Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025
Investor | Machine Learning Canada investments |
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Jaclyn Johnson | 4 |
Tom Williams | 4 |
Daniel Debow | 3 |
William Tunstall-Pedoe | 2 |
Tobias Lütke | 2 |
Satish Kanwar | 2 |
Greg Osuri | 2 |
Jean-François Grenon | 2 |
Jonathan Ehrlich | 2 |
Omar Shakeeb | 2 |
Julian Koh | 2 |
Julian Koh | 2 |
Dennis Bennie | 2 |
Marc Morin | 2 |
Blaine LaBonte | 2 |
Jordan Banks | 2 |
Richard Dai | 2 |
Tobias | 2 |
Harley Finkelstein | 2 |
Sanders Lee | 2 |
Ashif Mawji | 2 |
Lance Priebe | 2 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 2 |
Santiago R Santos | 2 |
Hugo Larochelle | 1 |
Troy Michelson | 1 |
Murray Knebel | 1 |
Neil Vora | 1 |
Marc Baghadjian | 1 |
John MacPherson | 1 |
Guillaume Glaunès | 1 |
Jody Schnarr | 1 |
Zoey McKenzie | 1 |
Chris Rowen | 1 |
Nasir Jones | 1 |
Kulveer Taggar | 1 |
Ethan Song | 1 |
Anatol Von Hahn | 1 |
Marc G. Bellemare | 1 |
Milad Alucozai | 1 |
Lance Tracey | 1 |
Howard Stotland | 1 |
Jeffery Lawrence | 1 |
Will Elsaghir | 1 |
Benjie Cherniak | 1 |
Curtis Gavura | 1 |
Basil Bouraropoulos | 1 |
Daniel Robichaud | 1 |
Paul Graham | 1 |
Kim Kaplan | 1 |
Jaclyn Johnson created her career. A powerhouse entrepreneur, by the time she was 28, Johnson had sold her first business, (No Subject)and launched her second multimillion dollar company, Create and Cultivate. Johnson recognized a gap in conversations, resources, events and community for female millennial entrepreneurs and responded with asolution, Create and Cultivate, the wildly popular media platform and nationwide conference. In the process, Jaclyn’s own work-life philosophy, built on the cornerstones of female empowerment, hustling-hard and innovation have propelled her voice to the forefront of the discussion on workplace equality, a new thought-leader for millennial women and Gen-Z-ers on the career come up. A graduate of NYU, Johnson’s trajectory has been skyrocketing since she founded (No Subject) in 2010. With the launch of Create and Cultivate in 2012, she gained global visibility. Six years later, Create and Cultivate is bigger than ever, with hundreds of thousands of followers and attendees, and over 75 events to date. The conference has landed major cities around the country and boasts sponsors that include top Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, LinkedIn, QuickBooks and Microsoft to the buzziest brand names like Laura Mercier, LaCroix, Clinique, Chandon, Urban Outfitters and more. Past speakers and panelist include the biggest celebs and CEO’s like Kim Kardashian West, Chelsea Handler, Jessica Alba, Chrissy Teigen, Gloria Steinem, Issa Rae, Nicole Richie and more front-runners in fashion, technology, design and business. Named a Forbes 30 Under 30, an Adweek Disruptor and profiled in Fast Company, the LA Times, Entrepreneur and more, Johnson has earned her way to the frontlines of a workplace revolution at a time when change-agents and disruptors are flexing real influence.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Beauty, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
- Ronati — Simple technology for dealers and resellers of antique, vintage and unique items.
- Ceremonia — Ceremonia is a new modern haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. It celebrates the richness of Latinx culture, serving the next-gen. Ceremonia brand will be launched this fall.
Tom Williams
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Daniel Debow is the Chair of the Board of Build Canada. He attended the Stanford Law School.Daniel is the Vice President of Product (Demand) at Shopify. He previously worked as an SVP at Salesforce.com, where he drives marketing for Salesforce Work.com, a sales performance management solution that helps Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and otherinnovative companies align, motivate, and drive the performance of their sales teams. Prior to joining Salesforce, Daniel was co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, a social performance management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which provided workforce management solutions to Wal-Mart, Citibank, and other large enterprises. Workbrain grew to $100 million in annual revenues before being acquired by Infor in 2007.A sought after speaker on how social media is changing the workplace, Daniel is a contributor to Fortune.com and the Huffington Post. He’s been widely quoted in Wired, the Financial Times, the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek. Daniel holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLM in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Spatial — Experience virtual NFT art exhibitions, meetups, and live events together with lifelike avatars. Customize beautiful 3D spaces. Join now from Web, Mobile, & VR.
- Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.
William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
- Unlikely AI — Controllable, auditable and hallucination-free AI solutions.
Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008.
Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
- Sundial — Stop writing pipelines and complex SQL. Go from raw data to entities, metrics, visualizations and answers in just a few clicks
- Polar — Payment infrastructure for the 21st century
Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Greg Osuri - Founder & CEO @ Overclock Labs
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Web3, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Passage — Passage is a platform designed to revolutionize the 3D web by transforming static pages into immersive, interactive places.
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Computer
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
- IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
- Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.
Jonathan Ehrlich is the Founding Partner of Roar Ventures. He previously worked at Bulletin as a Board Member. Jonathan Ehrlich attended Ivey Business School at Western University.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- Properly — Properly is your hassle-free partner to buy and sell homes in Canada.
- Luxury Presence — Luxury Presence helps realtors thrive online with beautiful, award winning real estate agent websites and marketing. Trusted by 20+ of the WSJ Top 100 agents.
Omar Shakeeb is the co-founder of Second_Lane.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Julian Koh is based out of Singapore and is the Co-Founder of Ribbon Finance. Julian previously worked at Coinbase as a Software Engineer. Julian Koh attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
- 3Jane Protocol — 3Jane Protocol is a credit-based money market that permits unsecured credit lines underwritten against verifiable evidence.
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Julian Koh is based out of Singapore and is the Co-Founder of Ribbon Finance. Julian previously worked at Coinbase as a Software Engineer. Julian Koh attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
- 3Jane Protocol — 3Jane Protocol is a credit-based money market that permits unsecured credit lines underwritten against verifiable evidence.
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Dennis Bennie is a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator in the Canadian technology industry. Over the past 20 years, Bennie's entrepreneurial management has powered Mission Electronics, Ingram Canada and Delrina. In 1997, he founded the XDL Venture Capital Fund, focusing on information technology opportunities. The $25 million fund hasyielded exceptional returns to date. One of its most noteworthy investments was a 1997 start-up, Delano Technology Corporation (NASD:DTEC). XDL Intervest, a $150 million fund was started in 1999 and is now fully invested. Bennie currently manages an experienced team investing in private equity opportunities as the XDL Capital Group. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Bennie was CEO of Delrina Corporation, an independent software developer and publisher, which forged the new software categories of electronic forms and PC fax communications. Under Mr. Bennie's leadership, Delrina pioneered the development of PC fax software called WinFax and became a world leader in the communication software market with annual sales revenue exceeding $130 million. Listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Delrina cultivated a reputation for leadership, growth and profitability, and completed several public offerings. In November 1995, the company was successfully sold to Symantec Corporation for share consideration valued at $560 million. Mr. Bennie entered the world of technology in 1979, when he co-founded Mission Electronics. He drove the expansion of this leading British audio equipment manufacturer to become a dominant force in the high-end stereo market. In 1982 he sold his interest in Mission Electronics and founded Aviva Software, an independent, mass-market software developer. Under his direction, the company expanded its scope to include software distribution and merged with Ingram Micro Inc. in 1986 to become Canada's largest software distributor. Residing in Toronto, Canada, with his wife Laura and three daughters, Dennis is an avid golfer and runner. A member of the World President's Organization, he also regularly serves on various charitable boards including the Toronto Hospital Board.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- Tread — Tread's construction fleet management software makes the business of moving construction materials easier and more profitable. Request a demo today!
- Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.
Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy.
Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
- Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.
Blaine LaBonte
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Big Data, Lighting
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- G2V Optics — G2V Optics is an LED solar simulator manufacturer building advanced products for scientific testing - early-stage, research & development, production, or certification.
- HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
- INGU — Currently, inline inspection in the oil and gas sector is a series of staged engineering events, designed to assess the condition of pipeline assets. It is costly, infrequent, and only addresses those lines that are within reach. In fact, it is estimated that 40% of the world’s pipelines are unpiggable. The vulnerabilities between inspections,which are typically years apart, or the inability to conduct inspections at all, puts the world’s aging pipeline infrastructure at risk. In order to address these issues, we have focused on changing the economics, the technology, and the workflow associated with inline inspection. We have introduced the industry’s first self-serve inspection model that eliminates significant engineering and downtime costs. We have developed miniature, multi sensor Pipers® technology that freely flows within any and all active pipelines, regardless of location, condition, material or configuration. This technology is capable of inspecting pipelines as small as 2 inches in diameter, and surveying for leaks, geometric defects, magnetic anomalies, and deposits in a single run. Further, we have reduced the cost of inline inspection by a factor of 10, making it possible for integrity programs to be more present, more often, across all of their assets. Finally, such accessible technology has given us the opportunity to work with a complete range of clients – large and small, private and public – resulting in rich datasets libraries that offer unprecedented contextual analysis and continuous advancement of our data analytics capabilities. Our approach provides clients with uninterrupted access to up-to-date condition-critical data, allowing them to optimize planning, decision-making, and actions.
Jordan Banks is the Co-Founder at Thunder Road Capital. Jordan Banks attended York University - Osgoode Hall Law School.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- More Labs — smart supplements for people who want more out of life
- Integrate.ai — Integrate.ai enables your federated machine learning and analytics roadmap. Valuable data is becoming harder to access. Grow your business by building new product features that harness the collective intelligence of your customers' data.
- Peloton Innovations — Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector.
Richard Dai
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Web3, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Tobias
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
- Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
Sanders Lee is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Hope Well. He previously worked in Groundbreak Ventures as a Founder and Partner. Sanders Lee attended the University of Augsburg.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ZayZoon — ZayZoon is a pioneer in earned wage access (EWA) with our flagship product Wages On-Demand. Employees can access part of their payday in advance.
- HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
Ashif Mawji is the Venture Partner at Rising Tide. He attended NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology).
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Investment focus
- Grocery, Big Data, Lighting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- G2V Optics — G2V Optics is an LED solar simulator manufacturer building advanced products for scientific testing - early-stage, research & development, production, or certification.
- HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Lance Priebe
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Investment focus
- eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
- PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
- Nurture — Fun, science-backed learning games that build future-proof life skills like critical thinking, money smarts, healthy habits, and more. Free for now!
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
Santiago R Santos is the Founder of Mona.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
- FortyTwo — Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that employs swarm intelligence by linking consumer devices to execute small AI models. It provides a scalable and cost-efficient alternative to centralized AI systems, enabling users to contribute computing resources while ensuring data privacy. Fortytwo's goal is to create a reasoning engine thatoperates on a planetary scale and is driven by the community.
- Mighty Bear Games — GOAT Gaming, Play Games, Win Prizes. Welcome to the best gaming community in the world. Join us now and be part of the GOAT family.
Hugo Larochelle is Research Scientist at Google and Assistant Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS).
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Ubenwa Health — Ubenwa is a medtech company using AI to analyze infant cries, turning devices with microphones into life-saving tools for early health detection. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.
Troy Michelson
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Investment focus
- Dental, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
Murray Knebel
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Investment focus
- Dental, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
Neil Vora
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Investment focus
- Dental, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
Marc Baghadjian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lolly. Marc Baghadjian attended Babson College. He has invested in many seed-stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- WOMBO — WOMBO is the world's best AI-powered lip sync app. Take a selfie, pick a song, and let WOMBO work its magic. Available for early access.
- Kadama — 24/7 homework help. Find someone to help write your essay. Subjects like math, science, english, history, and more. Earn money by tutoring on your schedule.
- Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
John MacPherson
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Investment focus
- Dental, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Voyage — The flexible and delightful SMS marketing and message commerce platform. 30X ROAS, 30%+ CTR, and 2-5X relative list growth. Get a demo today.
- Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
- Rain AI — We build artificial intelligence processors, inspired by the brain. Our mission is to enable brain-scale intelligence.
Jody Schnarr is the Chairman and Executive Officer of Fibernetics CLEC. Jody Schnarr attended the University of Toronto.
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Software, Computer Vision
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mirsee Robotics — Mirsee Robotics provides CNC machining, injection molding, die casting, laser cutting, and 3D printing. They serve the academic, aerospace, government, commercial, healthcare, and defense industries.
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Emerging VC
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Investment focus
- Legal Tech, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.
Chris Rowen is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at BabbleLabs.
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- Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive, Robotics
- Seed
- Canada, United States
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
- Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
- Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
Kulveer Taggar is an angel investor and former CEO of Zeus. He holds a master's degree from the University of Oxford.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Sorcerer — Sorcerer builds weather balloons that fly for over six months, collecting 1000x more data per dollar and reaching previously inaccessible regions
- Cekura AI — Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents.
- ZeroEntropy — ZeroEntropy provides a sophisticated search API tailored for the analysis and retrieval of unstructured data.
Ethan Song has lived and worked around the world, with major stints in Shanghai, Paris and Vancouver. His independent travels and his background in theatre and engineering inspired him to merge art with science and technology, and ultimately, to co-found Frank & Oak. As the company’s CEO, Ethan oversees product design and development and thecustomer shopping experience.
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- Legal Tech, Organic Food, Web Development
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
- Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel
- Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.
Anatol Von Hahn - Advisor @ Peotic
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- FinTech, Privacy, Analytics
- Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MindBridge — We help financial professionals access better ways of working by identifying, surfacing, and analyzing risk across broad financial datasets.
- Peotic — Peotic's Personal Data Platform enables richer consumer profiles for insights, marketing, and measurement while giving data control to consumers.
Marc G. Bellemare is the Co-Founder and CSO of Reliant AI. He previously worked at Google as a Research Scientist. Marc G. Bellemare attended the University of Alberta.
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- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Ubenwa Health — Ubenwa is a medtech company using AI to analyze infant cries, turning devices with microphones into life-saving tools for early health detection. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.
Dr. Milad Alucozai specializes in translating scientific and technological breakthroughs into scalable commercial ventures. As an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and global investor, he leverages his expertise in bioengineering, computational biology, and machine learning to identify promising innovations and develop strategies fortheir successful market entry and growth. He focuses on accelerating the process of bringing groundbreaking discoveries from the lab to market, particularly in the life sciences and computationally-driven fields.Dr. Alucozai is a co-founder of Revalia Bio, which aims to create a human-centric infrastructure for drug discovery and development. By utilizing non-transplantable human organs donated for research, Revalia provides the scientific community unparalleled insights into patient biology, ultimately aiding in the development of better treatments and cures. In 2024, he partnered with The Wyss Institute at Harvard University to launch and co-host the popular "Code to Cure" series, exploring the convergence of AI, biology, and healthcare. He also contributes his expertise as a Senior Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center.His background includes leading 70 early-stage investments as Head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, establishing the firm as a key player in North America's VC landscape. He also served as a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a globally recognized talent investor backed by notable figures like Patrick and John Collison of Stripe and Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, with a portfolio exceeding $10 billion in value. He mentors entrepreneurs across North America and Europe through channels like the Creative Destruction Lab.Throughout his operating and investing career, he has been instrumental in helping founders secure hundreds of millions in capital and facilitating over $1 billion in startup-pharma partnerships. Often serving as the first investor, he guides companies from concept to successful exit and shapes business development for high-growth, venture-backed startups. His advisory work also extends to established corporations; at Accenture, he led teams advising top pharmaceutical companies on their R&D, innovation, and business development strategies. In 2020, he formally served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca.He was a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Neuroscience degree from Purdue University’s Honors Program, earned a master’s in Immunology and Public Health as a George J. Mitchell Scholar, and holds a doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Additionally, he completed a visiting scholarship at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
- Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.
Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack
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- Internet, Software, Communities
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
- SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
- Quantified Citizen — Join groundbreaking studies, receive rich health insights and make an impact on global health and science. Download Quantified Citizen today!
Howard Stotland - President @ Otimo Retail
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- Mobile, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Canada
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- Wirkn — Hyperlocal recruiting for retail, restaurants & hospitality.
Jeffery Lawrence
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- Dental, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
Will Elsaghir
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- Dental, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.
Benjie Cherniak
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- Sports, Gaming, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Australia
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- Future Anthem — Future Anthem's all-in-one product, Amplifier AI, is built to personalise the player experience for everyone.
- Ultimate Odds — Ultimate Odds is a next generation gaming product that combines sports betting and fantasy into one highly engaging experience. Ultimate Odds is at the forefront of the US sports gaming industry with a modern product that educates new bettors and creates a competitive space for sports fans.
- Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.
Curtis Gavura is the president and co-founder at Stradigi AI
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- SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Canada
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- Stradigi AI — Stradigi AI is an Artificial Intelligence SaaS company that accelerates time-to-value for data-driven decisions across all business functions. The Kepler AI business platform puts AI capability within reach of business users for game-changing, measurable insights. Any company with data can access automated machine learning workflows to create aproject lifecycle that speeds and scales AI deployment.
Basil Bouraropoulos is the Chief Executive Officer at Stradigi AI.
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- SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Canada
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- Stradigi AI — Stradigi AI is an Artificial Intelligence SaaS company that accelerates time-to-value for data-driven decisions across all business functions. The Kepler AI business platform puts AI capability within reach of business users for game-changing, measurable insights. Any company with data can access automated machine learning workflows to create aproject lifecycle that speeds and scales AI deployment.
Daniel Robichaud is often described as one of Montreal’s better known serial entrepreneurs. Leveraging more than 12 years of experience in online strategy, mobile development and business start-ups, Daniel is a recognized leader in the investment and technology industries locally, a Limited Partner in two funds as well as a member of AngelInvestors Groups.After selling his first company in 2006 to a Global Fortune 500© firm, Daniel started five other successful businesses who’ve all been sold since. Among them, Streamtheworld.com, sold to a California group, Mobilito, sold to the biggest ad agency in Canada and Radioactif, an ISP that merged with an established cable company.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Nesto — LOW FROM THE GET GO. With nesto's exclusive mortgage solution, score the lowest rate on your first try! New mortgage - Mortgage Renewal / Refinance.
- Retinad — Analytics platform made for 360VR media. Drag & drop plugin integration across all major VR headsets.
- XeoHive Technology — XeoHive Technology is a Canadian-based startup that provides a comprehensive set of AI-powered investment tools for the digital assets market.
Paul Graham
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Egypt, Canada
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- Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
- Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
- Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
Kimberly Kaplan currently works as Chief Executive Officer and the Founder of the Snack App.
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- FinTech, Insurance, Machine Learning
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
- Apollo Insurance — Insurance doesn't have to be difficult. APOLLO Insurance is a friend of Canadian small businesses, here to help you get through your day.
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