About
Guillaume Simard has built software-as-a-service and fintech products throughout his career.
Founder at TolaYC W22
Intro paths
YC
Guillaume went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Tola's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Guillaume can intro founders to Tola's investors below.
Tola's investors · 4
Co-founders at Tola
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Alen CvisicFounder
Experience
- SquareEngineering Managercurrent2025 — present
- Tolaco-founder & ctocurrent2022 — present
- Cabane.ioFoundercurrent2018 — presentCapitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada
- CapdeskCTO2020 — 2021
- Pleo.ioEngineering Director2018 — 2020
- Pleo.ioEngineering Lead2018 — 2020
- Pleo.ioSenior Software Engineer2016 — 2018
- CoveoEngineer Lead2010 — 2016Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada
- WAQBénévole2016
Skills & more
Software Design22Cloud Computing17Object Oriented Design5API development3Distributed Systems6Integration1ALGORITHMSSoftware architecture3EC2AWS Redshift4Big Data Analytics3Architectures1
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Software DevelopmentJavaAdding emojis to SlackC#PythonScalaAmazon Web Services (AWS)C++Framework developmentEclipseKotlinJavaScriptLanguages English · French · Spanish
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- Who is Guillaume Simard?
- Guillaume Simard has built software-as-a-service and fintech products throughout his career.
- Where does Guillaume Simard work?
- Guillaume Simard is Founder of Tola.
- What companies did Guillaume Simard found?
- Guillaume Simard founded Tola.
- Where did Guillaume Simard go to school?
- Guillaume Simard studied at Université Laval (Engineer’s Degree, Software Engineering).
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Shared employers
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