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Richard Schlegel

Richard Schlegel is a former co-founder of Reliant AI, a health and biotech AI company based in Montréal. Richard Schlegel co-founded Reliant AI with Karl Moritz Hermann and Marc G. Bellemare. Reliant AI raised a US$11.3M seed round in August 2024 led by Inovia Capital and Tola Capital. Reliant AI was acquired by Cohere in May 2026.

Formerly Co-founder of Reliant AI.

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Reliant AI

Agentic AI research workbench for biopharma.

Former role
Co-founder
HQ
Montréal, QC
Founded
2023
Status
Acquired by Cohere
Disclosed raised
US$11.3M
Latest round
Seed, Aug 20, 2024
Website
reliant.ai

Co-founders: Karl Moritz Hermann, Marc G. Bellemare

Investors: Inovia Capital, Tola Capital, Mike Volpi

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Data as of November 10, 2026.

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