Karel Vuong
Building an education renaissance • Founder, investor, builder • 🇨🇦/acc
Toronto, Ontario
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Skills
Education
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Work Experience
2025
Co-Founder
2025
Studio building products to unlock agency, personalization, and purpose in education. Overseeing product and development. Launched with my wife as our modern family business.
2018
Principal
2018
2017
Investor
2017
Family holding company investing in tech companies, equities, and alternative assets. Cheques in Espresso Systems, Satsuma (acq. by Alchemy), Selv Labs (Delegate, Circuit, Clusters), Helika, and others.
2023 - 2025
Advisor & Board Observer
2023 - 2025
2022 - 2025
Co-Founder (Active)
2022 - 2025
A leading consumer crypto at the intersection of AI and entertainment. Initially launched as an NFT and gaming space, later pivoted to building non-fungible agents and AI-native collectibles. Passed the torch in March 2025.
2019 - 2022
Senior Associate
2020 - 2022
Wore many hats during my tenure at Sagard as an early employee and Chief of Staff to the CEO, Paul Desmarais III. Departed at $14B AUM and 250+ employees.
Chief of Staff, CEO
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2022
Senior Associate
2020 - 2022
Chief of Staff, Executive Chairman
2019 - 2020
Associate
2018 - 2019
2016 - 2019
GM
2016 - 2019
Employee #1 and early member incubating Dialogue (TSX:CARE; CA$100M IPO), Collage (acq. by People Corp), Breathe Life (acq. by SE2), and StreamingFast (ex-dfuse; received CA$75M grant from The Graph).
2016 - 2018
Founding Member
2016 - 2018
From idea to acquisition in 3 years (People Corporation; November 2019)
2016 - 2018
Founding Member
2016 - 2018
From idea to IPO in 5 years - TSX:CARE (March 2021)