AI Founder, Edge Hardware
Forum Ventures3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Explore and develop a company around edge runtime and compiler abstraction across heterogeneous NPUs, intelligent inference routing, unified hardware operations, or related opportunities.
- Build, sell, and navigate products in the edge ML and on-device inference market.
- Develop an MVP, validate the ideal customer profile, build early sales traction, and execute a go-to-market strategy toward $50,000–$100,000 ARR.
- Attract, hire, and lead a world-class founding team.
Requirements
- Early-stage operator experience with a proven record of building and selling products in edge ML and on-device inference.
- Experience shipping models across multiple NPU or edge silicon targets, or building inference deployment, compiler, or mixed-silicon fleet infrastructure.
- Ability to attract, hire, and lead world-class teams.
- Passion for technology's ability to change the world and desire to become a venture-backed founder.
- Based in Canada or the United States with availability to collaborate in North American time zones.
Benefits
- A $250,000 USD investment and fundraising support for seed and Series A rounds.
- Validation support, investor and mentor networks, sales pipeline development, and go-to-market support.
- Experienced operating-team support across business design, product development, growth, recruitment, and legal.
- Support targeting $50,000–$100,000 ARR and developing an MVP for early traction.
- A community of mentors, peers, and business leaders.
- More than $100,000 worth of business perks.
- Must be based in Canada or the United States and able to collaborate during North American time zones.
- This is a venture-founder opportunity, not an employment opportunity with Forum Ventures.
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About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is an early-stage venture fund, accelerator, and venture studio focused on B2B software startups. It invests at pre-seed and seed, runs cohort-based accelerator programs and a venture studio, and supports founders with capital, mentorship, and go-to-market resources in exchange for equity. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York with hubs in San Francisco and Toronto, it has backed 500+ companies globally.