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Tony Salomone

Co-founder, Transformer Lab

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Tony Salomone is a co-founder of Transformer Lab, which builds open tooling for training, fine-tuning and evaluating AI models on a team's own hardware. Salomone started the company with Ali Asaria in 2024, after working with Asaria at Well.ca and Tulip, where Salomone served as CTO.

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

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Article
Ali Asaria's Transformer Lab launches worldwideBetaKit
2026
Podcast
Monday Club Podcast: Building and Scaling in Tech with Tony SalomoneMonday Club
2024

Quick answers

Who founded Transformer Lab?

BetaKit reported on 2026-08-10 that Ali Asaria teamed up with co-founder Tony Salomone to build Transformer Lab in 2024. The company's About page, checked 2026-09-25, lists both as co-founders.

What did Tony Salomone do before Transformer Lab?

BetaKit reported on 2026-02-02 that Salomone and Asaria previously worked together at Tulip and Well.ca. The Monday Club podcast episode published 2024-10-31 describes Salomone as a former CTO at Well.ca and Tulip.

What does Transformer Lab make?

BetaKit reported on 2026-02-02 that Transformer Lab brings AI research work into a single dashboard that scales from personal hardware to computing clusters, with a privacy-first design, and that it launched worldwide alongside a pre-seed round.

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