Founders / George DiNardo
George DiNardo
George DiNardo is the founder and president of Larus Technologies, a defence and security AI company based in Ottawa. Larus Technologies had raised C$2.3M across 2 rounds as of November 2026, most recently a C$800K grant in October 2026 from Government of Canada (NRC IRAP). The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Larus Technologies in October 2026.
Founder/President of Larus Technologies.
Larus Technologies
Defence AI ($8.3M IDEaS contract).
- Role
- Founder/President
- HQ
- Ottawa, ON
- Founded
- 1995
- Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- C$2.3M
- Latest round
- Grant, Oct 14, 2026
- Website
- larus.com
Investors: Government of Canada (NRC IRAP), FedDev Ontario
In the newsletter
- CanadianAI: Anthropic signs on for a $10B data centre in Cape Breton, and Tenstorrent raises US$1.5BOct 20, 2026
- Canadian AI: Defence AI has a moment, and 93% of companies are using AI but only 2% can prove it's working.Apr 7, 2026
- Canadian AI: Cohere's opensource voice model tops the leaderboard, and governments open the chequebookMar 31, 2026
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Data as of November 10, 2026.