Forum's Venture Studio is a leading early-stage fund and program for B2B SaaS startups. Starting a company is demanding, complex, and psychologically challenging. As former founders and early-stage operators, we understand firsthand that Founders need support, honest feedback, and someone who truly cares in their corner.
Our mission is to make the journey easier and more successful for Founders, and we've achieved this by making over 350+ seed investments that have raised $600M+ in follow-on funding. Forum founders have gone on to raise from funds like Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, and more.
What are we exploring?
Chargebacks are becoming a serious compliance and operational risk, especially in regulated sectors like healthcare and financial services. Traditional post-dispute tools are reactive, manual, and poorly suited for today’s complex regulatory and transactional environments, leaving these industries vulnerable to billing errors, fraud, and escalating regulatory scrutiny.
We're building a chargeback prevention platform that proactively analyzes transaction data and customer behavior in real time to stop disputes before they happen. Designed specifically for compliance-heavy sectors, the platform integrates seamlessly into existing systems and evolves with emerging fraud patterns, reducing both risk and operational friction in industries where prevention is critical.
Forum derisks and accelerates the Founder path by:
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A $250K USD investment, and an end-to-end fundraising playbook and network to raise your seed and Series A
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A validation partner with proven playbooks, networks, and the systems to validate, unlock your ICP, ignite your sales pipeline, and beyond
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The support of our experienced operating team - from business design, product development, growth, recruitment, legal and more
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Executing a winning GTM strategy to get to $50-100K ARR, and the right MVP to ensure early traction
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A community full of mentors, peers, and leaders
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$100K worth of business perks
What you bring:
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Deep knowledge of chargeback processes, payments infrastructure, or risk and compliance workflows in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, fintech)
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Experience building or scaling enterprise SaaS or AI-driven risk solutions, ideally involving real-time data processing or fraud prevention
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Strong understanding of regulatory environments, compliance obligations, and audit requirements tied to transaction integrity
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Proven success launching zero-to-one products in complex, high-stakes domains
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Ability to integrate with existing enterprise systems and build trust in security-conscious organizations
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Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action and a track record of translating data into business-critical outcomes
Please note, this is not an employment opportunity with Forum Ventures.
About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, program, and community for B2B SaaS startups based in New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and remote. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and more successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding. We provide high-touch 1:1 support, programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community to support you through every step of your building journey.
Starting a company is demanding, complex, and psychologically challenging. As former founders and early-stage operators, we understand firsthand that Founders need support, honest feedback, and someone who truly cares in their corner. Our mission is to make the journey easier and more successful for Founders, and we've achieved this by making over 350+ investments that have raised $1Bn+ in follow-on funding. Forum founders have gone on to raise from funds like Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, and more.
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Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community.
Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program.
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