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Ryan Shannon

Partner at Radical Ventures

Toronto, Ontario

Overview 

Ryan Shannon is a Partner at Radical Ventures in Toronto, Ontario, with a background in private equity and investment banking, holding a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. His career highlights include serving as a Board Member and Observer for various innovative companies, demonstrating expertise in business analysis and financial analysis.

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

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