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Excited to co-build with you, Scott Frazier, Adam Kerr, and Trenton Hughes! This is going to be huge.

Excited to welcome Fortify Ventures as our newest co-host for our SF Coffee Club ☕🚀 Eli Kia and Jonathon Perrelli will be joining Sruthi S., and Deirdre Clute from Forum Ventures on Dec 3rd, bringing even more founder-focused VCs into the room and making this an incredible chance to connect with people building (and backing) the next wave of B2B innovation. Conversations, connections, new ideas, new inspiration, all in a relaxed setting. Come on out! Seats are limited. 📅 Wednesday, Dec 3 | 10–11 AM PST 📍 Location revealed at registration 🔗 RSVP: https://luma.com/vtbn53ko #Community #Founders #Investors #SFTech

MOVEdot AI (YC F25) brings AI agents to sensor data - started with race cars, now expanding to manufacturing, robotics, and beyond. Engineers everywhere say the same thing: “Too much data, not enough time.” Data collection has exploded, but the same human brain has to make sense of it. After 8 years as forward-deployed engineers in the automotive industry, founders Bruno Finco and Girish Radhakrishnan realized they were the bottleneck. When they pitched MOVEdot AI to Forum Ventures, we believed in their ability to change that. Now MOVEdot gives engineers AI teammates that process 100x more data, finding insights across telemetry, video, and reports. Think Cursor for engineering data, where humans and AI collaborate on complex multi-modal analyses, getting answers in minutes instead of days. Dozens of the best racing teams already use MOVEdot, and the platform is expanding into manufacturing with customers like TRACTIAN. If you work with large amounts of data, book a demo at www.movedot.ai or contact founders@movedot.com

Portfolio company Big Rentals just closed a 2.8 million dollar seed round to modernize equipment rentals for small businesses across the country. 🎉 Huge congrats to Pablo Fernandez and Ryan Keen, who have been building this with so much grit and clarity from day one. What hooked us early was how deeply they understood the reality of independent rental operators. Most are still juggling phone calls, paper, and spreadsheets. Pablo and Ryan saw that gap up close and built a platform that gives local businesses the same software and reach that the national chains rely on, with one place to manage bookings, payments, inventory, and demand. Their vision is simple and bold, to build a world where any local operator can start and scale a professional rental business with modern software, digital operations, and real opportunities to grow. And they’re already showing what that future looks like, with more than 200 cities live and hundreds of partners on the platform in an 80 billion dollar market. We’re excited to back this next chapter and cheer on the Big Rentals team as they keep building for the people who keep America moving. More here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gezNNPDh

We love connecting with the people shaping what’s next in B2B tech 🚀 Join Justworks and Forum Ventures on Wednesday, Dec 3, for a morning coffee meetup bringing together early-stage founders and funders from across the SF ecosystem. It’s a casual way to meet brilliant minds, share insights, and kick off December with a little caffeine-fueled inspiration. 📅 Dec 3 | ⏰ 10–11 AM PST 🔗 RSVP: https://luma.com/vtbn53ko #SFTech #Founders #Investors #B2BStartups

We're doing something new that I'm really excited about. It's for builders between ventures. For the first time, we're opening our early validation process to a select group of experienced founders, early employees, and senior operators. If you have an insight you can't shake, this is your chance to work directly with our studio team to: - Stress-test your thinking - Identify structural breaks in your market - Validate whether you have a real right to win - And if we both see it, prep together for a studio pitch. This is the same process we use internally, the one that's helped us launch 17 companies. Now we're running it with a small cohort of builders between ventures. If we move forward together: $250K + full team support to get to momentum. You keep majority equity and board control. Spots are limited. 👉 https://lnkd.in/ezxEGe46

Our industry councils are heating up, and the conversations get sharper every time we put top corporate innovators in the same room. Our latest session with the Fintech council hit on something founders building in most verticals often forget. Slow down. Really understand the regulatory landscape before you pitch. It’s not the fun part, but it’s the trust-building part. And trust is what gets you the second meeting. More below 👇 and a quick reminder to founders -- when you join our portfolio, you get access to these council members and their corporate teams who are actively looking for design partners to solve big, messy problems.

☕ SF friends — grab a coffee with us! Join Deirdre Clute and Sruthi S. from Forum Ventures, and our friends at Justworks, for a morning coffee, and meet other early-stage B2B tech founders and funders in San Francisco. If you’re building or backing and love talking innovation over a flat white, this one’s for you. 🗓 Wednesday, Dec 3 | ⏰ 10–11 AM PST 🔗 RSVP: https://luma.com/vtbn53ko #Founders #Investors #B2BTech #Startups #SFTech

Next Friday morning. Coffee. B2B founders and funders. That's it. ☕ NYC Coffee Club Hosted by Olivia O'Sullivan, Partner at Forum Ventures. 🗓 Friday, Nov 21 ⏰ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM 📍 NYC (address revealed at registration) 🔗 Last call to RSVP: https://luma.com/g4ecm740 Whether you're raising, building, or backing early-stage B2B companies, this is your hour to connect with people who are in the same trenches. No agenda. No forced intros. Just good coffee and better conversations. See you there. #B2BTech #Startups #Investors #CoffeeClub