Forum (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
January 19, 2026
Vertical
Fintech
Company Info
Founding Year
2026
Market
Fintech
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

Forum is building the first regulated exchange to trade on cultural attention. We create indices from search, social, and streaming data to measure what the world cares about, enabling users to go long or short on changes in relevance. Attention is the primary driver of business success in the digital age, but it has never been directly tradable. Forum introduces attention as a new asset class for managing cultural and demand risk.

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