Forum Ventures brings together ambitious people, brilliant ideas, and capital to build the best B2B SaaS businesses from 0 to 1. Since 2023, its AI Studio has launched 17 companies and is launching 7 more in 2026, supporting founders with investor networks, fundraising, and resources to build transformational companies.
Seeking an early-stage operator to explore themes like persistent asset identity platforms, dynamic collateral valuation, and usage-based financing for physical assets.
The founder will receive $250K USD investment, end-to-end fundraising support, and access to an experienced operating team for business design, product development, and GTM strategy.
Ideal candidates have experience in equipment finance, asset-backed lending, or IoT/telemetry products for lenders or operators, and are based in North American time zones.
For a founder to explore themes like utility pole grid wildfire-grade condition networks, dam and bridge lender diligence platforms, and BEAD fiber as-built certification services.
Candidates should have sold geospatial or inspection tech into utilities or DOTs, or built capture networks producing audit-grade field truth.
Forum offers a $250K USD investment, fundraising playbook, operated team support, and a GTM strategy to reach $50-100K ARR.
You will explore opportunities in edge AI, focusing on runtime abstraction, inference routing, and unified operational planes for heterogeneous hardware.
You will leverage a $250K investment, fundraising playbook, and operating team support to validate your idea and achieve early traction.
You should have early-stage operator experience in edge ML and on-device inference, with a passion for building venture-backed companies.