Forward news and trends

Forward Raises $16 Million to Grow Payment Facilitation Platform
Investments // May 31, 2024

Forward plans to help more software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies add payments as a product after raising $16 million in seed financing. The company will use the new financing to meet the growing demand for this offering and to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the risk functions...

5 Trends These AI Experts Think Could Change Payments and Commerce
Artificial Intelligence // March 13, 2024

For businesses at the forefront of their industries, artificial intelligence (AI) has become unavoidable.  An unavoidable certainty, that is.  That’s why, for the past five months, PYMNTS has been sitting down with different AI experts, innovators and entrepreneurs each week to get their thoughts on the...

Healthcare’s iPhone Moment: Why Scaling AI-Powered Care Requires a Unified OS
Healthcare // December 08, 2023

From diagnostics to care delivery, artificial intelligence (AI) would appear to be tailor-made for healthcare. And in fact, it’s already had a substantial impact on the industry — just not the one we’d imagine, or hope for. “AI has been revolutionizing medicine over the last...

Healthcare Company Forward Begins Rollout of AI-Powered CarePod
artificial intelligence // November 15, 2023

Healthcare company Forward has launched CarePod, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered and self-serve unit designed to put individuals in control of their health. Each Forward CarePod combines advanced diagnostics, personalized health plans and a premium in-person experience, the company said in a press release. As soon...

Interviews & Exclusives
Healthcare’s iPhone Moment: Why Scaling AI-Powered Care Requires a Unified OS

December 08, 2023
From diagnostics to care delivery, artificial intelligence (AI) would appear to be tailor-made for healthcare. And in fact, it’s already had a substantial impact on the industry — just not the one we’d imagine, or hope for. “AI has been revolutionizing medicine over the last few decades. The problem is that it hasn’t been doing […]

ConnectedEconomy™ 2021: Forward Rethinks The Spirit And Intent Of Healthcare

April 26, 2021
There is perhaps no other sector in which the ConnectedEconomy™ can bring more benefits than in healthcare. The ability to integrate patient records across providers, simplifying payments, using biometrics and...

Transforming Healthcare From A ‘Service’ To A ‘Product’

April 20, 2020
Healthcare is top of mind as the coronavirus hits hard everywhere. The inefficiencies of the system itself are on full display during the pandemic — where testing is hard to...

Quick Reads
Cross River and Forward Team on Embedded Payments for SaaS Firms

September 24, 2024
Cross River Bank has formed a partnership with embedded payments company Forward. The collaboration is designed to use embedded payments to address payment challenges the companies say are stunting the growth of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. “We are proud to join forces with Forward to offer payouts-as-service, a solution that caters to the unique financial requirements of SaaS providers,” Adam […]

Forward Raises $16 Million to Grow Payment Facilitation Platform

May 31, 2024
Forward plans to help more software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies add payments as a product after raising $16 million in seed financing. The company will use the new financing to meet the...

Healthcare Company Forward Begins Rollout of AI-Powered CarePod

November 15, 2023
Healthcare company Forward has launched CarePod, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered and self-serve unit designed to put individuals in control of their health. Each Forward CarePod combines advanced diagnostics, personalized health...