Jean-François Grenon

Jean-François Grenon is a serial entrepreneur and a technology angel investor. He is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Tres Grande Distinction in Elecrtrical Engineering and Harvard Business School (MBA). After a stint with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris and Boston, he worked for over 20 years in the wireless equipment industry in the US for technology innovators such as M/A-COM and California Microwave and start-ups such as Technical Communications Corporation, Microwave Radio Corporation and Innova Corporation. His claim to fame was as a CEO, to recapitalize fledging Seattle-based start-up Innova Corporation, take it public 18 months later and then merge it with its frontal and dominant competitor 12 months later. He provided over 10x return to its venture backers in that process.

Jean-François has focused for the last 15 years on angel investing in technology, primarily in Canada. He has invested in and exited a number of companies such as Elliptic Technologies, Optosecurity, Ticksmith, LandR via secondaries or an outright company sale.

He is a limited partner of Montreal-based Tandem Launch Fund 1 and 2, Ottawa-based Mistral Venture Partners Fund 1 and Fund 2 and Quebec-based Fond InnovExport. He sits on the boards of 10 (mostly AI-connected companies), including 4 as their Chairman. He generally exits an investment when they reach break even and are engaged in healthy revenue growth.