From Basement to 9-Figure Exit to NASDAQ; a Fireside Chat with Windkey AI
About Event
Are you around for Waterloo Tech Week, into AI and finance, and open to your next role? Come hang out.
Join us for a fireside chat with Abraham Thomas, building the AI verification layer for finance, followed by casual networking. Sandwiches and drinks will be provided!
About Abraham
Abraham Thomas is the founder and CEO of Windkey. He previously founded Quandl (Toronto-based; $20M venture capital raised; 9 of 10 largest hedge funds as customers) and scaled it from two founders to acquisition by Nasdaq. Before that, he was a portfolio manager and head of US trading at Simplex, a Japanese hedge fund.
Windkey AI
Finance lags in AI adoption. Finance professionals don't trust the accuracy of AI outputs, and struggle to incorporate AI into their daily workflows. Windkey is building the AI verification layer for finance to solve this.
Windkey is hiring for early-career engineering and GTM roles! Learn more at https://windkey.ai/early.
About Northside Ventures
Northside Ventures is a pre-seed/seed stage fund backing exceptional Canadian founders at their earliest stages, including some of Waterloo's most ambitious founders (with ventures like Datacurve, Boardy and more). Northside exists to support ambitious Canadian founders in turning sparks of insight into enduring companies across AI infrastructure, software, frontier technologies.
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Builders Club
165 King Street West
Kitchener, ON, Canada
About The Hosts
We are official event hosts with Waterloo Tech Week 2026, a celebration of what’s been built here, and what’s still to come. We’re building something great together. September 12-17, 2026. waterlootechweek.ca
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