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HOOKMOTION
CLASS OF 2020
Co-founded by Dominic Morin-Proulx, Samy Zarour & Matthieu Clas; Next AI - Montreal
HookMotion automates fraud and error detection for casinos.
Using computer vision and existing security cameras, they can
track table games and make casinos safer and more equitable.
PRIVATE AI
Co-founded by Pieter Luitjens & Patricia Thaine; Next AI - Toronto
There is no easy way for organizations to integrate privacy
into their software to gain customer trust and comply with
the GDPR and other data protection regulations. Private
AI simplifies privacy regulation compliance through on-device text, image, and video anonymization. Making it easy
to maintain customer trust through seamless private data
storage and cloud processing.
CEO Patricia (right) is a Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of
Toronto and is a recipient of the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, the RBC
Graduate Fellowship, the Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley Graduate Scholarship in
Computer Science, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. CTO Pieter (left) has
a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics and a Bachelor of Engineering
from the University of Western Australia, as well as a Masters from the University
of Toronto. He has over 10 years of engineering experience, with code deployed
in multi-billion-dollar industrial projects.
WHY ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
Patricia: For the same reason that I became a computer scientist: I love problem-solving
and building. Pieter: To work on the cutting edge of technology and solve real problems.
IN FIVE YEARS... Our goal is to create
the go-to product suite for easy privacy compliance.
PATRICIA THAINE
EY WOMEN IN TECH AWARD
PATRICIA THAINE
SATCHU PRIZE
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COO Dominic (right) has an electrical engineering and computer vision background.
CEO Matthieu (left) holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering at ÉTS was previously
an inventor and project manager in product development in the toy field. CTO Samy
(center) studied Computer Science at McGill
University with a focus on Machine Learning
and has worked at IBM's prestigious Watson
Machine Learning Core team.
WE ARE: Resilient
IN FIVE YEARS... Our goal is to make
every camera smart. We’ll be tackling
new markets and new challenges
to make that mission a reality.
SUMMATTI
Co-founded by Rashmi Bhambhani & Sid Bhambhani; Next AI - Toronto
Summatti, a B2B AI-powered platform, analyzes 100% of customer interactions and gives you unique consumer insights
while saving time and money.
COO Rahsmi (right) brings 12+ years of experience in developing sales funnels, marketing strategies and running
business development. CEO Sid (left) brings over 15
years of experience in Customer Support, building telemetry, self-diagnostics tools and managing globally
distributed enterprise technical support teams.
IN FIVE YEARS... We see Summatti as the standard measure for service organizations to measure
their customer experience; the successor to NPS
and CSAT scores that do not take into account the
meaningful conversations customers are having on
a daily basis.
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