The government just made domestic minerals a strategic priority. Companies are still forfeiting assets because they track compliance in Excel.
DOE and DoD are flooding billions into critical minerals extraction. Rare earths, lithium, copper. Mid-size operators manage 200-500 active leases, each with work requirements, environmental deadlines, rental payments, royalty filings, and renewal deadlines.
Miss a deadline by one day, forfeit the asset forever. No second chances.
Why this works now: The capital is flowing but infrastructure hasn't caught up. Small exploration companies and mid-tier operators are ramping operations with compliance systems that haven't evolved past spreadsheets. The consequences are binary. Forfeiture with no room for error. AI can track obligations across hundreds of leases, monitor deadlines, automate filings, and flag risks before they become forfeitures.
We're looking for Founders with a deep background in this problem space - mineral rights management, land administration, or exploration operations.
As CEO, you’ll be leading the charge with a CTO, Designer, GTM and validation experts by your side until your own team is hired. You’ll also have the support of recruitment, HR, legal, finance, and more to scale.
Your Partners in Co-Creation:
Forum's AI 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. We've launched 17 companies since 2023, and we're launching 7 more in 2026. We're designed to help Founders move faster, develop better insights, and build companies that have a higher success rate than startups built in any other way.
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:
Besides having domain expertise, you've experienced the messy middle of getting something off the ground, either as a former founder or early-stage operator
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
Canada or US-based, and the ability to collaborate remotely 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.
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Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program.
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