Ryan Shannon
Partner at Radical Ventures
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
Investor & board relationships with Cohere, Twelve Labs, retrain.ai, Promise Robotics, Firsthand, and OffDeal. Investor in Hebbia, V7, Graft, Delphina, and World Labs.
Board Member
2024
AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses
Raised $4,825,000.00 from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Centre Street Partners and Radical Ventures.
Board Observer
2022
Board Observer
2022
Twelve Labs makes video foundation models accessible via APIs to empower businesses and developers to build intelligent video products.
Raised $77,120,000.00 from Korea Investment Partners, New Enterprise Associates, WndrCo, NVentures, Radical Ventures and Index Ventures.
Board Observer
2022
retrain.ai is a responsible AI-driven Talent Intelligence Platform powering organizations to find, develop, upskill and reskill talent.
Raised $34,000,000.00 from Radical Ventures, Splunk Ventures, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Square Peg Capital, Hetz Ventures, TechAviv Founder Partners, .406 Ventures, .406 Ventures, Square Peg Ventures and TechAviv Founder Partners.
Board Observer
2023
Board Observer
2023
Firsthand operates as an AI agent platform built for brands & publishers.
Board Observer
2022 - 2024
Covariant is an AI Robotics company developing a universal AI that enables robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them.
Raised $222,000,000.00 from CPP Investments, Radical Ventures, AIX Ventures, Northgate Capital, Gates Frontier Fund, Index Ventures, Amplify Partners, CPP Investments, Amplify Partners and Radical Ventures.
Private Equity Associate
2017 - 2019
TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a series of funds.
Raised $535,598,425.00 from Macquarie Group, Ares Management, Nomura Holdings, Pierfront Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Partners Group and Barings.
Investment Banking Analyst
2015 - 2017