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

Sean Glass

Founding Managing Partner

Nick Mehta

General Partner

James Murphy

General Partner

Past deals in Data Mining

Lumi AI

Seed Round in 2025
Lumi AI empowers businesses with its AI-driven platform, enabling users to extract valuable insights and generate custom reports using plain language prompts, without needing to know SQL or Python. This helps mid-to-large companies in CPG and retail uncover hidden opportunities in their operational data, driving faster, more informed decisions and boosting productivity.

XPawn

Pre Seed Round in 2024
XPawn is a technology company specializing in healthcare data processing. It develops a platform that efficiently analyzes and transforms legacy healthcare data, making it safer, faster, and more accurate for use in modern AI systems and LLM applications. The platform, EMBR, reduces data size while retaining critical context, enabling healthcare providers to summarize data in a compact, token-efficient format based on the FHIR standard. This processing method improves data comprehension and facilitates cost-effective querying, ultimately enhancing the efficiency of healthcare data analysis.

Cohezion.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
COHEZION.ai’s mission is to help game publishers and studios maximize the value of game analytics and community data. We help game publishers and studios streamline and analyze unstructured gaming data—from bug reports to social media feedback—across social platforms such as Steam, Twitter and Discord etc. We provide actionable insights, empowering them to improve player experiences and engage their community.

Thalorin

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Thalorin is a technology company that specializes in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) management software. It offers a platform designed to simplify and automate complex regulatory compliance processes, catering to diverse sectors such as defense, healthcare, financial services, and technology. The platform integrates and automates compliance workflows, providing data-driven insights and process-centric methodologies to enhance operational efficiency. It empowers compliance, security, and audit professionals to effectively manage intricate regulatory frameworks, thereby improving overall 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.

Iluvatar

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Iluvatar operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to improve the development and deployment of AI models. The company provides tools for AI evaluation, model selection, and guided iteration, assisting researchers and developers in optimizing their AI systems and workflows. By offering resources that facilitate the iterative process of refining AI tools, Iluvatar aims to enhance the overall effectiveness and efficiency of AI applications in various business contexts.

Asteroid Mining Corporation

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Asteroid Mining Corporation, founded in 2016, is the UK's first space mining enterprise focused on the exploration and prospecting of Near Earth and Main Belt Asteroids. The company aims to extract and utilize valuable materials from these asteroids, which can have significant economic potential, with some estimated to be worth trillions or even quintillions of dollars. By harnessing these resources, Asteroid Mining Corporation seeks to contribute to the Earth's economy and promote the development of a Space Based Economy. The company collaborates with the Space Robotics Lab at Tohoku University in Japan to develop SCAR-E, a series of low-cost, rugged robots designed for asteroid exploration and mining. These robots are engineered to withstand extreme conditions such as radiation and temperature fluctuations, making them suitable for both space operations and challenging environments on Earth, including nuclear decommissioning and search and rescue missions.

Coast AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Coast AI is a technology company focused on streamlining commercial real estate acquisitions. It offers a digital platform that leverages AI to simplify and optimize the process. The platform enables users to upload lease and amendment documents, which are then processed to generate lease abstractions. It integrates data from various sources, providing users with access to both current and historical transaction information within a single platform. Additionally, the platform offers comparative analyses and benchmarks using proprietary data sources, helping users make informed decisions.

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 technology company that provides an AI-driven platform for retailers. This platform predicts social media and search trends, enabling marketing, merchandising, and planning teams to anticipate and capitalize on viral trends. By leveraging real-time data, Granularity helps retailers make informed decisions, staying competitive in the rapidly evolving market landscape. Founded by a former management consultant and data scientist, the company understands the challenges retailers face with fluctuating market demand.

Biomonadic

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Biomonadic is a technology company specializing in the development of an AI-driven data platform for biotech manufacturing. The platform employs reinforcement learning and large language models to enhance the capabilities of scientists and engineers in the biotech industry. It offers real-time information, AI-based process optimization, and batch records management, enabling clients to improve the quality, speed, and cost-efficiency of their cell and gene therapy manufacturing processes.

Eave Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Eave Technologies, established by seasoned product and engineering professionals from prominent companies like Honey, PayPal, Disney, and Amazon, specializes in automated product intelligence solutions. The company addresses the challenge of insufficient and error-prone product data by automating data collection and organization from applications, providing reliable insights to support informed business decisions. Eave's technology enables emerging AI and AI-powered technologies to unlock the full potential of product intelligence, helping businesses make growth decisions and build better user experiences in today's competitive digital landscape.

Lumi AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Lumi AI empowers businesses with its AI-driven platform, enabling users to extract valuable insights and generate custom reports using plain language prompts, without needing to know SQL or Python. This helps mid-to-large companies in CPG and retail uncover hidden opportunities in their operational data, driving faster, more informed decisions and boosting productivity.

Finestra

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Finestra is a healthcare technology company that operates a platform enabling patients to discover and compare prices for medical procedures and services. The platform leverages verified medical bills charged to real patients, aggregating data from hospitals, insurance companies, and users to provide transparent and reliable pricing information. This empowers patients to make informed decisions about their healthcare, promoting cost predictability and accessibility.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prophit.ai

Convertible Note in 2020
Prophit.ai, Inc. is a company based in Cleveland, Ohio, that specializes in machine learning solutions aimed at enhancing sales and use tax decision-making and compliance. Founded in 2019, Prophit.ai has developed a tax exemption platform that leverages advanced algorithms to determine the taxability of various items across U.S. states. The company's technology utilizes comprehensive datasets, with a particular focus on line item descriptions, to provide accurate taxability assessments. By performing reverse audits, Prophit.ai assists corporations in preventing unnecessary overpayment of sales tax, which can amount to billions of dollars each year. This innovative approach not only helps clients maintain compliance but also addresses tax-related challenges during purchasing processes.

JiiWa

Funding Round in 2020
JiiWa is a cloud-based software platform designed to assist nonprofits and impact organizations in collecting and managing data effectively. By leveraging mobile technology, JiiWa connects these organizations with the individuals they serve, facilitating improved programming, communication, and engagement, particularly in remote settings. The platform enables users to gather end-user data, helping organizations understand and demonstrate their impact. Through its services, JiiWa aims to simplify the processes of data collection and management, ultimately enhancing the ability of nonprofits and their funders to assess and communicate their effectiveness.

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.

FunnelGuard

Pre Seed Round in 2020
FunnelGuard is a digital marketing platform founded in 2019 by Vinicius Freitas and Oliver Armstrong, based in Berkeley, California. The company focuses on helping clients prevent wasted advertising spend by identifying broken conversion points in their marketing funnels. Its plug-and-play product enables users to visualize, document, and monitor live funnels, offering actionable insights and real-time warnings. This functionality allows marketing agencies to enhance conversion rates from ad funnels while minimizing the loss of advertising budget, ultimately supporting revenue growth.

Dataspine

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Dataspine, Inc. specializes in providing infrastructure for machine learning, aimed at helping machine learning engineers and data scientists streamline the entire lifecycle of their projects. Founded in 2017 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company offers a cloud-native machine learning operations (MLOps) platform that supports the building, training, deployment, and management of AI and machine learning models at scale. Its services include a unified control interface for managing ML workloads, production deployment, monitoring, and scaling, all while allowing users to work with open-source frameworks without extensive setup. Additionally, Dataspine facilitates data exploration and model development through tools like Jupyter and Zeppelin notebooks, enhancing the efficiency of development teams without the need for significant in-house engineering resources.

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.

Ascendo.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Ascendo.ai is a developer of support software that enhances customer service by leveraging advanced self-learning capabilities. The platform serves as a co-pilot for customer-facing teams, enabling them to deliver proactive assistance. Ascendo's technology offers four key modules: Resolve, which automates workflows for agents and customers; Reveal, which provides real-time predictive alerts and insights; Prevent, aimed at reducing escalations and customer churn; and Predict, which aids in planning to meet service-level agreements. By focusing on understanding the nuances of customer interactions, Ascendo.ai helps organizations streamline resolution processes, minimize escalations, and identify patterns to improve overall service operations and logistics.

Groundwork

Convertible Note in 2018
Groundwork AI empowers geoprofessionals helping them incorporate advanced data analytics and machine learning in their day-to-day activities. Their tailored data management and predictive solutions can lead to smarter, safer, and more cost-effective infrastructure monitoring, design and construction. They aim to design, test and deploy the best predictive solutions in the geoprofession.

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.

Boon

Seed Round in 2016
Boon Company, Inc. operates a referral marketplace designed to connect job seekers and employers through a unique engagement network. Established in 2014 and based in Culver City, California, Boon's platform allows job seekers to create online portfolios, integrate with LinkedIn, apply for jobs, and track their applications. For employers, it facilitates posting job openings, identifying candidates, and streamlining the hiring process. Boon utilizes social and psychological engagement techniques alongside data science to enhance its referral recruiting engine, which significantly increases the number of referred candidates. Its powerful matching algorithms identify suitable candidates and engage employees effectively, while custom rewards and gamification encourage participation. Additionally, the platform provides deep integrations and analytics dashboards, making referral recruiting a cost-effective strategy for companies seeking to hire top talent from their networks.

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.

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.

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
Measurence Inc. offers a cloud-based intelligence platform designed to enhance traffic, loyalty, engagement, and timing solutions for retailers. Established in 2013 and based in New York, the company provides an analytics platform that integrates various hardware devices, such as Wi-Fi sensors and beacons, into a cohesive system. This platform captures real-time data on the presence, location, and activity of individuals within physical spaces, including stores, restaurants, and malls. By harnessing this hyperlocal data, Measurence delivers actionable insights that help businesses optimize their marketing investments and improve the management of their physical environments while ensuring privacy. The company's solutions cater to a range of industries, including retail, insurance, banking, and outdoor media.

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
TrackMaven, Inc. is a marketing analytics and attribution software company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2012. The company provides a comprehensive platform that enables marketers to measure and optimize their performance across various digital channels. Its software integrates with existing tools, including social networks, web analytics, and marketing automation platforms, offering a unified view of marketing metrics such as website traffic, conversions, and revenue. TrackMaven also delivers competitive intelligence, allowing users to benchmark their performance against competitors, peers, and industry influencers. Additionally, the platform offers insights into content optimization, campaign strategy, and executive reporting, thus helping marketers demonstrate their value and enhance their results. As of October 2018, TrackMaven operates as a subsidiary of Skyword Inc.

TrackMaven

Seed Round in 2013
TrackMaven, Inc. is a marketing analytics and attribution software company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2012. The company provides a comprehensive platform that enables marketers to measure and optimize their performance across various digital channels. Its software integrates with existing tools, including social networks, web analytics, and marketing automation platforms, offering a unified view of marketing metrics such as website traffic, conversions, and revenue. TrackMaven also delivers competitive intelligence, allowing users to benchmark their performance against competitors, peers, and industry influencers. Additionally, the platform offers insights into content optimization, campaign strategy, and executive reporting, thus helping marketers demonstrate their value and enhance their results. As of October 2018, TrackMaven operates as a subsidiary of Skyword Inc.

D8A Group

Seed Round in 2012
D8A Group specializes in developing products that facilitate the analysis of trends, patterns, and predictive analytics derived from social media conversations. Their big data solutions aim to simplify the interpretation, visualization, and sharing of information from real-time data streams, catering to both technical and non-technical users. The company offers online surveillance tools tailored for various sectors such as City & Government, Marketing/PR, Humanitarian response, and Public Safety. Established in 2011 by Jon Gosier, who previously held the position of Director of Data Products at Ushahidi, D8A Group is committed to enhancing the accessibility and usability of data for a diverse range of industries.
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