Lydia AI

AIToronto, ON

Toronto company (formerly Knowtions Research) selling ORCA, an enterprise AI platform that turns voice/file inputs into structured work product — reports, graphs and optimization plans — for content, legal-discovery and logistics workflows.

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About

Company site: lydia.ai

Toronto company (formerly Knowtions Research) selling ORCA, an enterprise AI platform that turns voice/file inputs into structured work product — reports, graphs and optimization plans — for content, legal-discovery and logistics workflows.

  • Federal corporation 845037-4 (Knowtions Research Inc., d/b/a Lydia AI), status Active, registered office in Toronto, Ontario. ised-isde.canada.ca

  • Own LinkedIn company page lists its headquarters as 161 Bay Street, Suite 2700, Toronto, Ontario. linkedin.com

  • Closed a $10M CAD (US$8M) Series A-plus in 2021 led by Information Venture Partners, taking total funding to $17M CAD including a 2018 Series A — after rebranding from Knowtions Research to Lydia AI. betakit.com

  • Now builds ORCA, an enterprise operational-intelligence platform, a pivot from its earlier AI health-risk-scoring product for insurers; publishing product content as recently as March 2026. lydia.ai

Products & Services

Company site: lydia.ai

Products Lydia AI publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

ORCA

Enterprise operational intelligence platform

Company describes an AI platform that takes voice memos and file uploads and, via domain-specific pipelines (Capture, Enrich, Generate, Refine, Deliver), produces structured work product such as reports, graphs and optimization plans for content, legal-evidence and logistics workflows.

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Funding & Investors

Announced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.

  1. Series A-plus

    Oct 19, 2021

    Investors: Information Venture Partners, 500 Global

Total disclosed: C$10.0MLatest: Series A-plus · Oct 19, 2021

Recent News

  1. Mar 17, 2026Product

    What is AI Engine Optimization (AEO) and Why It Matters

    Lydia AI published a blog post on how AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity are changing product discoverability, part of its ongoing ORCA product content in 2026.

  2. Oct 19, 2021Funding

    Following refocus and rebrand, Lydia AI secures $10 million CAD to make health insurance more inclusive

    Lydia AI (formerly Knowtions Research) closed a $10M CAD Series A-plus led by Information Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $17M CAD, after pivoting from NLP to fraud detection to health risk scoring.

People

Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.

Anthony Lee

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Christina Cai

Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder

Technology Focus

Company site: lydia.ai

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Operational intelligence AIComposable AI operationsStructured AI workflows

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