We are closing Canada's business succession gap.
Too many good businesses close when they could change hands. We are building the trusted way to pass them on.
A generation is retiring.
Baby boomer owners built the small and medium businesses that hold up Main Streets across Canada. Most will retire this decade. Many have no succession plan. Their kids do not want the business, brokers will not take a company this size, and the buyer is not in their contact list. The result is thousands of viable businesses closing quietly, taking jobs and community with them.
Three things we insist on.
Canada-first
Built for Canadian rules, Canadian data, and Canadian advisors. Not a US platform with a maple leaf on it.
Advisor-led
Owners trust their accountant, their lawyer, and their financial planner. So do we. Advisors are how this reaches the people who need it.
AI-native
Modern tooling to shorten the parts that should be short. Confidentiality and human judgment for the parts that should not.
Why we are building this.
Sellvara is early. We are not pretending otherwise. We are Canadian, based in the GTA, and starting in Ontario. We spend our time talking to owners and advisors, because the trust in this product will not come from features. It will come from getting the sensitive parts right.
Confidentiality. Trust. Canadian data sovereignty.
Confidential information stays confidential. Your data is stored in Canada. Nothing about your business becomes public without your explicit approval.
Your security is our top priority.
Selling a business means sharing your financials, contracts and the details that matter most. We built Sellvara so that information stays protected, and stays yours.
Encrypted and kept in Canada
Confidential documents and listing details are encrypted with Sellvara's own keys, on top of our providers' encryption, and stored in Canada.
You decide who sees what
Nothing confidential is shared until a buyer accepts the NDA, verifies their funds and you approve them. Access ends after 90 days unless you renew it, and you can revoke it at any time.
Every document is traceable
Each download is stamped with the buyer's name, email and a reference number, recorded, and limited, so a leaked copy can be traced to the person who downloaded it.
Accounts that are hard to break into
Strong passwords checked against known data breaches, 2-step sign-in for anyone handling confidential documents, bot protection, automatic sign-out, and an email alert whenever account details change.
Protection from payment fraud
Messages are checked for common payment scams. Sellvara only takes payment on sellvara.com and will never ask you to send money or change bank details by email or message. How to close safely →
Less data, kept for less time
Proof-of-funds documents are deleted once reviewed, confidential documents are deleted 90 days after a listing ends, and our records are backed up and encrypted every week.
The person behind Sellvara.
Working with Canadian owners and advisors to close the succession gap one business at a time.
Colton Doan
Founder & CEO
Colton Doan is the founder and CEO of Sellvara. Based in Toronto and an entrepreneur since high school, when he ran a couple of small businesses of his own, he started Sellvara to tackle Canada's business succession problem and give retiring owners a private, straightforward way to hand off what they built.