Posted 3 months ago
AI Founder, Physical Assets
@ Forum Ventures
Remote in Canada
Overview
Forum Ventures' AI Studio is recruiting a founder to build a venture-backed B2B SaaS company in physical asset finance and monitoring, using AI and IoT for real-time collateral valuation. The studio provides $250K USD, fundraising support and an operating team. This is not an employment opportunity with Forum Ventures.
Responsibilities:
- Build a B2B SaaS company from 0 to 1
- Validate the market and ideal customer profile
- Execute go-to-market strategy to reach early ARR
- Raise seed and Series A funding
- Attract, hire and lead the founding team
Requirements summary:
- Early-stage operator experience in physical asset finance or monitoring
- Experience with equipment finance, asset-backed lending or commercial credit
- Experience with IoT, telemetry or appraisal products (asset)
- Ability to attract, hire and lead world-class teams
- Based in Canada or the US, working North American time zones
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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
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Business development |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| 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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- 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
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- SaaS
- Enterprise Software
- Incubator
- Accelerator
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- 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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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:
Historically, only large physical assets justified individual financial tracking. AI and IoT are driving the cost of monitoring individual machines, vehicles, and equipment toward zero. Every asset can now report location, condition, utilization, and performance in real time, but lenders, insurers, and operators still mark collateral from last quarter's spreadsheet. Forum AI Studio is looking for a Founder exploring any of these themes:
Persistent asset identity platforms tied to real-time condition, utilization, and performance data
Dynamic collateral valuation for lenders and insurers using live IoT and performance signals
Usage-based financing and insurance tied to actual asset utilization
and more!
Maybe you've underwritten equipment finance or asset-backed lending and felt the lag between asset reality and collateral marks. Maybe you've built IoT, telemetry, or appraisal products that give lenders and operators a live view of asset condition. 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 physical asset finance and monitoring world.
You may have underwritten equipment finance, asset-backed lending, or commercial credit and felt the lag between asset reality and collateral marks.
You may have built IoT, telemetry, or appraisal products for lenders, lessors, insurers, or asset operators.
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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