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We back early-stage B2B healthcare startups solving critical pain points—equipping them with capital, operational firepower, and a deep understanding of the industry.
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Healthcare systems are under immense strain—staffing shortages, financial pressures, and shifting reimbursement models. We back startups solving for workforce capacity, remote care delivery, and AI-driven diagnostics.
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We bring deep expertise across clinical innovation, complex sales cycles, and healthcare system constraints. We don’t just write the check—we help you validate, pilot, and build with confidence.
From EMRs to remote monitoring, and from workflow automation to AI-powered early detection—we know the solutions hospitals need, the critical pain points they solve, and how to position them for adoption.
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We’ve helped dozens of startups navigate the realities of health systems, including budget constraints, billing models, privacy concerns, Epic integration, and internal decision-making processes.
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Our team has been in your shoes. We provide more than just capital—we plug you into a team of operators (CTO, designer, GTM experts, and more) so you can move from idea to traction with speed and support.
Healthcare touches everyone. The right technology can improve lives at scale. If you’re building with ambition and compassion, Forum is the partner to help you scale both your business and your impact.
Clinicians, operators, and early builders across healthcare and life sciences exploring a startup idea. Forum invests $250K at formation and provides a full co-building team (product, engineering, GTM, sales, finance, design). Founders keep majority ownership and board control.
A $100K investment in pre- or post-MVP B2B healthcare founders. Each company works 1:1, weekly, with a dedicated Managing Director on go-to-market, customer traction, and fundraise readiness. Best fit: founders who have raised less than $500K and haven’t been through YC, Techstars, or 500.
$250K–$1M for early-stage B2B healthcare companies with an MVP in market and meaningful traction. Roughly 75% of Forum pre-seed companies raise follow-on funding at an increased valuation. Best fit: founders who have raised $500K+ or have $250K+ ARR.
Remo Health offers virtual dementia care led by top neurologists, with personalized support, care coordination, and a free online community—so caregivers are never alone in navigating the journey. We invested in Remo Health out of our seed fund in 2022 and they’ve gone on to raise close to $8M in funding.
Blooming Health provides purpose-built, inclusive technology solutions to connect older adults to social care community resources like senior centres. They help older adults build social connections in a personalized way, no matter their socio-economic status, identity, or technology capabilities. They preserve trusted human interactions as the front-end to the solution while leveraging data and technology on the back-end.
Blanka's technology makes it easy for brands of any size to source and customize the highest quality beauty products. Founded by a 2x entrepreneur and 30 Under 30 recipient, Blanka's platform is the wholesale hub and fulfillment partner for branded beauty. Kaylee joined Forum's Accelerator Program in 2021 where the team was able to scale rapidly and raise a 3.7M CAD Seed round in 2023 led by Dundee Venture Capital, with participation from Storytime Capital and Disruption Ventures.
Arkestro is an AI Powered software to automate negotiation for enterprise procurement. Edmund joined Forum’s Accelerator Program in 2018 as BidOps before rebranding to Arkestro. In 2022, they raised a $26M Series A led by NEA, Construct, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and Four More Capital, a division of Henry Crown & Company.
Allen Control Systems is developing autonomous counter-drone defense platforms that change the economics of the battlefield. By combining advanced robotics, AI-driven detection, and layered defense, ACS enables militaries and governments to counter rapidly proliferating drone threats at scale. Backed by Forum Ventures since 2023, the company has raised over $30M in funding, launched an Innovation Lab to accelerate next-generation autonomous defense technologies, and is building strong momentum with major defense customers.
Finni Health provides world-class behavioral healthcare for children with Autism. Bucky joined Forum’s Accelerator Program in 2020 and closed their $3.2M Seed round in 2023 led by General Catalyst, with participation from YCombinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Andrew Adams (Headway), and Divya Bhatt (Virta).
Private AI develops privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools making privacy and GDPR compliance reliable. Patricia joined Forum's Accelerator Program in 2019, and then we re-invested through our Seed fund in 2021. Private AI has since gone on to raise an $8M Series A led by BDC Capital with participation from new investors GIT1K, and Panda Angel Partners.
People Data Labs enables companies to build innovative, trusted people data driven products at scale. Sean and his team joined our San Francisco Accelerator Program in 2015 and we were the first check into the company. They have since gone on to raise more than $55M across a seed, Series A and Series B from funds including Susa Ventures, Craft Ventures, 8VC and Founders Fund.
Fireflies.ai is an AI assistant for meetings that records and transcribes voice meetings. Co-founders Krish and Sam joined our San Francisco Accelerator Program in 2017. Today, their team operates out of 5 continents. They raised $5M in seed funding in late 2019 led by Canaan Partners, and in 2021 raised a $14M Series A led by Khosla Ventures.
Chris joined our NYC Accelerator Program in early 2020. His company, FirstBase, provides remote worker setup for companies. FirstBase raised a $2M round at the end of our program, and with sales skyrocketing, raised a $13M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz only 9 months later. Within two years of joining Forum’s portfolio, they raised a $50M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins.
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No. Forum is industry-agnostic and focused on B2B. Its six named thesis areas are Agentic AI, Vertical AI, Healthcare, FinTech, Supply Chain, and Frontier Tech.
Forum has helped dozens of startups work through health-system realities: budget constraints, billing models, privacy concerns, Epic integration, and internal decision-making. Accelerator founders work weekly with a dedicated Managing Director on go-to-market and get customer introductions. Forum also runs industry councils that connect founders with senior operators.
Yes. The AI Venture Studio can start with founders at formation, sometimes before there is an idea. The Foundry is a free, five-week program for idea-stage founders. The Accelerator takes pre- or post-MVP companies. The Pre-Seed Fund is for companies with an MVP in market and early traction.
B2B companies selling to health systems and the wider healthcare market. Examples are workforce capacity, remote care delivery, EMRs and remote monitoring, workflow automation, and AI-driven diagnostics and early detection. Portfolio examples include Remo Health (virtual dementia care), Blooming Health (connecting older adults to social care), and Finni Health (behavioral healthcare for children).
Yes. Forum is a founder-first AI venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund that backs early-stage B2B healthcare startups in North America. Healthcare is one of Forum's six named thesis areas. Forum can invest at formation ($250K Studio), through the Accelerator ($100K), or at pre-seed ($250K–$1M). It has worked with 600+ companies since 2014.
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