Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer

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Biography

Mr. Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Partner at Real Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Tenstorrent and Acorn Biolabs. He served as a Board Observer at Validere. He served as Board Member at Delphia and Busbud. He was a Board Member at Immunio. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at FounderFuel. He co-founded and served as a Mentor at Founder at Execution Labs. He Co-Founded and served as Board Member at Element AI. He served as a Board Member at Automat. He served as an Advisor at Kiwi Wearable Technologies. He served as Board Observer at Plotly. He has been in high technology since the mid nineties. He is currently President of Zanura, a venture accelerator and technology incubator with operations in Canada and Asia that he co-founded in late 2008. JS is also a Partner at MontrealStartup, a Montreal-based technology seed fund that he co-founded in November 2007. Prior to Zanura, JS was an investment professional with VantagePoint Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund with $4.5B under management. Prior to VantagePoint, he was responsible for the venture capital investment activities of la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP) in IT. Prior to CDP, JS was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, business development at Terrascale Technologies Inc., a storage software company he seeded and joined as employee #4 and that was sold to Rackable Systems (NASDAQ: RACK). He served as a Board Member at Landr. He serves as Board Member at Datacratic, and OMsignal. He served as a Board Observer at BlockStream.