Frederic Bastien

Fred is a technology investor, serial entrepreneur and people leader with extensive international experience, and is passionate about innovation and empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs. His successful track record spans the entire AI, SaaS and mobile internet space, both within startups as well as large corporations. He is the recipient of the 2014 E&Y Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award for Quebec, and in 2023 was finalist for Investor of the Year and winner for Mentor of the Year at the Startup Community Awards.

Besides investing as an angel in a growing portfolio of pre-seed/seed tech startups, Fred is the co-founder and managing partner of Amiral Ventures, a new venture capital fund focused on Enterprise Tech scale-up companies.

Prior to Amiral, Frédéric co-founded Mnubo, and as its CEO led the company to become the dominant player in the Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things space, formed commercial partnerships with AT&T, Google, Amazon, Samsung and Microsoft, and spearheaded its 9-digit acquisition by Aspen Technology (AZPN), one of NASDAQ’s best performing tech companies.

Frederic serves as the Chairman of the Board at Anges Quebec, the largest business angel network in the country, and sits on several Board of Directors, including ENCQOR, Canada's 5G Corridor project. He was the founding president of the Technopolys movement to promote the Quebec technology sector, is a Creative Destruction Lab Fellow and NextAI mentor, contributes to several incubators, and serves as advisor and mentor to a dozen local startups and VC funds.

He is known for his involvement in various industry initiatives and standard bodies, and is a frequent speaker and thought leader in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics.

- Founder and CEO of mnubo, the leading Artificial Intelligence platform for the Internet of Things, acquired by Aspen Technology in 2019
- Played a strategic role in the growth and development of Blueslice Networks, its expansion in the M2M space and its acquisition by Tekelec in 2010
- Led large multi-country teams at Nortel, participated in the early days of UMTS/3G deployments in Europe and later on contributing to the initial LTE technology definition
- Expanded Teleglobe's international VoIP network to the USA, Europe and Japan
- Was part of the small team who launched Canada's first national GSM network (Fido) in 1996