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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
Articles by Frederic
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Continuing on our mission... and a Million thanks!
Continuing on our mission... and a Million thanks!
By Frederic Bastien
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How CROs can help companies steer and scale in complex technology markets such as AI and IoT
How CROs can help companies steer and scale in complex technology markets such as AI and IoT
By Frederic Bastien
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THE ERA OF DATA ANALYSIS: WHY IoT ANALYTICS ARE DIFFERENT
THE ERA OF DATA ANALYSIS: WHY IoT ANALYTICS ARE DIFFERENT
By Frederic Bastien
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Very happy to share the news that Hexoskin has raised an additional $4.2M to invest in digital biomarkers research and AI-based diagnostics! I'd like…
Very happy to share the news that Hexoskin has raised an additional $4.2M to invest in digital biomarkers research and AI-based diagnostics! I'd like…
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Canada, It’s Time To Back Our Own. Just got a call from a friend telling me that he has to close his business. Entrepreneurs in this country are…
Canada, It’s Time To Back Our Own. Just got a call from a friend telling me that he has to close his business. Entrepreneurs in this country are…
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Viggle, the Toronto #AI startup behind that viral Lil Yachty walkout meme, has closed a $26M CAD Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Two Small Fish…
Viggle, the Toronto #AI startup behind that viral Lil Yachty walkout meme, has closed a $26M CAD Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Two Small Fish…
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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member of the Sounding Board
Canada's Advanced Manufacturing Economic Strategy Table
- Present 6 years 10 months
Science and Technology
The Advanced Manufacturing Sounding Board is made up of innovative leaders from across the country and provides feedback and recommendations to the Economic Strategy Table on strategies to adopt technology and grow Canadian SME firms to scale.
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Membre de la Table des Partenaires Influents - Manufacturiers Innovants
Manufacturiers Innovants - Investissement Québec
- Present 7 years 1 month
Science and Technology
L'initiative 'Manufacturiers Innovants' a été crée par Investissement Québec afin de propulser les manufacturiers Québécois vers l'Industrie 4.0.
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Coach
Fondation Montréal inc.
- Present 9 years 6 months
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Mentor
Academos www.academos.qc.ca
- Present 9 years 11 months
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Mentoring students and professionals from 14-30 years old, helping them in their career choices and getting ready for the work market.
Publications
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Inspiration Inc.
Beliveau Editions
Frederic Bastien's story is featured alongside 9 other inspiring entrepreneurs in this book written by Philippe Richard Bertrand and published by Beliveau Editions.
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Panel - Innovation and Internet of Things
Canadian Venture Capital Association conference 2016
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Panelist - 'Born Global' - How startups go international from Day 1
C2 MTL 2016 & Montreal Chamber of Commerce
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Panel - Intelligent Buildings
Continental Automated Buildings Association - 2016 forum
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Presentation - The impact of IoT and Big Data on business models
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal / HEC
Presented to students of an MBA program in conjunction with HEC and Polytechnique de Montreal.
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Speaker - Data Analytics for Smart Cities
IoT World Forum - Dubai
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Panelist - l'Internet des Objets
TechnoMontréal - l'Internet des Objets
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Speaker - How to raise money for your Startup idea
The Founder Institute
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Speaker - Iot & Big Data - Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques et Ecole Polytechnique
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Keynote Speaker - Industrial IoT Symposium
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Speaker - Big Data - Faculté de Maths Université de Montréal
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Panelist - Institut d'Entrepreneuriat des HEC
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Guest Speaker - Wavefront IoT Summit
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Speaker - Going beyond M2M - Design & Manufacturing Montreal
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Panelist - Industrial IoT Symposium
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Speaker - Wearables Tech and Analytics - TM Forum - Nice
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Speaker - Wavefront M2M Summit - Vancouver
Patents
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Managing simultaneous access to communications services from multiple communications networks
EU EP2130324
Honors & Awards
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C2xAccelerateMTL winner (Top 50 startups)
C100
https://www.c2montreal.com/announcing-the-c2xacceleratemtl-winners/
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CABA Forum Intelligent Buildings Pitch Contest - 2nd place
CABA
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2015 Gartner Cool Vendor
Gartner
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3046317/cool-vendors-communications-service-provider
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2015 Hot Tech Innovators
ABI Research
https://www.abiresearch.com/whitepapers/Hot-Tech-Innovators/
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Canada's CIX Top20 Innovative Companies
Canadian Innovation Exchange
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Canada's Top10 Vision-to-Reality Award
Price Waterhouse Coopers
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Deloitte Technology Fast50 - Companies to Watch 2014
Deloitte
http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ca/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/ca-en-tmt-technology-fast-50-winners-2014.pdf
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2014 Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year - Quebec
Ernst & Young
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48 Hours-in-the-Valley Top16 hottest tech startups
C100
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Top25 Up & Coming ICT companies in Canada
Branham300
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C2-MTL Top25 Innovative companies
Bronfman Family Foundation
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Leading Lights "Best Deal Maker" 2010 award
Light Reading
Awarded for the Tekelec acquisition of Blueslice Networks in May 2010.
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French
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Englisch
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