How We Started 📖
CrowdfundCanada Educational Resource Hub was founded in 2018 by a group of researchers, educators, and former fintech professionals in Toronto who recognized a significant gap in accessible, unbiased information about crowdfunding in the Canadian context. While crowdfunding platforms themselves were growing rapidly, reliable educational resources that explained how these platforms operated, what regulations applied, and what risks participants faced remained scarce and fragmented.
The founding team had collectively spent over two decades working across financial services, technology startups, and academic institutions. They observed that many aspiring campaign creators launched projects without understanding fee structures, legal obligations, or fulfillment logistics. Similarly, backers often contributed to campaigns without fully appreciating the risks involved, particularly in equity crowdfunding where capital loss is a real possibility.
Our response was to build a comprehensive educational platform that distills complex regulatory, financial, and operational information into clear, structured content that anyone can understand. From the beginning, our guiding principle has been strict independence: we do not operate a crowdfunding platform, we do not accept or manage any investment funds, and we do not provide personalized financial advice.
Since 2018, we have grown from a simple blog into a multi-faceted educational resource serving students, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, policy researchers, and curious members of the public across every Canadian province and territory.
What began as a research project at a Toronto university has evolved into one of Canada's most comprehensive crowdfunding education resources, reaching over 50,000 learners annually through our website, courses, and webinars.
