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John Philip Green joins CommunityLend

Big news in the Toronto startup community today. John Philip Green, one of the founders of LearnHub.com, has joined CommunityLend.com as CTO. We have covered CommunityLend in the past as they have worked around regulatory hurdles to become the first provider of peer-to-peer financing in Canada. They have raised over $2.5 million to date.

John has helped to advise CommunityLend from the very beginning, so this seems like a natural fit. I am a bit disappointed that he won’t be working on a new startup of his own, but it is great to see him end up at such a high-potential Toronto startup.

Savvica, which John founded with his wife Malgosia, has been growing quickly and is back primarily by  Shantanu Prakash, the founder of Educomp Solutions. John and Malgosia have developed significant operations in India, with over 60 employees there at present, and a headquarters in Toronto. Savvica and its sister sites have evolved significantly in the last few years and now includes Learnhub,  JumboTests, Nuvvo, Studyplaces and EduIgnite.

CommunityLend, who announced John’s joining today, is the only provider of peer-to-peer financing in Canada.

co-founder of Startupnorth.ca

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  1. Hey Jevon, thanks for the shout-out. While John has always been a member of our “greater” team, we are all very excited to have him agree to officially join the management team. The timing was good for us, having recently gone live with our market service and having just closed a new financing round for the company. John brings a lot of talent to us at this key time in our market development so no trying to convince him to start something on his own! Also, we’ve raised over $5MM to date, so that you know. nnBest.nn- Michael

  2. Hey Jevon, thanks for the shout-out. While John has always been a member of our “greater” team, we are all very excited to have him agree to officially join the management team. The timing was good for us, having recently gone live with our market service and having just closed a new financing round for the company. John brings a lot of talent to us at this key time in our market development so no trying to convince him to start something on his own! Also, we’ve raised over $5MM to date, so that you know.

    Best.

    – Michael

  5. Awesome match-great company, great addition-Full speed ahead!! All the Best….

  6. Awesome match-great company, great addition-Full speed ahead!! All the Best….

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