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Founders / Ali Asaria

Ali Asaria

Ali Asaria is the founder of Transformer Lab, a developer tools and AI agents company based in Kitchener-Waterloo. Transformer Lab raised a pre-seed round in 2024 from Hawktail, Ripple Ventures and Garage Capital. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Transformer Lab in September 2026.

Founder of Transformer Lab.

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Transformer Lab

Autonomous research agents (Primus).

Role
Founder
HQ
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
Founded
2024
Status
Active
Latest round
Pre-seed, 2024
Website
transformerlab.ai

Co-founders: Tony Salomone

Investors: Hawktail, Ripple Ventures, Garage Capital

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