Jamil Shinawi

OSINT Profile

Saudi-born, Dubai-based founder. Co-founded AHOY in October 2018 and runs it as CEO — a Physical AI / real-world-AI infrastructure company deploying perception and orchestration on edge, on-prem, sovereign and air-gapped estates across transport, aviation, logistics, utilities and cities. On 12 May 2026, at Web Summit Vancouver, AHOY announced Montréal as its North American headquarters, an agreement to acquire Montréal automation platform Wrk Technologies in a nine-figure deal, a Mila (Quebec AI institute) partnership and funding for what it calls Canada's first Physical AI Lab; on 8 July 2026 at Startupfest on Montréal's Grand Quai the company restated the plan as its primary R&D hub with 200 direct hires plus ~300 ecosystem jobs (BetaKit, The Logic). ALSO A CAPITAL ALLOCATOR: founding partner of Actual VC and a founding board member of the 24SIX9 founder community. Engineer by training — B.Eng. Urban & Regional Planning, University of Dammam (now Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University), with a GIS and remote-sensing orientation; listed on a Saudi '30 under 30' feature in January 2016 and says he sold a first company at 16. NUMBERS, LABELLED: '$100M+ ARR, profitable, 330x growth' is a company-issued paid press release (PRNewswire via Yahoo Finance, 16 Apr 2026) — treat as CLAIMED, not audited. '$10B decacorn valuation' is poster/founder-claimed, not a priced round. '$400M Actual VC fund' is self-described on LinkedIn, no regulatory filing surfaced. NAME-DISAMBIG: AHOY LLC (Dubai, Physical AI) is not Ahoy.ai (San Francisco, sales agents) and not the 2018 Atlanta 'Ahoy Technologies'. Public OSINT only; not investment advice.