Neal Sarraf

Partner & Head of Pre-Seed Accelerator @ Forum Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
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Angel Investor & Advisor
Oct 2023
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Angel Investor & Advisor
Jun 2022
Picogrid is a technology company that builds products to integrate mission-critical systems. Its hardware and software products connect sensors, unmanned platforms, and digital systems, enabling unified control and data flow in defense and industrial environments. Deployed globally and supported by leading Silicon Valley investors, Picogrid delivers infrastructure for mission execution across land, sea, air, and space. Learn more at picogrid.com.
Angel Investor & Advisor
Apr 2022
software powering the next era of construction
Investor / Advisor to Startups
Jan 2019
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
Co-Founder & Board Member
Jun 2018
First Resonance builds the ION Factory OS, the leading Factory OS powering leading manufacturers in aviation, energy, automative, and more. It's flexibility, first-class API, and data platform allow manufacturers to conduct the day-to-day operations in the factories and connect workflows to power modern operations from production to supply chain procurement and quality. Hardware companies of every size - from startups to large scale manufacturers - use ION to reliably track and manage parts, processes, and data through their product life cycle. Our customers are building complex products such as NASA’s lunar lander, next generation eVTOLs, in-space satellite propulsion, robotic farms, and more. We believe in empowering engineers, operators, and managers with the proper tools to push the boundaries of the physical world and build a brighter tomorrow.
Experience · 10 entries
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2024
Founder
Feb 2024
There is a massive shift in how B2B companies are generating interest and driving new prospects to close. At the center of this shift is the content economy. Visibility is beginning to matter more than ability, and companies and founders need to stay top of mind - all of the time. At Tenpoint Labs, we have built a data platform that ingests data signals across your customer journey and then generates company and founder-specific content to enable your revenue funnel. We help put your content engine on autopilot.
2023
Angel Investor & Advisor
Oct 2023
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Managing Director
Jun 2023
Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program. With over 400 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise ~$1B in follow-on funding from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com Looking for more founder-focused advice? Subscribe to The Midnight Text -- a bi-weekly newsletter that provides honest answers to the unspoken questions that keep founders awake at (mid)night. https://midnighttext.substack.com/
Limited Partner
Mar 2023
Earthrise Ventures is an early-stage, deep tech venture capital firm investing in the future that space age tech enables on Earth, and beyond.
Limited Partner
Jan 2023
Garuda Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-focused firm run by operators-turned-investors. Through Garuda, we invest in ambitious founders building the iconic companies of tomorrow. If this sounds like you, wed love to be your first investor.
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