Forum Ventures

Founded in 2014, Forum Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage B2B SaaS startups. It offers pre-seed and seed funding, along with high-touch programming, corporate perks, and community support to foster successful growth for founders.

Michael Cardamone

Managing Partner

Bocar Dia

Partner

Sean Glass

Founding Managing Partner

James Murphy

General Partner

Past deals in PaaS

ClustroAI

Series A in 2025
ClustroAI specializes in edge artificial intelligence technologies, combining containerized architectures, GPU acceleration, and edge computing to deliver efficient and flexible AI solutions for global clients. It develops an AI-powered platform for edge computing and GPU orchestration, focusing on containerized design and dynamic GPU resource allocation to enable fast on-device processing and improved security. The company aims to provide enterprises with scalable, cost-efficient AI deployments through smart resource management and edge-ready software.

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. The platform reduces data size while retaining crucial context, enabling quicker processing, improved comprehension, and cost-effective querying. It converts data adhering to the FHIR standard into a compact, token-efficient format, benefiting healthcare providers.

Restored Cloud

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Restored Cloud is a technology company specializing in AI and machine learning. It provides a platform that accelerates model training and deployment, eliminating the need for checkpoints and optimizing memory usage. The platform is compatible with various frameworks and supports multi-cloud environments, catering to diverse industries such as AI, healthcare, and finance. By using Restored Cloud, these sectors can expedite model iterations, lower costs, and enhance operational efficiency.

Kalavai

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Kalavai is a technology company that specializes in AI workflow management. It empowers organizations to develop, run, and collaborate on AI projects efficiently by leveraging their existing computing devices and integrating third-party frameworks into its end-to-end collaborative platform. Kalavai's open-source AI platform facilitates secure computation, enabling enterprises to train and deploy models to production faster in a trusted collaborative environment.

SelfMachines

Pre Seed Round in 2024
SelfMachines is a technology company that offers a no-code platform. This platform empowers users to create and customize intelligent agents tailored to their specific business needs. It facilitates rapid development of machine learning models and workflows, reducing the time from days to weeks, through its in-house developed hierarchical graph engine. The platform also provides graph visualization and orchestration capabilities for both machine learning models and processes.

Iluvatar

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Iluvatar provides AI evaluation and validation tools designed to help businesses efficiently iterate their AI models. Their platform enables users to select, test, compare performance metrics, and prompt selection for optimal model usage, facilitating faster deployment and improved personalization in artificial intelligence development.

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.

Cuckoo Financial

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a rewards-as-a-service platform tailored for credit card fintech companies. The platform offers API integration, white-label technology for creating rewards programs, partnerships with popular brands, and features like rewards redemption, points transfer, and enterprise rewards solutions.

Spawnn

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Spawnn develops a gamer behavior data platform that analyzes players' gaming methods. It uses machine learning to deliver personalized experiences while maintaining data privacy, helping game studios and gamified enterprises boost revenue through AI-driven personalization.

Sandbox Banking

Venture Round in 2022
Sandbox Banking develops a banking platform that connects new fintech software to existing systems. Its mission is to democratize digital transformation in the financial industry through secure, scalable integration technology embedded with deep industry intelligence.

Data Chimp

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2022, Data Chimp is a software company based in Orlando, Florida. It develops a platform that enhances the efficiency of data scientists and engineers by offering tools to streamline data pipelines and testing directly within Jupyter notebooks.

Parse

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Parse provides cloud-based software development kits enabling creation of apps for desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Its offerings include Parse Core for data storage, social integration, and custom app code execution; Parse Push for push notification management; and Parse Analytics for crash tracking and app usage measurement.

Paisa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paisa is a financial technology company focused on enhancing the financial security of families that receive remittances. It operates a credit platform aimed at improving financial health through the remittance cash economy. By leveraging this economy, Paisa develops a robust digital financial services infrastructure, offering business-to-business lines of credit to remittance agencies to address liquidity gaps. Additionally, the company provides microloans directly to remittance recipients, facilitating easier access to loans for individuals and families reliant on these funds.

Metadash

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Metadash operates a unified cloud management platform designed to help teams optimize their multi-cloud infrastructure. It offers a single pane of glass interface that visualizes and manages cloud resources, focusing on security, stability, and cost-efficiency. This enables engineering teams to reduce the need for specialized DevOps and security expertise.

POGR

Pre Seed Round in 2022
POGR is a pioneering technology company transforming the games industry by providing an innovative platform for game statistics, player profiles, and developer empowerment. It efficiently handles vast amounts of gaming data from billions of daily sessions, offering real-time insights without significant cost to indie developers and established studios alike. POGR enables developers to prove their ideas at a fraction of the time and money required by legacy solutions, providing rich, game-specific datasets with custom application flexibility.

HelloGuru

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HelloGuru is a developer of a no-code software tool that empowers non-technical users to create software applications without the need for coding. The platform enables users to build scalable and secure internal tools that facilitate complex workflows, automate processes, and connect various databases. By allowing users to consolidate and synchronize their data with existing systems effortlessly, HelloGuru simplifies the software development process, making it accessible to individuals without technical expertise. This innovative approach supports organizations in enhancing efficiency and streamlining operations through user-friendly software solutions.

Shabodi

Convertible Note in 2021
Shabodi is a company focused on developing an application enablement platform tailored for app developers in the evolving landscape of advanced networks, including 5G and 6G. The platform is designed to facilitate the creation of enterprise applications, providing system integrators and cloud services with user-friendly application programming interfaces. This approach simplifies network management, allowing clients to reconfigure applications efficiently. By enabling greater control over network functionalities, Shabodi assists organizations in reducing costs and enhancing performance, thereby contributing to the emergence of a new digital economy.

Routefusion

Funding Round in 2019
Routefusion is a cross-border bank-to-bank payments software provider that connects fintechs, marketplaces, financial institutions, and e-commerce platforms to a global network of banking and local payout partners. Its international payments API automates back-and-forth banking processes via centralized interfaces, speeds up transactions, and reduces costs. The platform enables neo-banks, payroll providers, platforms, and marketplaces to offer cross-border payouts to customers in over 130 countries, delivering payments in days rather than months. The company is based in Austin, Texas.

Routefusion

Convertible Note in 2019
Routefusion is a cross-border bank-to-bank payments software provider that connects fintechs, marketplaces, financial institutions, and e-commerce platforms to a global network of banking and local payout partners. Its international payments API automates back-and-forth banking processes via centralized interfaces, speeds up transactions, and reduces costs. The platform enables neo-banks, payroll providers, platforms, and marketplaces to offer cross-border payouts to customers in over 130 countries, delivering payments in days rather than months. The company is based in Austin, Texas.

Dataspine

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Dataspine, Inc., founded in 2017 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, specializes in providing infrastructure solutions tailored for machine learning. The company empowers machine learning engineers, data scientists, and development teams to streamline the entire lifecycle of machine learning projects, from building and training models to deployment and management, without requiring extensive in-house engineering resources or infrastructure. Dataspine's platform supports hardware and framework agnosticism, allowing users to leverage open-source frameworks efficiently. It offers tools for managing ML workloads, providing a single point of control for production deployment, monitoring, scaling, and exploring data through Jupyter and Zeppelin notebooks.

Platform.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Platform.ai is a technology company focused on democratizing deep learning for product managers and business users. It offers custom-built pre-trained models and an intuitive user interface that allows non-engineers to leverage advanced machine learning capabilities without the need for coding or development operations. The company's expertise in computer vision technology utilizes generative adversarial networks and transfer learning to create self-supervised artificial intelligence applications. This approach enables clients to efficiently access machine learning solutions with minimal human intervention, making sophisticated AI tools more accessible to a broader audience.

Bonsai

Series A in 2016
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens.

Deskree

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Deskree develops a no-code backend platform that enables software developers to create scalable infrastructure quickly and easily. Its web interface simplifies database setup, integrations, user roles, permissions, and authentication via a single API.

DivvyCloud

Convertible Note in 2015
DivvyCloud Corporation develops a cloud automation platform that enables enterprise customers to automate the management of security, compliance, and governance risks in public cloud and container environments. Founded in 2012 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company provides solutions to protect against misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and identity and access management challenges. DivvyCloud's platform offers features such as real-time remediation and consolidated visibility across various public and private cloud environments, enhancing the management of IT resources. By automating policy application and enabling proactive problem resolution, DivvyCloud helps organizations maintain continuous security and compliance, allowing them to fully leverage the advantages of cloud technology. As of May 2020, DivvyCloud operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 LLC.

Bonsai

Seed Round in 2014
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens.

Bonsai

Seed Round in 2014
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens.

DivvyCloud

Convertible Note in 2014
DivvyCloud Corporation develops a cloud automation platform that enables enterprise customers to automate the management of security, compliance, and governance risks in public cloud and container environments. Founded in 2012 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company provides solutions to protect against misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and identity and access management challenges. DivvyCloud's platform offers features such as real-time remediation and consolidated visibility across various public and private cloud environments, enhancing the management of IT resources. By automating policy application and enabling proactive problem resolution, DivvyCloud helps organizations maintain continuous security and compliance, allowing them to fully leverage the advantages of cloud technology. As of May 2020, DivvyCloud operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 LLC.

DivvyCloud

Seed Round in 2013
DivvyCloud Corporation develops a cloud automation platform that enables enterprise customers to automate the management of security, compliance, and governance risks in public cloud and container environments. Founded in 2012 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company provides solutions to protect against misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and identity and access management challenges. DivvyCloud's platform offers features such as real-time remediation and consolidated visibility across various public and private cloud environments, enhancing the management of IT resources. By automating policy application and enabling proactive problem resolution, DivvyCloud helps organizations maintain continuous security and compliance, allowing them to fully leverage the advantages of cloud technology. As of May 2020, DivvyCloud operates as a subsidiary of Rapid7 LLC.

StayNTouch

Seed Round in 2013
StayNTouch, LLC, based in Bethesda, Maryland, develops cloud-based hotel management software aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and guest experiences. The company's primary product is StayNTouch hotel software, which includes a mobile property management system (PMS), PMS-overlay solutions, and guest self-service capabilities. Key offerings include Rover, a comprehensive PMS; Rover PMS Overlay for existing systems; Zest, a multi-device guest interface platform supporting mobile check-in/check-out and upsells; Zest Key, an integrated mobile room key; and Zest Station, which streamlines the check-in and check-out processes. StayNTouch serves hotels, resorts, casinos, and chains, with additional offices in Munich, Germany, and Singapore. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is now a subsidiary of MCR Investors LLC.

Instant API

Convertible Note in 2013
Instant API, Inc. is a company specializing in the creation, hosting, and management of enterprise-grade application programming interfaces (APIs). Founded in 2012 and based in Lewes, Delaware, the company provides a platform that simplifies the process of building and selling APIs as a service. Instant API enables businesses to leverage their existing data, services, and code, offering a streamlined solution for those looking to enhance their digital capabilities through effective API integration.
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