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Autozen is a technology and service company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is a digital marketplace for private vehicle sellers and allays some of the frustrations and safety concerns associated with conventional private used car sales.

Autozen connects users to an authorized car buyers network on its platform who then bid in an online auction to purchase cars put up for sale. Autozen also provides an on-site inspection and appraisal service. Users can access Autozen online or through its iOS or Android app.

History
Autozen was founded in 2020 by Oliver Vincent, a Canadian technology entrepreneur, who previously founded Canpages in 2005 and sold the company sale for $225M in 2010.

Autozen originated when Vincent and his team of search-based mobile and artificial intelligence executives recognized that the used car selling experience could be greatly improved using modern online technology and UI/UX. They began working together in 2019 to develop a roadmap, now Autozen, with the goal of using online technology to improve the used car selling experience.

On October 20, 2020, Autozen announced that it had come out of stealth mode. It also announced the addition of board members John Montalbano, former CEO of RBC Global Asset Management and Vice Chair of RBC Wealth.

On January 20, 2021 Autozen held its first auction on its beta platform.

Also in January 2021, Autozen announced $4.2 Million in seed funding and the addition of Penny Wilson, former CMO of Hootsuite and Juniper Networks, as a board member.

CEO: Olivier Vincent
A serial entrepreneur and technology executive, he was the founder and CEO of Canpages, a digital local company which grew to over $100m in revenue before being sold for $225m in 2010.

CTO: Xichi Zheng
Former VP of Engineering at Novarc Technologies and ELIX Wireless Charging and Chief Product Officer at Vancosys Data Security Inc. in 2018.

COO: Kalle Radage
Served as the Chief Product Officer and then President of Payfirma, a Vancouver payment processing platform. Currently serves on the board of Comm100 and other Vancouver startups.

Chairman of the Board: John Montalbano
Former CEO of RBC Global Asset Management and Vice Chair of RBC Wealth. John serves as a Director of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Aritzia Inc. , AbCellera Biologics Inc., The Gairdner Foundation, The Asia Pacific Foundation, Windmill Microlending, The Vancouver Police Foundation and Chairs White Crane Capital and St. Paul's Hospital Foundation.

Chia-Lin Simmons
Served as Head of Global Marketing at Google for Google Play -link ( http://www.chialinsimmons.com/about-chia-lin-simmons/ ) and Vice President Strategic Alliances at Audible (an Amazon Company). -link ( https://angel.co/p/chia-lin-simmons )

Ali Kashani
Currently serves as the Head of Postmates X, Uber, which is the R&D branch of the world's largest on-demand delivery fleet.

Pauline Moller
Former SVP & COO at EA SPORT. Also served as the Senior Vice President Operations at Zynga, one of the first Silicon Valley mobile and social networking platforms for games.

Penny Wilson
Former CMO of Hootsuite and Juniper Networks. Has spent 30 years as a senior marketing and operations executive at large enterprise technology companies including Macromedia (acquired by Adobe).

Paul Lee
Founder and managing partner at Vanedge Capital and board of director for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and D-Wave Systems, a quantum computing systems and software.

Investment and Public Financial Overview
Autozen announced that it had received $4.2 Million in Seed funding.