James Murphy

General Partner, Forum Ventures (fka Accelprise)
James Murphy combines experience as a former Barclays Capital derivatives trader and ex‑founder who exited marketing automation startup Robly with early-stage investing focus in pre‑seed and seed B2B SaaS.
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$100K - Pre Seed; $250K - $750K - Seed
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USA, Canada
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SaaS
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About James Murphy

James Murphy is a General Partner at Forum Ventures who previously co-founded and successfully exited Robly, a marketing automation platform, after starting his career as a derivatives trader at Barclays Capital. This uncommon progression from Wall Street trading to SaaS founder to venture investor gives him hands-on experience across institutional finance, entrepreneurial execution, and early-stage investing that he applies to his focus on pre-seed and seed B2B SaaS companies.

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Forum Ventures (fka Accelprise)

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SaaS, AI, Fintech, Future of Work, Enterprise
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Seed
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$100K - Pre Seed; $250K - $750K - Seed

Forum Ventures is one of the few early-stage firms that combines three distinct offerings for B2B founders: a flagship accelerator, an AI-focused venture studio that co-creates companies from scratch, and a traditional pre-seed fund that can follow on into both accelerator and studio companies as well as external deals. The firm is unusually "people-heavy" with ~40 team members including five Partners and three Managing Directors devoted to support, allowing them to behave more like an embedded extension of the founding team than a traditional capital-only pre-seed fund.

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