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    New York, New York, United StatesFounded 2014

    Forum Ventures (formerly Acceleprise) is a founder-first AI venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it has backed 550+ portfolio companies and manages over $100M in AUM.

    Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (2 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (44% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $8.9M (across 30 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    33

    Fund Size

    $20M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    JM

    James Murphy

    Managing Partner

    Jonah Midanik

    Jonah Midanik

    Managing Partner

    Michael Cardamone

    Michael Cardamone

    Managing Partner & CEO

    MC

    Mike Cardamone

    CEO & Managing Partner

    DC

    Dave Coen

    Managing Director

    DC

    Deirdre Clute

    Partner, Managing Director

    KC

    Kevin Corliss

    Partner, Managing Director

    Neal Sarraf

    Neal Sarraf

    Partner & Managing Director

    AK

    Alice Krenitski

    Partner, Head of Studio

    Bocar Dia

    Bocar Dia

    Partner

    MB

    Maia Benson

    Venture Partner

    NG

    Naomi Goez

    Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    34 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    HHerd SecurityUnknown$3MMay 2026
    PPryzm DynamicsSeed—Dec 2025
    Optimly logoOptimlyPre-Seed$800KJan 2025
    Scalestack logoScalestackSeed$3MDec 2024
    Allen Control Systems logoAllen Control SystemsSeed$12MJan 2024
    SShillingGrowth—Jan 2024
    MMedreddiePre-Seed$2MJan 2024
    Deskree logoDeskreeSeed$1.5MSep 2023
    PatchRx logoPatchRxSeries A$8MAug 2023
    Deskree logoDeskreeSeed$1.5MJan 2023
    Vergo logoVergoSeed$4.1MJun 2022
    Arkestro logoArkestroSeries A$26MJun 2022
    Firstbase logoFirstbaseSeries B$50MMar 2022
    KKiiraSeed$4MDec 2021
    Nyla logoNylaSeed$3.3MJan 2021
    KKiira HealthSeed$4MJan 2021
    Private AI logoPrivate AISeed$3.1MJan 2021
    Tonik logoTonikSeed—Jan 2020
    IInsyclePre-Seed$50KSep 2018
    ASOCS logoASOCSUnknown$12MJan 2011
    Silq logoSilqSeries A$17.6M—
    Brij logoBrijUnknown$8M—
    Rabot logoRabotPre-Seed$2M—
    FFlip CX, Inc.Series A$20M—
    Solarhome logoSolarhomeSeed$500K—
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    Last updated: 7 October 2026