Forward Inc.

Forward Inc. builds Hamming, the category-leading platform for voice agent quality assurance. Founded by Sumanyu Sharma, former Head of Data at Citizen and Senior Staff Data Scientist at Tesla where he grew AI-powered sales programs to hundreds of millions in revenue. The company raised $3.8M in seed funding led by Mischief and is backed by Y Combinator (S24), AI Grant, and Coalition. Hamming is SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant, serving banks, healthtech companies, and high-growth startups.