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Potloc
Potloc is a Montreal-based market research technology company that runs an AI-powered, all-in-one survey platform built exclusively for management consulting and private equity firms. Founded in 2013 by HEC Paris graduates Rodolphe Barrere and Louis Delaoustre, the company pioneered social-media sampling to source hard-to-reach B2B and B2C respondents, and today handles the full research workflow - questionnaire design, sampling, live fieldwork monitoring, data-quality control, and AI-assisted analysis. Potloc has served 500+ global firms and collected hundreds of millions of survey responses across industries and geographies.
Saris AI
Saris AI builds agentic AI workflow agents that automate the repetitive, high-volume back-office work at banks and credit unions - lending, underwriting, compliance, and operations - without replacing the core systems institutions already run. Founded in 2024 by the ex-Oohlala Mobile team, the Montreal- and San Francisco-based company trains agents on each institution's own workflows to execute multi-step tasks under human supervision. In May 2026 it raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC to scale deployments and deepen integrations with partners like Fiserv, MeridianLink, and Encompass.
Talent.com
Talent.com is a Montreal-born job search platform that aggregates tens of millions of job listings from career sites, staffing agencies and job boards into one searchable place. Originally launched in 2011 as Neuvoo, it rebranded to Talent.com in 2019, raised $120M US in Series B funding in 2022, and now operates across roughly 78 countries with AI-driven job matching, recruitment advertising for employers, and free tools like its widely used salary and tax calculators.