Founders / Yoshua Bengio

LawZero

AI safety nonprofit (Yoshua Bengio); building Scientist AI, a non-agentic reasoning system.

Role

Founder

HQ

Montréal, QC

Founded

2025

Status

Active

Disclosed raised

C$150M

Latest round

Grant, Sep 16, 2026

Co-founders: Sam Ramadori

Investors: Government of Canada — Strategic Response Fund

Element AI

Enterprise AI products and applied research (historical).

Former role

Co-founder

HQ

Montréal, QC

Status

Acquired by ServiceNow

Co-founders: Jean-François Gagné, Anne Martel, Nicolas Chapados, Jean-Sébastien Cournoyer, Philippe Beaudoin

Investors: BDC Growth Venture Fund, Real Ventures

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Data as of September 29, 2026.