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Shane Barakat

Shane Barakat is a co-founder of Polarity, a developer tools and AI agents company based in Kitchener-Waterloo. Shane Barakat co-founded Polarity with Alexandru Ungureanu and Mihai Posea. Polarity was covered in the Canadian AI Newsletter in September 2026. Polarity was acquired by Wander in September 2026.

Co-founder of Polarity.

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Polarity

Applied AI research lab; post-trained small models and agentic code search/review (Paragon, Omnigrep).

Role
Co-founder
HQ
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
Founded
2025
Status
Acquired by Wander
Website
polarity.so

Co-founders: Alexandru Ungureanu, Mihai Posea

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