Tomi Poutanen is a co-founder and partner at Radical Ventures, where his bio says he is also a co-founder of Radical portfolio company Signal 1, a health AI start-up. Before Radical he co-founded Layer 6 AI, which TD Bank Group acquired in 2018 and where he then served as Chief AI Officer and SVP, and he is a co-founder of the Vector Institute. His bio states he founded four AI companies with exits to Microsoft, Yahoo! and TD Bank, and that he spent the first part of his career pioneering machine learning in web search at Yahoo! Search and then Bing. He co-authored Canada's first National AI Policy in 2017 and holds an MSc in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
Education
MSc Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
MBA, University of Toronto
Previous Experience
Machine learning for web search, Yahoo! Search
Machine learning for web search, Microsoft Bing
Co-founder, Layer 6 AI (acquired by TD Bank Group in 2018)
Chief AI Officer and SVP, TD Bank Group
Co-founder, Vector Institute
Co-founder, Signal 1
Notable Investments
Untether AICrossing Minds
Career Timeline
2017
Co-founded the Vector Institute with Jordan Jacobs and co-authored Canada's first National AI Policy.
2018
TD Bank Group acquired Layer 6 AI, which he co-founded, and he became TD's Chief AI Officer and SVP.
2019
Radical Ventures launched with a USD $350 million AI-focused fund.
2019
Joined the board of directors of Untether AI alongside its $20 million Series A.
2021
Joined the board of Crossing Minds as Radical led its $10 million Series A.