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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Collin Gutman

General Partner

Nick Mehta

General Partner

James Murphy

General Partner

Past deals in Data Visualization

XPawn

Pre Seed Round in 2024
We transform legacy healthcare data for safer, faster, and more accurate LLM applications.

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.

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.

Caden AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Caden AI provides full lifecycle tooling for building generative AI applications. Transforms prompts into APIs instantly, connect data sources and get to rock solid production deployments.

Insight7

Pre Seed Round in 2023
We believe in the power of insight to help businesses build more successful products and services. We build solutions that make it easy for business professionals and teams to leverage the power of insight to build better products. Insight7 was founded on the premise that all companies and teams seek to improve the quality and speed of their decision making. Our mission is to provide solutions that help businesses make great decisions quickly so that they can achieve great outcomes.

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.

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.

CFO2

Convertible Note in 2020
CFO2 is a business intelligence software company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in serving multi-unit restaurant operators. Its software transforms restaurant data into visual representations, allowing users to identify trends, outliers, and actionable insights. By helping clients uncover upselling opportunities and make informed product recommendations, CFO2 enhances operational efficiency, optimizes labor scheduling, and reduces food costs. The platform also provides real-time transparency into sales and operations, which aids in loss prevention and critical business decision-making. Catering to establishments ranging from five to five hundred locations, CFO2 enables its users to significantly improve their bottom line through data-driven strategies.

ENVision mobile

Venture Round in 2019
ENVision Mobile operates a business intelligence platform that facilitates shared data analytics between suppliers and micro-retailers in emerging markets. This platform provides real-time digital insights into micro-retail analytics and consumer transactions, empowering small merchants to enhance their understanding of business operations. By utilizing a subscription-based SaaS model, ENVision Mobile serves microfinance institutions and suppliers that cater to these merchants. This approach allows micro-retailers to make informed, data-driven decisions rather than depending on manual data collection, ultimately promoting inclusive economic growth in the regions they serve.

Datch

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Datch Inc. specializes in developing an online voice-visual interface platform tailored for industrial environments, aimed at enhancing operational efficiency for frontline workers. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Datch's platform facilitates real-time data capture and interaction through intuitive voice commands, allowing users to create work orders, log information, and address equipment breakdowns seamlessly. The technology employs natural language processing and generative AI to ensure accurate data collection and analysis, integrating smoothly with existing enterprise asset management systems such as SAP and IBM Maximo. By streamlining workflows and improving data-driven decision-making, Datch serves key sectors including mining, energy, and manufacturing, thereby addressing critical business process constraints effectively.

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.

Insycle

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Insycle is a New York City based company with the mission of making it easy to manage and work with data. The modern way to organize, cleanse, and update data in multiple platforms – all in one place. Salesforce, Marketo, Intercom, Zendesk, Hubspot, Yext.

Datch

Convertible Note in 2018
Datch Inc. specializes in developing an online voice-visual interface platform tailored for industrial environments, aimed at enhancing operational efficiency for frontline workers. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Datch's platform facilitates real-time data capture and interaction through intuitive voice commands, allowing users to create work orders, log information, and address equipment breakdowns seamlessly. The technology employs natural language processing and generative AI to ensure accurate data collection and analysis, integrating smoothly with existing enterprise asset management systems such as SAP and IBM Maximo. By streamlining workflows and improving data-driven decision-making, Datch serves key sectors including mining, energy, and manufacturing, thereby addressing critical business process constraints effectively.

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 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.

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

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/).

Conjure

Seed Round in 2012
Conjure, Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in designing and developing web and mobile applications. The firm offers a knowledge management platform that enables organizations to store historical knowledge and utilize it for strategic decision-making. Conjure focuses on enhancing user experience and creating data-related products, aiming to make complex information more accessible and actionable for its clients.
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