Foreword VC
300 Montgomery Street, Suite 201, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States
Overview
Foreword Ventures is an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Foreword commits to adding value far beyond the small checks they write by devoting time, reputation, and capital to clients' success. Foreword typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, but can also invest in Series A and beyond when there is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor.
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 1
Investment portfolio
- Skalar
Participated · Seed · Jul 2026
Skalar is building an AI-native tax and accounting firm that links clients’ financial systems directly to its platform and serves as the official advisor, taking on regulatory registration and professional liability. Founded in 2025 by Björn Goß and co-founders and launched out of Munich in 2026, the company combines AI agents with in-house tax experts rather than selling software to incumbent firms. Skalar reports that automation has increased productivity—claiming one tax expert can serve over 100 clients in automated areas versus about 20 previously—and that it processed more than 1,000 client requests in its first three months. The company has not disclosed headcount or revenue figures. Skalar’s stated plan is to scale its end-to-end firm model using the €12M pre-seed/seed financing to prove that owning liability and client relationships can outcompete AI tools sold to existing firms. It positions itself against better-funded competitors like Basis and Accrual by emphasizing speed, control, and taking direct ownership of client outcomes.
- XO Market
Participated · Seed · Apr 2026
XO Market is creating an open conviction marketplace intended to let any user launch a market on any verifiable event and provide infrastructure to resolve those events fairly. The team positions the product as removing gatekeepers that traditionally decide which prediction markets get listed. The company plans to use the $6M seed to fund its roadmap over the next 12 months. XO Market has backing from venture firms and a broad set of angels, and cites prior investment from pre-seed backers cyber•Fund and Delphi Ventures. The fundraise received media coverage from CoinDesk.
- Peec AI
Participated · Seed · Jul 2025
Peec AI offers a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) dashboard that lets marketing teams track how their brands appear in AI-driven searches, measure sentiment, identify the sources influencing answers, and receive actionable recommendations to boost visibility. Unlike keyword-centric SEO platforms, the product revolves around user-defined prompts, with pricing that ranges from €75 per month for 25 prompts to €424 per month for an enterprise tier. Launched just ten months ago, the company has scaled to more than $4 million in annual recurring revenue and serves 1,300 customers, adding roughly 300 new logos every month; clients include Axel Springer, Chanel, ElevenLabs, TUI, and n8n. Its proprietary data pipeline filters large datasets of generative-search queries to isolate purchase-intent questions, which Peec AI sees as a core competitive moat. Currently 20 employees, the startup plans to hire about 40 more people over the next six months and open a sales office in New York City in Q2 next year. CEO Marius Meiners co-founded the Berlin-based company with CTO Tobias Siwonia and CRO Daniel Drabo during Antler’s Winter 2024 cohort, and says its valuation has recently surpassed $100 million.
- Starcloud (Lumen Orbit)
Participated · Seed · Mar 2024
Starcloud is building a network of data centers in space, starting at kilowatts and scaling to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow us to take advantage of the abundant energy, radiative cooling techniques, and ability to rapidly scale in space. Join our team, push the boundaries of the space economy, and be part of this pioneering effort to redefine the future of energy.
- Anytype
Participated · Equity · Aug 2023
Anytype is an object-based note-taking productivity tool and a private, local-first peer-to-peer computing platform that organizes docs, tasks, files, bookmarks, contacts and more. Built on an architecture that protects privacy and data sovereignty, it functions as a private hub for users' data even when working across devices. The app is available on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. The company said it will use new funding to expand operations and development efforts, invite more contributors to extend the product's capabilities, and double down on UX. Anytype raised $13.4M in the reported funding round. Colin Hanna from Balderton Capital will join Anytype’s board as part of the round.
Team
Declan Kelly
Founder
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