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Following the people and projects creating change — community-led startups, social initiatives and the funding behind them.

For a long time, a founder needing money to grow faced only two real doors. You could raise equity — selling a permanent slice of…

Daniel Brooks · July 28, 2026

There is a painful gap in the crowdfunding world that first-time founders rarely see coming. A campaign hits its goal, the backer…

Daniel Brooks · July 24, 2026

Not long ago, the idea of a single person building a real company was mostly a romantic fiction. You could freelance alone, you c…

Daniel Brooks · July 21, 2026

For more than a decade, the dream of the online creator was to go viral. Attention was the currency, the algorithm was the kingma…

Ethan Mercer · July 18, 2026

Few payment methods are as thoroughly, distinctly Canadian as Interac e-Transfer. It has become the default way millions of Canad…

Ethan Mercer · July 17, 2026

For most of modern history, investing in an early-stage company was a privilege reserved for a narrow circle: venture capitalists…

Daniel Brooks · July 14, 2026

The crowdfunding success stories are the ones everyone remembers: the modest project that raised a fortune, the unknown creator w…

Daniel Brooks · July 10, 2026

Choosing where to run a crowdfunding campaign is a bigger decision than most first-time founders realise. The platform you pick s…

Daniel Brooks · July 3, 2026

When Nigel Eccles helped build FanDuel, he turned daily fantasy sports into a multibillion-dollar category and one of the most re…

Ethan Mercer · June 26, 2026

For three years, the loudest story in artificial intelligence has been language — chatbots that write, summarize, and argue. A Pa…

Daniel Brooks · June 26, 2026