CADVision Internet
Founder and CEO. Canada's first commercial ADSL, bootstrapped to 65,000 subscribers.
First company exitC$32M
About
Jeffrey Shmigelsky
Founder, CTO, and now an AI consultant and fractional CTO. I built my first company and sold it for C$32M, then spent the years since building AI that runs in production. Today I put agentic AI to work for businesses that want AI to show up in their numbers.
EY Entrepreneur of the Year, 2000
The internet changed every business once. AI is doing it again.
I built a company on the first wave and was named Entrepreneur of the Year for it. Now I help owners get ahead of this one.
C$32Mfirst company exit, CADVision Internet
1stcommercial ADSL in Canada
7patents filed, the first issued (#11,910,784)
25Mimages a day through an AI pipeline I built
The record
Built, scaled, sold, and building again.
- 2025 – presentVancouver, BC
CEO, Active Equities, Inc.
- Analyses 3.2 billion rows of financial market data
- Processes 16 million SEC EDGAR filings
- A 200,000-line codebase, built with agile practices and AI-assisted coding
GEKKOAI investingSTARKMarket researchTRONAI analytics - 2020 – 2024Vancouver, BC
CTO, OneCup AI
- Built Face ID for animals with Google for Startups
- An AI vision pipeline of 24 models, scaled to 25 million images a day
- A generative AI pipeline that created 10 million synthetic images across 200 species and 3,000 breeds
- Sent 25,000 calving notifications to ranchers through an OpenAI ChatGPT integration
- Deployed 1,000 cameras and a custom media player
- Led a team of 20 engineers and developers
- 7 patents filed, the first issued as #11,910,784
- A $1.5M contract with a top-3 pharma company to speed up drug trials for pets using computer vision
- Partnered with NVIDIA through Inception and Metropolis
- 10 yearsCalgary, AB
Founder and CEO, CADVision Internet
Sold for C$32M- Launched Canada's first commercial ADSL
- Grew to 65,000 subscribers and 12,000 companies, with 60% market capture
- Bootstrapped from cash flow to a team of 80 across engineering, sales, support, marketing and service
- Handled 1,000 calls and 3,000 emails a day
- Named EY Entrepreneur of the Year
- 2 yearsEdmonton, AB
CTO, BioConversion DataBank Foundation
- Built a platform for engineering synthetic biology
- Invented a new way to compare phylogenetic trees at the gene level, applied to engineering synthetic jet fuel
- 1 yearCalgary, AB
Entrepreneur in Residence, Haskayne School of Business
- Taught startup thinking and build-fast, iterate-fast methods at the University of Calgary
- Silicon ValleyProjects and boards
XPRIZE, Nano Manufacturing, Androcyte
- Project Manager, XPRIZE Visioneer app: used to choose the next XPRIZE from 80 candidates, including the $10M Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE
- Board Member, Nano Manufacturing Company (2 years): software to simulate precision molecular assembly; helped bring in $20M of investment for a proof of concept
- Investor, Androcyte: financed a startup that sequenced the DNA of 100 healthy supercentenarians
Credentials
Exits, awards, and the work behind them.
Exits
CureTogether
Acquired by 23andMe.
Stem Cell Therapeutics
Went public.
Recognition
- 2000EY Entrepreneur of the YearErnst & Young, for CADVision Internet
- 3×Top 40 Under 40Avenue Magazine
- 2023Business of the Year, AgribitionDeloitte, awarded to OneCup AI
- #1 of 900SVG Thrive Canadian Cohort WinnerStartup programme, OneCup AI
- CatalystOutstanding Catalyst: Sustainability & Impact on SocietyTM Forum, OneCup AI and Telus
- FounderAssociate Founder, Singularity UniversitySeed financing, investor in three startups
Education
- GTMSc Computer Science, Interactive IntelligenceGeorgia Tech · 4.0 GPA
- UCBSc Computer ScienceUniversity of Calgary
- UUdacity NanodegreesArtificial Intelligence · Machine Learning Engineer · Deep Learning · Reinforcement Learning · AI for Trading
Patents 2 of 7 filed
- US 11,910,784IssuedAnimal visual identification, tracking, monitoring and assessment systems
- Synthetic training dataFiledGeneration of simulated computer vision training data using a virtual reality engine
Skills
Technical leadershipAI pipelinesLLMsComputer visionSynthetic dataSystem designStrategic planningIntellectual propertyProduct managementPublic speaking
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