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Solon Angel on the TechTO stage

Solon Angel

Co-founder & CEO, Remitian

FintechOn TechTO stages since 2023

Solon Angel founded MindBridge in Ottawa in 2015, building AI that reads financial ledgers for fraud and error and now sells into audit worldwide. He left to run the founder community Fresh Founders as managing partner, and is co-founder and CEO of Remitian, a tax-payment automation company that raised a US$7 million seed round.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2023. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Solon

In their words

It's great to be smart. It's better to be smart and protective of the value you create.

TechTO Founder Journey, Mar 2023 · watch at 05:56

That's what MindBridge does. It's like an antivirus on the financials.

TechTO Founder Journey, Mar 2023 · watch at 24:38

I went to conferences, I got kicked out because I talk about AI. People thought I was full of shit in 2015. And then the same people that kicked me out now are asking me to come back on stage to educate them.

TechTO Founder Journey, Mar 2023 · watch at 35:20
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Quick answers

Who is Solon Angel?

The founder of MindBridge, the Ottawa AI company whose software helps auditors find anomalies and fraud in financial data. He is now co-founder and CEO of Remitian, a tax-payment automation company, and a managing partner at Fresh Founders.

What is Fresh Founders?

An invite-only mastermind community of founders and CEOs that began as dinners and coffee meetups in Ottawa and has expanded to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Angel was a volunteer member from 2014 before joining full-time as managing partner.

What did he cover on Founder Journey?

Automating an admin job for his cousin's shipping business at 15 and learning about IP the hard way when the spreadsheet was shared for free; why selling to auditors is uniquely difficult; and being laughed out of conferences for talking about AI in 2015.

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