Posted 3 days ago
Founder, AI Insurance
@ Forum Ventures
Remote in Canada
Overview
Forum Ventures' AI Studio is recruiting a founder to build an AI insurance venture from zero to one. The work covers proof-of-review records, coverage restoration for trades, underwriting for hybrid robotics, and guarantees for agentic commerce. The studio offers a $250K USD investment, fundraising support, and an operating team, and requires North American time zone availability.
Responsibilities:
- Build an AI insurance company from zero to one
- Validate the market and define the ideal customer profile
- Secure carrier and distribution partnerships
- Lead hiring and build the founding team
- Raise seed and Series A funding
Requirements summary:
- Early-stage operator experience in insurance or insurtech
- Track record in underwriting, product, or distribution at a carrier or MGA
- Insurance broker experience placing professional or contractor coverage (preferred)
- Experience building risk or fraud infrastructure (preferred)
- Ability to attract and lead world-class teams
- Canada or US based, able to work in North American time zones
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ashby
- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-06
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-06
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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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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/
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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
- Specialties
- SaaS
- Enterprise Software
- Incubator
- Accelerator
- Startups
- b2b
- fintech
- healthtech
- FoW
- and Vertical AI
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
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- 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:
Insurance was built for people and machines. AI is both. Every policy assumes you can tell who did the work, and AI-assisted work broke that assumption. The industry's first answer has been to exclude it: 2,369 generative AI exclusions are now in force on US commercial policies, up from zero a year ago, including 146 filed on professional liability and E&O in the first four months of 2026 alone. Most were added defensively, not because of losses, which means the right evidence can bring coverage back. Nobody is producing it yet. Forum AI Studio is looking for a Founder exploring any of these themes:
Proof of review for professionals: per-matter records proving a licensed lawyer, accountant, engineer, or architect reviewed the AI's work, packaged so coverage holds at renewal
Getting coverage back for the trades: evidence and carrier partnerships that restore general liability and umbrella coverage for contractors using AI estimating and planning tools
Underwriting hybrid work: the attribution data layer that prices teleoperated and supervised-autonomy robotics for MGAs and carriers
Agentic commerce guarantees: delegation records and guarantees that settle who eats the loss when an AI agent buys wrong
Maybe you've run underwriting or product at an insurtech or MGA and know what it takes to get a carrier to say yes. Maybe you've placed professional or contractor coverage as a broker and watched clients lose it this year. Maybe you've built risk or chargeback infrastructure in payments, or sold software into carriers and know how long the yes takes. You don't need to have done all four. You need to know exactly where insurance stopped working for AI and be relentless about fixing it.
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 in insurance, insurtech, or risk infrastructure
You may have run underwriting, product, or distribution at a carrier, MGA, or insurtech and know how carrier partnerships actually get signed
You may have placed professional liability, E&O, or contractor coverage as a broker and seen AI exclusions hit your book firsthand
You may have built fraud, chargeback, or risk-scoring infrastructure in payments or commerce
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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