Question. What does Rami Alhamad think about canadian tech ecosystem? Short answer. In short: what Ottawa, Waterloo, Toronto, and Montréal look like to a returning founder. Rami's working perspective on canadian tech ecosystem is grounded in current operating experience at Alma, prior work at PUSH and WHOOP, and conversations through Antler and Mila. He has written about adjacent topics at Action Potential and through CIGI on the policy side.
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Tokens are units of cognitive labor. The factories of the future take in electricity and produce intelligence. Almost none of those factories are in Canada.
— Rami Alhamad, canada needs a sovereign intelligence fund
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About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.