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Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer

co-founder and Partner at Real Ventures

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Hands on VC, Entrepreneur and Senior Executive with experience in all aspects of creating, building and growing technology companies.

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Interests

Internet, early stage investing, parenting, ice hockey, swimming, healthy living, generosity, authenticity

Specialties

Entrepreneurship

Work experience

(January 2013 to present)
Board member, Uniiverse

(November 2012 to present)
Board Member, Execution Labs

(November 2012 to present)
Board member, OMsignal

(May 2012 to present)
Board member, TasteFIlter

(January 2012 to present)
Board Member, Lagoa Technologies

(November 2011 to present)
Board Member, Playerize

(July 2011 to present)
Board member, Caristix

(July 2011 to present)
Board member, iget.it

(March 2011 to present)
Co-founder and Mentor, Founderfuel

(March 2011 to present)
Board member, Cinemagram

(August 2010 to present)
Co-founder and Partner, Real Ventures
Seed stage investor in consumer web, saas, mobile, gaming, social, advertising and analytics.

(May 2010 to present)
Board Member, Datacratic

(January 2009 to present)
Board member, Whatsnexx

(2007 to present)
Partner, Montreal Start Up
Montreal based seed fund targeting software, wireless and Internet companies.

(February 2011 to August 2012)
Board member, Planora
Company sold to RedPrairies

(September 2009 to August 2011)
Board member, Evolver
Evolver has built the most sophisticated web-based 3D avatar generation platform and they operate www.avatara.com. Evolver is a portfolio company of Montreal Start Up.

(January 2007 to December 2008)
EIR, VantagePoint Venture Partners

(August 2005 to December 2006)
Investment Professional, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

(August 2003 to September 2006)
Business development, finance, marketing, Terrascale Technologies (sold to Rackable Systems)

(May 2001 to July 2003)
Investment Professional, Innovatech Montreal
$350M seed fund, investments included Quazal (sold to Unisoft), Net Integration Technologies (sold to IBM) and Terrascale Technologies (sold to Rackable Systems)

Education

(1993 to 1996)
at Middlebury College