Toronto company, legally Canvass Analytics Inc., selling Knowledge AI — an enterprise platform of role-specific assistants that retrieve and cross-check information across documents and enterprise systems, built on a knowledge graph with retrieval-augmented generation and quantized models.
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Toronto company, legally Canvass Analytics Inc., selling Knowledge AI — an enterprise platform of role-specific assistants that retrieve and cross-check information across documents and enterprise systems, built on a knowledge graph with retrieval-augmented generation and quantized models.
Legally Canvass Analytics Inc., federal corporation 965579-4, status Active. The register records an earlier corporate name, DAT-UH INC., used from 2016 to 2017. ised-isde.canada.ca
Received over $5.7M from the Government of Canada through FedDev Ontario's Jobs and Growth Fund, announced April 2022. The company describes it as a repayable loan. canada.ca
Its platform page advertises a model-agnostic architecture with access to more than 100 public and private large language models, selected per task. canvass.io
Describes itself as delivering an AI knowledge engine that turns scattered information into insights, with assistants for engineering, maintenance, compliance and regulatory work. canvass.io
Holds two granted US patents on industrial-process machine learning, both assigned to Canvass Analytics Inc.: US11294367B2, on convolutional-neural-network forecasting over streaming data. patents.google.com
Its second granted patent, US11449795B2, covers process-speed-based forecasting that aligns historical data for process latency before training a machine-learning model. patents.google.com
Own site states a "quantized model approach reduces the cost of deployment, optimizes CPU requirements" and cites human-in-the-loop and self-learning evaluation to prevent hallucinations. canvass.io
Repositioned from industrial AI to general enterprise Knowledge AI: manufacturing is now one of five verticals, and its named manufacturing products are document and knowledge assistants. canvass.io
Products Canvass AI publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Enterprise AI platform
Company describes it as connecting to over 100 enterprise tools and data sources, processing structured and unstructured data including video, image, text, audio and tabular, with tailored AI apps and goal-driven agents for specific business processes.
Learn moreAnnounced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.
Aug 9, 2022
Investors: Yamaha Motor Ventures
Oct 28, 2020
Investors: Yamaha Motor Ventures and Laboratory Silicon Valley, Real Ventures, BDC, EDC, Viaduct Ventures
Aug 21, 2018
Investors: Gradient Ventures, Bedrock Industries, Viaduct Ventures, Real Ventures, Barney Pell
Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
FedDev Ontario Jobs and Growth Fund — repayable contribution to expand and accelerate commercialization of its AI software platform
FedDev Ontario announced over $5.7M for Canvass Analytics Inc. through the Jobs and Growth Fund to expand and accelerate commercialization of its AI software platform, with the company projecting 45 new jobs.
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Humera Malik
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Terms the company uses about its own work.
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