Posted 7 months ago
Agentic Incident Management Founder, Manufacturing
@ Forum Ventures
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Forum Ventures is recruiting a founder to build an agentic incident-management product for manufacturing floors, correlating alerts from SCADA, PLC, MES and other systems into root causes and safe responses. The role is a venture-backed founder opportunity through its AI Studio, not employment, and it includes a $250K USD investment and a validation and GTM support program.
Responsibilities:
- Build an agentic incident-response product for manufacturing floors
- Ingest and correlate signals from fragmented factory systems
- Validate the ICP and reach $50-100K ARR
- Hire and lead a world-class team
Requirements summary:
- Early-stage operator experience
- Expertise in manufacturing operations
- Ability to attract and lead teams
- Based in Canada or the US, working North American hours
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ashby
- Employer posting date
- 2026-04-21
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Business development |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Work setting | Home, Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Forum Ventures
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Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally. Those founders have gone on to raise $1B+ in follow-on funding from funds like Kleiner Perkins, Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, NEA, Emergence Capital, Menlo Ventures, Craft Ventures, Founders Fund and more. To learn more visit 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/
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- People associated on LinkedIn
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- Reported office locations
- 43 W 23rd St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10010, US
- 169 Gore Vale Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2R5, CA
- 149 Natoma Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
- Business categories
- Construction
- Finance
- E-Commerce
- Health Care
- Information Technology
- Software
- Retail
- SaaS
- B2B
- Venture Capital
- Financial Services
- Manufacturing
- Other recorded names
- Forum Ventures
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- SaaS
- Enterprise Software
- Incubator
- Accelerator
- Startups
- b2b
- fintech
- healthtech
- FoW
- and Vertical AI
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- Reported total investment
- 84,430,000
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Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally. Those founders have gone on to raise $1B+ in follow-on funding from…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2014 |
| Specialties | SaaSEnterprise SoftwareIncubatorAcceleratorStartupsb2bfintechhealthtechFoWand Vertical AI |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 19 |
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Factory floors generate thousands of alerts every day. At $260,000 an hour in unplanned downtime, operators can't afford to guess which one matters.
Manufacturing operations run on a fragmented stack: SCADA, PLC, MES, Historian, quality vision systems, predictive maintenance platforms, CMMS, environmental sensors. None of them talk to each other in a way that produces a coherent picture of what's happening on the floor. Correlating signals into a root cause and executing a safe response is almost entirely manual and almost entirely reactive.
The opportunity: Become the incident response layer every manufacturing floor runs on. Ingest every signal, surface what matters, and act before the line goes down. Start with incident response, expand into SOP automation, trend reporting, and anomaly detection across the entire floor.
We're looking for Founders to leverage their domain expertise, and are convinced AI can deliver the outcomes better than humans to build full-stack, AI Native services in industries where outcomes depend on expertise, regulation, and trust.
Your Partners in Co-Creation:
Forum's AI Studio brings together ambitious people, brilliant ideas, and capital to build the best B2B SaaS businesses in the world, from 0 to 1. In addition to capital and an idea, we provide founders with access to investor networks, fundraising support, and the resources needed to build transformational companies. We've launched 17 companies since 2023, and we're launching 7 more in 2026. We're designed to help Founders move faster, develop better insights, and build companies that have a higher success rate than startups built in any other way.
Forum derisks and accelerates the Founder path by:
A $250K USD investment, and an end-to-end fundraising playbook and network to raise your seed and Series A
A validation partner with proven playbooks, networks, and the systems to validate, unlock your ICP, ignite your sales pipeline, and beyond
The support of our experienced operating team - from business design, product development, growth, recruitment, legal and more
Executing a winning GTM strategy to get to $50-100K ARR, and the right MVP to ensure early traction
A community full of mentors, peers, and leaders
$100K worth of business perks
About you:
Early-stage operator experience, and expertise in the problem space you're building in.
The ability to attract, hire and lead world-class teams
A demonstrated passion for technology’s ability to change the world
A desire to be a venture-backed founder
Canada or US-based, and the ability to collaborate in North American time zones.
Please note, this is not an employment opportunity with Forum Ventures. If you are currently fundraising your pre-seed or Seed round, please pitch our investment team instead here.
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