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Vision Critical

Vision Critical was a Vancouver enterprise software company founded in 2000 by Andrew Reid. Its platform ran always-on 'insight communities' of customers for large brands, letting companies gather ongoing feedback to guide decisions. It served clients including Disney, Adobe, and LinkedIn, and rebranded as Alida in 2020.

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400+employees in Vancouver (stated on stage)TechVancouver stage 2016-06-07

The people

What they build

Vision Critical insight community platformEnterprise software for building always-on customer communities and gathering continuous feedback for large brands.

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About

Vision Critical was founded in 2000 in Vancouver by Andrew Reid, son of pollster Angus Reid. It built customer-community and insight software used by major global brands and grew to hundreds of employees. Reid later departed and went on to found Rival Technologies and Reach3 Insights; Vision Critical rebranded as Alida in 2020.

Backers

Not publicly disclosed.

Some figures are founder-stated, not independently confirmed

Quick answers

Who founded Vision Critical?

Andrew Reid founded it in Vancouver in 2000.

Does Vision Critical still exist?

It rebranded as Alida in 2020; Andrew Reid had already left to build Rival Technologies.

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