Forum
YC W26 · Active · The first exchange to trade on attention.
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About 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.
- YC batch
- W26 · Winter 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- Other
- Team size
- 2
- Location
- New York City, NY, USA
- Checked
- 32m ago
Forum: questions
Which YC batch was Forum in?
Forum was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is Forum still active?
Y Combinator lists Forum as active.
Where is Forum based?
Forum lists New York City, NY, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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