Eric Graham

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Principal at Northwind Partners · venture capital, applied ML

Northwind Partners
Ottawa, ON · ET (UTC-5)
8+ years experience
Ivey Business School
English
Investing
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Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in AI applications. Previously an operator for 5 years before investing. Most at home with applied ML and venture capital. Jazz piano, badly.

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Skills
consumerapplied MLventure capitalproduct
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into seed AI applications in the US

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
AI applications, climate
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

Ottawa, ONapplied mlconsumerproduct
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Northwind Partners · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Ottawa, ON
    • Led or co-led 23 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 54 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2021 - Sep 2023
    Shopify · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Ottawa, ON
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 24 a week to 4.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
    Scotiabank · 2 yr 9 mo · Contract · Ottawa, ON
    • Wrote the applied ML service that now handles 41 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Ivey Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2022 - 2024
  2. Queen's University
    BCom, Computer Science
    2014 - 2018

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