Our Why
PowerCrowd is here to be of service to people. With democratization people everywhere want to see values-based choices…Ethics, Dignity, Integrity. The world wants, truly needs, new ideas, new inventions, new businesses and new jobs.
Country and Continent based economies have shifted to Globalization, intangible assets and democratization. Local is now global. Locally businesses and jobs are affected; yet, people anywhere, can now participate in any business anywhere through crowd investing – the Power of The Crowd – supporting new ideas and creating jobs and investment prosperity. The old transactional processing ways of venture capital for business hasn’t had enough success. Businesses are serving global markets; why not then invest in well prepared and sustainable businesses wherever they are located?
PowerCrowd has taken action to create a values-based capital formation that aligns and harmonizes a community of our stakeholders: businesses of inventors and innovators, sponsor funders, PowerCrowd’s readiness-partners, and the crowd investors.
We aim to provide lift and sustainability to new ideas in businesses, helping them to start and sustain for the long-term, creating jobs and return on investments in a safe framework.
PowerCrowd is a robust system designed to help build businesses and provide investors with a direct connection to where real value is created. Evolved from thought leader discussions about accelerating the creation of jobs, building sustainable businesses, increasing investor security and delivering trustworthy-returns in a global economy, PowerCrowd offers new and compelling solutions in a rapidly transforming economy. PowerCrowd Inc. provides specialized services involved in intangible asset development, corporate structuring, intellectual property protection, financing and commercialization of new technologies.
Power Crowd Inc.’s principals and partners have extensive experience in business development and related services.
PowerCrowd’s proprietary, direct-to-market financing model combined with the full compliance of securities and insurance regulations in Canada and the United States provides our stakeholders with a significant advantage to outperform traditional market approaches for raising capital and for generating returns.
PowerCrowd is partnered with some of the world’s best to achieve optimal potential in our clients’ businesses.
Our capacity becomes your capacity to compete on the global stage right out of the gate. As an investor, you will know that the prequalified companies we work with are already on track for success and can deliver exceptional returns on investment.
The PowerCrowd Founders
Don Diduck
Don has a passion for economics and business development – especially with regard to technology commercialization. He has worked in a variety of roles associated with education, business and economic development. Early in his career, he served as a Director of the Alberta Congress Board and organized annual economic policy conferences involving hundreds of leaders from business, labour and government. During this same period, he served on the Alberta Economic Development Authority where he worked with Industry leaders to help make Alberta into a strong and prosperous province.
Don also has a deep interest in working with Indigenous groups and communities and, for over 20 years, has helped them develop business opportunities with Industry. He is an owner of Verigon Canada Ltd. (www.verigoncanada.com) which builds alliances and partnerships with and on behalf of Indigenous people and their communities.
Parallel to his interest with Indigenous groups, Don has worked closely in the technology sector – including serving 3 terms on the Alberta Council of Technologies. Don currently is working with start-up companies seeking to commercialize their technologies and believes that value creation will continue to increase in the digital economy. Don’s vision is to eventually bring Indigenous business development together with technology commercialization as part of a greater goal for diversifying the economy.
Derek Marriott
Derek’s entrepreneurial spirit was fanned while growing up in the businesses of his parents and developed in his own 20 year business advisory management consulting practice.
As part of his 15+ year history as business development/ project manager executive for all aspects of the IT Industry, Derek had the benefit of leading the implementation and outsourcing of Provincial cross-government policy and process change initiatives in multiple ministries, and throughout every business sector, as well as working across North America for several SaaS companies. During this time he launched several satellite business cases for these entities, with multi-million dollar budgets, achieving records in revenues and profits in each case.
Derek has a long record of success in strategic action planning and execution for business development, strategic-agility, organizational excellence, risk mitigation, change management and business sustainability – often uncovering, creating, and developing new and innovative factors for success.
He has worked across a wide spectrum of business and cultural sectors, including the honour to work with some indigenous-community solutions. His experience has helped many founders and owners to transform their business and profits, achieving new levels of success. Derek served as a marketing, (re)branding, and membership development advisor to the Board of The Alberta Council of Technologies, along with several years of not-for-profit sector Board Director and Chairperson experience.