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title: 'Country Lead Canada at Linkup'
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# Country Lead Canada at Linkup

- **Company:** Linkup
- **Location:** Canada / United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/linkup/b684e6ff-74bd-45e7-966f-f5778702bf57

## Job description

## About the role

We’re looking for a Country Lead to open and own Canada. You’ll be our first person on the ground, working hand-in-hand with the founders and the GTM team, splitting your time between Canada and our hubs in NYC and SF. Canada is home to some of the world’s strongest AI research and a fast-growing wave of AI-native companies, and we want Linkup to be the search layer they build on. You won’t start from zero. We already have customers, traction and strong relationships in Canada. Your job is to turn that foundation into a market: deepen what’s working, scale it, and make Linkup the default choice for Canadian AI teams. This is a builder role. You’ll sell, but you’ll also shape the playbook, the network and the presence that take us from early traction to category leader in Canada.

Your core responsibilities will be to:

- Own Canada end to end: market strategy, pipeline, revenue and expansion
- Run the full sales cycle, from outreach and discovery to demo, negotiation and close
- Build relationships across the Canadian AI ecosystem: startups, scale-ups, enterprises, research labs and investors
- Represent Linkup locally: host events, speak at meetups, and make us visible in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver
- Bring Canadian insight back to the US team, and bring US momentum and customers into Canadian deals
- Partner with Product and Engineering to tailor solutions and feed field insights into the roadmap
- Build repeatable playbooks for selling to AI-native teams and enterprise innovation groups in Canada

## Requirements

You’re a great match if you:

- Are excited to help build Google for AI agents
- Have 5+ years of experience in B2B SaaS or technical sales (AI, developer tools or data infra a plus)
- Have a strong network in the Canadian tech and AI ecosystem
- Have closed multi-stakeholder, high-value deals, ideally with technical buyers
- Are comfortable with founders, CTOs, engineers and data teams alike
- Have opened a market, launched an office or been an early GTM hire before
- Thrive with high ownership and little structure
- Are happy to travel regularly between Canada, NYC and SF

Details You’ll play a central role in our GTM expansion, partnering closely with the founders and reporting into the US GTM team. Your work will define how Linkup grows beyond its first two markets, and could lead to building and leading the Canada team. We offer a flexible remote-work policy, see the details [here](https://www.notion.so/Linkup-Remote-Work-Policy-d593322ac4c84988b1c7c327d6c4d39e?pvs=21).

## About Linkup

Our Vision We believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web. These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information. AI agents need web search. To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific—not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off. Modern web search is built for humans, not AIs. Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click‑bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space. Web 2.0 is sunsetting. The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing‑Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad‑driven model has no natural home. Search for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up. We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone. Humans search Google; AI searches Linkup.

## Our Mission

Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve. Our mission is to deliver the world’s freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.

Our Culture Our culture is built on the following values:

- Mission. We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.
- Speed. We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.
- Ownership. We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.
- Teamwork. Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.
- Humility. We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.

We expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.

## Our Team

We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents. A bit more about our 3 co-founders:

- [P](https://www.notion.so/Join-Linkup-9a304f74df4544bf83d9b23c3b31b699?pvs=21)[hilippe Mizrahi-](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-mizrahi/) Led the development of Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched [Amundsen](https://www.amundsen.io/), an open source search engine.
- [Denis Charrier](https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-charrier/)- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.
- [Boris Toledano](https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-toledano-7b53a496/)- Led robotics at Carrefour, after 3y at McKinsey & Co working on public affairs and digital transformation.

## About Linkup

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Linkup builds a production-grade, AI-native web search API that indexes individual facts rather than entire pages, enabling AI systems to retrieve accurate, structured, and real-time information.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with offices in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Philippe Mizrahi (CEO), Denis S. (CTO), Boris (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Infrastructure, Enterprise Search, Web Search API
- **Target customers**: B2B — AI labs, Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies, and developers building AI agents, copilots, and research tools
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build the search infrastructure that lets AI act with real knowledge of the world"

## Products & Services
- **Linkup API**: A production-grade web search API built natively for AI. It indexes "atoms of information" (individual facts with source, timestamp, and credibility markers) rather than whole web pages. Available via a single API call, with sub-second latency and state-of-the-art accuracy. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Linkup `/fast`**: The world's most accurate sub-second web search API for AI systems, launched in March 2026. Delivers extracted, verified, and structured information directly — not links. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Private Index (BYOC)**: A deployment option where customers run the full indexing layer inside their own cloud infrastructure for maximum control, compliance, and zero data leaving their environment. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Integrations SDK**: Works with OpenAI SDK wrapper, LangChain, CrewAI, and dozens of other frameworks. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Raised **$10M seed round** (March 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by **Gradient** (VC firm founded by former founders and technical experts). Additional support from leading investors and founders from **Mistral, Datadog, Deel, and Dataiku**. Customers include **Artisan** (AI agents) and **KPMG** (enterprise). [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Growth Signals**: Thousands of users globally within months of API launch; 99.9% uptime SLA; trusted by Fortune 500s, frontier AI labs, and government agencies; 30% reduction in hallucinations vs. competitors; 75% adoption rate increase for customers. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Rebuilt web search from scratch for AI — indexes "atoms of information" (facts, not web pages) with source, timestamp, and credibility markers. Traditional search engines return links; Linkup returns extracted, structured information ready for AI consumption. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Sub-second latency + accuracy**: `/fast` API delivers state-of-the-art accuracy with sub-second response times, critical for real-time AI agents and copilots. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Private Index / BYOC**: Unique ability to deploy the entire indexing layer inside a customer's own cloud, offering maximum data security and compliance — a key differentiator for regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government). [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
- **Founding team pedigree**: CTO built neural music search engine acquired by Spotify; CEO built graph-based data search at Lyft; COO led digital transformations at McKinsey. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the team**: Actively hiring across engineering (DevOps, Backend, Full Stack, Data, Research), GTM (DevRel, Sales, Marketing, Forward Deployed Engineers), and leadership roles. [careers.linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
- **Expanding the index**: Going beyond web pages to leverage structured data from databases, APIs, and real-time feeds — building the "essential rails for the emerging web of AI agents." [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Enterprise and government adoption**: Focused on compliance, security, and accuracy to win contracts in regulated verticals like finance, healthcare, and government. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: "Build the search layer for AI" — a foundational infrastructure problem that hasn't been solved before. The company compares itself to being at Google in 1998. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Culture**: Values of **Speed, Ownership, Teamwork, and Humility**. Described as ambitious, driven, and low-ego. [careers.linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office — roles available in **New York (NYC), San Francisco (CA), and Paris (FR)**. [careers.linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
- **Team composition**: Small, high-leverage team with backgrounds from Spotify, Lyft, McKinsey, Mistral, Datadog, Deel, Dataiku. Opportunity to have outsized impact as an early employee. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
- **Notable perks**: Working on a frontier AI infrastructure problem; close collaboration with founding team; direct impact on product direction; access to cutting-edge AI research and enterprise deployments.

## Sources
1. [linkup.so](https://www.linkup.so/)
2. [linkup.so/careers](https://www.linkup.so/careers)
3. [linkup.so/about](https://www.linkup.so/about)
4. [linkup.so/blog](https://www.linkup.so/blog/linkup-raises-10m-seed-to-build-web-search-for-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/linkup](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/linkup)

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