Rebecca is the CEO and Co-Founder of DealMaker, winner of Lexpert's Top 40 Under 40, named one of North America's most innovative lawyers by the Financial Times, a finalist for 2022's EY Entrepreneur of the Year and one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. After a decade of practicing securities law, she took an ambitious leap from her partnership at the world’s largest law firm and founded DealMaker to build a system that would combat the costly inefficiencies that plague the traditional capital raise process. With her vision and drive, Rebecca has become a leader and trailblazer in the intersection of the capital markets and tech, who is committed to driving change and doing business the right way.
Rebecca is the driving force behind DealMaker - Canada’s 3rd Fastest Growing company as cited in the Globe & Mail’s Report on Business. DealMaker is an unapologetically ambitious Canadian startup that, in 4 short years, has taken major market share in the US, powering leading-edge companies like the NFL’s Green Bay Packers to manage large, global, digital capital raises. By allowing companies to raise from their communities and customers, DealMaker is disrupting the private equity markets and democratizing access to capital. DealMaker is on a mission to create the most sophisticated capital markets tools on the planet, empowering capital to flow faster. It offers a suite of primary issuance, shareholder management, and capital raising solutions that includes equity crowdfunding, investor ranking algorithms, and data/analytical tools to support all capital raise types and all securities. Its innovative technology was designed to enable organizations to own and control exempt market raises to get the money they need, faster. DealMaker works for their issuers: putting brands and founders back in control to run streamlined, successful capital raises. Its mission is to turn the process of raising capital into simple eCommerce. In only 4 years, DealMaker has powered over $1.7 Billion USD in capital raised, more than double any leading US counterpart in less than half the operating history.
DealMaker’s equity crowdfunding technology improves access to capital markets and fosters stronger investor relationships in the digital age.
Rebecca Kacaba is a trailblazing CEO, and co-founder of a start-up at the intersection of two traditionally male-dominated industries: technology and the…