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Led by builders who never stopped building.

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.

ForwardShare is designed to support domain experts.

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.

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Meet our Leadership Team

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Keys To Our Success

Revenue First

We focus on building companies that pay for themselves. One that doesn’t is on somebody else’s clock.

Expert operators

Everybody here has owned a number and lost sleep over it. Advisors can rarely truly relate to the commitment of a founder.

Curated, not open.

Our Network is highly curated and limited by design. We have seen of a network that includes everyone helps no one.

Own the bet.

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.

Our Ecosystem

ForwardShare partners with a sophisticated family of organizations that share our vision and commitment to the future of business.

Partner organizations in the ForwardShare ecosystem

Questions we get:

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.

ForwardShare was founded to bring operating expertise and capital together behind domain experts, and has been co-creating ventures from New York since.

Yes. Forward Share Ventures LLC is the legal entity. ForwardShare is the name we build and operate under.

A small core leadership team in New York, extended by a network of more than 200 Expert Operators who take seats inside the ventures we build.

No. We are a venture studio. We come in before the company exists, take an operating role beside the founder, and invest our own capital alongside that commitment.

Book a working session. Thirty minutes with an operator, not a sales call, and no deck required.

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Get to know our Expert Operators

Meet our Experts
Patty Zimmerman, ForwardShare Expert Operator

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David Carlton, ForwardShare Expert Operator

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RJ Holt, ForwardShare Expert Operator

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Patty Zimmerman, ForwardShare Expert Operator

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The MiindShare Letter

MindShare is our hub for sharing the learnings and insights we uncover as we explore new ventures. The MindShare Letter collects the latest findings and delivers them exclusively to your in-box.