Alex Labrèche is Co-Founder and CEO at Pluvo, an AI-native financial analysis platform helping CFOs and FP&A teams make faster, data-driven decisions. Pluvo raised $5M in seed funding and was selected for a16z speedrun from over 19,000 applicants.

Alex was a student at University of Ottawa and minor league hockey player in Quebec who became interested in finance and business planning in 2018. He previously founded Rain Technologies, assembling a team to develop enterprise-level financial planning tools.

Alex participated in Alchemist Accelerator and was selected for the highly competitive a16z speedrun program (0.4% acceptance rate). Under his leadership, Pluvo established dual headquarters in Ottawa and San Francisco to support US-led go-to-market expansion.

Pluvo is co-headquartered in Ottawa, Canada and San Francisco, California, serving growth-stage and mid-market companies. The company graduated from Alchemist Accelerator and joined a16z speedrun's Winter/Spring 2026 cohort, receiving $1M in investment plus over $5M in AI credits.

Pluvo's agentic AI platform transforms raw financial data into decision-grade analysis in minutes, with several CFO customers participating as investors in the seed round. The company is pioneering what it calls a System of Judgment, capturing decisions and context into persistent institutional memory.