Forma Residency Demo Day
We spent two years travelling the entire world: hosting pop-up cities, working with governments, and bringing folks who live on the internet together IRL.
In the process, we got super lucky and met some really kick-ass people. Like, really kick-ass.
So we thought - "Hey, what if we invited 15 of the most audacious people to spend a month with us, in person, to just go all in on their idea? Could they go further and faster?"
So we did!
Honestly, the room doesn't disappoint. We found a guy who isn't out of university yet and has already spent months living inside a factory. A girl who cold-emailed and bluffed her way into a French government program before she'd even landed in the country. Another who left home at 13 and bought his parents a house before he could properly grow facial hair (still a bit patchy tbh).
They're also building some wild stuff: rocket engines, a shot at reversing Parkinson's, giga-brain quants that live in your pocket. There's even a guy building a datacenter in a bunker.
Super happy to introduce you to them all.
Come join us on the 6th of August to meet everyone in person.
The Cohort
Aaron - Bunker: A members-only compute cluster, like “Soho House for people who love AI” that grows its own GPU fleet from member profits.
Shrutz & Dev - Alphai: An AI-native trading OS that gives a one-person fund the firepower of a whole quant pod - research, backtesting, and execution across 20+ venues.
Umang - Thesis Index: Tokenised indices backed by prediction markets, a way to bet on macro world events without touching stocks or options.
Duncan - Candenza: AI-native live TV: real personalities, simulated as agents in a shared world, broadcast as an unscripted live cartoon.
Tushar - Babylon: The AI operating layer for live show design. Drop in a song, get a fully synchronised laser show in minutes.
Jasnoor - Soins AI: A system that predicts how athletes respond to training, travel and climate stress, so coaches can optimize performance before the team even lands.
Adrian - Arete: An agent-first SDK for Solana, so developers can ship deeply integrated on-chain apps without touching servers or infrastructure.
Shadi - Altworth: A pawn shop for the internet. Marketplace, vault, and instant cash offers that turn collectibles into a liquid market.
Lamb - StreamMDT: A tool that helps NHS clinicians make cancer treatment decisions faster, clawing back some of the 1.2M hours a year lost to MDT admin.
Angel - Buena AI: An AI-native GTM system that reads market and buyer signals and turns them into rep-approved enterprise outreach.
Isaac - Praxeus: A factory brain that gives small manufacturers the scheduling, inventory, and ops tools to compete with the giants.
Joana - MeetSend: An AI agent that turns event booth conversations into same-day, personalised follow-ups, sent from the rep's own inbox.
Layne - Graby: An AI search engine for the secondary market that surfaces underpriced vintage and designer pieces before anyone else finds them.
Sam - Gaea Nexus: An aerospike rocket engine with efficiency and thermal advantages over conventional designs, backed by early simulations with Cranfield University.
Kiren - Valaya Bio: Using RNAi to target the master-regulator proteins behind Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and ALS. An attempt to reverse degenerative disease, not just slow it.
A massive shout out and thanks to our friends at the Solana Foundation for supporting this program.
Hope to see you there!