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Forum Ventures

43 West 23rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10010, United States

Overview

Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program. With over 250 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com

Total investments
45
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
6
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • B2B
  • Construction
  • E-Commerce
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
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Investment portfolio

  • Brdg

    Led · Seed · Aug 2026

    Brdg offers a centralized platform intended to automate document collection, compliance reviews, budget validation, and draw packaging to replace manual, spreadsheet-based construction finance workflows. The company positions itself as an operating system for construction finance and serves real estate developers, cost consultants, and lenders. Founded in 2024 in Montreal by Ness Cabessa, Samuel Brand, and Daniel Bensoussan, Brdg currently has a team of five. It plans to integrate additional agentic AI capabilities into its product and pursue strategic partnerships to expand across the Canadian construction lending market. The startup raised CAD 850,000 in a pre-seed round led by Forum Ventures with participation from undisclosed strategic investors to fund these initiatives. Company website: https://brdg.ca.

  • Paralign Health

    Participated · Seed · May 2026

    Paralign Health provides technology, operational infrastructure, and funding pathways to scale Mobile Integrated Health and Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP) programs nationwide. Co-founded by CEO and EMT Aaron Molloy and EMS leader Justin Duncan, the company helps health plans identify high-risk members, coordinate in-home EMS-led interventions, and manage contracting, claims, and payment flows with local EMS agencies. Paralign aims to reduce avoidable emergency room utilization, improve outcomes for patients in medically underserved areas, and lower total cost of care. The company announced a $3 million seed raise to expand its network of fire departments and EMS agencies, accelerate its platform development, and grow health plan partnerships. The article references Paralign's Kansas City, Mo. dateline and frames the company as building an operating model to scale community-based preventative care.

  • Herd Security

    Participated · Equity · May 2026

    Herd Security offers an AI-powered platform that replaces static, annual compliance training with dynamic, real-time educational content and simulations delivered through channels such as Slack, Teams, and learning management systems. The platform can import security policies, compliance frameworks, and security data, which Herd parses and updates to generate customized micro-trainings, simulations, and assessments aligned with organization-specific threats and workflows. Herd positions its product to help security and GRC teams rapidly create and deploy iterative security lessons in response to new attack patterns without requiring additional operational resources or external vendors. The company said it will use the $3 million raise to expand product development across HR and AI training categories, enhance AI-driven video generation capabilities, and grow its partnership ecosystem. Herd Security was founded in 2025 by Brandon Min and reported the $3 million financing led by Aspiron Ventures.

  • Flip CX, Inc.

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

    Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, Flip develops a proprietary voice AI platform that instantly answers and autonomously completes high-stakes customer service phone workflows. The system integrates with enterprise back-end tools and has now handled more than 300 million calls, currently processing about 20 million calls per month for roughly 250 global brands such as Under Armour, Tory Burch, and Newell Brands. Flip focuses on deep, vertical-specific integrations, achieving more than 60 % market adoption in the transportation sector and rapidly expanding in retail e-commerce and healthcare. The company positions itself as a specialized alternative to generalist AI agents, touting hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations and proven workflows. Revenue figures are not disclosed, but the scale of usage and enterprise adoption underscore strong operating traction. Proceeds from the latest raise will fund accelerated product development and the build-out of engineering and go-to-market teams in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK. Flip’s operations already span North America, the UK, and Australia/New Zealand.

  • Pryzm

    Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

    Pryzm Dynamics Inc. has built a shared, AI-driven platform that connects government acquisition teams with technology vendors, giving both sides real-time visibility into budgets, market intelligence, and program activity. Founded by alumni of Palantir and Lockheed Martin, the company targets the U.S. government’s $900 billion annual defense and national-security spend by replacing fragmented, paperwork-heavy processes with a unified digital thread. Over the past year the platform achieved IL5 and FedRAMP High authorizations, was selected by the Defense Innovation Unit for its eWARP effort, and supported capture activities for contractors such as Forterra, HII, Vannevar Labs, and REGENT Craft. Pryzm recently opened an Arlington, VA office while expanding its Boston headquarters. With fresh capital, management plans to grow engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen deployments with current customers, pursue additional compliance certifications, and layer next-generation AI capabilities into the product. These moves aim to cement Pryzm as the operating system for faster, more transparent, and more competitive federal procurement.

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