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# Founder, Data Centre Buildout at Forum Ventures

- **Company:** Forum Ventures
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/forum-ventures/6efed484-b4c8-4b56-9a26-9ed6d0cef033

## Job description

[Forum's Venture Studio](https://www.forumvc.com/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. We are seeking Founders/CEOs to launch and run future companies. As CEO, you’ll be leading the charge with a CTO, Designer, GTM and validation experts by your side until your own team is hired. You’ll also have the support of recruitment, HR, legal, finance, and more to scale.

What We’re Looking At: The AI buildout got its chips and its capital. It didn’t get the industrial economy underneath it. Transformers, switchgear and turbines are sold out for years, and the factories that make them face their own fight over sites, power, permits and working capital. Engineered equipment is sourced, qualified and moved by phone calls and spreadsheets. Sites get built faster than they get powered. Trillions in debt and equity are flowing into projects, equipment and factories that nobody has the data to underwrite. Every link in the chain is a bottleneck, and the companies that clear them become the backbone of a new economy. Forum AI Studio is looking for a Founder exploring any of these themes:

- Factory buildouts: readiness, capital and coordination for manufacturers standing up production capacity
- Engineering supply chain: procurement and expediting, substitution and qualification, recertified equipment, and heavy-haul logistics
- Power readiness, behind-the-meter development, interconnection and permitting for data center projects
- Financing infrastructure: project and equipment finance origination, incentive capture, and asset valuation and residual-value data

Maybe you’ve waited two years on a transformer and watched a finished site sit dark. Maybe you’ve stood up a factory and know exactly where the capital, power and permits broke down. Maybe you’ve underwritten infrastructure debt and seen how little data sits behind the asset. 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 infrastructure, energy, industrial manufacturing or infrastructure finance world.
- You may have worked at an electrical manufacturer, EPC, utility, data center developer or heavy-haul carrier and felt the equipment and power bottleneck firsthand.
- You may have stood up a factory, or worked in project finance, structured credit or equipment leasing, and know where capital gets stuck between the term sheet and the asset.
- 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](https://www.forumvc.com/pitch-us).

## About Forum Ventures

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Forum Ventures is a founder-first venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund dedicated to helping early-stage B2B software founders go from zero to one.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital / Accelerator / Studio)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (with offices in San Francisco and Toronto)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed as a single founder; the firm was built by a team including Mike Cardamone (CEO & Managing Partner), Jonah Midanik (Managing Partner), James Murphy (Managing Partner), and others.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Venture Capital & Private Equity Principals (B2B software startup ecosystem)
- **Target customers**: Pre-seed and seed-stage B2B software founders; also serves as a co-creator of new ventures through its studio arm.
- **Mission**: To make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders.

## Products & Services
- **Accelerator**: A 12-week (or similar) program that acts as a fractional co-founder, providing hands-on go-to-market and fundraising support to help founders achieve customer traction and raise their first institutional round.
- **Pre-Seed Fund**: A dedicated fund that invests in early-stage B2B software companies, leveraging the accelerator’s team and resources to provide more hands-on support than a typical pre-seed fund.
- **Venture Studio**: An AI-first studio that co-creates new ventures from the concept stage, working with entrepreneurs to ideate, validate, launch, and scale B2B startups using a team of operators, product designers, and developers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private entity)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $40M (LinkedIn estimate); total follow-on funding raised by portfolio companies exceeds $1B.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The firm itself has raised a $20M venture studio fund (announced 2025). Portfolio companies have gone on to raise from top-tier funds including A16z, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, NEA, Emergence Capital, Menlo Ventures, Craft Ventures, and Founders Fund.
- **Growth Signals**: 430+ companies funded, 1,300+ founder community members, 10 years of operation, 25,541 LinkedIn followers (+43.9% YoY), and a recent acquisition of Vanse AI (Feb 2025).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder-first approach**: The team is composed entirely of former founders and operators who have built and scaled their own software companies, providing empathy and practical guidance.
- **Full-stack support**: Offers a continuum from studio (idea stage) → accelerator (early traction) → pre-seed fund (capital), making it a one-stop shop for early-stage B2B founders.
- **Massive community and network**: Over 1,300 founders in a deeply connected community, plus access to a wide network of mentors and experts.
- **Proven track record**: $1B+ in follow-on funding raised by portfolio companies from top-tier VCs.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first ventures**: The newly launched $20M venture studio fund is specifically focused on building AI-native B2B companies.
- **Expanding geographic reach**: While headquartered in New York, the firm has offices in San Francisco and Toronto, and portfolio companies are global.
- **Scaling the studio model**: Continuously looking for “studio founders” – individuals who have always wanted to start a company but need a co-creative partner to ideate, validate, and build.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A team of “doers and connectors” that operates like a startup – fail fast, iterate quickly, and embrace ambiguity. The firm is built by founders for founders, so the environment is entrepreneurial and supportive.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Not explicitly stated, but roles are likely hybrid or in-office given the hands-on studio and accelerator model. The team is distributed across New York, San Francisco, and Toronto.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunities to work directly with early-stage founders, participate in venture building, and be part of a small but mighty team that has outsized impact. The firm emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- **Open roles**: Current openings include positions on the Forum team, studio founder opportunities, and portfolio company roles (see careers page).

## Sources
1. [forumvc.com](https://www.forumvc.com/)
2. [forumvc.com/careers](https://www.forumvc.com/careers)
3. [forumvc.com/team](https://www.forumvc.com/team)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/forum-ventures](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/forum-ventures)
5. [linkedin.com/company/forumvc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/forumvc)

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