AI startup founder Solon Angel thrives amid chaos

The word "chaos" comes up often in an interview with Solon Angel, founder and chief strategy officer of Mindbridge Analytics Inc. He grew up in the Caribbean and France, where he dealt with discrimination, family instability and violence. Today the Ottawa-based entrepreneur says he's "comfortable" with the other kind of chaos, that which comes naturally in a tech startup. After the 2008 global financial crisis, Mr. Angel aimed to come up with something that might keep it from happening again. In 2015, he launched Mindbridge with the goal of transforming the financial auditing business with machine learning, or artificial intelligence.