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Rob Hayes

Rob Hayes is a co-founder of Merchkit, an enterprise SaaS AI company based in Vancouver. Rob Hayes co-founded Merchkit with Bijan Vaez. Merchkit raised a C$2M pre-seed round in February 2025 led by Afore Capital and Antler Canada.

Co-founder of Merchkit.

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Merchkit

AI product catalogue platform that cleans product data, generates content and publishes to marketplaces and AI shopping agents.

Role
Co-founder
HQ
Vancouver, BC
Founded
2022
Status
Active
Disclosed raised
C$2M
Latest round
Pre-seed, Feb 27, 2025
Website
merchkit.com

Co-founders: Bijan Vaez

Investors: Afore Capital, Antler Canada

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Data as of November 10, 2026.

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