Acceleprise

Forum VC is a prominent early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on B2B SaaS startups. Established in 2014, it aims to simplify and enhance the journey for early-stage founders through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, comprehensive programming, corporate benefits, and a vibrant community. The firm's pre-seed program, Forum For Founders, offers $100,000 in funding along with 15 weeks of intensive mentorship and guidance centered on market entry and fundraising strategies. Additionally, the Forum Seed fund invests in outstanding SaaS startups at the seed stage, supporting both those who have participated in the pre-seed program and those outside of it. With a portfolio that exceeds 250 companies, Forum VC has facilitated significant fundraising for its founders from notable investors, contributing to their growth and success in the technology landscape.

Michael Cardamone

Managing Director and General Partner

Bocar Dia

Partner

Nick Mehta

General Partner

James Murphy

General Partner

Ryan Sarver

Angel Investor

Past deals in CRM

Brij

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Brij is a technology company founded in 2019 by Kait Margraf Stephens and Zack Morrison, based in New York, United States. The company offers a platform that facilitates one-touch product registration and reordering, connecting physical products with digital experiences. By utilizing quick response codes or near-field communication tags, Brij enhances consumer engagement and allows businesses to transform anonymous omnichannel shoppers into loyal customers. This innovative approach aims to streamline the purchasing process and improve brand interactions with consumers.

CoreX

Convertible Note in 2021
CoreX provides a data hub that integrates, cleans, and syncs customer data. It connects the customer's tools without utilizing codes, centralizes, and synchronizes customer data so that teams are always on the same page.

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.

CFO2

Convertible Note in 2020
CFO2 is a business intelligence software company based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in solutions for multi-unit restaurant operators. Its software transforms restaurant data into visual representations, allowing users to identify trends and outliers, which lead to actionable insights. CFO2's tools help clients optimize labor schedules, reduce food costs, and uncover upselling opportunities and product recommendations. Additionally, the platform offers real-time transparency into sales, operations, and loss prevention, empowering clients to make informed business decisions and enhance profitability. Serving a diverse range of clients, from small chains to larger operations, CFO2 aims to improve the bottom line for multi-unit restaurant businesses.

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.

Answerable

Pre Seed Round in 2019
We enable brands to engage in conversational commerce at scale via trusted advocates. Two billion consumers use chat to engage with brands and make purchase decisions. Failing to respond fast enough results in a lost sales and customer churn. A huge component for customer experience is conversational commerce. Leading chat platforms (FB messener, Whatsapp, Wechat) and enterprise software (SFMC, LiverPerson, ZendDesk) ensure that brands are always on and always connected. How can a brand respond at scale with authentically when consumers wanted advice from a person? AI/Chat bots are great for standardized questions based on catalogue data or FAQ's but what consumer actually want is advice from someone knowledgeable. AskAPro is the first distributed chat platform allowing brands to engage in chat at scale (think Uber/Quora) through trusted advocates which are routed in real-time from customers, employees, and brand advocates. Our patented platform if the first to systematically help brands onboard employees, customers, and advocates and dynamically route questions based on specific use cases. Using a mytrustscore ranking system our platform get smarter over time identifying the person to answer questions not unlike how Uber/Lyft look for the right driver.

Courier

Convertible Note in 2019
Courier provides an API that enables developers to manage and route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email and messaging platforms. By leveraging user engagement data and online status, the API optimizes notification delivery, ensuring that messages reach users through the most effective medium. The company's notification management software allows clients to create reusable messages that can be customized for different channels, facilitating timely and targeted communication. Over the years, Courier has adapted to technological advancements while maintaining a stable management approach, emphasizing the importance of customer success. The company has developed long-lasting relationships with its largest clients, continually collaborating to meet their evolving needs.

Databrain

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a data stack application designed to sync data to the data warehouse. The company's platform connects to the enterprise data warehouses, customer data platform, and customer relationship management, enabling businesses to send notifications directly to customers via email and other third-party tools.

Courier

Seed Round in 2019
Courier provides an API that enables developers to manage and route user notifications across various communication channels, such as email and messaging platforms. By leveraging user engagement data and online status, the API optimizes notification delivery, ensuring that messages reach users through the most effective medium. The company's notification management software allows clients to create reusable messages that can be customized for different channels, facilitating timely and targeted communication. Over the years, Courier has adapted to technological advancements while maintaining a stable management approach, emphasizing the importance of customer success. The company has developed long-lasting relationships with its largest clients, continually collaborating to meet their evolving needs.

B.Hold Health

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Connecting patients, providers, and health plans in real-time at the point-of-care; thereby reducing fraud, administrative cost, and overall medical expense for our clients.

Insycle

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Insycle is a New York City-based company that specializes in data management through its cloud-based platform. The company aims to simplify the organization, cleansing, and updating of data across various platforms, including Salesforce, Marketo, Intercom, Zendesk, HubSpot, and Yext. Its platform offers task-oriented modules that enable users to manage bulk records, merge duplicates, standardize fields, and resolve data inconsistencies. By aggregating data from multiple sources into a single interface, Insycle provides tools for admins and inbound marketers to maintain accurate and organized contacts and company information, allowing for efficient manipulation and analysis as needed.

Groundwork

Convertible Note in 2018
Companies rely on data about their customers to make informed decisions, but running focus groups and traditional research campaigns is costly and slow. Groundwork is a platform that helps marketers design effective research studies, recruit and access vetted respondent panels, and deploy surveys at scale via chatbot.

Rainmakers

Convertible Note in 2017
Rainmakers is the leading recruiting platform built specifically to help companies hire top sales talent.

Rev

Seed Round in 2017
LeadCrunch, Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven business-to-business lead and demand generation tools. Founded in 2013 and based in San Diego, California, the company aims to enhance the effectiveness of B2B marketing strategies. LeadCrunch addresses the common inefficiencies in traditional demand generation, where low conversion rates often leave sales teams dissatisfied with the quality of leads generated. By leveraging advanced algorithms, LeadCrunch enables businesses to input a list of their best customers, from which the platform identifies similar accounts for targeted marketing efforts. This approach supports account-based marketing by allowing companies to focus on specific personas throughout the marketing funnel. Users benefit from a pay-per-lead or pay-per-impression model, and as results are shared, the system improves its accuracy, ultimately leading to higher conversion rates, increased sales pipelines, and greater satisfaction for sales teams.

Rev

Convertible Note in 2017
LeadCrunch, Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven business-to-business lead and demand generation tools. Founded in 2013 and based in San Diego, California, the company aims to enhance the effectiveness of B2B marketing strategies. LeadCrunch addresses the common inefficiencies in traditional demand generation, where low conversion rates often leave sales teams dissatisfied with the quality of leads generated. By leveraging advanced algorithms, LeadCrunch enables businesses to input a list of their best customers, from which the platform identifies similar accounts for targeted marketing efforts. This approach supports account-based marketing by allowing companies to focus on specific personas throughout the marketing funnel. Users benefit from a pay-per-lead or pay-per-impression model, and as results are shared, the system improves its accuracy, ultimately leading to higher conversion rates, increased sales pipelines, and greater satisfaction for sales teams.

Rainmakers

Convertible Note in 2017
Rainmakers is the leading recruiting platform built specifically to help companies hire top sales talent.

GymHit

Venture Round in 2016
GYMHIT Inc. develops business management and marketing software platform for the fitness industry. Its integrated communication, booking, billing, and marketing platform provides services in the areas of business management, profile creation, scheduling and bookings, communication, automated campaigns, payment processing, and others. The company also provides marketing and Web development and hosting services. It serves health clubs, personal trainers, nutritionists, martial arts, and fitness studios. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Lifecycle

Convertible Note in 2016
Lifecycle is a customer engagement platform founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in event-based, outbound communication, enabling businesses to acquire, convert, and retain customers effectively. Lifecycle provides tools for digital businesses to create optimized messaging campaigns that reach users through mobile messaging channels. By analyzing user interactions with web and mobile applications, the platform allows businesses to test and measure the effectiveness of their communications, ensuring the right content is delivered to the appropriate users at the right time and on the right devices.

Lifecycle

Seed Round in 2016
Lifecycle is a customer engagement platform founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in event-based, outbound communication, enabling businesses to acquire, convert, and retain customers effectively. Lifecycle provides tools for digital businesses to create optimized messaging campaigns that reach users through mobile messaging channels. By analyzing user interactions with web and mobile applications, the platform allows businesses to test and measure the effectiveness of their communications, ensuring the right content is delivered to the appropriate users at the right time and on the right devices.

CareerLark

Seed Round in 2016
CareerLark Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a platform designed to facilitate micro-feedback among coworkers, aiming to replace traditional annual performance reviews. By enabling continuous feedback, CareerLark enhances employee productivity and engagement in real-time. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing productivity tools, such as Slack, allowing employees to receive and provide feedback within their usual work environment. Additionally, CareerLark employs machine learning to analyze performance data, assisting organizations in effectively managing and retaining their workforce.

ContextSmith

Seed Round in 2016
ContextSmith, Inc. is a customer intelligence software provider based in Mountain View, California, established in 2015. The company offers a platform that centralizes customer interactions, creating a structured, single-source database that serves as a comprehensive resource for teams and enterprises. This software aids in managing and expanding enterprise accounts by facilitating collaboration among revenue teams and leveraging company-wide relationships to enhance sales efforts. By breaking down silos within organizations, ContextSmith enables businesses to sell more effectively to both new and existing customers.

LarkApps

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Operator of a performance management platform intended to allow companies to monitor their employees. The company's platform offers continuous, real-time, and contextual micro-feedback to an employee, enabling clients to increase productivity and management, and engage and develop millennials.

CareerLark

Convertible Note in 2015
CareerLark Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a platform designed to facilitate micro-feedback among coworkers, aiming to replace traditional annual performance reviews. By enabling continuous feedback, CareerLark enhances employee productivity and engagement in real-time. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing productivity tools, such as Slack, allowing employees to receive and provide feedback within their usual work environment. Additionally, CareerLark employs machine learning to analyze performance data, assisting organizations in effectively managing and retaining their workforce.

GymHit

Convertible Note in 2015
GYMHIT Inc. develops business management and marketing software platform for the fitness industry. Its integrated communication, booking, billing, and marketing platform provides services in the areas of business management, profile creation, scheduling and bookings, communication, automated campaigns, payment processing, and others. The company also provides marketing and Web development and hosting services. It serves health clubs, personal trainers, nutritionists, martial arts, and fitness studios. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Rollio

Seed Round in 2015
Rollio is a developer of an online virtual AI assistant used to assist sales and service teams. It uses voice commands powered by natural language processing and uses artificial intelligence to collect client data that enables businesses to reduce time in inputting data into CRM systems.

Flipcause

Seed Round in 2015
Flipcause, Inc. offers an on-demand fundraising platform designed to assist small and startup nonprofits in raising funds efficiently. The software integrates various fundraising tools, including payment processing, donor management, event ticket sales, and volunteer registration, all accessible through a centralized dashboard. This allows nonprofits to customize their fundraising capabilities according to their needs, facilitating increased supporter engagement and operational efficiency. The platform captures and organizes donor information, enabling organizations to manage communications and analytics with ease. Flipcause serves a diverse range of causes, including education, health, and community service, and supports organizations, schools, and socially conscious businesses with valid tax IDs. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Flipcause aims to empower nonprofits by providing an affordable, user-friendly solution that requires minimal technical expertise.

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.

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.

redhotMAYO

Convertible Note in 2014
redhotMAYO, Inc. is a company based in Irvine, California, that offers cloud-based sales solutions specifically designed for the foodservice industry. Founded in 2007, it provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile tools that transform sales information into actionable insights, helping foodservice distributors enhance their sales strategies. By leveraging cloud, mobile, and big data technologies, redhotMAYO facilitates collaboration among sales professionals, management teams, customer service representatives, and vendor representatives. The platform aims to optimize the foodservice sales ecosystem by allowing distributors to focus on the right products for the right accounts, thereby maximizing sales and margins. redhotMAYO has successfully managed over $13 billion in foodservice sales across 400,000 restaurants, working with industry leaders such as Sysco and General Mills.

Breadcrumbtracking

Seed Round in 2014
BreadCrumbTracking.com offers a mobile workforce management solution designed to assist managers in overseeing staff locations and activities. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company provides a software platform that includes geo-based time tracking for accurate billing, paperless clocking in and out, and a range of exportable reports. Its features facilitate workflow management among staff, managers, and customers, while an IP-protected functionality allows for real-time visibility into the locations and durations of employee and asset activity. Additional tools include automated payroll reports, dispatch capabilities, and job management resources, all aimed at enhancing operational efficiency for organizations that rely on mobile workers.

Breadcrumbtracking

Seed Round in 2014
BreadCrumbTracking.com offers a mobile workforce management solution designed to assist managers in overseeing staff locations and activities. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company provides a software platform that includes geo-based time tracking for accurate billing, paperless clocking in and out, and a range of exportable reports. Its features facilitate workflow management among staff, managers, and customers, while an IP-protected functionality allows for real-time visibility into the locations and durations of employee and asset activity. Additional tools include automated payroll reports, dispatch capabilities, and job management resources, all aimed at enhancing operational efficiency for organizations that rely on mobile workers.
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