Akshay Maharaj runs Aview International, the Toronto company that dubs and distributes creator content worldwide, including releases for superstar creators and world wide brands.
Worth knowing
He knows what it takes to put a video in front of an audience in another language and actually earn from it, from AI dubbing and translation through to distribution deals and monetization. He has also built and closed a company, and mentors founders doing the same.
Story
Akshay co-founded the first version of Aview in 2017 while still in high school, reaching six-figure revenue before he finished school. He enrolled in commerce at Queen's Smith School of Business, then paused his studies to relaunch the company properly. Along the way he and his co-founder Garnet Delsey built Avybe, a platform for exclusive influencer content, which closed in 2020. Aview has since gone through Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto and the Techstars Toronto 2023 cohort, and Akshay now leads it from Toronto.
In Akshay's words
Co-Founder of Aview, helping media companies bring their content to audiences worldwide. Aview handles the localization, distribution, and monetization that make each international release work.
Highlights
- Co-Founder & CEO, Aview International (founded 2017, Toronto)
- Techstars Toronto Accelerator, 2023 cohort
- Alumnus, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Toronto) and RippleX Cohort 8
- Mentor, Founder Institute
- BCom studies, Smith School of Business, Queen's University
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