A Fundica Thanksgiving

With US Thanksgiving upon us this week, it seems like a great time to look back and say thanks. Since our incorporation just over five years ago (and even dating back to our early days as a community project), we have maintained the same mission: to provide business-support organizations with the best funding search engine technology possible. In doing so, we have achieved the following:

• Built a kick-ass, award-winning, AI-powered, gold-standard solution to help SMBs find funding in both the US and Canada!
• Enabled tens of thousands (soon hundreds of thousands) of small businesses across North America to find and secure millions of dollars in funding.
• Built exciting partnerships with some of the largest financial institutions, accountancies, accelerators, governments, and other leading entrepreneur-support organizations in Canada and the US that truly want to be the destination that entrepreneurs think of for funding.
• Assembled a growing software development, data, and business team of 16 passionate and talented individuals.
• Secured over $400k in grants (in addition to tax credits and zero-interest loans).

The journey to these milestones would not have been as fun or even possible without the support of:

• Incredible Partners and Clients that shared our dream!
• Amazing Advisors: Mike Cegelski, Daniel Robichaud, Michael Pesner, Patrick Lee, Isaac Souweine, Manon Desmarais, Alex Bramos, Marc Alloul, Sam Kawtharani, Lana Tayara
• Crazy-Ass Team: Ahmed Bettaieb, Aymen Harrath, Ben Luber, Capria Yee, Jacob Ma, Julie Feng, Leanne Cai, Louis Villemure, Magali Goblot, Mourad Chemima, Natalie Oosterman, Tom Poitras, Nia Pietrobruno, Paige Collins, Scott Rogalski, Stacey Shulak, Victor Privé
• Early Alum Contributors: Benjamin Landry, Frédérique Ménard, Bronwyn Carere, Will Croke-Martin, Dominik Klein, Par Basaran, Jasmine Patel, Amaar Abouelghar, Cédric Alston, Maria Molina Barbosa, Kyoka Simard, Jay Roebuck, Olivier Phan, Alexander Xu, Sujan Saravanamuthu, Aj Chouinard, Stephanie Dumas, Loic Souetre, Bhavya Raju, Jason Gendreau, Gabrielle Plourde, Xavier Freeman, Sabina Khan, Karl Bechmann, Cody Kaplan, Katie Driver, Shona Pietrantonio, Philippe Ednie, Andrei Grosuliac, Yannique Ewers, Chadd Hodge, Tarek Hammoud, Ramez  Ben Hamouda, Kate Montgomery, Jose Fernandez, Spencer Meltzer, Jennifer La, Loic Souetre and surely the others that we will think about just as we go to press.  
• R&D Partners team – a well-respected government incentives consulting team that has assisted with over $350M in government funding over the last 20 years and served as a base to get this started and provide domain expertise.  

Thanks also go out to the many that are not yet listed above that helped us make a difference at Fundica!  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mike, Sahar, Heykel