to Plot, the company was named Park Evergreen and focused on parking solutions. Park Evergreen was accepted into Batch 19 of 500 Startups. Plot was founded in 2016 by Jenn Starr, Jason Cass, Christopher Addington, Ben Cantey, and Ben Smith and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Dedo
Venture Round in 2018
Dedo specializes in patient engagement solutions for clinical trials, focusing on enhancing the participant experience through data-driven approaches. The company combines the expertise of data scientists and engineers with the insights of seasoned healthcare professionals to develop an automated monitoring platform. This platform employs innovative techniques, including gamification, to engage and retain patients, ensuring the collection of consistent, accurate, and timely digital data. By streamlining data capture, Dedo aims to facilitate faster access to vital therapies in the clinical research and development process, ultimately improving the efficiency of bringing important treatments to market.
Lightning AI
Convertible Note in 2017
Lightning AI operates an online marketing platform designed to identify target audiences for digital advertising. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to automate and optimize key processes, including bidding, audience expansion, and re-targeting, which helps businesses achieve their marketing objectives. By streamlining these functions, Lightning AI enables marketers to lower customer acquisition costs while allowing them to concentrate on developing creative and engaging marketing campaigns.
Dedo
Private Equity Round in 2016
Dedo specializes in patient engagement solutions for clinical trials, focusing on enhancing the participant experience through data-driven approaches. The company combines the expertise of data scientists and engineers with the insights of seasoned healthcare professionals to develop an automated monitoring platform. This platform employs innovative techniques, including gamification, to engage and retain patients, ensuring the collection of consistent, accurate, and timely digital data. By streamlining data capture, Dedo aims to facilitate faster access to vital therapies in the clinical research and development process, ultimately improving the efficiency of bringing important treatments to market.
People Data Labs
Seed Round in 2016
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists. With a robust database of 3 billion accurate records, the company enables clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and support predictive modeling and artificial intelligence applications. Their platform serves various sectors, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, and talent acquisition, ensuring that clients can build and scale innovative, data-driven products effectively. By acting as a reliable data partner, People Data Labs supports both enterprise and startup clients in achieving greater efficiency and success in their data-enabled initiatives.
Dedo
Venture Round in 2016
Dedo specializes in patient engagement solutions for clinical trials, focusing on enhancing the participant experience through data-driven approaches. The company combines the expertise of data scientists and engineers with the insights of seasoned healthcare professionals to develop an automated monitoring platform. This platform employs innovative techniques, including gamification, to engage and retain patients, ensuring the collection of consistent, accurate, and timely digital data. By streamlining data capture, Dedo aims to facilitate faster access to vital therapies in the clinical research and development process, ultimately improving the efficiency of bringing important treatments to market.
Riskopy
Venture Round in 2016
Riskopy, Inc. is a financial data analytics company based in San Francisco, California, that was incorporated in 2016 and is a subsidiary of Coupa Software. The company specializes in cash flow optimization by integrating conventional and alternative data sources to deliver actionable insights. Riskopy provides an extensive range of financial data, which includes company-level credit data augmented with regional, sector, and economic indicators, as well as event data encompassing legal, currency, weather, transport, and crime-related information. The platform also incorporates digital data such as news, social sentiment, and digital footprints, alongside granular in-house data. Its services cater to various business departments, including sales, risk management, underwriting, compliance, and reporting, serving clients in the United States, Europe, and internationally. By leveraging diverse data sources, Riskopy enables businesses to enhance their accounts receivables and payables processes, thus uncovering new opportunities in the financial market.
People Data Labs
Seed Round in 2016
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists. With a robust database of 3 billion accurate records, the company enables clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and support predictive modeling and artificial intelligence applications. Their platform serves various sectors, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, and talent acquisition, ensuring that clients can build and scale innovative, data-driven products effectively. By acting as a reliable data partner, People Data Labs supports both enterprise and startup clients in achieving greater efficiency and success in their data-enabled initiatives.
People Data Labs
Seed Round in 2015
People Data Labs specializes in providing high-quality B2B data for developers, engineers, and data scientists. With a robust database of 3 billion accurate records, the company enables clients to create and enhance person profiles, enrich existing data, and support predictive modeling and artificial intelligence applications. Their platform serves various sectors, including sales and marketing, investment research, fraud detection, and talent acquisition, ensuring that clients can build and scale innovative, data-driven products effectively. By acting as a reliable data partner, People Data Labs supports both enterprise and startup clients in achieving greater efficiency and success in their data-enabled initiatives.
Measurence
Convertible Note in 2015
Actionable data platform for the physical world. Our hardware-enabled data platform detects presence, location and activity of people within and around physical spaces. We use the hyperlocal data we collect to generate key insights on how to increase ROI of marketing investments for businesses that rely on physical locations: insurance companies, banks, automotive, retailers, outdoor media agencies and more.
Vero Analytics
Seed Round in 2014
Vero allows users to focus on the business of data instead of the engineering of data. Tell Vero where your data lives, how to slice and dice it, and Vero will do the rest. Our underlying knowledge graph engine can easily build complex datasets from any database with little effort. Vero is the perfect companion tool to your favorite visualization tool and it allows you to collaborate with colleagues on the definition of metrics.
TrackMaven
Series A in 2014
Marketers report on their results for two reasons: to prove their value, and to improve results. TrackMaven is the only marketing analytics platform that gives marketers the ability to do both across all of their digital channels. TrackMaven’s marketing analytics platform integrates with all the tools marketers are already using to measure their performance — including social networks, web analytics providers, and all major advertising, marketing automation, and CRM platforms — so it’s clear to see what works and what doesn’t in one centralized view. TrackMaven can also show where its customers are winning and losing in their industry by tracking your results against competitors, peers, and influencers. Marketing leaders from hundreds of the world’s best brands use TrackMaven to understand the full impact of their marketing on over 20 digital channels. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit www.trackmaven.com or follow us on Twitter @TrackMaven.
TrackMaven
Seed Round in 2013
Marketers report on their results for two reasons: to prove their value, and to improve results. TrackMaven is the only marketing analytics platform that gives marketers the ability to do both across all of their digital channels. TrackMaven’s marketing analytics platform integrates with all the tools marketers are already using to measure their performance — including social networks, web analytics providers, and all major advertising, marketing automation, and CRM platforms — so it’s clear to see what works and what doesn’t in one centralized view. TrackMaven can also show where its customers are winning and losing in their industry by tracking your results against competitors, peers, and influencers. Marketing leaders from hundreds of the world’s best brands use TrackMaven to understand the full impact of their marketing on over 20 digital channels. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit www.trackmaven.com or follow us on Twitter @TrackMaven.
D8A Group
Seed Round in 2012
D8A Group ("data group") builds products that make it easy to derive trends, patterns, and predictive analytics from social media conversations. We are making the world's information easier to understand, visualize and share with practical big data products that make working with real-time data streams easy for technical and non-technical people alike. We provide online surveillance tools for mining online populations that are used across many verticals: City & Government, Marketing/PR, Humanitarian response, and Public Safety. The company was founded in 2011 by Jon Gosier who previously worked as Director of Data Products at [Ushahidi](http://crunchbase.com/organization/ushahidi/).
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