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Richard Tessier

Richard Tessier is a co-founder of Coveo, an enterprise SaaS AI company based in Québec City. Richard Tessier co-founded Coveo with Laurent Simoneau and Marc Sanfaçon. Coveo received a C$15.2M grant in September 2024 from Government of Canada — Strategic Innovation Fund. Coveo is listed on the TSX as CVO. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Coveo in November 2026.

Co-founder of Coveo.

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Coveo

Enterprise AI relevance platform for search, recommendations and generative answering.

Role
Co-founder
HQ
Québec City, QC
Founded
2005
Status
Public
Disclosed raised
C$15.2M
Latest round
Grant, Sep 12, 2024
Website
coveo.com

Co-founders: Laurent Simoneau, Marc Sanfaçon

Investors: Government of Canada — Strategic Innovation Fund, BDC Diversified Portfolio

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