Founders / Melvin Newman
Melvin Newman
Melvin Newman is the co-founder, president and CTO of PataBid, an industrial and manufacturing AI company based in Calgary. PataBid raised a C$2M pre-seed round in October 2026 led by Graphite Ventures. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered PataBid in October 2026.
Co-founder, President & CTO of PataBid.
PataBid
AI estimating software (Quantify) for mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors, with the Newton construction-trained LLM.
- Role
- Co-founder, President & CTO
- HQ
- Calgary, AB
- Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- C$2M
- Latest round
- Pre-seed, Oct 20, 2026
- Website
- patabid.com
Investors: Graphite Ventures, Sprout Fund II, Bluesky Equities, Inverted Ventures
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Data as of November 10, 2026.