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Evan Dalton

Co-founder, Certn

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Evan Dalton co-founded Certn, the Victoria, B.C. background-screening company, with Andrew McLeod and Owen Madrick in 2016. Before Certn he was vice-president of business development at RentMoola. Certn's leadership page lists him as Co-Founder and says he now works as an investor and advisor. In 2019 he held the title C3O, a leadership role shared by the three co-founders.

Evan hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Evan co-founded Certn, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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What company did Evan Dalton co-found?

Certn, a background-screening company based in Victoria, B.C. Certn's leadership page, checked September 2026, lists Dalton as Co-Founder, and BetaKit reported on 2022-05-10 that Andrew McLeod, Owen Madrick and Evan Dalton founded the company in 2016.

What did Evan Dalton do before Certn?

Certn's leadership page, checked September 2026, says Dalton was previously Vice President, Business Development at RentMoola, and has more than a decade of entrepreneurial and corporate sales experience in property management, real estate and payments.

What does C3O mean at Certn?

In a TecHR Series interview published on 2019-05-10, Dalton, then C3O, described the title as a shared-leadership model in which the three co-founders lead the company and make decisions together.

How did Certn get started?

The Globe and Mail reported on 2021-02-02 that McLeod and co-founders Owen Madrick and Evan Dalton approached Victoria incubator Alacrity Canada seeking investors before forming the company. In the 2019 TecHR interview, Dalton said clients repeatedly asked the founders to run the same screening process on their employees.

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