Zak Homuth
Early. Not on purpose.
Done
Waterloo computer engineering. Left twice to build things.
Sandvine, firmware. IBM. Infosys.
Upverter, 2010–2017. Collaborative hardware design. YC W11. Raised $3M+. Turned down $20M, put payroll on my credit cards, got profitable. Sold to Altium.
Altium, 2017–2019. VP.
SRTX — Sheertex. President, 2019–2024. Brought my Upverter cofounders with me. Built the factory and the software that ran it. The company entered CCAA twenty months after I left.
Fynn's dad, 2024+. Engineering a viking.
Now
Crossgrain, for the world.
Repertor, for the cash.
Vaticinor, because I'm curious.
Rubbish Energy, because I want more autonomy than my municipality allows.
Ignis, because I wish I lived in Paris.
None of them are launched.
All of it lives inside Techno-Industrialist. A vehicle, not a company.