Founded in Canada Drops The Builders Club
Jul 23, 2025
The first backchannel for early-stage Canadian founders is here.
Founded in Canada has officially dropped The Builders Club — a private WhatsApp space for early-stage Canadian founders who are done with gatekeeping, done with formality, and ready to build louder, faster, and together.
This isn’t another "community" filled with dormant Slack threads, overpriced memberships, or the same six people reposting Medium articles. This is raw, responsive, and real. It’s a living backchannel that’s already igniting a new wave of Canadian startup energy.
No fees. No filters. No algorithm. Just signal.
Launched quietly just last week, The Builders Club already boasts a powerful cross-section of Canada's startup ecosystem: solo founders building in basements, early hires at breakout ventures, nonprofit leads exploring earned revenue, techies launching side hustles, and product folks figuring it out in public.
The result? A 24/7 stream of startup life, including:
Spontaneous product drops and early feedback loops
Live tips on grants, accelerators, and urgent funding calls
Screenshots of pitch decks (from “please fix this” to “hell yes”)
Honest convos about burnout, bad hires, co-founder drama, and what it actually feels like to keep going
Links to new roles, referrals, and resources
And of course... memes, vent threads, and wildly useful chaos
“We didn’t want to build another curated space that made founders feel like they needed to perform,” said Founder Kendra Garagan. “We wanted a pressure valve — a real-time lifeline where builders could be messy, direct, and heard. This is where that happens.”
The Builders Club is deliberately unpolished. There are no long onboarding surveys, no application forms, and no playbook for how to participate. You show up, you listen, you drop value, and you make the space better.
What makes it different?
It’s fast. Most founders don’t have time to write essays to join a community. Here, you’re in.
It’s diverse. Built to reflect Canada’s geography, identity, and messy middle — not just downtown tech scenes.
It’s real. No performative founder energy, no inflated success stories. Just builders in motion.
And unlike most communities that start loud and fade fast, The Builders Club is growing stronger by the day, with new threads spinning off into deep DM convos, side collabs, and live meetups in the works.
This is more than a WhatsApp group. It’s the heartbeat of a new kind of ecosystem.
Want in?
Click here to join The Builders Club (WhatsApp link to be added)
(And yes, mute notifications unless you want your phone buzzing at 2AM.)
About Founded in Canada
Founded in Canada is a founder-first platform reconnecting the country’s fragmented startup ecosystem. From a national resource directory and no-fluff newsletter to public policy memos and now The Builders Club, Founded in Canada is putting tools, access, and real-time support back where it belongs — in the hands of the people actually building.