Forum Ventures is a founder-first AI venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund for B2B startups. Founded 2014. 550+ portfolio companies. $1B+ in follow-on funding raised.
About the role
Maybe you've shipped the same model to five NPU targets and felt the toolchain tax. Maybe you've built inference infrastructure for mixed hardware fleets and know where placement and cost decisions break down. That's who we build with. A $250K USD investment, and an end-to-end fundraising playbook and network to raise your seed and Series A
What they're looking for
- Edge runtime and compiler abstraction across heterogeneous NPUs
- Intelligent inference routing for mixed NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and custom ASIC fleets
- Unified operational planes for edge and on-prem hardware cost and placement visibility
- and more!
- Maybe you've shipped the same model to five NPU targets and felt the toolchain tax. Maybe you've built inference infrastructure for mixed hardware fleets and know where placement and cost decisions break down. That's who we build with
More about this role
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.
Edge AI scaled before edge AI got standards. Every NPU vendor built proprietary toolchains, and none of them interoperate. A team shipping to Qualcomm, Apple, Intel, and MediaTek is not writing one codebase. They are maintaining several, each with its own optimization pass every time something changes. No neutral runtime exists when multiple AI workloads compete on the same chip. Vendor lock-in is the bottleneck, and the company that removes it captures outsized value. Forum AI Studio is looking for a Founder exploring any of these themes:
Edge runtime and compiler abstraction across heterogeneous NPUs
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