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Christina Cai on the TechTO stage

Christina Cai

Co-founder & COO, Lydia AI

AITorontoOn TechTO stages since 2019

Christina Cai co-founded Lydia AI, the Toronto company she started as Knowtions Research while a recent University of Toronto graduate working from a two-desk table at the school's innovation centre. She is COO. The company built health-risk scoring for insurers across Asia and has since moved into operational AI.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Christina

In their words

you want to know whose profit and loss you belong to — all that means is that within an enterprise each department has someone that runs their own profit and losses

TechTO FintechTO, Jul 2019 · watch at 04:50

what is the 5% that you do a hundred times better and they can't do internally to drive the value

TechTO FintechTO, Jul 2019 · watch at 08:10
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Quick answers

What company did Christina Cai found?

Knowtions Research, founded in Toronto and later renamed Lydia AI. She is co-founder and COO; Anthony Lee is CEO.

What does Lydia AI do?

It began as health-risk scoring for insurers, with offices in Taiwan, Japan and Korea, and now sells ORCA, an operational-intelligence product aimed at legal discovery, logistics and retail.

How did Christina Cai start the company?

As a recent University of Toronto graduate, from a two-desk table at the university's innovation centre.

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