François Arbour

Investor & Entrepreneur | Founder of Premiumbeat (Sold to Shutterstock)

📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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12
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Portfolio

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Investor
Dec 2021
Vercel provides the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.
Investor
Jan 2021
Voidpet is an a16z backed company making monster collection games. Our latest RPG, Voidpet Dungeon, is out on iOS and Android. The mental health app, Voidpet Garden, was named Googles Best App of 2023 in its category.
Investor
Jan 2021
At Hookdeck, we create Infrastructure and tools to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence.
Investor (secondary)
Jan 2021
Oura is an award-winning, fast-growing startup that helps people get up close and personal with their health. The Oura Ring and Oura App provide daily insights into sleep, activity, stress, recovery and much more. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, weve helped millions of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking talented individuals to join us on our journey. JOIN THE OURA TEAM We are a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, bioscience, sleep, industrial and UX design, production, marketing and customer experience. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. We are uncompromising in delivering value to our members and our partners across the globe.. Ouraring Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2019
We want to make working with natural language data natural. Excel is one of the most beautiful pieces of software ever created: a simple and completely flexible interface that exposes powerful operations (formulas, pivot tables etc) allowing anyone to organize and transform numbers and tabular data. Whether you use 2% of Excel's capabilities or are a power-user, you still turn to this tool anytime you have tabular data you need to work with. We aim for HumanFirst to be a similarly ubiquitous tool for working with natural language data: a completely flexible interface exposing powerful operations (semantic search, clustering, labelling, transformation, prompt engineering etc.) for organizing and transforming natural language data around the simplest of interfaces, available to anyone.
Investor (pre IPO secondary)
Sep 2018
AI-powered automation for every decision. At Palantir, our software powers AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprises in the West, from the factory floors to the front lines. Our platforms feature advanced tools for data protection, governance, responsible use of AI, and civilian protection capabilities for defense applications. Dominate your most complex problems with Palantir.
Investor
Aug 2018
Planned is the first source-to-pay service for Travel & Events accelerated by technology. Founded in 2017, Planned combines human service with AI to deliver cost-effective, scalable, and custom sourcing and booking services. Trusted by major clients including Nike, Block, and Airbnb, Planned consistently generates 13% in savings or more on multi-million dollar budgets, enabling more in-person connections with greater ROI.
Investor & Advisor
2018
Breathe Life is redefining the life insurance industry. Whether driven by Advisors, Consumers, or a Hybrid of both, our distribution platform provides life insurers with best-of-breed tools to increase the speed of policy delivery while reducing operational costs.
Advisor & Investor
2018
early stage
Investor
Jul 2017
Symend helps enterprises maximize collections effectiveness and optimize key metrics like recovery rates, liquidation rates, roll rates, and time to cure. By leveraging applied behavioral science and AI, Symend’s digital debt recovery solution empowers businesses in financial services, telecommunications, and utilities to create personalized engagements that guide customers towards positive financial outcomes. Founded in 2016 and globally recognized for innovation, Symend drives meaningful and sustainable improvements in collections strategies while fostering lasting customer relationships.
Investor & Advisor
2017
FightCamp is a connected at-home boxing gym. With FightCamp you get access to world-class boxing and kickboxing trainers, studio-quality equipment, and performance-tracking technology — all from the comfort of your home. We have an ever-growing library of boxing & kickboxing workouts designed to keep you engaged, focused, and in the zone. The key to a FightCamp workout lies in our Punch Tracking technology — we allow you to measure every strike, deliver real-time stats and fuel your competitive side.
Experience · 21 entries
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Investments (12)
Founder (6)
2025
Co-Founder
Apr 2025
Juri révolutionne le travail des notaires au Québec. Nous automatisons la recherche de titres et l’analyse des documents du Registre foncier grâce à une orchestration intelligente, combinant automatisation, données structurées et IA.
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Vercel provides the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.
Co-Founder
Mar 2021
AoM is an investment club focused on helping early-stage companies.
Investor
Jan 2021
Voidpet is an a16z backed company making monster collection games. Our latest RPG, Voidpet Dungeon, is out on iOS and Android. The mental health app, Voidpet Garden, was named Googles Best App of 2023 in its category.
Investor
Jan 2021
At Hookdeck, we create Infrastructure and tools to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence.
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