Michael Cardamone

CEO & Managing Partner

2014 - Current

Forum Ventures (formerly Acceleprise), is a B2B SaaS focused seed fund, pre-seed accelerator program and community with offices in San Francisco, NYC and Toronto.

Cohort 2 Member

2021

A community building the next generation of institutional VC's

Advisor

2014 - 2019

Venture Partner

2017 - 2018

Looking for great SaaS companies with amazing founders and generally, at least 10 unaffiliated customers, to invest in out of the $70M SaaStr fund. We make initial investments of $250K - $5M. More on the SaaStr fund: The SaaStr fund is led byJason Lemkin, former co-founder/CEO of EchoSign (acq. by Adobe), founder of SaaStr (the world's largest community for SaaS founders) and active SaaS investor. Jason has invested in great companies including leading the very first or very early VC investments in Talkdesk, Algolia, RainforestQA, Logikcull, Automile, Pipedrive, Perfect Pipeline, SalesLoft, and Avanoo, and sourcing the first VC investments in GuideSpark and Greenhouse.io, and serving on the board of BetterWorks. He is also an advisor or individual investor in Showpad, FrontApp, Retention Science, among other emerging leaders. Collectively these startups have grown to be worth over $1.5 billion, with an average entry price of $13m per investment, in less than 3 years.

VP of Partnerships

2010 - 2014

AcademixDirect is a performance marketing company in the education market. I am responsible for partner marketing, business development and general management of several new initiatives. - Focused on identifying and executing on partnerships with publishers, call centers and large brands to help drive student inquiries for our clients. - Manage P&L for multiple marketing channels to help drive towards revenue and gross margin goals - Helping to lead the company's mobile strategy and managing a major new business initiative

Partner Channel Manager

2009 - 2010

Business Development Manager

2008 - 2009

Box.net is a cloud content management solution that is used by consumers, small businesses and fortune 100 companies. I worked with the VP of Business Development on sourcing and establishing revenue generating partnerships with VARs, MSPs, and other technology companies from hardware to SaaS. - Created and built out Box.net's initial channel program to help increase distribution in the SMB market. - Worked with VP of BD on partnerships with companies such as Salesforce, Dell and the American Bar Association.

Managing Partner

2005 - 2007

Responsible for Increasing revenue and membership base in New York City. Launched NYC Office after extensive market research and development of a strategic marketing and business development plan. By executing on the strategic plan we were able to significantly increase revenue and increase the activity of our membership base. Overall responsibilities included: Marketing, Business Development, General Management, Client Relations

Part Time Marketing/Business Analyst

2006 - 2006

I was directly responsible for leading a team of six in performing industry and market research to determine the feasibility of launching a new media business. I subsequently helped to write a complete business plan for the company in order to raise capital. Throughout the process I also helped to develop a name, brand and concept.