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Taneem Ahmed

Co-founder & VP of Software, Hepzibah

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Taneem Ahmed co-founded Hepzibah, the Canadian chip-design company that licenses at-memory AI compute IP and core designs to chipmakers, and is its vice-president of software. He started it with Martin Snelgrove, Raymond Chik and David Lynch, all formerly of Untether AI. Hepzibah's team page lists his software and chip-architecture work at Lattice, Xilinx, HiSilicon and Untether AI.

Taneem hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Taneem co-founded Hepzibah.

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Did Taneem Ahmed co-found Hepzibah?

Yes. Hepzibah's own team page, checked on 2026-10-16, lists him as vice president of software with the line "Founder: Hepzibah". Two Small Fish Ventures' investment announcement, posted on Allen Lau's blog on 2025-03-12 and on Hepzibah's news page on 2025-03-18, says Hepzibah AI was founded by Untether AI co-founders Martin Snelgrove and Raymond Chik "along with David Lynch and Taneem Ahmed". TechSoda (2025-08-13) describes Hepzibah as co-founded by Snelgrove with long-time collaborators Taneem Ahmed and Raymond Chik.

What did Taneem Ahmed do before Hepzibah?

Hepzibah's team page, checked on 2026-10-16, summarises his background as software R&D and compute and chip architecture at Lattice, Xilinx, HiSilicon and Untether AI. TechSoda (2025-08-13) calls him a veteran software leader formerly at Huawei and says he, Snelgrove and Chik previously built Untether AI together. No fetched page gives his title at Untether AI or the dates he worked there.

Has Taneem Ahmed spoken at TechTO?

No. Co-founder Raymond Chik did, at TechTO on 2023-05-08 and on TechTO's Founder Journey on 2023-07-14, both times about Untether AI rather than Hepzibah.

Where is Taneem Ahmed based, and what is he doing now?

Hepzibah's team page, checked on 2026-10-16, still lists him as vice president of software. No fetched page states where he is based; Hepzibah's own site gives only Canada as its location, and Ontario's COMPUTEX Taipei 2026 delegate listing describes the company as Toronto-based.

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