Who is Akrem Ziani?

Serial founder of four companies, now founder and CEO of Onzaris, the management software for all of sport, used in every country, every sport and at every level.

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Akrem Ziani, founder and CEO of Onzaris
The path

From the phone to the product

Akrem lives in Montreal. He started in sales, learned what operators actually struggle with, then built the software to remove that work.

2023

Sales and cold calling

Learned to sell by picking up the phone. Hundreds of conversations with business owners.

2024

Lazo Growth and Lazo Webs

Built a sales agency, recruited and trained a team of 25 students, made 600+ calls and signed the first paying client. Built websites for small businesses on the side.

2025

From services to software

Moved from selling services to building products. Built Vocalype, a desktop voice assistant for post-call work.

2026

Founded Onzaris

Started Onzaris, the management software for all of sport: registrations, schedules, officials, results and networks on autopilot, on the web, iOS and Android.

Ventures

Four companies founded

Onzaris logoNow

Onzaris

Management software for all of sport. Founder and CEO.

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Vocalype logo2025

Vocalype

Desktop voice assistant for post-call work.

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Lazo Growth logo2024

Lazo Growth

Sales agency. 25 students trained, 600+ calls.

Lazo Webs logo2024

Lazo Webs

Websites for small businesses.

FAQ

Quick answers

Who is Akrem Ziani?
Akrem Ziani is the founder and CEO of Onzaris, the management software for all of sport. He lives in Montreal, Canada.
What is Onzaris?
Onzaris runs the manual and administrative work of sport on autopilot. It does three jobs: make people play (registrations, teams, families), make teams play each other (schedules, referees, results, discipline) and supervise a network (affiliation, compliance, registries). It is available in every country, in French, English, Spanish and German, on the web, iOS and Android. More on Onzaris.
Who uses Onzaris?
Any organization in sport: clubs, academies and schools; leagues, tournaments, regions, districts and referee associations; associations, provincial and national federations and school boards.
What did he do before Onzaris?
Lazo Webs (websites for small businesses), Lazo Growth (a sales agency, 25 students trained, 600+ calls) and Vocalype (a desktop voice assistant).
How can I contact him?
akrem@onzaris.com or LinkedIn. For press, see the media kit.