Posted 3 months ago
AI Founder, AI Compute
@ Forum Ventures
Remote in Canada
Overview
Forum Ventures is recruiting a founder for its AI Studio to build a B2B AI infrastructure company, such as managed on-prem AI platforms or edge inference. The role is a venture-backed founder path with a $250K USD investment and fundraising support, not an employment position. Candidates should be Canada or US based and work North American hours.
Responsibilities:
- Build and launch a B2B AI infrastructure company
- Sell to enterprise infrastructure and platform buyers
- Hire and lead a founding team
- Execute go-to-market strategy to reach early ARR
Requirements summary:
- Early-stage operator experience in AI infrastructure or compute
- Track record of building and selling AI platforms
- Experience with ML inference across cloud and owned GPUs
- Ability to attract and lead world-class teams
- Based in Canada or the US, North American time zones
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ashby
- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-06
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-19
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Business development |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Forum Ventures
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Full company description
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/
- LinkedIn followers
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- People associated on LinkedIn
- 116
- 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
- Specialties
- SaaS
- Enterprise Software
- Incubator
- Accelerator
- Startups
- b2b
- fintech
- healthtech
- FoW
- and Vertical AI
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 84,430,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
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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Forum's Venture 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. Our AI Studio has 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.
What We're Looking At:
The cloud giants spent two decades convincing enterprises to move everything off-prem. AI is reversing that for a significant share of compute. Data sovereignty, latency requirements, regulatory constraints, and the math that owning GPUs beats renting after 18 months are pushing workloads back on-premises and to the edge. Enterprises want the cloud experience on hardware they control, not a return to 1990s IT. Forum AI Studio is looking for a Founder exploring any of these themes:
Managed on-prem AI platforms with a cloud-like operating experience on enterprise-owned hardware
Distributed edge inference as a service across customer sites and devices
Intelligent inference routing across cloud, neocloud, and owned GPU fleets
and more!
Maybe you've deployed inference across hybrid cloud and owned silicon and felt the gap between what engineering teams need and what enterprises will actually run in production. Maybe you've sold into VP Platform or infrastructure buyers who own hardware decisions. That's who we build with.
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 with a proven track record of building, selling, and navigating the AI infrastructure and compute platform world.
You may have run ML platform or infrastructure teams deploying inference across cloud, neocloud, and owned GPU or edge hardware.
You may have sold into VP Platform, data center, or infrastructure buyers and know what makes hybrid deployment conversations survivable at renewal.
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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