GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter , and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and venture capital directory .A Docugami in-person meet up in June 2023. Co-founder and CEO Jean Paoli is in the second row in pink. (Docugami Photo)As President Trump wields tariffs and strains relations with Canada, Seattle area’s Docugami is strengthening its cross-border ties.The document management startup is eager to reach a bigger pool of talent and new customers with the recent opening of a new subsidiary in Vancouver, B.C.For co-founder and CEO Jean Paoli, the move had nothing to do with politics or current events. For him, it’s just good business.“I don’t think this is a policy conversation for us,” Paoli said, adding that the plan has been in the works for 18 months.“If you think about Ottawa, if you think about Vancouver, [and] other places in Canada, there’s a lot of advanced AI scientists and innovation happening there all the time,” he said.Docugami has hired two Canadian employees so far. The business overall has 27 full-time employees and 10-to-15 consultants.Paoli said he created a subsidiary versus a satellite office because it will be easier to hire staff, collaborate with partners and customers, secure contracts, and work with the Canadian government.Docugami’s technology helps companies in sectors including commercial insurance, pharmaceuticals, electronics and others use generative AI to manage massive volumes of complicated documents

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