Founders / Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is the founder of LawZero, a foundation model company based in Montréal. Yoshua Bengio is also a former co-founder of Element AI. LawZero received a C$150M grant in September 2026 from Government of Canada — Strategic Response Fund. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered LawZero in October 2026.
Founder of LawZero. Formerly Co-founder of Element AI.
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
- Website
- lawzero.org/en
Co-founders: Sam Ramadori
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
In the newsletter
- CanadianAI: Canada wants in on Europe’s AI contracts, and Carney picks his AI advisersOct 6, 2026
- CanadianAI: $300M for Bengio’s LawZero and Canada’s largest venture fund everSep 22, 2026
- CanadianAI: $50B AI data centre in Saskatchewan and five AI startups raiseSep 15, 2026
- Canadian AI: Taalas and LawZero raising $100M+ eachFeb 24, 2026
- Canadian AI: Apple Goes Shopping in WaterlooFeb 16, 2026
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Data as of November 10, 2026.