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Martin Snelgrove

Co-founder & CEO, Hepzibah

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Martin Snelgrove co-founded Hepzibah, the Canadian company that licenses at-memory AI compute designs to chipmakers, and is its chief executive. A former electrical engineering professor at the University of Toronto and Carleton University, Snelgrove also co-founded Untether AI, and Hepzibah builds on Computational RAM research Snelgrove began at the University of Toronto in the late 1980s.

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Did Martin Snelgrove co-found Hepzibah?

Yes. Hepzibah's own about page, checked on 2026-09-24, calls Snelgrove its co-founder and CEO. Two Small Fish Ventures, announcing its investment on 2025-03-12, said Hepzibah AI was founded by Untether AI co-founders Martin Snelgrove and Raymond Chik, along with David Lynch and Taneem Ahmed.

What other companies has Martin Snelgrove founded?

Hepzibah's team page, checked on 2026-09-24, describes Snelgrove as a five-time founder of Philsar, SOMA Networks, Kapik, Untether AI and Hepzibah, and a former electrical engineering professor at the University of Toronto and Carleton University.

Why did the Hepzibah founders leave Untether AI?

TechSoda reported on 2025-08-13 that Snelgrove said the team's departure from Untether AI happened well before AMD acquired that company, and was driven by differences in market vision and company culture.

Where does Hepzibah's technology come from?

Hepzibah's about page, checked on 2026-09-24, says it builds on Computational RAM research Snelgrove started in the late 1980s while teaching at the University of Toronto, first aimed at graphics and signal processing and now at AI workloads.

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