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Acceleprise reaches closes two funds, rebrands as Forum Ventures

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:

San Francisco based Acceleprise, an early stage venture firm and accelerator, has closed on two funds and rebranded as Forum Ventures.

Forum's seed fund closed on $13.2 million and is backed by a number of tech luminaries including Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom; Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight; Jen Gran, CEO of Appify and former CMO of Looker; Anthony Kennada, CMO of Hopin; Kristen Habacht, CSO at Shogun; Rowan Trollope, CEO of Five9, and John Kim, CEO of Sendbird.

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