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Raymond Chik

Raymond Chik

  • Entrepreneur, Investor
  • Years active: 19XX — present
  • Background

    Untether AI was one of the high-profile  start-ups to emerge out of Toronto in the wake of its mid-2010s AI boom. Dedicated to ”untethering” AI from data centres and making it available at the network edge, Untether AI’s unique at-memory architecture for deep learning puts processing next to the memory – minimizing data movement and power consumption.
  • Raymond Chik,
  • Serial entrepreneur
  • Markham
  • , ON

Raymond Chik is an accomplished semiconductor chip design engineer, serial entrepreneur and an angel investor.

He completed his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1995. Since then he has co-founded several semiconductor startups, including his latest venture, Untether AI, which focuses on AI HW compute acceleration.

Raymond is a globally active contributor to the startup ecosystem, serving on Hardtech Investor Network’s Advisory Board as Chair, and as an Executive In Residence at the ventureLAB, a global hardtech founder community and technology hub. He is also a venture partner at Network VC and was the founding chair of the Toronto IEEE Solid-State Circuits Chapter.

His contributions have been recognized with awards such as the ACCE (Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs) Best Startup Award 2022 and Tech Business of the Year (2022) by Canadian SME Small Business Magazine.

To hear how Raymond’s career took shape, watch this interview with ventureLAB CEO Hugh Chow.

CompanyFoundedHQType
Untether AI2018
  • Toronto
  • , ON
Design - CMOS (AI processor/accelerator)
  • Current as of: June 5, 2024 10:00 pm