Founders / Rob Imbeault
Rob Imbeault
Rob Imbeault is the co-founder and CEO of Backboard.io, a developer tools and AI agents company based in Ottawa. Rob Imbeault co-founded Backboard.io with Jonathan Murray. Backboard.io raised a pre-seed round in January 2026 led by Mistral Venture Partners and N49P. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Backboard.io in February 2026.
Co-founder/CEO of Backboard.io.
Backboard.io
AI memory layer; tops LongMemEval/LoCoMo benchmarks.
- Role
- Co-founder/CEO
- HQ
- Ottawa, ON
- Founded
- 2025
- Status
- Active
- Latest round
- Pre-seed, Jan 6, 2026
- Website
- backboard.io
Co-founders: Jonathan Murray
Investors: Mistral Venture Partners, N49P, Garage Capital, Developer Capital
In the newsletter
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Data as of November 10, 2026.