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Who is Anthony Azrak?
A co-founder of General Magic, the Toronto company selling AI agents to insurance brokerages. The company's February 2026 funding announcement states that General Magic was founded by Anthony Azrak and Jai Mansukhani, second-time founders who previously sold AI products into legacy industries. a16z Speedrun's company page, checked in September 2026, lists him as CEO and Mansukhani as co-founder and president.
What did Anthony Azrak do before General Magic?
His a16z Speedrun founder page, checked in September 2026, says he is a second-time founder and software engineer who built robots at age seven and caught the AI bug after attending Yoshua Bengio's seminars. It says he founded a B2B SaaS company that sold EHR software and researcher management tools to one of the largest hospital networks in Canada.
Why is the company called General Magic?
It is a deliberate nod to the 1989 Apple spin-out of the same name, which is a separate and defunct company. BetaKit reported on the February 2026 rebrand from OpenSesame and quoted Azrak saying the name matches their ambition of making everyday moments magical, not just for technical people but for the vast majority of the population.