Caseway CEO says expansion is shifting to Taiwan and Europe
Original title: Why I'm growing my Vancouver AI company in Taiwan and Europe instead of the U.S.
The founder says a September 8 US directive halted new American sales while two existing US customers remain.
In a BCBusiness opinion piece, Caseway founder Al Vigier says the 15-person Vancouver AI firm stopped new US business development after a September 8 directive he says tells US agencies to drop Canadian-made products from buying schedules. He says Caseway still holds a US federal supplier registration and a NATO supplier code and keeps two American legal-technology customers. Growth efforts he describes are pilots and partnerships in Taiwan, including MiTAC, Phison, Kunway and Coretronic, plus European defence work tied to TKMS and Canada's access to the EU SAFE program.
Unconfirmed: The US buying directive and partnership status are the author's account, not independently confirmed here.
- Caseway software fills forms from an organization's documents and checks them against rules.
- More than 100 law firms use it in MyCase for over 7,000 court forms.
- A Kunway pilot would be paid, with hardware in kind, then a per-unit licence and revenue share.
- Vigier says Caseway is registered on Ukraine's Brave1 platform and has applied to test there.
- He cites the EU SAFE program as a €150-billion defence financing route for Canadian suppliers.
From the original article
5 min read at bcbusiness.ca
Written by Al Vigier, founder and CEO of Caseway, an AI company that develops products with large enterprises and shares the resulting revenue. Since we announced on Sept. 22 that Caseway was pulling out of Canada’s technology accelerator in Silicon Valley, other Vancouver founders have kept asking me the same question.
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