Quick answers
Did James Bergstra co-found Kindred?
Yes. Kindred's own team page, as archived on 2016-10-31, describes James Bergstra as a co-founder and chief scientific officer who oversaw the development of Kindred's machine learning technology.
What did Bergstra work on before Kindred?
Kindred's archived team page (2016-10-31) says Bergstra was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo and a research scholar at Harvard, developed the Theano and Hyperopt software packages, and earned a PhD in machine learning from the University of Montreal in 2011.
What was Bergstra's role later at Kindred?
The University of Alberta reported on 2019-11-12 that Bergstra, cofounder of Kindred and head of AI research, spoke for the company when Kindred donated an industrial robotic arm to the university's Department of Computing Science.
Was Bergstra part of the Ocado acquisition?
Warehouse Automation reported on 2020-11-02 that Ocado named James Bergstra, Co-Founder and Head of AI Research, among the key individuals who had to remain employed at Kindred Systems for the acquisition to close.