aid: element-ai
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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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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: acquired
x-status-detail: Acquired by ServiceNow, closed 2021-01-08; now ServiceNow Research. No independent API surface.
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x-acquired-date: '2021-01-08'
x-backed-by:
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- dcvc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Vision
- Enterprise AI
- Montreal
- Acquired
- ServiceNow
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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