Craig Hunter
Founder of Dwelling
Craig Hunter
Founder of Dwelling
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & CEO
2020 - Current
Buy your first home for $0. 🏡 Get matched with up to $30,000 in down payment assistance from federal, state, and non-profit programs. No strings attached. www.dwelling.co
Founder & Partner
2017
I invest in startups tackling the problems I'd love to work on if I had more time. Over $15M deployed into 100+ amazing startups across North American. Affinity for fintech, proptech, marketplaces, logistics, and ultra antiquated industries. · Unit - the easiest way to embed financial services and banking into your business 🏦 · Float - Canada’s best corporate card and all-in-one spend management software 💳 · Relay Financial - banking built to streamline your business 🏦 · Superhuman - the world's fastest email app 📧 · Mast Reforestation - tech-powered, end-to-end reforestation company 🌳 · Gradient - home heaters and air conditioners that are better for the environment 🌬️ · CommerceBear - helping furniture manufacturers sell online 🛋 · Aalo - nuclear reactors that fit in your garage, and can power anything 🔌 · Daffy - a smarter way to give, the donor-advised fund for you 💛 · Three Ships - 100% natural, affordable, and results-driven beauty products 🧴 · Kabo - the largest fresh dog food company in Canada 🐶 (acquired) · And many, many more
Fellow - Scale
2021 - 2023
Fellow in the very first Scale cohort (ODS1).
Vice President
2017 - 2018
Notch (formerly ChefHero) aims to reinvent the food service industry. I invested in their pre-seed round (my first angel investment ever) and was recruited to grow the company from pre-seed to our Series A. Scaled Canada from one vertical to several and laid the groundwork for US expansion, starting in Chicago. The company has raised over $20M from Accomplice, Garage Capital, and more.
General Manager
2015 - 2017
First GM at the company, scaling our first city from a handful to 1000+ restaurant partners while acquiring the demand to match. Ran countless experiments that helped to form our GTM playbook for launching all subsequent cities. My team went on to launch cities from SF to London to Hong Kong. Ritual's award-winning app now serves customers in ~30 cities worldwide and has raised over $180 million from investors like Greylock, Insight Venture Partners, and many more. Proud shareholder and customer to this day.
CEO & Board Director
2014 - 2016
Bitmaker was Canada's leading technology career accelerator. The company was acquired by General Assembly - the largest technology bootcamp in the world backed by Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner, and Maveron. General Assembly was subsequently acquired by Adecco for $413mm in 2018.
City Launch & Marketing Manager
2012 - 2014
Joined Uber as one of the first 50 employees globally. Wild ride. 🚀
Account Executive
2011 - 2012
rTraction is a full-service digital agency serving clients across North America. I specialized in business development, sales, and project management, reporting directly to the founder & President.
Co-Chair
2010 - 2012
TEDxUWO was the official TEDx for the University of Western Ontario. Sold out event (several thousand applications to attend) with nearly 15,000 online viewers in over 80 countries around the world.
Creator + Co-Organizer
2011 - 2011
For the 2011 elections, London Vote Mob was the largest youth voter event in the country. 🇨🇦 Aimed to address youth voter apathy, the event featured Canadian celebrity Rick Mercer, his sole appearance at a political event that election.
Education
QuantumShift
2015 - 2015