Coffee Club | Early-Stage B2B SaaS Founders & Funders
Calling all early-stage B2B SaaS founders and funders!
👋 Hi, I'm Sruthi Sivanandan, Investor Relations Associate at Forum Ventures. We’re passionate about building connections in the early-stage ecosystem.
☕ Join us and Kristina Chapple from 11 Tribes Ventures for Coffee Club, a casual and stress-free meetup designed to bring together founders, investors, and operators. It’s the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow B2B SaaS enthusiasts, plus both visiting and SF-based VCs.
Request your spot to join us and get access to the location. We look forward to meeting you!
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About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and AI 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. From our Studio to Accelerator to Pre-Seed programming, we have the resources and network to help founders navigate the early stages of their founder journey.
Forum is investing in 85+ SaaS companies this year. Pitch Us here.
About 11 Tribes Ventures
11 Tribes Ventures is an early stage fund in Chicago. We proactively invest in our people with a strategy around founder resilience. We're investing into Seed ($500k+ ARR) & Series A ($2M-$5M ARR) startups from coast to coast (outside of traditional VC hubs like NYC, SF, BOS). We like to lead as generalist investors, and have broader interests in healthcare, food & ag tech AI, supply chain & logistics, ecommerce, vertical software, CPG and more.
Investment Mandate:
Competitive geographies: non-traditional VC hubs, we fly over SF/ NYC/ BOS and look for founders building in tier 2 ecosystems like Nashville, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Chicago, etc
Seed and early Series A: companies generating $500k-2M ARR, raising $1M - $3M of outside capital on a ~$5M - 12M cap; with our Venture Partner Platform, we add the most value to founders tackling “execution risk” as opposed to “development risk”. We aim for 5-10% ownership.
Founder: Strong narrative around founder-market fit (domain expertise). Often times, our founders are bootstrapped and proud, and they have a distaste for traditional venture capital.
We are actively deploying capital (check size ~$1M) into resilient founders who want to build with capital efficiency, focusing on strategic exits of $80M-$250M. In limiting the amount of capital they raise early on, founders retain optionality to scale their business profitably.
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