$100M+
ARR (claimed)
paid PR, not audited
Jamil Shinawi
@jamil_shinawi
Cofondateur et PDG, AHOY | Partenaire fondateur, Actual VC | 24SIX9
OSINT Profile
Jamil Shinawi est le cofondateur et PDG d'AHOY, société d'infrastructure de « Physical AI » basée à Dubaï, qui a fait de Montréal son siège nord-américain et son principal pôle de R&D en juillet 2026. AHOY a annoncé le 12 mai 2026 un accord d'acquisition de l'éditeur montréalais d'automatisation Wrk Technologies, qualifié de « neuf chiffres » ; aucun montant n'a été divulgué et la clôture n'était pas intervenue au moment des reportages. Il est également partenaire fondateur d'Actual VC, fonds deep tech qu'il présente comme doté de 400 M$ (chiffre revendiqué, non audité publiquement), et membre fondateur du conseil de 24SIX9. Forbe 30 Under 30 Arabie saoudite (2016), formation d'ingénierie en aménagement urbain et régional à l'université de Dammam. Les chiffres — 100 M$+ d'ARR, rentabilité, croissance 330x, valorisation « decacorn » — proviennent de l'entreprise et de son fondateur, pas de dépôts publics.
Key Stats
330x
Growth (claimed)
company, 5-year
$10B
Valuation (claimed)
poster-claimed, no priced round
$400M
Fund (self-described)
Actual VC, no filing seen
200
Montréal hires (reported)
BetaKit / The Logic
Portfolio & Corporate Structure
AHOY / ahoy.technology (operating)
Co-founder & CEO since Oct 2018. Perception Suite, COMET logistics control tower, AHOY-AVML federated edge audio/video ML. Dubai HQ; offices across Canada, Saudi and UAE per company boilerplate.
Wrk Technologies (acquisition (agreement))
Nine-figure agreement announced 12 May 2026; not closed as of the July reporting. Montreal-based automation and execution platform.
Actual VC (fund)
Founding partner; self-described $400M deep-tech fund, founded Jan 2024.
24SIX9 (community)
Founding board member since Feb 2022; not-for-profit founder community.
Trouve Labs (research)
AHOY's frontier AI/ML research lab, named in the April 2026 release as the source of the air-gapped research.
Key Network
Mohannad El-Barachi — CEO of Wrk, named Chief Strategy Officer of AHOY in the same announcement (professional)Darshan Thakkar — Chief Financial Officer, AHOY (professional)Dr. Hood Khizer — Chief Scientific Officer, AHOY (appointed May 2026) (professional)Dr. Benoit Julien — Chief Technologist, AHOY (appointed May 2026) (professional)Actual VC — Deep-tech fund he co-founded as a founding partner (investor)24SIX9 — Founding board member of the founder community (community)
Jurisdictions & Locations
📍 Montréal, Canada — HQ📍 Montréal, Canada — Research📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates — HQ📍 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Office
Locale Coverage
Languages: EN FR AR RU ZH JA ES DE PT HI IT NL
Currencies: CAD AED SAR USD EUR GBP CHF JPY CNY INR USDC
Official & Verified Links
Full Dossier via x402
Unlock the complete $UM-Radar OSINT dossier + live GIS intelligence for 4.99 USD.
💰 Collect via x402🗺 $UM-Radar GIS OSINT — Operational Markets
North American HQ (announced) · Montréal · Canada
AHOY's announced North American headquarters and primary R&D hub, 200 direct hires. Pin is the Startupfest announcement venue (Grand Quai); the office address itself is not published.
Mile-Ex / Mila building · Montréal · Canada
6666 Rue Saint-Urbain, Mile-Ex — Mila, the Quebec AI institute AHOY partnered with (suite 200) and the O Mile-Ex building cluster. Not asserted as an AHOY office.
Group HQ · Dubai · United Arab Emirates
AHOY LLC corporate base — LinkedIn/Tavily/CB Insights all list Dubai as headquarters.
Regional office · Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Almalqa, Anas bin Malik Street — corporate office listed on PitchBook.
4 geo-pins — live operational-market GIS network on the $UM-Radar vector map
Event photo Toggle photo
Crunch / 24SIX9 founder group, Dubai-Riyadh circuit. Front, with phone: Jamil Shinawi. Captions are burned into the frame by the source post (@alexdolbun).
💳 Collect via x402 — 9.99 USDC
' + umAffiliateBlock(lang, true) + 'Payez en $UM, 60% de réduction
$UMBase
13,016,287 UM~$3.9960
USDCBase
9.99 USDC$9.99
USDTBNB Chain
9.99 USDT$9.99
USDTTron
9.99 USDT$9.99
💳 Buy $UM on Bankr ↗dossier unlocks on payment confirmation · 60% cheaper in $UM
HNWI premium $99/mo → /v1/x402/alpha/feed · AI agents: POST /v1/x402/upload with x402-payment header