Element AI

Element AI was a Montreal, Quebec-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 by Jean-Francois Gagne, Yoshua Bengio, Nicolas Chapados, Philippe Beaudoin, Anne Martel, and Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer. It operated as an AI systems integrator and professional-services firm with the mission of putting advanced AI capabilities - natural language processing, computer vision, document intelligence, and conversational AI - in reach of traditional enterprises. After raising roughly US$102M plus Canadian government funding and reaching an estimated US$600-700M valuation in 2019, the company ran short of runway and was acquired by ServiceNow (announced November 30, 2020; closed January 8, 2021 for approximately US$230M). Its research group became ServiceNow Research and its former domain now redirects there. The company no longer operates independently and publishes no standalone public API, developer portal, or SDKs.

Element AI is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.

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Governance 0.0 / 12

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

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name: Element AI
description: Element AI was a Montreal, Quebec-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 by Jean-Francois Gagne,
  Yoshua Bengio, Nicolas Chapados, Philippe Beaudoin, Anne Martel, and Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer. It operated as an AI systems
  integrator and professional-services firm with the mission of putting advanced AI capabilities - natural language processing,
  computer vision, document intelligence, and conversational AI - in reach of traditional enterprises. After raising roughly
  US$102M plus Canadian government funding and reaching an estimated US$600-700M valuation in 2019, the company ran short
  of runway and was acquired by ServiceNow (announced November 30, 2020; closed January 8, 2021 for approximately US$230M).
  Its research group became ServiceNow Research and its former domain now redirects there. The company no longer operates
  independently and publishes no standalone public API, developer portal, or SDKs.
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