ForwardShare is a New York venture studio with a global network. Everyone at the top has built and scaled something, so we know what it takes to turn ideas into real-world successes.
We focus 100% on individuals with a passion and first-hand knowledge of problems ready for a solution. We know that the next great B2B platforms will come from the minds of experts in their field matched with experience and capital — exactly what we bring to the equation.
Technology & Product Leader
A transformational technology and product leader who scales early to growth-stage ventures by building high-performing teams, innovative platforms, and customer-centric experiences that unlock hyper-growth.
We focus on building companies that pay for themselves. One that doesn’t is on somebody else’s clock.
Everybody here has owned a number and lost sleep over it. Advisors can rarely truly relate to the commitment of a founder.
Our Network is highly curated and limited by design. We have seen that a network including everyone helps no one.
With ForwardShare, every venture has a monthly Go / No-Go decision, in writing. We won’t let a company drift for a year out of politeness.
The people in our Network have led and shipped inside companies like these.
Because domain experts kept getting the wrong kind of help. Somebody who’s spent twenty years inside an industry can see exactly what’s broken in it, and the venture world hands them either a check with no operating support or advice from people who’ve never run anything. ForwardShare was built to be the third option and to do the building alongside them.
Forward Share Ventures LLC is based in New York and was founded by Vish Rao Dumpeti.
Yes. ForwardShare is the public brand, written as one word. Forward Share Ventures LLC is the legal entity and appears in legal and investor contexts.
A small core team of partners and expert operators, with a network of more than 200 around it. We put people on ventures and client engagements out of that network rather than carrying headcount, which is the same model we recommend to the companies we work with.
Not primarily. We’re a venture studio that cofounds and cobuilds companies and takes an operating role in them. ForwardShare Capital invests, and the investing follows the building rather than the other way around.
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