Starburst Ventures

Starburst Ventures is an innovation catalyst in the aerospace sector, recognized as the first global accelerator dedicated to aviation, space, and defense. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in California, it specializes in facilitating connections between established corporations and startups while offering strategic growth mentoring and consulting services. With a presence in major cities including Los Angeles, Paris, Montreal, Munich, San Francisco, and Singapore, Starburst has cultivated an extensive ecosystem that encompasses over 4,000 startups related to aerospace. The organization also hosts numerous international and national events, highlighting innovation in the industry, particularly at prominent air shows. Starburst Ventures focuses on series A and series B-stage investments, emphasizing the growth and development of aerospace companies worldwide.

François Chopard

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Van Espahbodi

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Brandon Florian

Business Development and Corporate Relations Director

Julius Yeo

Managing Director

Past deals in Montreal

AIR (AI Redefined)

Venture Round in 2020
AIR is a software company specialized in machine learning research and applications. Its vision is to build a brighter, smarter future by improving the synergy between people and AI; its mission, to provide a universal and safe digital place where AIs and people can learn continuously from each other. Its first product, Cogment (https://cogment.ai), is a high-performance, open source framework that allows multi-agent, multi-reward, continuous live training of AIs and Humans together in the same environment.

Paladin AI

Venture Round in 2020
Paladin AI Inc. develops and offers software solutions that use data mining and machine learning to analyze proficiency of pilots and make targeted training recommendations. It provides InstructIQ, a dashboard, which offers adaptive training, flight simulator agnostic, proprietary suite, detect patterns of competency automatically, competency-based training, and client-centric virtual private cloud. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Montreal, Canada.