Mila (company)

Mila, a Zurich-based, crowd-services platform, offers users peer-to-peer tech-support services.

The platform distributes people into Mila Friends - tech enthusiasts who want to earn money for helping people understand or set up technology; Mila Pros - professionals looking to make extra money outside of their work; or Mila Pro Dispatchers - business owners using Mila to find more customers.

Mila vets their Mila Friends to ensure their knowledge base. They put their professional service providers, their Mila Pros, through a similar vetting process.

Mila was built in 2013 by Chris Viatte as a spin-off of Coresystems, a field-services provider which specializes in mobile platforms. Payments are handled through PayPal. Chris Viatte, speaking on Mila, said:

Everyone should be able to benefit from technological progress. Mila enables people to find an expert partner in their neighborhood on demand.

Funding

Seed Round

In March of 2015, Mila raised $3.2 million. Investors included Peter Zencke and Adrian Bult.

Mila acquired

In 2015, Swisscom acquired the majority stake in Mila Inc. Chris Viatte, before starting Mila, worked for Swisscom.

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March 5, 2013

Mila raises a $3,220,000 seed round.

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3,220,000

March 5, 2013

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AlayaCare, Dialogue among projects receiving $3.4 million from Scale AI supercluster | BetaKit

Isabelle Kirkwood

May 6, 2020

BetaKit

Quebec-based Supercluster Scale AI has invested $3.4 million into eight projects that have passed all the stages of analysis and approval.

Scientists Designed a Drug for Just One Patient. Her Name Is Mila.

Gina Kolata

October 9, 2019

www.nytimes.com

An achievement in ultra-personalized medicine also raises questions about fairness and regulation.

Mila receives funding, support from Borealis AI for climate change project | BetaKit

Meagan Simpson

October 9, 2019

BetaKit

Borealis AI has announced a new collaboration with Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, to support research using AI to address climate change.

Korbit raises $2.65 million for its AI tutoring platform | BetaKit

Jessica Galang

October 2, 2019

BetaKit

Montreal-based Korbit Technologies has announced the close of its $2.65 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures.

Samsung Electronics Expands SAIT AI Lab Montreal to Spur AI Research for Next-Generation System Semiconductor

May 2, 2019

WebWire

Samsung Electronics today announced the expansion of the 'Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) artificial intelligence (AI) Lab Montreal' in Canada. The Lab will help the company strengthen its fundamentals in AI research and drive competitiveness in system semiconductors. The AI Lab is located in Mila - Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms - in Montreal, Canada. Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio at the University of Montreal, Mila is one of the greatest research centers...