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Forward

Health Tech & Medtech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2016 Unicorn

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Valuation

$1–2.5B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Headcount

100–500

Current team size

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Investors

28 investors on Forward's cap table

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Seed 13 investors entered at this stage

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Lakestar

Expa

Series B+ 13 investors entered at this stage

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Global footprint

Where Forward has talent and traffic

Web traffic by country

300 monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States100%

Top 1 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$260k patent portfolio · 1 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value

$260k

0.02% of valuation · comparable to top peer MDLIVE ($228k)

1 active patent families

Where Forward innovates Medical treatmentMedical scienceData scienceData setComputerized system

Above peer median on Legal, Strategic, Market, Economic

Quality vs same-sector peers

Forward on the five Patsnap quality dimensions

Forward in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.

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Patent quality scores (0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap

Tech-focus vs peers

Where Forward concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across Forward and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

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Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

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