The founder
Twenty years building
with his hands.
Now building with AI.
Nick Kernaz spent two decades as a construction foreman and concrete finisher — learning how things actually get built, not how they look on paper. That ground-level systems thinking now runs a venture studio.
Pillar Incentive exists because the world's hardest problems get solved by people who've lived them. Every company in the portfolio is built with that principle as the load-bearing wall.
View full profile on LinkedIn →20+
Years in trades
& construction
3
Ventures in
the portfolio
YYC
Calgary-based,
building remote