Andy Burns

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Founder at Cairn Bio | ex-Thomson Reuters

Cairn Bio
Montreal, QC · ET (UTC-5)
16+ years experience
McMaster University
English, French
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Cairn Bio (AI agents for operations teams). 18 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company. Took Cairn Bio from zero to $7 million ARR. I write short fiction no one reads.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about AI agents for operations teams
  • Early customers and design partners
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Prefers short, specific messages

Skills
productautomationB2B SaaSfundraising
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $6M pre-seed for credit underwriting for construction firms

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$6M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$139k MRR after 22 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$139k MRR after 22 months. Looking for investors who know fintech and can help with enterprise sales.

Montreal, QCautomationfundraisingb2b saas
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Experience

  1. Founder
    May 2022 - Present
    Cairn Bio · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Signed 53 paying customers, 19 of them enterprises.
    • Took Cairn Bio from zero to $1 million ARR.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2019 - May 2022
    Thomson Reuters · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 877ms to 55ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
    OpenText · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Moved 86% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Led the migration of 68 services to fundraising.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2013 - Feb 2017
    BMO · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2010 - Sep 2013
    OpenText · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling AI agents for operations teams.

Side project: a habit tracker
2022

Built with automation and B2B SaaS. 4351 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. McMaster University
    BEng, Economics
    2004 - 2008

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