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News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition

News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition

By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2020

Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI.  Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 2020, acquisition, acquisitions, AI, ambient experience, ambient experiences, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, business graph, CDO, CEO, Chief AI Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CTO, Customer Experience, digital, Digital acceleration, Digital Business, Digital Transformation, disruptive business models, Dr. Yoshua Bengio, dynamic feedback loops, Element AI, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, event driven architectures, events, Jean-François Gagné, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microservices, Montreal, News Analysis, personalization at scale, precision decisions, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, servicenow, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

If you want to change the ecosystem you need to build an amazing startup

If you want to change the ecosystem you need to build an amazing startup

By Jevon MacDonald on February 21, 2012

At Founders and Funders this week we took some time to interview Dan Debow. It was a bit of a love-in I admit but that is just because I really love how much passion Dan has for helping those around him. He has made a big difference in a lot of people’s lives. I’ve benefitted […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ecosystem, Montreal, Startup company, startups, Toronto

Coradiant acquired by BMC software

Coradiant acquired by BMC software

By Jevon MacDonald on April 28, 2011

On the heels of yesterday’s acquisition of Tungle, BMC Software has announced today that they have acquired Montreal’s Coradiant, which was co-founded by Year One Labs partner Alistair Croll. We are happy that Montreal has managed to win something in the last few days. The price is currently undisclosed, but the back of the napkin calculation tells […]

Posted in Business | Tagged BMC, Canada, Coradiant, Entrepreneurship, Exits, Montreal, Quebec, startups

Startup Festival coming to Montreal – Why it’s important

Startup Festival coming to Montreal – Why it’s important

By Jevon MacDonald on March 31, 2011

I know that David just posted about the upcoming Startup Festival, but I thought I would add my own thoughts: I have definitely been getting the feeling that the whole “startup conference” format is getting a little stale. The same formats in the same cities with most of the same speakers. The real benefit of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, conferences, Entrepreneurship, events, Montreal, Quebec, StartupNorth, startups

Year One Labs — The Perfect “Incubator”?

Year One Labs — The Perfect “Incubator”?

By Jevon MacDonald on March 30, 2011

I abhor the term “incubator”. I remember in fifth grade when our teacher brought in a chicken incubator to show us how chickens are born. We waited and waited and waited a while longer still. All the little Chickens were dead, it turned out. We weren’t quite sure why but most of us thought that […]

Posted in Business | Tagged angel investors, Canada, Entrepreneurship, incubator, Montreal, Quebec, startups

NextMontreal.com launches – “news and opinion on technology and startups”

NextMontreal.com launches – “news and opinion on technology and startups”

By Jevon MacDonald on August 17, 2010

NextMontreal.com is going live today. It is the result of a push by Ben Yoskovitz to create a new source of information for the Montreal community after MontrealTechWatch went dormant over a year ago. Why now? When first thinking about this project, Ben wrote: When the site was active it provided a great deal of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, comunty siite, entrepreneuship, Montreal, MontrealTechWatch, news, Online Community, Quebec, startups

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