NYC Coffee Club | Taking the Leap: Industry Vets Who Left to Build
Calling early-stage B2B tech founders who have left a cushy job to build!
👋 I'm Olivia, Partner @ Forum Ventures, and there are few things I like more than coffee and community.
☕ I'm excited to host our July coffee meet up with Alice, Naomi, and Lauren from the Forum team. This one’s for founders who spent years becoming a leader in their industry and then walked away to solve the problem themselves. Whether you're already building out or just starting to think about taking the leap this room is for you. Thank you to our cohosts, Primary Labs (Barbara Aprilakis), 25madison (Tan Torun), and Company Ventures (Margaret Davidson).
IDEAL GUESTS
Founders pre-Series A building a B2B startup who come from an industry and left to start something of their own. Think finance, insurance, technology, healthcare, real estate, automotive, retail, telecommunications, legal, and more!
Request a spot to join and we'll let you know if you're in!
About Primary Labs
Primary is a seed-stage venture capital firm dedicated to delivering exceptional support to the founders of transformational businesses. By pairing meaningful investment resources with the largest portfolio impact team of any seed investor, our portfolio companies have reached an industry-best seed-to-A graduation rate.
Primary Labs is the firm’s incubation engine, focused on turning ideas into category-defining companies. With 20+ startups launched—including Ollie, Tabs, and LightTable—we partner closely with top operators to identify, validate, and build billion-dollar opportunities from day one.
About 25madison
25madison is an innovation and investment platform that incubates and invests in breakthrough AI companies solving critical pain points across legacy industries.
About Company Ventures
Company Ventures is a pre-seed and seed firm investing across healthcare, fintech, and AI. We partner with founders at the earliest stages, including as EIRs to ideate, validate, and incubate new ventures. We also host early stage founders building in NYC through Grand Central Tech: our no equity residency at 22 Vanderbilt.
About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and AI venture studio for B2B startups. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders.
Forum is investing in 65+ companies this year. Pitch Us here.
We're also starting 8 companies in our venture studio. If you have an idea, have lived a pain point, and are ready to start a company with the support of a full stack team, tell us why you’d be a great founder for our AI Venture Studio.
