Founder, Govtech Compliance AI

Forum's Venture Studio is a leading early-stage fund and program for B2B SaaS startups. Starting a company is demanding, complex, and psychologically challenging. As former founders and early-stage operators, we understand firsthand that Founders need support, honest feedback, and someone who truly cares in their corner.

Our mission is to make the journey easier and more successful for Founders, and we've achieved this by making over 350+ seed investments that have raised $600M+ in follow-on funding. Forum founders have gone on to raise from funds like Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, and more.

What are we exploring?
We’re exploring a platform that automates FedRAMP and StateRAMP compliance for startups and mid-market SaaS companies. Today’s certification process is long, costly, and fragmented, typically requiring over a year and millions in spend. Recent regulatory changes and increasing security demands have made the process even harder for early-stage vendors, while government agencies still struggle with manual workflows and siloed approvals across different cloud environments.

Our thesis is to build a platform that accelerates approval timelines, automates documentation, and enables real-time monitoring. The product will integrate with cloud and security tools, assist with assessor workflows, and offer dashboards to keep systems audit-ready. As mandates push for automation and acceptance of machine-readable compliance artifacts, we see a timely opportunity to define the infrastructure layer for public sector cloud security.

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

What you bring:

• Deep understanding of compliance frameworks like FedRAMP, StateRAMP, or SOC 2, and their impact on cloud infrastructure and SaaS businesses

• Experience building or leading security, compliance, or infrastructure products—ideally within govtech, cybersecurity, or regulated SaaS

• Strong grasp of public sector procurement, cloud architectures, and the unique challenges faced by early-stage vendors

• Proven ability to launch and scale enterprise-grade software in complex, highly regulated markets

• Entrepreneurial, customer-obsessed, and skilled at translating regulatory complexity into intuitive, automation-driven products

Please note, this is not an employment opportunity with Forum Ventures.

About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, program, and community for B2B SaaS startups based in New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and remote. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and more successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding. We provide high-touch 1:1 support, programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community to support you through every step of your building journey.
Starting a company is demanding, complex, and psychologically challenging. As former founders and early-stage operators, we understand firsthand that Founders need support, honest feedback, and someone who truly cares in their corner. Our mission is to make the journey easier and more successful for Founders, and we've achieved this by making over 350+ investments that have raised $1Bn+ in follow-on funding. Forum founders have gone on to raise from funds like Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, and more.