Foreword Fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Foreword Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. 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 whenthere is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Foreword Fund invests in
Stages Foreword Fund invests in
Countries Foreword Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.3M–$3.2M
- Series A
- $8.7M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 18 (45%)
- FinTech 6 (15%)
- Financial Services 6 (15%)
- Information Technology 6 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (53%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (30%)
- Series A 4 (10%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 11 (28%)
- United States 9 (23%)
- Germany 7 (18%)
- France 4 (10%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Declan Kelly
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 53 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skalar specializes in providing automated and digital tax and accounting services for companies. | $13.7M / Seed / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| XO Market is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to create, trade, and share prediction-based markets on future events using blockchain technology. The platform operates as a non-custodial interface, allowing participants to interact directly with smart contracts while retaining control of their own crypto assets. XO Marketfacilitates “conviction markets,” where users can establish and trade outcomes on various topics, with prices reflecting collective market sentiment. It uses an automated market maker model to provide liquidity and incorporates a hybrid system combining artificial intelligence and human input to resolve market outcomes. The platform supports permissionless market creation, enabling users to define events, set parameters, and participate in trading without centralized oversight. | $6M / Seed / May 01, 2026 | ||
| Enabling companies to analyse and improve their visibility in AI search results. | $6.1M / Seed / Jul 02, 2025 | ||
| Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business. | $9M / Seed / Apr 24, 2025 | ||
| Technology focused Virtual assistance service | $10M / Series A / Mar 24, 2025 | ||
| We help local restaurants thrive!We are allO - the digital backbone of restaurants, the future of gastronomy, and the reliable partner of local businesses.Our mission is to give local restaurants unfair technology advantages to compete with prominent players. We strive to democratize gastronomy by making McDonald's and Starbucks'level of technology accessible to small restaurant owners. | Seed / Mar 01, 2025 | ||
| handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life. | $3.9M / Seed / Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| If you want to know more or have any queries, just knock us here– 24 Hours Reply/Contact Email: smmsellshop@gmail.com Telegram: @smmsellshop Skype: smmsellshop | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Dec 02, 2024 | ||
| Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services. | $3.2M / Seed / Sep 24, 2024 | ||
| Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services. | $3.2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 24, 2024 | ||
| See all 40 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Foreword Fund invest in?
Foreword Fund invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Foreword Fund invest in?
Foreword Fund typically joins rounds of $3M–$9M at Seed, $1.3M–$3.2M at Pre-Seed and $8.7M–$13M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Foreword Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Foreword Fund took part in.
How do I contact Foreword Fund?
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Who are the partners at Foreword Fund?
The team at Foreword Fund includes Declan Kelly (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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