Forum Ventures

What is Forum Ventures?

Forum Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and seed-stage investments in B2B SaaS companies across various verticals.

They have a broad investment scope that includes Software (Web Marketplace SaaS, etc.), PropTech, Media, Business Solutions, FinTech & Financial Services, Hardware & Manufacturing, Retail & E-Commerce, Sales & Marketing, IoT & Wearables, CleanTech, A.I. & Big Data, HealthTech & Fitness, Blockchain & Cryptos, Gaming & eSports, Analytics, Developer Tools, Future Of Work, Human Resources, Impact, Insurance & InsurTech, Logistics & Distribution, Medical Devices & Hospital Services, Payments, Real Estate & Construction, DeepTech, Healthcare & Wellness, Music, Mobility, Nanotechnology, and Online Social Consumer industries, with a particular interest in vertical SaaS, B2B Marketplaces, Developer Tools, and Enterprise Software.

They do not invest in direct-to-consumer (DTC) or hardware.

Forum Ventures operates with a fund investment range between $100,000 and $1,000,000, with their sweet spot being around $750,000. They are known for their specialties in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A funding stages. As a founder-first venture firm, they place a strong emphasis on the founder experience and actively become an extension of the founding teams they invest in.

By providing more hands-on help than many other pre-seed funds, they aim to build significant businesses from the ground up. Their supportive strategies include a venture studio, an accelerator program designed to achieve meaningful customer traction, and a deeply connected community of over 1300 founders and experts.

Forum Ventures is headquartered at 44 Tehama St, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States, and prides itself on being a supportive partner for founders throughout their startup journey.

What they say:

Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders.

What we look for: We accelerate startups in Fintech, supply chain, health tech, vertical SaaS, AI agents and Future of Work.

How we help: Our accelerator program is a robust 15-week program filled with 1-to-1 support from a dedicated Managing Director, personalized mentor matching, talks and office hours with some of the top early SaaS operators in the world.We’re not your typical investor. Our team is all previous SaaS founders and early operators, and we work 1-to-1 with every founder in our portfolio and program, becoming an extension of their team. We pride ourselves on the level of support we provide, as well as our GTM expertise and focused approach to helping founders build.We also have a huge B2B SaaS founder community of 900+ founders, which we know how important it is on the founder journey.