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Founders / Nathaniel Simard

Nathaniel Simard

Co-founder/CEO of Tracel AI.

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Tracel AI

Open-source AI infrastructure: the Burn deep learning framework in Rust and the CubeCL compute language for portable, efficient training and inference.

Role
Co-founder/CEO
HQ
Québec City, QC
Founded
2023
Status
Active
Disclosed raised
US$3M
Latest round
Seed, Aug 12, 2025

Co-founders: Louis Fortier-Dubois

Investors: Golden Ventures, OSS Capital

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Data as of September 29, 2026.

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