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Forge.AI
Transforms unstructured information into structured machine ready data
About Forge.AI
Forge.AI, founded in 2017, operates as a specialized data and intelligence firm, subsequently acquired by FiscalNote in September 2021. The company was established by the collaborative efforts of Jim Crowley, Jack Crowley, and Jennifer Lum. The founding team's vision for Forge.AI began as early as 2006, recognizing the market's potential for technology that could interpret and reason over unstructured data. They strategically waited for the market to mature with the advent of cloud computing and broader adoption of machine learning before launching the company. Jim Crowley, with a background as a lawyer and extensive experience in executive roles at various tech startups including m-Qube and Skyhook Wireless, served as the CEO. Jennifer Lum, a serial entrepreneur and investor, has been instrumental in co-founding companies like Adelphic and has a track record with early-stage startups that saw successful acquisitions by major tech firms like Apple and Time.
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The core of Forge.AI's business is its proprietary, cloud-based intelligence platform, ANVIL. This platform is engineered to ingest a vast amount of the world's unstructured data—from news and social media to financial reports—and transform it into structured, computationally-ready knowledge. The business model centers on providing this enriched data as a service to clients, primarily within the financial services and public sectors. By delivering low-latency, machine-readable data feeds, Forge.AI enables organizations like asset managers, banks, and hedge funds to enhance their analytical models, identify risks, and accelerate decision-making processes. The service is designed to be accessible via clients' existing cloud infrastructure and APIs, reducing data management expenses and shortening the data science development cycle.
The ANVIL platform distinguishes itself by creating a continuously updated, self-learning knowledge graph. It employs natural language understanding technologies to process text-heavy content, structuring it to reveal relationships between entities and identify trends. This allows data science teams and analysts to bypass the labor-intensive process of data discovery, extraction, and cleaning. For clients in financial services, such as The Vanguard Group, this means a heightened ability to harness machine-readable information for better investment decisions. For government and national intelligence communities, it offers enhanced situational awareness and predictive modeling capabilities for mission-critical operations. Ultimately, ANVIL provides the structured data necessary to fuel algorithms, applications, and analytical tasks at machine speeds, offering a significant advantage in a data-driven world.
At a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2017
- Headquarters
- Boston, United States
- Employees
- 4
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 89.1/100
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Sector
- AI, High Performance Computing, Neural Networks, Hard Tech, DT and LS
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence, Deep Tech, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Nanotech, Recognition Technology
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Dec 2018 | $11M | $44M | Project 11 Ventures · Accomplice · Boston Seed Capital · Imagination Capital | ↗ |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Dec 2017 | — | — | Wayne Chang · Boston Seed Capital · Nitesh Banta · Jeff Seibert | — |
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Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Forge.AI is 27K monthly website visits, up 58.8% over the last three months. Forge.AI's team grew 100% over the past year.
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed6 investors entered at this stage
Drew Volpe
Jeff Seibert
Nitesh Banta
Chang Corporation
Wayne Chang
Boston Seed Capital
Series A4 investors entered at this stage
Underscore VC
Project 11 Ventures
Accomplice
Imagination Capital
Other known investors2 additional known investors
FinTech Sandbox
In-Q-Tel
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
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