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Forum

Forum is building the first 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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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5907

Forum is building the first 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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Forum is classified as Cybersecurity from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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streaming datasearchattentionuserssocialindices
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Forum

Cybersecurity · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 51

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shared extracted concept terms: social; shared product terms: trade, social, enabl, age; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Beacon Health

match 51

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shared product terms: care, primary, but, directly; shared product theme: health and clinical care, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Copia (fka Kinship)

match 47

Strong relationships are critical for business success, happiness and health, yet hard to cultivate given the demands on our time, and isolating effects of social media and remote working. Enter Kinship, a relationship tool that empowers users to systemize their ability to create meaningful relationships, so as to drive more sales and, in turn providing companies with a competitive advantage.

shared extracted concept terms: social; shared product terms: succes, demand, social, create; shared product theme: health and clinical care

Kosh

match 46

Kosh is a digital lending platform in India, empowering blue-collar workers with a unique joint liability model (much like microfinance but for a different segment). The social component of their underwriting helps control credit risk significantly and lower CAC/Opex in one go, making this 150mn-strong segment credit-worthy.

shared product terms: social, go, digital, but; shared product theme: security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

PeakMetrics

match 41

By analyzing media across social, online news and broadcast, we spot trends to identify what people care about.

shared extracted concepts: social; shared product terms: social, what, care; shared product theme: health and clinical care

Kalshi

match 41

Kalshi (www.kalshi.com) is the first federally regulated exchange where you can trade on the outcome of events. We built Kalshi because we believe that people should be able to capitalize on what they know and have opinions on. We make this possible by expanding what people can trade on and allowing them trade in the domain of everyday knowledge. Kalshi is developing a new asset class, “event contracts,” and a financial exchange for trading on the outcome of events: we are federally regulated by

shared product terms: exchange, trade, what, asset; shared affiliation: Y Combinator