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Alyssa Furtado of RateHub.ca presents Scaling Without Funding: Focusing on Customer Acquisition
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The acceleration of consumer fintech | Alyssa Richard (RateHub.ca)
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In their words
Something that's unique about Ratehub is we actually bootstrapped our way to where we are today, so we started out with about a 100,000 in investment and we've grown to $10 million in revenue.
TechTO, Aug 2017 · watch at 0:23 ↗
What some people don't realize about Ratehub is we actually ran the business for the first five years out of my home.
TechTO, Aug 2017 · watch at 3:06 ↗
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What is Alyssa Furtado known for?
Co-founding Ratehub.ca in 2010 and building it into one of Canada's largest personal-finance comparison sites, which she co-led as CEO until 2024.
How did Ratehub grow?
It bootstrapped from about C$100,000 to roughly C$10M in revenue, appeared on Dragons' Den, later raised a Series A from Elephant Partners, and acquired MoneySense in 2018.
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