Forum Ventures (fka Accelprise)

Forum Ventures, formerly known as Acceleprise, is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator, and AI venture studio for B2B SaaS startups, founded in 2014 by Michael Cardamone. The firm operates from New York, San Francisco, and Toronto with approximately 40 full-time employees including five partners and three managing directors. Forum manages more than $125 million in assets under management across three integrated vehicles: an AI Venture Studio that co-builds companies from concept with $250,000 at formation and has launched 17 companies so far; Forum For Founders, a pre-seed accelerator providing $100,000 plus 15 weeks of intensive mentorship; and Forum Seed, a dedicated seed fund for exceptional SaaS startups. Over 10 years, Forum has invested in approximately 430 to 500 companies and achieved 42 exits, the latest being WorkHound in April 2025. The firm's portfolio companies have collectively raised over $1 billion in follow-on funding from top-tier investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 8VC, and Salesforce Ventures. Thesis areas span agentic AI, vertical AI, healthcare, fintech, supply chain, and frontier tech. The AI Venture Studio has focused on manufacturing, healthcare, fintech, supply chain, privacy, and AI infrastructure, raising $20 million for its Fund II. Forum's community of more than 900 B2B SaaS founders is a core asset. This network provides peer-to-peer learning, customer introductions, and co-investment signal for portfolio companies throughout their growth cycles. The firm's conviction is that B2B software companies solving real customer problems with measurable outcomes represent the most consistently investable category in early-stage technology, and the firm has built its entire platform around finding and accelerating the best of them.