Étienne Mérineau

General Partner @ Telegraph // Co-founder of Heyday AI (acq. by Hootsuite for $60M in 2021)

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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May 2026
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Investor, Board Observer
Jan 2026
Enterprise-grade Agentic AI for Cloud Optimization. We Introduced the world 1st Agentic model for cloud optimization, covering all resources, all cloud, at the same time. $6M of total funding since Feb 2026, backed by Diagram Ventures, BDC, Telegraph Ventures, Fondaction, Mavrik, Cycle Momentum, and Spring Impact Capital.
Investor
Nov 2025
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.
Board Observer
Nov 2025
The marketing platform that helps small e-commerce teams plan, create, and publish content across every channel—fast and on-brand. Glowtify helps you build a clear marketing roadmap, powered by your Brand DNA: your business data, product information, goals, brand guidelines and performance data. That’s how it makes every post intentional and feel like your brand. By connecting Shopify, Klaviyo, and all your social channels, Glowtify gives you one central place to manage it all, from strategy to scheduling. Discover the smarter way to work: fewer tools, faster execution, and campaigns that actually move the needle. Simplify your marketing. Amplify your reach. Grow with Glowtify.
Investor
Sep 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor & CEO Advisor
Jan 2024
We’re a home-sharing community with a mission to empower displaced policyholders, claims adjusters, and hosts with efficient and affordable relocation solutions that create a sense of home and comfort during challenging times. For displaced policyholders, we ensure they are not uprooted to unfamiliar places but are instead relocated to comfortable temporary homes in their neighbourhoods, enabling them to maintain a sense of familiarity during challenging times. Claims adjusters benefit from our technology-driven solutions, simplifying the relocation process, reducing costs, and ensuring the happiness of policyholders. Hosts, on the other hand, gain access to insurance housing contracts, resulting in higher income, better guests from their communities, and a reduced regulatory burden. Through these interconnected services, we foster a sense of belonging and comfort, making a positive impact on policyholders, claims adjusters, and hosts alike.
LP - Investor
Jan 2023
We are an investment and innovation platform that helps propel companies with revolutionary and disruptive technologies toward market leadership. Innovobot was founded on the premise that there is a better way to finance technology and grow innovation that improves human well-being and contributes to environmental sustainability. The founders are a group of tech entrepreneurs and senior executives who have known one another for over 30 years. We have built and exited companies and chose to come together in 2018 to help innovative technology firms that have the potential to benefit society scale successfully.
Canadian Product Board Member
May 2014
We are dentsu. We team together to help brands predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. We know people better than anyone else and we use those insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. We are the network designed for what’s next.
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2026
Board Member
May 2026
You have a technological innovation and are looking for help to launch and grow your company? Are you seeking the right professional expertise, network or office space to meet your specific needs? CEIM (Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal) can help you at each step of your project development: - validation of business potential - go-to-market / Intellectual Property strategies - business plan - financing strategies - commercialization tactics - lead generation - outsourcing of sales representatives - sales and customer service coaching - SEO and Internet campaigns - international market development ... CEIM also offers, through its partners, legal advice (tax and audit) at favorable conditions. CEIM IS ALSO: - the main tech incubator in Quebec, in operation since 1996 - a multidisciplinary, result-oriented and highly experienced team of consultants - information sessions and thematic, high-level events that promote linking and networking opportunities - a strategic partner of MEI, Canada Economic Development, NRC-IRAP, Global Affairs Canada - a solid national and international business network - 57 000 square-feet of office space, located in Montreals Innovation District, at very competitive rates
Investor
May 2026
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Investor, Board Observer
Jan 2026
Enterprise-grade Agentic AI for Cloud Optimization. We Introduced the world 1st Agentic model for cloud optimization, covering all resources, all cloud, at the same time. $6M of total funding since Feb 2026, backed by Diagram Ventures, BDC, Telegraph Ventures, Fondaction, Mavrik, Cycle Momentum, and Spring Impact Capital.
2025
Investor
Nov 2025
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.
Board Observer
Nov 2025
The marketing platform that helps small e-commerce teams plan, create, and publish content across every channel—fast and on-brand. Glowtify helps you build a clear marketing roadmap, powered by your Brand DNA: your business data, product information, goals, brand guidelines and performance data. That’s how it makes every post intentional and feel like your brand. By connecting Shopify, Klaviyo, and all your social channels, Glowtify gives you one central place to manage it all, from strategy to scheduling. Discover the smarter way to work: fewer tools, faster execution, and campaigns that actually move the needle. Simplify your marketing. Amplify your reach. Grow with Glowtify.
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