Founders / Sébastien Laporte
Sébastien Laporte
Sébastien Laporte is the founder and CEO of Watch Out, an industrial and manufacturing AI company based in Montréal. Watch Out raised a C$100M venture round in December 2025 from LISI Group and EMTEK.
Sébastien Laporte is the founder and CEO of Watch Out, a Montréal-based company that builds autonomous, AI-driven micro-factories producing high-precision parts for the aerospace, defence and medical industries. The company describes Laporte as working in the field of machine tools. Laporte and a partner started an autonomous quality-control program that led to the launch of the Watch Out program in 2016. In 2025 Watch Out opened a research, development and assembly centre at the YMX Innovation Centre in Mirabel, Quebec.
Founder/CEO of Watch Out.
Watch Out
AI-native autonomous micro-factories for precision manufacturing.
- Role
- Founder/CEO
- HQ
- Montréal, QC
- Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- C$100M
- Latest round
- Venture round, Dec 5, 2025
Investors: LISI Group, EMTEK
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Data as of November 10, 2026.