Calvin Vincent Tsai

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Co-founder & CTO at Basil Security · product, automation

Basil Security
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
University of Toronto
English
Raising
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Overview

I started Basil Security to fix AI agents for operations teams for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Grew the team to 58 people across 4 countries. Raised $21 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Parkway Financial and Rogers. Most at home with LLMs and climate tech. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Skills
LLMsproductclimate techfundraisingautomationB2B SaaS
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - code review for manufacturers in Southeast Asia, 136 paying customers

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$751k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
136 paying customers after 12 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

136 paying customers after 12 months. Looking for investors who know consumer apps and can help with pricing.

Toronto, ON · remote OKautomationclimate techb2b saas
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Basil Security · 1 yr 8 mo · Contract · Toronto, ON
    • Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company.
    • Signed 183 paying customers, 3 of them enterprises.
    • Took Basil Security from zero to $3 million ARR.
  2. Account Executive
    Feb 2021 - Oct 2024
    Parkway Financial · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Signed 29 channel partners that now source 45% of pipeline.
    • Closed 124% of quota two years running.
  3. Sales Development Representative
    Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
    Rogers · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Signed 9 channel partners that now source 40% of pipeline.
    • Closed 227% of quota two years running.
  4. Senior Account Executive
    Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
    Scotiabank · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Shortened the mid-market sales cycle from 12 months to 3.
    • Opened 12 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.

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Education

  1. University of Toronto
    BASc, Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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