Benoit Boulet

Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill University, President and CSO of Canada AI, CEO of Chalumeau

📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023
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Board Member
Jun 2021
MSBi Valorisation is an early stage group that provides capital, manpower and business sense to monetize promising technologies developed within McGill University, Université de Sherbrooke and Bishop’s University and their affiliated research centres. We are instrumental for creating spin-offs as well as technology opportunities ready to be licensed to existing companies. See Products & Services for companies and projects financed.
Board Member
Sep 2017
The mission of InnovÉÉ is to assist in the development of electricity technologies including electric vehicles, grids and power generation, by funding collaborative pre-competitive research projects by means of sharing expertise and resources from industrial partners and research facilities. Its main objectives are: Stimulate the identification and development of pre-competitive research initiatives; Come together in collaborative partnerships to share resources and expertise available in enterprises and research facilities with the goal of creating technological advancements; Participate in co-funding collaborative research projects to accelerate the potential for industrial development and competitive market positioning of its members; Transfer technology, skills, competencies and knowledge from academic circles and industrial R&D to accelerate the development of highly qualified human resource.
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Sep 2015
MIAE is an initiative of the Lorne Trottier Chair in Aerospace Engineering to foster interest in Aerospace Engineering among undergraduate and graduate students and awareness of the multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment in which they may work as future engineers working in the Aerospace Industry. Mandate of MIAE - To focus and grow the aerospace activity at McGill University - To enrich the aerospace experience for McGill undergraduates - To enable students seeking a career in aerospace to obtain industrial experience and contacts in the industry. - To allow the aerospace industries to have access to the best and most motivated Engineering students who may become future employees - To bring the technological issues of the industry to the attention of McGill Professors - To expose the aerospace industry to the full possibilities of the research expertise at McGill - To establish, develop and maintain contacts between the Faculty of Engineering and industry researchers and engineers.
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2023
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Apr 2023
The McGill Institute for Advanced Materials (MIAM) is dedicated to solving society’s grand challenges through fundamental and applied materials research focused on health, energy and environment. We cultivate and foster a dynamic community of McGill materials researchers unified behind these research goals. As an agent and catalyst for promoting leading edge cross-disciplinary materials research, the institute is dedicated to the education and advancement of students and postdoctoral researchers in the McGill materials community providing opportunities to build knowledge and networks at McGill and beyond. A state-of-the-art research facility, MIAM provides convenient and affordable access to basic and cutting-edge tools for characterizing and fabricating advanced materials.
2022
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Jun 2022
La Chambre de commerce de l’Est de Montréal a pour mission de défendre et de promouvoir les intérêts économiques et sociaux des 32 000 entreprises qui composent son territoire. Vision La Chambre de commerce de l’Est de Montréal est le plus important regroupement de gens d’affaires de son territoire et entend exercer son leadership afin de susciter la participation active des intervenants socioéconomiques de son milieu. Historique •Organisme économique à but non lucratif légalement constitué en vertu de la Loi sur les chambres de commerce •Fondée en 1995 suite à la fusion de la Chambre de commerce d’Anjou et la Chambre de commerce de l’Est du Grand Montréal •Regroupement de personnes et dentreprises faisant majoritairement partie du territoire de la Chambre qui sétend de lest du boulevard Saint-Laurent jusquà la pointe de lÎle, de la rivière des Prairies jusquau fleuve Saint-Laurent.
2021
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Jun 2021
Montréal InVivo désigne la grappe des sciences de la vie et des technologies de la santé (SVTS) du Grand Montréal. Cet ensemble est constitué de près de 600 organisations, dont plus de 150 centres de recherche, 80 filiales d’entreprises de classe mondiale et 41 000 personnes oeuvrant dans le secteur. Cette grappe créatrice de grandes idées comprend également 11 établissements universitaires dont quatre grandes universités à vocation générale. Montréal InVivo se classe première au Canada pour le nombre de centres de recherche. Le secrétariat de Montréal InVivo, quant à lui, est un organisme sans but lucratif de développement économique voué à la création de la richesse. Par la mobilisation des acteurs autour d’enjeux cruciaux comme l'innovation, Montréal InVivo veut assurer, par la mise en oeuvre de ses actions et de son plan stratégique, le développement durable, la pérennité et le rayonnement du secteur des SVTS du Grand Montréal. =========== Montréal InVivo designates the life sciences and health technologies (LSHT) cluster of Greater Montréal. This cluster comprises almost 620 organizations, including more than 150 research centres, 80 subsidiaries of world-class companies and 41,000 people employed in the sector. A wellspring of great ideas, the cluster includes four universities and is ranked first in Canada in terms of number of research centres. As for the secretariat of Montréal InVivo, it is a non-profit economic development organization devoted to the creation of wealth. By mobilizing the relevant actors in order to meet crucial challenges such as innovation, and through the actions it undertakes and the implementation of its strategic plan, Montréal InVivo aims to ensure the sustainable development, long-term survival and international renown of the LSHT sector in Greater Montréal.
Board Member
Jun 2021
MSBi Valorisation is an early stage group that provides capital, manpower and business sense to monetize promising technologies developed within McGill University, Université de Sherbrooke and Bishop’s University and their affiliated research centres. We are instrumental for creating spin-offs as well as technology opportunities ready to be licensed to existing companies. See Products & Services for companies and projects financed.
Associate Vice-Principal, Innovation + Partnerships
Jun 2021
McGill University is one of Canadas best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from some 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. McGill was founded in 1821 thanks to a generous bequest by James McGill, and since then, weve grown from a small college to a bustling university with three campuses, 11 faculties, some 300 programs of study, and more than 37,500 students. The University also partners with four affiliated teaching hospitals to graduate over 1,000 health care professionals each year. The goal of McGill Universitys social media platforms is to strengthen our community, which includes students, faculty, and alumni. The aim is to provide information on events, campus news and promote networking. McGill University fosters freedom of expression, while valuing respect and collegiality. We encourage respectful dialogue and reserve the right to remove the following: Comments deemed offensive, vulgar or profane; comments off-topic and/or unrelated to posted content; content that infringes on an individuals privacy or copyright.
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