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Cameron Dearsley

Cameron Dearsley

Co-founder, Drop

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Cameron Dearsley is a co-founder of Drop, the Toronto card-linked rewards app, where he was head of design. Forbes named him and Darren Fung to its 2019 30 Under 30 consumer technology list. His own website says he later co-founded Cardify, Drop's B2B offers platform, and now works as a product designer at Ramp.

Cameron hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Cameron co-founded Drop, which appears in 3 talks in the archive.

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Who is Cameron Dearsley?

A co-founder of Drop, the Toronto rewards app, and its head of design. Forbes's 30 Under 30 2019 consumer technology list, published in November 2018, named him, then 23, and Darren Fung as cofounders of Drop. An Ivey Business School profile of Drop from September 2018 lists him as Co-Founder and Head of Design.

What did he do before Drop?

The Ivey Business School profile lists him as a product designer at Tab from 2014 to 2015, a freelance product designer in 2011, and co-founder of MVP Tracker from 2012 to 2013.

How did Drop start, and what happened to it?

Forbes wrote in November 2018 that Dearsley teamed up with brothers Darren and Derrick Fung to launch Drop in late 2016, that over two million people had registered, and that it had raised $27 million from investors including NEA. Insolvency Insider reported that the Ontario Superior Court appointed KSV Restructuring Inc. as receiver over Drop Technologies on December 11, 2025.

What is he doing now?

His personal website, checked September 13, 2026, describes him as a Toronto-based product designer and lists his current role as Senior Staff Product Designer at Ramp. It lists him as co-founder and head of design at Drop from 2016 to 2025 and at Cardify, which it calls Drop's B2B card-linked offers platform, from 2023 to 2025.

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