Nicolas Gravel
Vice President, Venture Capital @ Desjardins Venture Capital
Montréal, Canada
Nicolas Gravel is a Series A investor at Desjardins Venture Capital in Montréal focused on MOOC and Education. Nicolas Gravel is the Vice President, Venture Capital at Desjardins. Nicolas Gravel attended HEC Montréal.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Nicolas Gravel invests in
Stages Nicolas Gravel invests in
Countries Nicolas Gravel invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- MOOC 1 (100%)
- Education 1 (100%)
- Machine Learning 1 (100%)
- Corporate Training 1 (100%)
- Information Technology 1 (100%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Korbit Technologies
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Korbit’s mission is to democratize education by providing a high-quality, interactive, and personalized education for students around the world at a low cost.Korbit Technologies is developing a real-time interactive and personalized intelligent tutor for learning data science and AI. The AI tutor adapts itself to the learner's needs andprovides real-time targeted pedagogical support (such as definitions, explanations, examples, illustrations, mind maps), which has been shown to make a big difference in learning outcomes and student motivation, and have been designed to scale to thousands of courses and millions of students. The Korbit team and its award-winning AI tutors have successfully delivered its AI and data science training program to nearly 20,000 learners worldwide. Recent research proved that Korbit’s learners benefited from a notable increase in learning outcomes and skill acquisition and boosted their learning motivation by studying with Korbit’s platform powered by AI. Thanks to the continuing support from Mila and other partners, Korbit has been recognized as one of the world’s top 100 AI startups (CB Insights) and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and C2 Montreal. | $11.3M / Series A / May 30, 2023 |
Co-Investors
About Desjardins Venture Capital
It manages the assets of Desjardins Venture Capital, a limited partnership, six Desjardins investment regional funds, as well as Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins, a public fund whose assets under management are projected toreach $1.425-billion over the next 10 years. Desjardins Venture Capital makes its network and expertise available to businesses.
Desjardins Venture Capital Contacts
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Nicolas Gravel
Vice President, Venture Capital
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Alphonse Desjardins
Founder
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André Dessureault
Vice-President Specialized Services - Investments
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Boris Collignon
VP Strategy, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships
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Caroline Poissant
Investment Director
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What does Nicolas Gravel invest in?
Nicolas Gravel invests primarily in MOOC, Education and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Nicolas Gravel last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nicolas Gravel closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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