Forethought
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Total raised
$25M
1 round on record
Latest round
$25M
Series D · May 2025 · 16 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
8
South Park Commons, 8VC
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
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The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 23, 2025
Raised a round Series D $25M · Pulse 2.0
Oct 31, 2023
Partnership Forethought Joins AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS Marketplace · businesswire.com
Sep 27, 2023
Recognition Forethought Recognized in Gartner's 2023 "Cool Vendor in Customer Service and Support Technology" Report · businesswire.com
Mar 8, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: SupportGPT – Generative AI for customer support automation, w ChatGPT
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | May 2025 | $25M | — | Pulse 2.0 |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
South Park Commons 
Frontline 
Geodesic Capital 
Inspired Capital 
K9 Ventures 
NEA 
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AI Adoption in CX Nears 70%, Yet Only 2% of Programs Reach the Center of Excellence Standard, Forethought Report Finds - AOL
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Risk-Averse AIs
We argue that training AIs to be risk-averse - to treat resources as having diminishing marginal utility - could both preserve AIs' usefulness (if they turn out aligned) and provide an extra line of defense (if they turn out misaligned).
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SteadyMount - Mount remote servers as Finder drives
SteadyMount mounts SFTP and WebDAV servers as native Finder drives on your Mac. Silent reconnection, no kernel extensions, no subscription. Free for 30 days, then one connection free or $27.99 for unlimited.
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This is some text inside of a div block. The Future of Customer Experience Is AI Agents Working Together January 14, 2026 Read More
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This is some text inside of a div block. Forethought's Deon Nicholas: Agentic AI drives ROI November 24, 2025 Read More
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Build Mode starts at the beginning: How Forethought AI found product-market fit
In the debut episode of the Build Mode podcast, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Deon Nicholas, co-founder of Forethought AI, to unpack what it really takes to build a lasting company with and for your customers from day one. Build Modeis TechCrun
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This is some text inside of a div block. Meet the 2025 Power Partners in Business Products & Services November 5, 2025 Read More
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How Deon Nicholas and Sami Ghoche Jump-Started Forethought
One is from Canada. The other is from Lebanon. Nearly a decade ago, still in their mid-20s, they took a leap of faith together that has landed them both on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List and at the cutting edge of the agentic AI industry. While it would be t
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AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power
Forethought discusses the possibility of AI-enabled coups and suggests some steps to mitigate the risk.
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Financials
Total raised
$25M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | 2025 | $25M | Details |