Etienne Mérineau (He/him)

Etienne is an award-winning AI entrepreneur turned investor. As the founder of Heyday, a Conversational AI startup focused on the e-commerce space, Etienne turned a napkin sketch vision into a $60M exit in just four years (acquired by Hootsuite in 2021).

A globally-renowned marketer and thought leader featured in hundreds of top-tier publications such as Forbes, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Vogue Business, Shopify's blog, and more, Etienne's unique ability and value add sits at the intersection of marketing, sales & fundraising.

Today as General Partner of Telegraph in Canada, a pre-seed fund, Etienne and his team are looking to back local founders with transformative ideas in B2B SaaS and AI to build the next generation of category defining Canadian tech companies.

Etienne is also an investor in OpenAI & SpaceX, a speaker and startup mentor (AI Summit in NYC, McGill University in Montreal, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge/Boston).

A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (Class of 2018), Etienne has won more than 60 awards globally both as a marketer and entrepreneur.

He is also an Associate Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in New York City, a Webby Awards Judge (dubbed "the Oscars of the Web"), and a graduate from the highly-competitive (top 0.1%) MIT Bootcamps' Disciplined Entrepreneurship program.