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Founder-To-Be, The Foundry
@ Forum Ventures
Remote in Canada
Overview
Forum Ventures offers The Foundry, a part-time five-week startup validation program for people with an early business idea, not a job. Participants work with Forum's studio team for about 4 hours per week alongside their current role. Strong candidates may earn a $250K USD investment and a team to build the company.
Responsibilities:
- Validate startup idea against real market demand
- Define ideal customer profile and go-to-market
- Work with Forum's studio team for five weeks
- Test willingness to pay and investor appetite
Requirements summary:
- Idea already in motion with customer conversations or product sketches
- Early-stage operator experience in product, business or a domain
- Desire to be a venture-backed founder
- Ability to commit about 4 hours per week for five weeks
- Availability in North American time zones
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ashby
- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-30
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Department | Business development |
| Hours per week | 4 |
| Work setting | Home |
| Physical demands | computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Forum Ventures
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Investing in and supporting the B2B founder journey from Zero to One
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
- 25,033
- 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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Please note: this is not a job or an employment opportunity with Forum Ventures. The Foundry is a part-time, five-week program you can do alongside your current role, and it's open to those working full-time roles. Expect about 4 hours per week.
Have a startup idea you can't stop thinking about? The Foundry: Forum's Studio Sprint is a five-week program where you validate your idea alongside Forum's AI Studio team. At the end, strong candidates can earn a $250K investment and a full team to build the company with us.
How The Foundry works
You bring the idea. We bring the same validation process we use internally to launch studio companies. Over five weeks, you work directly with our venture building, GTM, and product team to pressure-test your idea against real market demand, willingness to pay, and investor appetite.
You'll leave with one of three outcomes: an invitation to pitch us for $250K, a clear answer that the idea isn't the one, or the clarity to go build it on your own.
Forum derisks and accelerates the founder path by:
Five weeks of hands-on work with our studio team, not a curriculum
Market and customer diligence, ICP definition, and GTM validation
Clear answers on market size, competitive positioning, and investor appetite
A room of founders at the same inflection point
For strong candidates, a $250K USD investment plus a CTO, designer, and GTM support by your side until you hire your own team
A fundraising playbook and network to raise your Seed and Series A
$100K+ worth of business perks
Who this is for:
You might be one of these. You don't need to be all of them.
The Repeat Founder. You've built before, you know you want to do it again, and you want structure and momentum to get back in fast.
The Domain Expert. You know an industry's problems better than anyone and have an insight you can't shake.
The Operator with a Technical Cofounder. You've got a builder in your corner and want to move from idea to something real.
The Product or GTM Leader. You've shipped products or built pipelines at scale and are ready to do it for your own company.
About you:
An idea already in motion. You've started talking to customers, sketching the product, or testing the market
Early-stage operator experience, and expertise in product, business, or a specific domain
A real desire to be a venture-backed founder
The ability to attract and lead a great team
Able to commit [X hours per week] for five weeks, alongside your current role
Able to collaborate in North American time zones
Next cohort: Cohort 5
Applications close November 4. Cohort 5 kicks off November 9. Applications stay open year-round, so if the timing isn't right, apply anyway and we'll slot you into a future cohort.
If you're currently fundraising your first check, pre-seed or Seed round, please pitch our investment team here.
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