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

Collin Gutman

General Partner

Nick Mehta

General Partner

James Murphy

General Partner

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EmicAi

Pre Seed Round in 2024
EmicAi is an AI based IT firm offering a insights platform providing real time analysis to enhance therapy.

Precision Terra

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Algorithmically improves GPS signal tracking

Topology Health

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Topology’s innovative toolkit offers a robust solution for painless integration to EHRs for existing tools, data sources, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. The toolkit empowers application developers to effortlessly connect their software with major EMRs/EHRs such as Epic and Oracle Cerner. This integration facilitates efficient data flow and real-time synchronizations, laying the foundation for enhanced patient care.

PatchRx

Series A in 2023
PatchRx is a remote therapeutic management platform focused on enhancing medication adherence and patient compliance. It utilizes a comprehensive approach to support clinics in leveraging remote therapeutic monitoring. The platform features a universal smart pill bottle, a patient-facing app, and a web application, all designed to help patients take their medications as prescribed. PatchRx allows users to manage refills and rewards them for maintaining good adherence, while also providing real-time adherence data to healthcare providers. By integrating data-driven technology, PatchRx aims to improve health outcomes and facilitate better communication between patients and their care teams.

Waitify

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Developer of business software designed to create engaging drops for their desired products. The company's platform offers features that include zero configuration, flexible integration, SMS notification, device hand-off, real-time analytics, consumer profiles, and more, enabling clients with transparent, scalable, and engaging waiting rooms.

Attune

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Attune provides schedule flexibility for contact centers. It is a way for agents to manage their own schedules without compromising customer wait times. They empower agents to adjust their shifts in real-time without lengthy and restrictive approval processes.

Rabot

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rabot provides an AI-driven platform designed to enhance visibility and insights for packing operations while automating workflow processes. The company develops tools that aim to minimize repetitive and inefficient tasks in warehouses, thereby improving overall worker efficiency. By streamlining operations at pack stations, Rabot's solutions enable clients to achieve faster and more accurate order fulfillment. The platform offers real-time alerts and insights, helping businesses to reduce errors and enhance productivity in their logistics and packing processes.

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.

Rabot

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rabot provides an AI-driven platform designed to enhance visibility and insights for packing operations while automating workflow processes. The company develops tools that aim to minimize repetitive and inefficient tasks in warehouses, thereby improving overall worker efficiency. By streamlining operations at pack stations, Rabot's solutions enable clients to achieve faster and more accurate order fulfillment. The platform offers real-time alerts and insights, helping businesses to reduce errors and enhance productivity in their logistics and packing processes.

BurnRate

Convertible Note in 2020
BurnRate operates a business optimization platform that helps companies enhance their scaling processes. The platform integrates revenue, headcount, and demand planning into a cohesive tool, providing clarity for optimizing marketing, sales, and customer success efforts. It allows investors, founders, and sales leaders to design effective revenue and capacity plans while maintaining agility in their operations. By enabling users to plan for multiple scenarios without the pitfalls of traditional spreadsheets, BurnRate supports businesses in streamlining their growth strategies and achieving success more efficiently.

Hovercast

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hovercast is an entertainment company focused on audience engagement through interactive live streaming. It offers a platform that enables brands, media companies, musicians, and politicians to connect with their audiences in real-time. The platform includes a variety of interactive features such as polls, comments, gameplay, and custom integrations, allowing users to create and customize branded motion graphics that incorporate audience feedback. By leveraging technology, Hovercast aims to enhance the way audiences participate in live events, making the experience more engaging and interactive.

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.

RefineRE

Convertible Note in 2018
RefineRE is a portfolio management platform and data analytics provider focused on corporate real estate. Founded in 2017 and based in Dallas, Texas, the company offers a cloud-based solution that integrates lease administration with comprehensive real estate portfolio data. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver real-time market comparisons, advanced portfolio reporting, and actionable analytics. By providing deep insights, street-level market intelligence, and real-time scenario modeling, RefineRE enables commercial real estate clients to effectively track, analyze, and manage their investments, facilitating informed decision-making in real estate projects.

Limelight Platform

Funding Round in 2017
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates the creation of automated, data-driven live marketing campaigns. The platform includes tools for live strategy, activation, consumer communication, social amplification, and real-time data analysis, enabling businesses to effectively manage their live marketing programs. Limelight Platform offers a range of solutions tailored for various marketing needs, including mall tours, contests, surveys, events, experiential marketing, in-store experiences, kiosks, sampling, sponsorships, and test drives. Founded in 2014 by Jonah Midanik and Russ Armstrong, the company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

On Second Thought

Seed Round in 2017
On Second Thought Inc. is a technology company that has developed a messaging application allowing users to undo and edit messages before they reach the recipient's device. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its iOS application supports sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages, group messaging, and automatic synchronization of contacts and existing conversations. The app employs patented technology that enables users to delay or recall messages and peer-to-peer payments, providing greater control over communications and transactions. This functionality helps users rectify inaccuracies in messages or correct mistakes in payments before they are delivered, thus enhancing user experience and reducing potential errors.

On Second Thought

Convertible Note in 2017
On Second Thought Inc. is a technology company that has developed a messaging application allowing users to undo and edit messages before they reach the recipient's device. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its iOS application supports sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages, group messaging, and automatic synchronization of contacts and existing conversations. The app employs patented technology that enables users to delay or recall messages and peer-to-peer payments, providing greater control over communications and transactions. This functionality helps users rectify inaccuracies in messages or correct mistakes in payments before they are delivered, thus enhancing user experience and reducing potential errors.

Limelight Platform

Seed Round in 2016
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates the creation of automated, data-driven live marketing campaigns. The platform includes tools for live strategy, activation, consumer communication, social amplification, and real-time data analysis, enabling businesses to effectively manage their live marketing programs. Limelight Platform offers a range of solutions tailored for various marketing needs, including mall tours, contests, surveys, events, experiential marketing, in-store experiences, kiosks, sampling, sponsorships, and test drives. Founded in 2014 by Jonah Midanik and Russ Armstrong, the company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Reesio

Seed Round in 2015
Reesio is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 that addresses the challenges associated with inaccurate real estate data. It offers a platform designed to streamline the real estate transaction process, allowing agents to manage deals more efficiently. The platform enables users to share documents, manage property showings, handle offers, and store important communications in one place. By providing agents with real-time transaction information, Reesio enhances the accuracy of property listings, ensuring they are more reliable than competing sources. The company uniquely controls its own data, which supports its commitment to delivering up-to-the-minute residential property information.

Limelight Platform

Convertible Note in 2015
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates the creation of automated, data-driven live marketing campaigns. The platform includes tools for live strategy, activation, consumer communication, social amplification, and real-time data analysis, enabling businesses to effectively manage their live marketing programs. Limelight Platform offers a range of solutions tailored for various marketing needs, including mall tours, contests, surveys, events, experiential marketing, in-store experiences, kiosks, sampling, sponsorships, and test drives. Founded in 2014 by Jonah Midanik and Russ Armstrong, the company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Breadcrumbtracking

Seed Round in 2014
BreadCrumbTracking.com provides software to managers of mobile workers. The software provides geo-based time-tracking for billing, paperless clocking-in and clocking-out, several exportable reports and complete workflow management solutions between staff, managers and customers. An IP-protected feature shows where their employees and mobile assets have been, and for how long, in an instant.

Capitol Bells

Seed Round in 2014
Capitol Bells, Inc. is a mobile application developer based in the United States, established in 2013. The app is designed to provide real-time alerts regarding congressional votes and track legislative proceedings. It serves a diverse user base that includes members of Congress, their staff, lobbyists, reporters, and other interested parties. Users receive timely notifications when votes are called, can monitor the remaining time for votes, and access summaries and results of bills. This functionality makes Capitol Bells an essential tool for those engaged in or following the legislative process at the Capitol.

ResolutionTube

Seed Round in 2013
ResolutionTube is a mobile augmented reality collaboration platform designed to enhance customer service, particularly in the field service industry. This patented application enables field technicians to connect with experts in real-time through video chats, facilitating immediate access to knowledge and expertise. The platform provides a range of resources, including installation manuals, service bulletins, and troubleshooting guides, all accessible directly from mobile devices. Additionally, the video interactions are recorded and vetted to contribute to a growing knowledge center, making it increasingly valuable over time. By streamlining communication between on-site engineers and organizational experts, ResolutionTube aims to improve efficiency and problem-solving in customer service operations.

ResolutionTube

Seed Round in 2013
ResolutionTube is a mobile augmented reality collaboration platform designed to enhance customer service, particularly in the field service industry. This patented application enables field technicians to connect with experts in real-time through video chats, facilitating immediate access to knowledge and expertise. The platform provides a range of resources, including installation manuals, service bulletins, and troubleshooting guides, all accessible directly from mobile devices. Additionally, the video interactions are recorded and vetted to contribute to a growing knowledge center, making it increasingly valuable over time. By streamlining communication between on-site engineers and organizational experts, ResolutionTube aims to improve efficiency and problem-solving in customer service operations.
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