THE FORUM ADVANTAGE

Funding for Early-Stage B2B Healthcare Startups

We back early-stage B2B healthcare startups solving critical pain points—equipping them with capital, operational firepower, and a deep understanding of the industry.

WHY FOUNDERS BUILDING IN B2B HEALTHCARE START HERE

The systems, support, and strategic edge that set healthcare founders up to scale.

We Understand the Urgency

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.

We Understand the System

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.

We Understand the Market

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.

Proven Track Record

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.

For Builders, by Builders

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.

Big Market, Bigger Mission

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.

better health outcomes

We’re passionate about helping founders build systems that truly move the needle on health outcomes.

Industry spotlights

Portfolio founders leading the charge in h & othe

Matt LeKrey
Founder & CPO
Remo Health
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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.

Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi
CEO and Co-founder
Blooming Health
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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.

Kaylee Lieffers
CEO
Blanka
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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.

Edmund Zagorin
Founder
Arkestro
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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.

Steven Simoni
CEO
Allen Control Systems
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

Steven joined Forum’s Accelerator Program in 2015 as the CTO and Co-Founder of his first company, Vidfluent. In 2017 he founded Bbot, which became the second investment out of our first Seed Fund in 2020, and was acquired by DoorDash in 2022. When we heard that Steven was founding another company, Allen Control Systems, we were eager to be a part of this journey too. Allen Control Systems is a defense technology company for a new era of drone warfare and to completely change battlefield economics. In April 2024, they raised $12M in Seed funding led by Craft Ventures with participation from Forum Ventures and Rally Ventures.

Bucky Khan
CEO
Finni Health
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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).

Patricia Thaine
CEO
PrivateAI
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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.

Sean Thorne
CEO
People Data Labs
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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.

Krish Ramineni & Sam Udotong
Co-Founders
Fireflies.ai
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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 Herd
CEO
FirstBase
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

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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