Founder, AI-Powered Certification and Origin Auditing

Founder, AI-Powered Certification and Origin Auditing

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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 model is designed to help you move faster, develop better insights, and build companies that have a higher success rate than startups built in any other way.
We’re looking for a Founder/CEO to build an AI-native platform that automates supplier certification, origin auditing, and compliance — helping enterprises ensure sourcing transparency and reduce regulatory risk.
What are we exploring?
Enterprises in industries like aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturing face growing pressure to comply with regulations such as Buy America and UFLPA — yet their supplier compliance processes remain heavily manual. Teams still extract part numbers and serials by hand, parse scanned certificates, and review unverifiable supplier-reported data.
With a surge in detained shipments and a compliance software market projected to surpass $9.5B by 2031 , the need for automation is urgent.
The opportunity is to build an agentic execution layer that continuously validates origin and certification data against trade rules, flags inconsistencies, and generates audit-ready records — enabling enterprises to shift from reactive audits to proactive, automated compliance.
As supply chain transparency, supplier diversity, and ethical sourcing become board-level priorities, this is a clear whitespace where automation can deliver significant operational value and risk reduction.
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, and expertise in one or more of the following areas: product development, business, or a domain expert
• 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
• 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

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