Our history
10+ years to experiment, learn, and steward the future
2014 ꩜ A DREAM SPOKEN ALOUD
As “SheEO,” we stated our commitment to those at the margins building a different future.
2015 ꩜ THE FIRST GROUP
The initial cohort of founders was selected by the community and provided capital and support.
2020–2022 ꩜ RECKONING & RENAMING
We confronted internal issues of racial equity. Our gendered name gave way to Coralus.
2023–2025 ꩜ DEEPENING THE PRACTICE
We established that inter-relationship is the infrastructure. Everything we do moves through it.
2026 ꩜ WHAT COMES NEXT
We paused to re-member. We asked what should be carried forward and what should be left behind.
Vicki Saunders founded SheEO in Canada in 2015 with a question: what if people pooled their resources, trusted one another to decide where to flow them, and stayed in relationship with the people building what comes next?
That experiment spread around the world and evolved into Coralus. Over the past decade, a global community has moved more than $21 million CAD in zero-interest loans to hundreds of ventures – with no collateral, no ownership diluted, and a 90% repayment rate. Forty-five percent of the founders funded have historically been excluded from traditional systems of capital.
Along the way, governments, financial institutions, and thousands of people around the world have contributed to the perpetual fund and the community surrounding it. Governments and banks have supported the work; business schools have studied the model. Vicki Saunders has also been recognized as a UBS Global Visionary, a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow, and Business Leader of the Year by the Toronto Region Board of Trade.
The work now extends beyond funding individual ventures. People in Coralus discern which futures the community will steward, then they flow every form of capital they carry toward making those futures real.
