Chris Huskilson
Founding Partner and Fellow @ Creative Destruction Lab
Chris Huskilson is a seed investor at Creative Destruction Lab focused on Big Data and Internet. Mr. Chris Huskilson began his career with Nova Scotia Power in 1980. He was made chief operating officer of Emera and Nova Scotia Power in July 2003 and president and chief executive officer of Emera in 2004.Mr. Huskilson is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia. He is chair of the Canadian ElectricityAssociation, and serves on many for-profit and non-profit boards of directors. He is past-chair of the Greater Halifax Partnership and past-chair of the Energy Council of Canada.Mr. Husklison holds a bachelor of science in engineering and a master of science in engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris Huskilson invests in
Stages Chris Huskilson invests in
Countries Chris Huskilson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Big Data 1 (33%)
- Internet 1 (33%)
- Analytics 1 (33%)
- Smart Home 1 (33%)
- Data Mining 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Angel 1 (33%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
Country
- Canada 1 (33%)
- Ireland 1 (33%)
Investments
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XOCEAN
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XOCEAN provides comprehensive ocean data solutions through uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), specializing in seabed mapping and environmental monitoring. The company offers a turnkey service that includes data acquisition, processing, and interpretation, ensuring high-quality results for clients in the offshore industry. | $9.3M / Series A / Sep 29, 2021 | |
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XOCEAN
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XOCEAN provides comprehensive ocean data solutions through uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), specializing in seabed mapping and environmental monitoring. The company offers a turnkey service that includes data acquisition, processing, and interpretation, ensuring high-quality results for clients in the offshore industry. | $549K / Angel / Jun 17, 2019 | |
Mysa
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Mysa is the first ever high-voltage thermostat that is truly smart. It is fully featured for the conscientious consumer: smart learning features which amount to approximately 15% savings on energy bills, remote access to control their home’s heating through their smartphone from anywhere in the world, and integration with popular smart homeplatforms (Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Homekit) | $2M / Seed / Dec 05, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Creative Destruction Lab
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 byProfessor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.
Creative Destruction Lab Contacts
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Anthony K. Tjan
Fellow
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Daniel Mulet Lind
Associate Director, Quantum Machine Learning
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Dennis Bennie
Founding Partner and Associate
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Dennis Kavelman
Founding Partner and Associate
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Frank Sobey
Founding Partner
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What does Chris Huskilson invest in?
Chris Huskilson invests primarily in Big Data, Internet and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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