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Nathaniel Simard

Nathaniel Simard is the co-founder and CEO of Tracel AI, an AI infrastructure and compute company based in Québec City. Nathaniel Simard co-founded Tracel AI with Louis Fortier-Dubois. Tracel AI raised a US$3M seed round in August 2025 led by Golden Ventures and OSS Capital.

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
Website
tracel.ai

Co-founders: Louis Fortier-Dubois

Investors: Golden Ventures, OSS Capital

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Data as of November 10, 2026.

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