Founder, Aerospace Compliance Automation

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.

We’re looking for a Founder/CEO to lead a venture focused on modernizing compliance and certification in aerospace and defense. This platform will streamline audit management, risk assessment, and supply chain oversight, helping mid-market suppliers navigate complex regulatory requirements like AS9100, ITAR, and FAA standards. By leveraging AI-driven document processing and real-time regulatory updates, this solution will automate compliance tracking and reduce recertification timelines—making the process faster, more efficient, and reliable.

What are we exploring?

The aerospace and defense industry faces significant certification and compliance challenges due to outdated, manual processes and decentralized data. Mid-market suppliers, vital to the ecosystem, struggle with inefficiencies that lead to long recertification cycles. As regulatory requirements like AS9100, ITAR, and FAA standards become more complex, the need for a streamlined compliance solution grows.

We’re building a next-generation Quality Management System (QMS) tailored for aerospace and defense. Our platform will integrate audit management, risk assessment, and supply chain oversight to automate compliance tracking and simplify recertification. By leveraging AI-driven document processing and real-time regulatory updates, we aim to modernize certification workflows, making compliance faster, easier, and more reliable.

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 expertise in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or compliance technology, with a strong understanding of regulatory challenges like AS9100, ITAR, and FAA standards.

• Experience in product development or engineering leadership, ideally within aerospace, enterprise software, or AI-driven automation.

• A track record of driving innovation in high-stakes or regulated industries, such as aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or enterprise compliance.

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.