Marc Alloul

Serial Entrepreneur & Exits, Game Veteran, Fund Manager, Investor/Advisor to Private Tech Companies & Accelerators/Incubators.

📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
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Shareholder - Corporate Development & Strategy
Jun 2023
SAI is a global reinforcement learning competition platform focused on gaming and robotics. By inviting researchers worldwide to compete across diverse simulated environments, SAI aims to surface novel approaches to some of AGIs most challenging problems.
Investor
Jun 2023
Developing technology-based carbon removal projects at scale in Canada.
Shareholder - Corporate Development & Strategy
Jun 2023
ArenaX Labs is an AI technology company accelerating progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by building platforms for learning agents. We operate at the intersection of AI, gaming, and robotics across three core products: NRN Agents SDK A developer toolkit for training and deploying AI agents in games and robotic simulations. The SDK focuses on behavioral learning, features reinforcement learning and imitation learning capabilities, as well as a continual learning pipeline. 🔗 nrnagents.ai SAI A global machine learning competition platform focused on AGI-related challenges in gaming, robotics, and beyond—designed to attract top-tier ML researchers to push the boundaries of AI performance. 🔗 competesai.com AI Arena A PvP fighting game where players train evolving AI agents. These agents learn over time through human input, exhibiting dynamic memory and continuous adaptation. 🔗 docs.aiarena.io
Investor & Advisor - Corporate Development & Strategy
Jan 2023
Helika is an industry-leading data analytics, marketing, and game management platform focusing on driving profitable UA growth, deriving impactful insights from disparate data sources and optimizing game experiences to improve player engagement, retention, and monetization for top game studios. Regardless of technical or analytical expertise, studios can double down on what's working, cut what isn't, and spend more time building the best games with Helika. Many top AAA studios, including Yuga Labs, Wildcard Alliance, Treasure, Proof of Play, Pixelcraft Studios, Life Beyond (Animoca Brands), Gala Games, BoomLand, Azra Games, and more rely on Helika to support their core analytics and data infrastructure needs. ~ The team comprises top talent from Zynga, SciPlay, EA, Tesla, Nielsen, NASA, Microsoft and many more startups with decades of industry experience in game analytics, big data, and scalable infrastructure. Helika is backed by VC firms, including Diagram Ventures, Sfermion, Sparkle Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Fenbushi, Builder Capital, and angel investor Marc Alloul.
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2022
We are on a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging the best from casual play, into real-money adventures to entertain players for decades.
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2019
Angel Host is a technology-driven, human-first, marketing and guest communication company that serves the needs of property owners and property managers in the short-term and vacation rental industry. From creating the perfect listing, to dynamically changing prices on a daily basis to taking care of reservation requests 7-days a week, we make sure property owners from around the world can maximize their revenue and minimize the time needed to rent their properties. Our end goal: Happy guests and happy owners!
Investor & Advisor
Sep 2019
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.
Investor & Advisor
May 2018
nesto is on a mission to offer a positive, empowering and transparent property financing experience, simplified from start to finish. Powered by the most advanced technology, we screen the whole market in seconds to find the most affordable mortgage while our commission-free experts provide you with unbiased support along the process. Simply, welcome to the bright future of home buying.
Investor & Advisory Board Member
Sep 2015
Retinad has been acquired by LumiereVR as of July 2018! Retinad provides intelligent analytics for VR/AR. We allow advertisers, agencies and creatives to track everything happening in their VR experiences as well as their users'​ behavior. Our mission is to accelerate the mass adoption of virtual reality by helping content creators understand their applications and their users.
Investor & Advisory Board Member - Corporate Development
Sep 2015
Free-to-play mobile games needs a big idea and icejam is making it happen. Founded by former EA Mobile leader, Stuart Duncan, icejam is located in Canada’s mobile games hub in Charlottetown PEI. Creativity flourishes in the state-of-the-art mobile games studio located in its historic loft like setting almost within a stones throw from the ocean.
early stageComputer Games
Shareholder - Corporate Development and M&A
Mar 2012
Complex Games was founded in 2002 by Noah Decter-Jackson and Adrian Cheater. It has grown from a small independent game development studio to a fully capable interactive design firm. With the technical and artistic in house Complex Games is the right choice for any projects ranging from iPhone development, game development, 3D visuals, and much more. With our attention to detail and work ethic we have garnered a reputation for the highest quality of work for the world’s leading brands. Complex Games builds interactive experiences for creative firms that will inspire new audiences, capture market attention, and build online communities quickly.
Shareholder & Advisory Board Member
Feb 2011
Since 2009, we've worked with the world's largest professional events in the most demanding environments. Our full stack of enterprise-grade, custom event engagement solutions are specifically designed to help elevate attendee experiences and exhibitor ROI. More than a software provider, we act as a true strategic partner for your business. All of our solutions are custom-built to the needs of your event. Our project management team works with you every step of the way to ensure smooth execution. Our DNA is in the name. As Sherpas, we are focused on helping you master the event journey for attendees and exhibitors alike, providing you with solutions and guidance to grow your events year after year.
early stageEvents Services
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2023
Shareholder - Corporate Development & Strategy
Jun 2023
SAI is a global reinforcement learning competition platform focused on gaming and robotics. By inviting researchers worldwide to compete across diverse simulated environments, SAI aims to surface novel approaches to some of AGIs most challenging problems.
Investor
Jun 2023
Developing technology-based carbon removal projects at scale in Canada.
Shareholder - Corporate Development & Strategy
Jun 2023
ArenaX Labs is an AI technology company accelerating progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by building platforms for learning agents. We operate at the intersection of AI, gaming, and robotics across three core products: NRN Agents SDK A developer toolkit for training and deploying AI agents in games and robotic simulations. The SDK focuses on behavioral learning, features reinforcement learning and imitation learning capabilities, as well as a continual learning pipeline. 🔗 nrnagents.ai SAI A global machine learning competition platform focused on AGI-related challenges in gaming, robotics, and beyond—designed to attract top-tier ML researchers to push the boundaries of AI performance. 🔗 competesai.com AI Arena A PvP fighting game where players train evolving AI agents. These agents learn over time through human input, exhibiting dynamic memory and continuous adaptation. 🔗 docs.aiarena.io
Investor & Advisor - Corporate Development & Strategy
Jan 2023
Helika is an industry-leading data analytics, marketing, and game management platform focusing on driving profitable UA growth, deriving impactful insights from disparate data sources and optimizing game experiences to improve player engagement, retention, and monetization for top game studios. Regardless of technical or analytical expertise, studios can double down on what's working, cut what isn't, and spend more time building the best games with Helika. Many top AAA studios, including Yuga Labs, Wildcard Alliance, Treasure, Proof of Play, Pixelcraft Studios, Life Beyond (Animoca Brands), Gala Games, BoomLand, Azra Games, and more rely on Helika to support their core analytics and data infrastructure needs. ~ The team comprises top talent from Zynga, SciPlay, EA, Tesla, Nielsen, NASA, Microsoft and many more startups with decades of industry experience in game analytics, big data, and scalable infrastructure. Helika is backed by VC firms, including Diagram Ventures, Sfermion, Sparkle Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Fenbushi, Builder Capital, and angel investor Marc Alloul.
2022
Mentor/Associate Web3 CDL Montréal Cohort
Sep 2022
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded by Professor Ajay Agrawal in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded and now has 11 sites across six countries: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Paris, Madison, Seattle, Estonia, Berlin, and Melbourne. The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies: - An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business - Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies - Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists - Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support - Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America The successful commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology achieved through the program has led to the creation of over CAD $35 billion in equity value.
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