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CTO.ai

CTO.ai is a Vancouver developer-tools company that automates engineering workflows from the command line and Slack, so teams can ship without hand-rolling DevOps. Founded by Kyle Campbell as Hack Capital, it raised a $750,000 seed and has taken about $7.75M across two rounds.

Developer ToolsVancouverFounded 2017cto.ai
$750Kseed round raised as Hack Capital, to grow the team behind CTO.aiBetaKit
$7.75Mtotal raised across two rounds from 10 investorsTracxn, July 2026
11–50employeesTracxn, July 2026

The people

What they build

CTO.aiDeveloper workflow automation in the CLI and SlackProduct page ↗

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About

Kyle Campbell started the company as Hack Capital, pitching it as software to help digital companies hire, train and motivate engineers. Its CTO.ai product — which measured how fast a team shipped to production and gave developers shortcuts inside Slack and the CLI — became the business, and the company took its name. Campbell presented on the TechVancouver stage in March 2018, as Hack Capital, on the unglamorous work that goes into an "overnight success." He had earlier founded Retsly, a real-estate data API acquired by Zillow in 2014.

Backers

Seed investors behind the $750K round reported by BetaKit; two rounds totalling roughly $7.75M

Some figures are founder-stated, not independently confirmed

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Quick answers

What does CTO.ai do?

It automates developer workflows from the command line and Slack — deployment, environment and delivery-metric tooling that a team would otherwise build and maintain itself.

Was CTO.ai called Hack Capital?

Yes. Kyle Campbell founded it as Hack Capital, which raised a $750,000 seed round, and the company later took the name of its CTO.ai product.

Who founded CTO.ai?

Kyle Campbell, a Nova Scotia-raised, North Vancouver-based founder who previously built Retsly, acquired by Zillow in 2014.

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