Crowdmatrix is a Registered Exempt Market Dealer Combined with a Technology Company
Crowdmatrix is an online investment marketplace that connects accredited investors with vetted alternative investment opportunities. Our goals and interests are aligned with our investors; we only make money when investors do.
Crowdmatrix aims to change the investment landscape by leveraging technology to make diversifying into alternative asset classes simple and efficient.
We support Canadian entrepreneurs looking to turn great ideas into world-class businesses and offer investors an efficient way to invest in exciting alternative asset opportunities online.
Crowdmatrix is backed by Extreme Venture Partners, one of Canada’s most successful early-stage venture capital funds. Companies in their portfolio have been acquired by the likes of Google, Apple, Salesforce.com and Electronic Arts.
Leadership
Rubsun Ho
CEO & Chief Crowd Pleaser
Rubsun is a co-founder and partner of Cognition LLP, a virtual law firm that was created to address the rising costs and inefficiencies of corporate legal services from traditional law firms. Rubsun began his career as a securities lawyer in the Toronto and New York offices of Stikeman Elliott, one of Canada’s leading business law firms. He left Bay Street to join Wysdom Inc. as VP of Business Development in 1999, where he helped raise US $57 million in financing for the wireless Internet startup. Rubsun has a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto.
Andrew Woods
Product & Marketing
Andrew wears many hats on the Crowdmatrix team and takes on a variety of challenges, including marketing, product design, ruby and frontend development and project management. Andrew enjoys learning new coding languages/frameworks and working on side projects in his spare time. He has previously organized and marketed specialty hackathon events for Hackworks, and worked for mobile game developer XMG Studio in business development and marketing.
James (Sandy) Hershaw
Director, Capital Markets & C.C.O
Sandy has been involved in multiple transactions and projects valued at over $1 Billion in the buy side, sell side, corporate and consulting aspects of the public and private capital markets. Sandy has been a portfolio manager for two technology funds, founder of three private equity energy funds, and held senior roles at Bank of Nova Scotia, Imperial Oil, Nesbitt Burns, Dynamic Funds and WATT Capital. He is also Active with regulatory affairs as a member of the OSC SME committee and PDAC Securities committee.