Tomi Poutanen co-founded multiple cornerstone institutions in Canada's AI ecosystem including Layer 6 AI, the Vector Institute, and Radical Ventures, giving him a rare perspective as both a serial AI founder and fund co-founder shaping the national AI agenda. He actively builds and leads new AI companies while investing, currently serving as CEO and co-founder of health-AI startup Signal 1 alongside his role at Radical, so founders interact with him as both a capital provider and a current operator facing similar scaling and deployment challenges.
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Radical Ventures
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AI, Health, Biotech, Climate, Chips
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Radical Ventures was founded by the entrepreneurs behind Layer 6 AI and co-founded the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence alongside Geoffrey Hinton, who is also an investor in the fund, creating unusually deep roots in cutting-edge AI research compared to generalist VCs. The firm has raised some of the world's largest exclusively-AI early-stage funds (including a $650M fund) backed by major pension plans, and offers selected very-early-stage AI startups up to $250,000 in GPU compute credits through its dedicated compute cluster program.
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