# Sylvain Carle

> Sylvain Carle is a seed investor at Real Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 30 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures)
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvaincarle
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/froginthevalley
- Website: https://www.secondmuse.com/capital/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sylvaincarle

Sylvain Carle is a seed investor at Real Ventures in Montréal focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. For over 30 years, Sylvain Carle has been dedicated to emerging technologies, combining curiosity, passion, intuition, and ambition. He has developed his expertise at the intersection of technology, innovation, investment, and people.Advocating collaboration for the common good, he has been active in various private and community organizations.He is a pragmatic socialist who believes in technology's potential as a progressive force.As an investor in innovation that transforms industries, sectors, and regions, he humbly aspires to a future where technology is sustainable, equitable, and humanized, contributing positively to society and the environment.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Sylvain Carle: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/sylvain-carle?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 23% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| Analytics | 4 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 13% |
| Big Data | 3 | 10% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Series A | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 16 | 53% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HumanFirst | HumanFirst provides core infrastructure to transform voice and text data into custom and accurate natural language understanding (NLU) datasets, at scale. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 | https://www.humanfirst.ai |
| My Intelligent Machines | Montreal-based My Intelligent Machines (MIMs) is a leader in artificial intelligence and systems biology. MIMs provides Biopharma companies with easy-to-implement and interactive augmented intelligence systems, allowing for accurate biological simulations at early drug development stages, to assist life scientists in the development of preciselytargeted and personalized therapies. | $5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2021 | http://www.mims.ai/ |
| Livescale | Livescale is a Live Shopping solution that empowers brands to create awareness, engagement and sales through a fully-customized and brand-owned experience. Founded by Virgile Ollivier in Montreal, Canada, Livescale is changing the way brands build community through its unique Live Shopping technology, allowing for immersive, engaging and seamlessshopping experiences to occur in-house for brands across industry. Unique in the global market for its integrated checkout, immersive client resources and outstanding customer service. | $2M | Seed | Mar 16, 2021 | http://www.livescale.tv |
| Omnirobotic | Omnirobotic is a developer of autonomous industrial robots used to address manpower shortages. Founded in 2016, Omnirobotic helps manufacturers of high mix products robotize their operations. Using 3D vision and AI, Omnirobotic creates autonomous industrial robots that see, plan, and execute tasks on never-seen-before products, without manualprogramming. Omnirobotic's USP is to transform any industrial robots into an autonomous robot suitable for "a lot of one" manufacturing. Omnirobotic's proprietary technology allows the use of robots in the High Mix, Low Volume manufacturing segment that is bigger than the actual $48B industrial robot system market.Omnirobotic received seed funding in late 2017 and installed its first autonomous robot in 2019. | $5M | Seed | Sep 24, 2020 | http://www.omnirobotic.com/ |
| Vention | Vention provides the world's only AI-powered full-stack automation platform, unifying hardware, software, motion control, cloud connectivity, and Physical AI. The platform enables manufacturers to design, simulate, order, deploy, and operate automation systems through a seamless digital experience. With more than 28,000 machines deployedworldwide, Vention serves manufacturers ranging from small and midsize businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises across the automotive, consumer goods, aerospace & defense, food & beverage, and electronics industries. Customers include OpenAI, L'Oréal, Denali, Pratt & Whitney, Hershey, Boeing, Amazon, and Collins Aerospace. | $28.1M | Series B | Jun 02, 2020 | https://www.vention.io |
| Unito | Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs. | $10.5M | Series A | Jan 21, 2020 | http://unito.io |
| My Intelligent Machines | Montreal-based My Intelligent Machines (MIMs) is a leader in artificial intelligence and systems biology. MIMs provides Biopharma companies with easy-to-implement and interactive augmented intelligence systems, allowing for accurate biological simulations at early drug development stages, to assist life scientists in the development of preciselytargeted and personalized therapies. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 05, 2019 | http://www.mims.ai/ |
| Livescale | Livescale is a Live Shopping solution that empowers brands to create awareness, engagement and sales through a fully-customized and brand-owned experience. Founded by Virgile Ollivier in Montreal, Canada, Livescale is changing the way brands build community through its unique Live Shopping technology, allowing for immersive, engaging and seamlessshopping experiences to occur in-house for brands across industry. Unique in the global market for its integrated checkout, immersive client resources and outstanding customer service. | $745.7K | Pre-Seed | Jun 17, 2019 | http://www.livescale.tv |
| LocketGo | Looking for a reliable and convenient solution for secure storage? Look no further than LocketGo, the premier smart locker company in North America. Our innovative lockers offer a variety of benefits that can help reduce operational costs, generate new revenue streams for your business, and improve your customer’s experience.Our smart lockers aredesigned with modern technology to provide secure, on-demand storage and contactless storage of items. With a fully customizable design, our lockers can be tailored to fit the unique identity of your company. We also offer fully integrated locker management software, making it easy to manage your lockers and bookings.At LocketGo, we believe in making things as easy as possible for our clients. That's why our booking platform is ready to go when the lockers are installed. And the best part is that there's no need for an additional app! with quick and easy access, users can open the lockers in under a minute. |  | Angel | May 02, 2019 | https://hellolocketgo.com/ |
| Vention | Vention provides the world's only AI-powered full-stack automation platform, unifying hardware, software, motion control, cloud connectivity, and Physical AI. The platform enables manufacturers to design, simulate, order, deploy, and operate automation systems through a seamless digital experience. With more than 28,000 machines deployedworldwide, Vention serves manufacturers ranging from small and midsize businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises across the automotive, consumer goods, aerospace & defense, food & beverage, and electronics industries. Customers include OpenAI, L'Oréal, Denali, Pratt & Whitney, Hershey, Boeing, Amazon, and Collins Aerospace. | $12.8M | Series A | Jan 15, 2019 | https://www.vention.io |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Anges Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-quebec) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Desjardins Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/desjardins-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AQC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-qu%C3%A9bec-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bolt](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bolt-io) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FounderFuel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founderfuel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Real Ventures

VC Fund · Montréal, Canada

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

5 contacts available at Real Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Stokes | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-stokes-2 |
| Sam Haffar | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ousama-haffar |
| Alan MacIntosh | Partner and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-macintosh |
| Craig Follett | Limited Partner (Investor) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-follett |
| Hamzah Nassif | Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hamzah-nassif |

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/artificial-intelligence-angel-investors-canada)

## FAQ

### What does Sylvain Carle invest in?

Sylvain Carle invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Sylvain Carle?

Public channels for Sylvain Carle include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### When did Sylvain Carle last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sylvain Carle closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co