Global AI Software Provider

Our suite of products

Our AI products are adapted to specific industries and solve real-world problems.

Our Story

Element AI was co-founded in 2016 by seasoned entrepreneur Jean-François Gagné and leading AI researcher Yoshua Bengio in the deep learning hub of Canada with the unique mission to democratize artificial intelligence with a non-predatory, collaborative research model.

In 2017, just seven months after launching, Element AI raised a historic Series A round and has since created more than 450 jobs across five cities in North America, Europe, and Asia. This explosive growth has enabled us to turn cutting-edge research into scalable industry-specific products.

Jean-François Gagné

Founder & CEO

Jean-Francois is a veteran AI entrepreneur and former Chief Product Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at JDA Software, where he was the youngest global C-Level Executive of a top-20 Enterprise Software company. He has founded and successfully exited two companies in AI and Operations Research, represented Canada as a Technology Investment Champion Speaker for Global Affairs, and is a sought-after expert for educating top-level management about the impact of AI on industry.

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Yoshua Bengio, PhD

Co-Founder & Deep Learning Pioneer

Widely considered as one of the three pioneers of deep learning, as well as the most impactful recent advances in machine learning, Dr. Bengio is a world-renowned researcher with more than 300 publications and over 145,000 citations to his name. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms and an NSERC Industrial Chair. He is a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-directs its program focused on deep learning. He has been program chair and general chair of NIPS, the leading academic machine learning conference, and co-created ICLR, the leading deep learning conference.

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