BetaKit Most Ambitious
Meet the Canadians making a mark outside of Canada.
Chris Olah,
Co-founder of Anthropic
After stints with Google Brain and Open AI, his company decodes how AI models actually think.
Aaron Rodericks,
Head of Trust and Safety at BlueSky
Laying down the guardrails for a new type of social media, where users, not algorithms, shape the experience.
Karine Mellata,
CEO of Variance
Arming digital platforms with tools that detect threats and make the Internet safer by design.
Angela Strange,
General Partner at a16z
At the firm with the most assets under management, she believes every company will be a FinTech company.
Ilya Sutskever,
Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence
At OpenAI, he helped kick off the AI arms race. Now, he’s trying to fight it responsibly.
Chris Best,
CEO of Substack
Letting writers own their audience and make money in a world of algorithmic media.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy,
CEO of Xero
The newest co-owner of the Toronto Tempo and former Google exec is building the world’s most trusted financial platform for small business.
Michelle Zatlyn,
Co-founder of Cloudflare
Scaled a Harvard Business School project into a public company, enhancing the security and performance of websites worldwide.
David Baszucki,
CEO of Roblox
Shaping youth culture through the shared joy of creation, with more than 80 million daily users.
Jimmy Ba,
Founding Member of xAI
A former student of Geoffrey Hinton bringing Elon Musk’s Grok to the masses.
Kylan Gibbs,
CEO of Inworld AI
Former DeepMind researcher building the only AI framework powering massive scale consumer applications and games.
Erin Chapple,
CVP at Microsoft
Twenty-six years after joining as an intern, she’s building what businesses actually need from the cloud.
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