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Hatchable is a Canadian education platform that teaches students aged 12 and up to build a business of their own. This page carries the announcement, the facts behind it and every figure we cite, each linked to its original source.
Interviews, and a walkthrough of a student pitch page, shop page and published report, are available on request.
hello@hatchable.caToronto, 13 August 2026
Hatchable's course now runs all the way to the end of a business. Students raise small pledges from family and friends, build and sell a real product, and finish by publishing a financial report where every backer can read it.
Most entrepreneurship education for teenagers stops at the pitch. The student presents a business that does not exist, collects a grade, and moves on. Hatchable keeps going, and the part it adds is the part adults find hardest: accounting to the people whose money you took.
As a student works through the course, every assignment they submit is filed against the box of the business model canvas it belongs to, ready to be carried across. The canvas takes months to fill in.
They publish a pitch page behind a private link and send it to people who already know them. An aunt, a neighbour, a hockey coach.
Somebody reads it and pledges, say, twenty-five dollars. Hatchable records the pledge and does nothing else with it. The money changes hands in person.
Once the product exists, the student opens a shop page, also behind a private link, where customers reserve what they want and pay the student face to face at pickup.
The student writes up how it went. The numbers are already there, because the software has been keeping them. The report lands at the top of the pitch page, above the original ask, so everyone still holding that link sees how the story ended.
Hatchable processes no payments at any stage. Pledges are recorded, not collected. Shop orders are reservations, settled in person. No card is entered anywhere on the platform and no funds are ever held.
That constraint is deliberate. It is what makes it possible for a student under 18 to run a storefront at all, and it keeps the money between the student and the person handing it over.
The ninth module, a bonus module on personal finance, is written as 118 slides rather than filmed. Lesson videos are public on the youtube.com/@hatchableca channel.
We have linked the original page for each one. Hatchable is not part of Ontario's financial literacy assessment and makes no claim to satisfy the graduation requirement; the policy is cited as context for the direction of Canadian curriculum.
From the 2026 to 2027 school year, for students who entered Grade 9 in 2025 to 2026 or later. Delivered in the compulsory Grade 10 Career Studies course, 70% to pass, up to two attempts, counting for 5% of the course grade.
SourceNew Grades 7 to 9 curriculum, classroom piloting in the 2026 to 2027 school year.
SourceFinancial literacy built in, piloting in select schools September 2026 and province-wide September 2027. Province of Manitoba news release.
SourceInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada commits to improving access to capital, mentorship and skills for youth and underrepresented founders. 2026 to 2027 Departmental Plan, Core responsibility 3.
SourceIn the same survey, 75% worry about failing for lack of experience and 67% say they lack the financial knowledge to run a business. TD survey conducted by The Harris Poll Canada among 530 Gen Z Canadian adults, August 6 to 8, 2025, accurate to within 4.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
SourceAn eight-year high, up 13 points in two years. RBC Small Business Poll conducted by Ipsos Canada among 2,001 Canadian adults aged 18 and over, July 4 to 8, 2025, accurate to within 3 percentage points. Ipsos measures the precision of its online polls with a credibility interval rather than a margin of error, and that interval widens for regional subsets. These are figures for Canadian adults generally, not for Gen Z.
SourceInitial research and curriculum development were funded by the founder and by Mitacs. That Mitacs funding concluded in 2025. Hatchable is funded by its founder today.
Benny Marianayagam, founder
hello@hatchable.ca