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Yanick Dufresne

Co-founder, Amity

SaaS

Yanick Dufresne is co-founder and former chief technology officer of Amity, a Toronto company started with Paul Philp in 2012 to build customer success software — tools that read changes in customer health, recommended the next action for SaaS teams and measured whether it worked. Amity's product was discontinued and getamity.com has been offline since January 2022.

Yanick hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Yanick co-founded Amity, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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What was Yanick Dufresne's role at Amity?

Amity's own "about-us" page, archived by the Wayback Machine on 2016-01-21, lists Yanick Dufresne as "CTO & CO-FOUNDER" under "Amity Leadership," alongside CEO and co-founder Paul Philp.

Who else was on Amity's founding leadership team?

That same archived about-us page (checked 2016-01-21 snapshot) lists Paul Philp (CEO & Co-founder), Yanick Dufresne (CTO & Co-founder), Louise Philp (CCO & Co-founder) and John Kennedy (VP Engineering & Co-founder).

What did Amity do?

Amity's own marketing copy, archived 2015-03-15, described it as "the single platform for managing the entire SaaS customer lifecycle," tracking customer engagement across getting, keeping and growing customers.

Is Amity still operating?

No. Checked directly on 2026-09-25, getamity.com no longer resolves (DNS lookup fails), and the domain's last Wayback Machine snapshot is from 2023-08-15.

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