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Alejandro Pereda
Associate
Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures Associate sourcing and supporting early-stage B2B SaaS and AI founders.
Bio
Professional summary
Jonah Midanik is listed on Forum Ventures' team page as a senior investing leader and featured in a leadership spotlight. Forum notes that he previously went through the firm's accelerator and credits that experience with changing his entrepreneurial trajectory. Public investor profiles describe him as the founder of Limelight and a long-time entrepreneur before joining Forum. His background points to strong fit with early B2B founders who value operator empathy and hands-on accelerator-style support.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Pre-seedSeed
Sector
B2B SaaSEnterprise softwareAI
Thesis
Early-stage B2B SaaSFounder support from accelerator to company-building
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
LimelightPrivate AI
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Frame the pitch around the founder journey: why the problem matters, what has been learned from the first customers, and how Forum's accelerator-style support could help compress the path from early traction to a scalable company.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference that he was previously a Forum accelerator founder before becoming an investor.
- 2Connect the company story to founder resilience and operator-to-operator support.
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