Forum Ventures Introduces Its Spring 2026 B2B AI-First Cohort

Forum Ventures, a B2B fund, accelerator, and venture studio, is excited to introduce our Spring 2026 accelerator cohort. Of the 12 companies joining this program, eight are ready to share what they're building. The remaining four are in stealth and will be announced when the time is right.

In Q1 2026, Forum Ventures received applications from over 2,000 founders. The Spring 2026 cohort represents the top 0.5% of that pool.

These founders are at the earliest stages of company building. Each one will work 1:1 with a dedicated Managing Director to validate direction, accelerate go-to-market, and build a foundation for sustainable growth before heading out to fundraise hand in hand with the Forum team.

Why This Cohort Stands Out

The thread connecting this cohort is founders building AI infrastructure for industries that can't afford to get it wrong — trucking, physical security, developer operations, supply chain, cargo, robotics. These are asset-heavy, high-stakes, or compliance-sensitive sectors where AI adoption has lagged not because of lack of interest, but because the foundational tooling didn't exist. This cohort is building that layer. 

What excites us most is the quality of founder-market fit across the board. These founders have lived the problems they're solving. They bring domain depth, technical credibility, and a clarity about their customer that is rare at this stage.

“What drew us to this cohort are their earned insights. Whether it’s fleet maintenance, behavioral threat detection, or cargo intelligence, these founders know their customers’ worlds firsthand. That kind of domain expertise becomes a compounding advantage, it informs the product wedge, creates a more authentic path into buyers, and builds credibility from day one.” — Naomi Goez, Partner, Forum Ventures

Below is more on each company, what they're building, and why we're excited to build alongside them.

Meet the Spring 2026 Cohort

Elmeeda

Founders: Abdu Kholmatov (CEO) and Jay Allayorov (CTO) Website: elmeeda.com

Elmeeda is the autonomous decision and execution layer for trucking fleets, starting with maintenance. The platform detects breakdowns, makes decisions, and coordinates repairs in real time so trucks keep moving. It ingests data across every system a fleet runs — telematics, TMS, maintenance tools, driver apps, fuel cards, compliance software — and acts on it autonomously: scheduling maintenance, ordering parts, filing warranty claims, optimizing routes, and flagging spend anomalies across fleets that have never had anything connecting those systems before.

"Abdu and Jay are one of the most credible founder pairs I've seen on a domain-specific problem. Abdu ran maintenance for a 350-truck fleet for 4 years. Jay bootstrapped an $8.5M TMS and built a freight auto-booker that moved $40M in loads. Together, they scraped 84,000 maintenance emails from their design partner and found $326K in claimable aftermarket warranties and $192K in avoidable repeat repairs; all before writing a single line of product code. That kind of evidence-first approach to building is what originally got me excited. What they’ve already done in just the first few weeks of working together is what has got me ecstatic." — Kevin Corliss, Managing Director, Forum Ventures

Honour Systems

Founder: Khai Khanna (CEO/Founder) Website: honoursystem.ca

Honour Systems is an AI-powered behavioral threat detection and risk mitigation platform for real-time security monitoring and proactive incident prevention. The platform integrates with existing CCTV and IP camera infrastructure — no new hardware required — and analyzes behavioral signals to identify potential risks in real-time.

"Khai brings rare technical depth, translating his prior research on early behavioral signals of autism into a system that predicts physical risk without identifying individuals or introducing bias. Honour System is already seeing strong pull across industrial safety and law enforcement, with defense as a massive future opportunity." — Dave Coen, Managing Director, Forum Ventures

TasksMind

Founders: Vatsal Pandya (CEO) and Kashish Syed (Co-Founder) Website: tasksmind.com

TasksMind is an AI agent platform built for on-call developers. When an alert fires, TasksMind automatically ingests it, investigates root cause, drafts a fix, and opens a PR — cutting mean time to resolution from hours to minutes. It eliminates the manual triage loop so engineers can focus on building, not firefighting.

"Vatsal and Kashish came in fresh off internships where they'd already automated themselves out of the worst parts of their jobs. The thesis is straightforward: on-call is not fun, and the triage loop is manual by default, and every minute of MTTR is an engineer not building. They're closing that gap with an agent that investigates, drafts, and ships the fix before most teams have even acknowledged the alert. Young, sharp, and already in production.” — Neal, Partner, Forum Ventures

gjalla

Founder: Ellie Daw (CEO) Website: gjalla.io

AI sped up one step of the software development workflow — code generation — but the rest of the lifecycle is struggling to adapt. Teams are losing the ability to understand, verify, and trust their growing internal codebases while still being accountable for them. gjalla gives teams confidence that their AI-generated code does what they think it does, and the guardrails to keep it that way, managing the entire development workflow at agent speed with legibility, verification, and control.

"Ellie came in with cryptography patents, fractional CTO work, and Cisco behind her, and yet somehow was still the most natural, low-ego presence I'd talked to all year. That blend of technical expertise and business savvy is something I’m always looking out for. The thesis she's building on is one I believe gets worse before it gets better: agentic coding is creating a verification gap, and teams don't yet have the infrastructure to know whether agents are building what they're supposed to. Ellie is building the semantic source of truth that closes that gap. Keep your eyes on this one." — Kevin Corliss, Managing Director, Forum Ventures

Eloso Intelligence

Founders: Ben Roome (CEO), Jake Metcalf (CSO/COO), and Drew Winget (CTO)

Eloso builds control systems for AI agents in the supply chain space. The team works with manufacturers to gather and process contextual information so that AI agents participating in collaborative demand planning processes operate more reliably. Their solution targets data processing upstream of AI agent operations — gathering hidden contextual signals, processing existing forecast data with innovative techniques, and delivering outputs to agents in ways that optimize behavior and improve demand plan accuracy.

"The Eloso team brings deep experience working with enterprises in AI governance and has found a clear need in demand planning to bring predictability to a chaotic process made even more so by by the introduction of agents.”— Dave Coen, Managing Director, Forum Ventures

suply

Founders: Barry Rollins (CEO) and Simon Porter (COO) Website: suply.co

Suply gives perishable goods exporters real-time intelligence on what's happening to their condition-critical shipments while they're in motion. Cheap, disposable sensors capture telemetry at the edge, and the platform uses AI to reconstruct what went wrong, where, and who was responsible — turning disputes that drag on for months into claims that can be resolved quickly with evidence. Most exporters are flying blind until something goes wrong and the damage is already done. Suply makes sure they're not.

"Barry’s deep domain expertise is what originally drew me in. A prior supply chain exit with firsthand experience in global produce logistics and cold-chain failures. But what I found especially compelling was the approach Barry was taking with his solution. In recent years, the market has over-rotated to expensive, hardware-first sensors, and Barry decided to flip it - cheap, disposable hardware with intelligence-first forensics that explains what went wrong, where, and who's responsible. I love a founder who zigs when others are zigging. I’m excited for where this one is headed." — Kevin Corliss, Managing Director, Forum Ventures

Powabase

Founders: Hunter Zhao (CEO) Website: https://powabase.ai/ 

Agentic Enterprise Solutions is building the backend layer for AI-native applications in document-heavy industries. Think Supabase for AI agents. The platform provides the infrastructure needed to develop and operate production-grade agentic workflows — combining auth, databases, ETL, APIs, memory, orchestration, workflow automation, and observability into one cohesive system. Built for complex, document-centric environments where teams need reliable, context-aware AI applications without stitching together a backend from scratch.

"I found Hunter and his cofounder to be incredibly strong both technically and in the room, and the path they took to get here is the right one. They started with consultancy and custom builds, accumulated real revenue through that work, and used what they kept rebuilding across every engagement to identify the infrastructure gap. The 'Supabase for AI agents' framing isn't just a pitch line; it reflects a genuine insight that teams building production-grade agentic applications are stitching together a backend from scratch every time. They have already proven there's demand by serving it directly. Now they're systematizing it. I’m stoked to work with them." — Kevin Corliss, Managing Director, Forum Ventures

Momentedge

Founder: Melika Golkaram (CEO) Website: momentedge.xyz

Momentedge is a real-world data collection platform for robotic fleets. It intelligently captures targeted, high-fidelity, calibrated datasets from the moments that matter — helping robotics teams systematically close their training and operational gaps. Rather than collecting everything indiscriminately, Momentedge focuses data capture on the edge cases and failure modes that actually improve model performance.

"Melika helped build large-scale data and indexing pipelines at Google and parlayed that knowledge into robotics. Robots fail in the real world, and the industry must capture those exact moments to improve real-world training. The autonomous systems wave needs this layer to exist, and Melika is the right person to build it." — Neal, Partner, Forum Ventures