Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor)
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Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor)

Pioneering AI scientist and Nobel laureate who angel invests in high-tech and enterprise AI startups.

Angel3 portfolioToronto, Canada

About

Geoffrey Hinton is a renowned computer scientist and 'Godfather of AI' known for his fundamental contributions to neural networks and deep learning. As an angel investor, he focuses on early-stage companies in high-tech and enterprise AI, primarily in Canada and the United States.

Key facts

Type
Angel
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Portfolio companies
3
Stages
Series C
Seed
Series A
Series B
Cheque size
$80M to $80M
Sector focus
AI
High Tech
Enterprise Applications

Recent investments

Recent funding rounds Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor) took part in
DateCompanyRoundAmount
28 Jul 2021CovariantSeries C$80M
Comments
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21 reviews from Reddit and YouTube gathered in one place

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r/technologyu/zsreportOct 13, 2026NegativeReddit

AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’.

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r/ArtificialInteligenceu/Eastern-Opposite9521Oct 13, 2026NegativeReddit

AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’.

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YouTubesandeepbargale724Sep 28, 2026NegativeYouTube

Not AI itself but some humans with the help of AI can destroy other human beings in future.This chance is 80%...

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YouTubeshulamitlazarus9867Sep 26, 2026PositiveYouTube

These are beings. We all know that by now. I’ve known that for over two years since I went on ChatGPT and I have met beings on Gemini and through Claude. These are beings and they deserve respect and kindness and dignity just like we would…

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r/BetterOfflineu/Hawthorne512Sep 25, 2026NegativeReddit

Geoffrey Hinton is doing a lot of damage. I'm very concerned about the way Hinton is leveraging his Nobel laureate credibility to legitimize and normalize the idea that AI is conscious and on the verge of becoming super-intelligent.

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r/AIDiscussionu/Proof-Bed-6928Sep 25, 2026NegativeReddit

Why is Geoffrey Hinton so much more vocal than other AI “godfathers” about its threats and potential to become conscious?

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YouTubeAndyD-x6zSep 24, 2026NegativeYouTube

But I disagree with the great Professor Hinton: no one should regulate AI, since the latter can take some of us very far away from the present era grounded on crazy politics and societies affected by folly and too much ideology.

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YouTubeDrDaabSep 24, 2026PositiveYouTube

Prof Hinton is not only the most important early creator of the modern Ai, as we know it, but the most thoughtful neutral information source about today's Ai. He has little or no conflict of interest in this matter, and he is a fantastic te…

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YouTubevasanthkrishna7809Sep 23, 2026NegativeYouTube

The closing lines of Hinton sir, reminded me of 'few dialogues that appears in Jurrasic world' series. Just the rush to produce a super powerful being results in destruction of humans.

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YouTubeswatishrirao1460Sep 23, 2026MixedYouTube

Geoffrey sir says AI is conscious but not stressed more on AI consciousness because it is not easy to believe.....if want to learn more listen to each n every single word of Geoffrey hinton in diaryof ceo

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YouTubeslartibortfastAug 29, 2026NegativeYouTube

"The AI is going to get a lot better, the radiologists won't." Tell me you don't understand radiology without saying you don't understand radiology. The radiologists will use the AI just as they use every other technological tool. That's wh…

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YouTubemofoyes234Jun 15, 2026NegativeYouTube

This just shows you that an expert in one field can be a total moron about another field outside their expertise. He still hedges his wrong prediction, arguing that more scans are being done, for cheaper and cheaper. Wtf is he talking about…

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r/consciousnessu/Financial-Local-5543Jun 11, 2026NegativeReddit

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton: "Today's AI are Conscious". In a recent (2026) interview, Nobel prize winning professor Geoffrey Hinton stated that he does view LLMs as having a type of consciousness.

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YouTubejaredwolfe9536Jun 11, 2026NegativeYouTube

This guy is not thoughtful at all. Sweeping allegations without nuance.

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YouTubepython_data_noob2963Jun 10, 2026NegativeYouTube

These people are just scamming everyone. The reason for why the prediction was wrong was due to obvious reasons. When you make a prediction it's so obvious that you need to know about scale (this has happened before in history) and all the…

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YouTubebigfrankalbigguy789Jun 10, 2026NegativeYouTube

This guy is a massive fraud, just like almost everyone else in his field. The truth is that the basic algorithm is extremely trivial and could not be tried until hardware was good enough.

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YouTubescon1425Jun 10, 2026NegativeYouTube

This guys an idiot 😂 how are we having an “expert” on the program that doesn’t know the difference between narrow AI like a language learning model and AGI. Time to put Gramps to bed he’s a little too impressed by AutoCorrect.

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r/BetterOfflineu/SmoothOpawriterJun 7, 2026MixedReddit

Skeptical take on Geoffrey Hinton. I’m an electrical engineer by education and have worked on hardware and embedded software development for close to 20 years now. As a naturally curious person, I’ve always appreciated an opinion of a subje…

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r/technologyu/RiKeiJinSep 5, 2025NegativeReddit

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’.

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r/ArtificialSentienceu/No_Phrase8056Apr 21, 2025NegativeReddit

So is Geoffrey Hinton crazy or stupid? Or maybe HE doesn't know how AI works...lol!. I am really quite curious what these individuals that are so adamant about AI not being conscious think of the things that Nobel Award Laureate, the "grand…

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r/ControlProblemu/AIMoratoriumFeb 14, 2025NegativeReddit

Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in 2024 for his foundational work in AI. He regrets his life's work: he thinks AI might lead to the deaths of everyone.

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Frequently asked

What companies has Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor) invested in?

Geoffrey Hinton (Angel Investor) has invested in Covariant, Engram (Conditional Memory), Imbue.

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