The Aligned Fund

Building a company is hard. We’ve been there. And we want to make it easier. We join founders early on their journey and we stay by your side as you build, navigate the ups and downs, and go on to do great things. We’re a community of B2B SaaS experts, founders and operators here to support you every step of the way. 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. With over 250 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Our private peer community for Innovation executives -- The Innovation Forum -- brings together like-minded intrapreneurs from all backgrounds to share best practices, insights, and advice, and support one another. In addition to our incredible peer community, members get access to industry trend reports, collaborative events, emerging technology, and startup introductions.

We invest up to €100,000 of our own money and offer hands-on support with fundraising and on the B2B client side with access to the Austrian market. We are your proactive sparring partner to take your startup to the next level.

ScOp stands for scalable opportunities. You’ve worked hard to solve an important problem with your early customers - Now it is time to scale. We bring capital and insightful advice to help you take your company to the next level - up and to the right. Where We Invest We invest in early-stage software companies. We look for Scalable Opportunities (ScOps) that have achieved some proof of product-market fit. Our team partners for the long run and we build lasting relationships with ambitious founders. We Like to Invest:$500k - 3 Million Experience & Strategic Advice What We’re Looking For We want companies that fill a fundamental consumer or business need in the most efficient way. Cool technology just doesn't cut it - your product has to solve a real problem. We seek management teams that are smart, competitive and aggressive. We want to find people who love what they do and need to make a profound impact.

henQ is a Seed and Series A venture capital fund. We invest across Europe in B2B startups with a software component, writing tickets of EUR 2-5M. Companies we invest in range from having their first embryonic product and a few pilot customers, to having EUR 2-3M in annual recurring revenue being ready to properly scale. Our assets under management are approximately EUR 200M. Our latest fund - raised in 2020 - is EUR 80M in size. The returns of all our funds are among the best in the market. Famous brand name funds like Sequoia are reaping the benefits of what they did in the past and defending their existing great position. At henQ, we are equally as ambitious but our work is much more exciting, as together we are building the next great success story in VC rather than defending a legacy. We do so by constructing a high conviction portfolio (making on average 3 new investments / year) and only investing in the very few deals we truly love. The results are top returns and the wonderful privilege of only working with people we admire. Joining now, you could still become one of the key players in our team.

We invest early - sometimes when a company is no more than an idea. Our focus is B2B technology-enabled companies. Who: We look for coachable founder teams with a deep understanding of the industry and technology and we celebrate a hustler and hacker mentality. What: We push when we see potential and take a hands-on approach following a proven playbook and problem-solving toolkit, enabling you to spend more time on the core business. When: We prefer to be the first established investor, typically before or at the pre-seed round. We create the most value for you when engaging early.

GTMfund is an early-stage VC fund focused on investing in the most exciting, up-and-coming B2B SaaS companies across the world. Our LP network consists of VP and C-level Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success leaders from companies like DocuSign, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Snowflake, Okta, Zoom, and many more. This network acts as 350+ scouts as well as an expert network for conducting due diligence on companies. Our unique value add gives us access to the deal. We help startups with distribution. With a network of proven go-to-market leaders, startups should never have to go at it alone again. We find the best companies and support them with revenue generating playbooks, top-tier candidates, and all around GTM support.