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Variational AI

Variational AI is a health and biotech AI company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was covered in the Canadian AI Newsletter in October 2026.

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Founded: 2019
HQ: Vancouver, BC
Category: Health/Bio AI
Status: Active

Founders

Handol Kim, Co-founder/CEO.
Jason Rolfe, Co-founder.

Sources

Covered in Canadian AI Newsletter: CanadianAI: With Cohere’s C$7B, Canadian AI funding in 2026 is on pace to top the last three years combined
Covered in Canadian AI Newsletter: CanadianAI: Anthropic signs on for a $10B data centre in Cape Breton, and Tenstorrent raises US$1.5B

Data as of November 10, 2026.