Vish Rao Dumpeti

AI Venture Studio Founder @ Forward Share Ventures | 10x Technologist / Entrepreneur / Leader / Investor / Advisor | Vesta Equity • Justworks • CLEAR • WeWork • Spotify • MediaMath • MakeMe • NYTimes • Yahoo • ProQuest

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2015
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Fractional CXO, Investor & Advisor
2015
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
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2025
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner
2025
Welcome to Forward Share Ventures A hybrid venture studio, expert network, and venture capital fund building transformative human-centric, tech-forward ventures. Pioneering the Future of Work. Forward Share Ventures is the institutional co-founder for the Future of Work. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs to co-found bold, human-centric, tech-forward ventures that deliver lasting impact. From Spark to Scale True Co-Founders We provide the elite, AI-native operational team you need to win. Tech-Forward, People-First We solve real problems by combining cutting-edge tech with human-centered design. Full-Stack Support We provide strategy, product, tech, brand, and growth expertise. Our Focus Areas We believe the future of work must enhance human potential and foster connection through human-centric, tech-forward solutions. Our focus is on building and investing where technology meets this potential in the evolving marketplace. An Integrated Ecosystem for Venture Success. We dont just invest; we co-create. Our integrated flywheel provides the essential infrastructure for the new paradigm of entrepreneurship: FWD.Studio, FWD.Network, and FWD.Capital. FWD.Studio We build alongside you with hands-on co-creation, leveraging our startup origination system (SOS) playbook and embedded operational support (product, tech, GTM) to take your idea to impact. FWD.Network Instantly access our curated network of vetted fractional executives (CXOs) and specialized experts to fill critical leadership or skill gaps flexibly. FWD.Capital Fuel your early growth with strategic pre-seed and seed capital specifically for Future of Work ventures developed within or aligned with our ecosystem.
2024
Co-Founder, CTO
2024
The Evolution of Home Equity - Leveraging Blockchain, AI, and Data to Enable Wealth Generation for Homeowners and Investors
2015
Fractional CXO, Investor & Advisor
2015
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
2012
Co-Founder, CTO
2012
MakeMe is the leading mobile group challenge platform. We combine the best challenge content, engaging hosts, and a motivating mobile experience to enable a supportive space in which simple life-changing habits are formed. Our mobile app utilizes proven effectiveness of simple daily actions, accountability groups, social motivation, and gamification elements to help people experience success as they create better lives for themselves and those around them We support mobile group challenges to help the world’s best coaches and trainers create and host challenge action plans that engage and impact clients anywhere in the world. We also help teams and organizations promote: health and wellness, personal or professional learning and development, and other goals. Learn more: http://www.make.me/