Know what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and in what order.
The CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator helps you land customers, make revenue repeatable, build a durable business, and become a better founder, grounded in Faith and Purpose.
Build from Biblical truth, trust, obedience, stewardship, and spiritual strength, not fear, pressure, or performance.
Get clear on who you are, what you are here to build, who you are called to serve, and what you must say no to.
Turn that calling into a clear offer, paying customers, repeatable revenue, and a business that lasts.
If any of this is true, you don’t have a clear path yet:
You’re busy, but revenue isn’t repeatable.
Your offer and pricing still feel like a guess.
You can’t consistently reach the right customers.
You’re chasing investors before you have customers.
You feel called to build, but what to build isn’t clear.
Your faith and your business feel disconnected.
You feel isolated, overwhelmed, or stuck.
When the work of building your startup is disconnected from faith and purpose, guessing becomes the plan.
Sean Jones
Founder, Foodynamics · Former Fortune 5 COO
Leah Harrison
Founder, Rhema Wealth Strategy
Jeff Kaufman
Founder, JiTpro
Christian Dodge
Founder, DEVCO
God does not only give founders something to build. He forms the founders who can carry it.
Faith governs how you build. Purpose directs what you build. Execution turns that calling into a clear offer, paying customers, and a business that lasts.
We correct, rebuke, and encourage because we refuse to let founders guess their way through faith, purpose, or the market.
We do not lead with hype or investors.
We lead with truth, work, and customers. In that order.
Startup Accelerator
Most founders start here: a guided, year-long path to paying customers and repeatable revenue, grounded in faith and purpose.
90-Day GTM Execution Sprint
For founders who need hands-on help landing customers. Gerald works with you 1:1. By invitation.
Scale Studio
For companies already at $1M+ in revenue, ready to grow without chaos. Same operators, longer commitment. By invitation.
Most founders begin with the CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator: a guided, year-long path to paying customers and repeatable revenue, grounded in faith and purpose. You follow a step-by-step Guide through 30- and 90-day sprints, and meet twice a week in Working Sessions with the CanaGlobal Operators to fix what’s broken, face real customers, and build a weekly rhythm that keeps revenue moving.
Founders who need direct, hands-on help landing customers may be invited into the Venture Studio’s 90-Day GTM Execution Sprint. Gerald works with you 1:1 as the operator, clarifying the offer, building the systems, and executing GTM and RevOps so you get a clear offer in front of real buyers and turn interest into sales.
Proven companies already generating meaningful revenue (typically $1M+) and ready to grow without chaos may be invited into Scale Studio. The same operator-led approach continues on a longer-term commitment, with the potential for growth capital at defined milestones.
Not sure which path fits?
We grow the founder so the founder can build the business.
A six-time entrepreneur who has spent his life in the work, Gerald helps founders stop guessing. He shows them the path to land customers, make revenue repeatable, and only then raise money — on their terms.
His leadership is grounded in a simple doctrine:
Customers first.
Investors second.
Faith as the way you build — not a performance.
Through CanaGlobal, Gerald is building a global home for founders — growing the people who build, strengthening communities, and advancing a Kingdom economy rooted in clarity, discipline, and endurance.
Oak Trees.
Not Unicorns.
A three-time entrepreneur with 20+ years building companies, Christian is the creator of NEWMEFY®, CanaGlobal's Purpose Playbook, focused on the internal formation required to sustain external success.
At CanaGlobal, he leads Founder Formation, helping founders clarify who they are, discover what they are called to build, and develop the discipline to build businesses that last.
Old Self is the ceiling.
New You is a system.
Inside the Startup Accelerator, founders build:
Clarity on the customer, the offer, and the price
30- and 90-Day Sprints + One-Year Business & Founder Roadmap
A faith-led decision framework
Clarity around their calling and a filter for what to refuse.
The CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator gives you the path, the steps, and the order.
During October, the first 10 founders who enroll also receive a Private First-$1M GTM Diagnostic with Gerald Duran — a 45-minute session to find what is blocking customers and repeatable revenue.
We identify the one problem actually holding you back.
A focused plan. Not a longer to-do list.
One clear next step, in the right order.
"You do not need more things to work on. You need the right thing, in the right order." — Gerald Duran
For founders who want to build with God, not just chase outcomes.
For founders who are ready to align with why they're building.
Come to the room you need this week.
Then keep building.
A daily note on landing customers, investors and building a real business with faith and purpose. Without the hype.
Founder, Bonder
Scott Swanson says God led him to Cana’s doorstep to remind him he is not alone. What he found was a pack — a family, and consistent reminders inside a community grounded in God. The work now is to be the brand, and to walk the journey he has been handed.
The most important lessons were simple and hard at the same time. Be the brand. The optics have to be on point. And if you are showing up, aligned with God, inbound is imminent. Those three changed how I think about building.
Purpose got clearer once I stopped treating the work as something I was doing by myself. God led me to Cana’s doorstep to remind me that I am not alone. Now I have a pack. A family, and consistent reminders inside a community grounded in God. I am not alone, and we are not supposed to be.
Faith has not been replaced here. It has been reinforced. Cana reinforces what I already knew: that God is working through me while showing up through others. I am here to re-member.
The ongoing support has been steady. Always there. Always present. I choose to see what Cana is, and I remember when I was down and out, God put me on the doorstep of Cana. That has not left me.
If you are a founder considering the program, CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator is a great place to re-member, to begin, to root in something that can lead to a divine outcome. They hand you the map. They remind you along the way. It is still on you to walk the journey.
Founder, The Palmer Code Academy
Dr. Francis Palmer came to CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator after other incubators, drawn first by the faith. What stayed with him was the realization that a founder’s path could be measured, compared, and refined. Not guaranteed. Just a way forward that had already been walked.
The most important lesson was that success as a founder can be measured, compared, analyzed, and therefore refined. CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator’s go-to-market and revenue formulas made that concrete. It was a light-bulb moment. There was a proven strategy. A path that could be followed. No one said it would be easy, and no one called it a guarantee. There is still a way forward, and it can be adjusted when the evidence says to pivot.
Purpose got clearer once the work shifted from intention to process. Focus on the go-to-market strategy. Identify what you are building, who exactly you are building it for, why they would care that you built it, how you reach them, and how you measure progress along the way. Those questions turned a calling into something I could actually run.
My faith in God and Jesus was already strong. It is what drew me to CanaGlobal and to Gerald in the first place. His teaching resonated deeply. What I learned here is that faith is strengthened by reading and learning the Word of God. The journey didn’t replace that. It put it back at the center of how I build.
Ongoing support is where CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator excels. A founder can find education, knowledge, and operational guidance in more than one place, because you don’t know what you don’t know — and you have to know it in order to succeed. That gap is exactly where the support has mattered.
I was in other incubators before this one. CanaGlobal is head and shoulders above the rest. Faith-based. Driven by formulas and a strategy proven over decades of real experience. One purpose: help founders succeed. I don’t know what else you could ask for.
Founder, AriaTalks
Soo Horobin joined the startup accelerator to build ARIA, an AI tool for inbound lead management. The work forced a harder question than whether the product worked: what she was actually called to build. That clarity became The ARK, a way to help other founders build what they are uniquely called to build. ARIA stayed. It just stopped being the whole assignment.
Process is not a four-letter word. A strong idea is not the same thing as a viable business. I had ideas I believed in deeply. CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator taught me to test them through real customer conversations, selling, feedback, and iteration, instead of perfecting everything in my head first. I am more willing now to put something into the market, listen honestly to what comes back, and change it without treating the pivot as failure. Being committed to the assignment does not mean being attached to one version of the idea. The process is often what reveals what the business is actually supposed to become.
When I joined, I was focused on ARIA as an AI solution for inbound leads. The incubator gave me room to test that idea and to ask what I was actually called to build. I could see how naturally I think about growth, revenue, positioning, and what it takes to make something viable. More important, I started to see that my purpose was bigger than any one product. That clarity is what led to The ARK. I am called to help founders build what they are uniquely called to build, and The ARK is the vehicle. ARIA still has a role, as a practical tool inside that larger purpose.
Faith gets tested when you build God’s way instead of the world’s way. It is a day-by-day relationship. There are no shortcuts. The biggest shift for me has been learning to go to God first, instead of making the decision and then asking Him to bless it. That has meant slowing down to seek wisdom, listen for direction, and trust Him with the outcome, even when the direction does not look like the obvious business move. Faith in business is not just believing God will make things work. It is letting Him shape how I build, what I decide, and what I am willing to let go of. That is still one of my biggest areas of growth.
I am grateful for Gerald’s continued investment, and for a line I come back to when a decision is hard: faith must be operational. It helps me tell the difference between faith, fear, and simply forcing something to work. I am also grateful for Christian, and the role he plays alongside Gerald in shaping the community. The courses do not just hand over information. They force you through the foundations: who you serve, what problem you solve, whether people will pay, how it becomes viable, and whether it is aligned with your purpose. I have had to rethink ideas I was attached to. That has not always been comfortable. It has made me a stronger founder. Teaching, challenge, personal support, and community together are the kind of process I think every founder needs.
Do not join expecting someone to validate your idea. Come ready to be challenged. You will have to think honestly about what you are building, who actually wants it, whether the model works, why you are building it, and whether you will change direction when the evidence says to. That is uncomfortable, especially after you have invested yourself in an idea. It is also where a lot of the value is. If you are willing to do the work, question your assumptions, listen to the market, and let God shape the process instead of trying to control the outcome, you will leave with more clarity — about the business, and about the founder you are becoming.
Founder, AgriVeris
Jonathan Nuhu is building AgriVeris to create trust, transparency, and opportunity in Africa’s agricultural ecosystem — connecting farmers to better markets and to greater participation in global trade. CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator did not hand him that purpose. It made him treat the idea as something to validate, execute, and steward.
The most important lesson was that a startup is not a great idea. It is something you create and steward because it genuinely serves people. The program put weight on clarity, validation, and execution, and on being willing to learn and adapt along the way. Without those, the idea stays an idea.
Purpose got specific. I want to build systems that create trust, transparency, and opportunity in Africa’s agricultural ecosystem. Through AgriVeris, that means helping connect African farmers to better markets and enabling greater participation in global trade. That is the work I am called to do.
Faith has moved from believing God for the outcome to trusting Him through the process. The uncertainty of building has taught me to depend more on God — His word, His promises, and His leading — while still taking action. One does not replace the other.
CanaGlobal has been a meaningful part of the journey and a real catalyst for where I am today. Mentorship from Gerald, the community, the practical learning, and the relationships have helped me grow as a founder and as a person. I am grateful the support did not stop when the program did.
If you are considering joining, come with an open mind and a willingness to be challenged. Do not expect to be pampered. Expect to learn, grow, build meaningful relationships, and become a better founder. For me, CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator is not just a program. It is a place where faith-driven founders are equipped, and a community where water can be turned into wine.
Founder, Savanna Kicks
Benson didn’t come to CanaGlobal to learn how to stay busy. He came to learn what actually moves a business. Along the way the company got sharper too — not just an ecommerce store, but an African lifestyle brand built so people far from home can carry a real connection to the continent.
The most important lesson has been to focus on evidence, not activity. Validate the customer. Test the offer. Measure traction. A lot of startup work feels productive and isn’t. I’ve had to get honest about what actually moves the business forward, and let the rest go.
My purpose got clearer in the same stretch. I’m not just building an ecommerce business. I’m building an African lifestyle brand that helps people around the world carry a connection to Africa through products that mean something. That distinction changes what I make, who I make it for, and why the work is worth the long version.
Faith has grown in the gap between effort and outcome. I’ve learned to trust God while still doing the work in front of me. Entrepreneurship keeps teaching the same thing: surrender the outcome, stay faithful to the process. One without the other doesn’t hold.
The support has been accountability, frameworks, and a community that doesn’t let ideas sit. CanaGlobal has helped me move from ideas to clearer action and execution. I’m grateful for people willing to keep walking alongside the work, not just launch it.
If you’re a founder considering the program, come ready to be challenged. If you’re willing to be honest, take action, and learn, it can change how you approach the business and how you approach yourself. It is not a place to collect advice and leave it unused.
Founder, DEVCO
Christian came into CanaGlobal already clear on his calling. What he didn’t have yet was the assignment — how to stay on the wall, say less and mean more, and build without leaving himself exposed. A year of working alongside the program has sharpened his language, his pace, and the kind of brothers he wants in the room when the work gets heavy.
The first thing that changed was how I communicate. It isn’t enough anymore to have a good product. Today’s buyer is distracted, and cutting through that noise takes intentionality. You have to understand not only where the market is going, but how the customer feels right now, from their side of the table. Getting the language right is real work. So is the follow-up.
I already knew my purpose, my calling, and the mission. What I hadn’t thought through was the assignment, and what it actually takes to stay on the wall. That distinction has gotten clearer the longer I’ve been in the program.
My faith was already strong. I still let my guard down. In baseball, if you play catcher, you wear a cup so you don’t take one in the wrong place. I tried to do too many big things at once, and I got hit hard. The lesson wasn’t that faith failed. It was that faith isn’t a substitute for being prepared. Even with the most faith, we can’t do everything at the same time without the spiritual protection of our Lord, Savior, and Friend. My faith keeps growing through every challenge. I just don’t leave myself exposed the way I used to.
The ongoing support has been fuel, not fluff. This week both of them told me they see God’s hand in this, and that it’s going to be huge. That isn’t generic encouragement. It’s the kind of word that keeps the fire going. I’m glad I finally found brothers who can handle someone given a calling this size. From here, it’s on us.
If you’re a founder thinking about joining, don’t waste your money unless you’re willing to become the founder God has called you to be. This isn’t a coaching program, a Tony Robbins feel-good group, or a place to just take. Come ready to add value. Listen more than you talk. Don’t be afraid to be transparent, vulnerable, and authentic. No BS, and no half-assing it.
Founder, Rhema Wealth Strategy
Leah arrived busy and a mile wide. She had already spent thousands building on questions she didn’t know she was supposed to ask. Halfway through CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator the purpose she thought she had nailed came apart, and what replaced it surprised her. She now plans her week around the working sessions.
Sequence matters. Building a business is like building a house: do it out of order and it crumbles under a weak foundation. Before the startup accelerator, sequence wasn’t even on my radar. I was a mile wide and an inch deep, doing everything I was told a new business owner should do. Super busy. Not effective. There were important questions about the business I hadn’t answered, and I didn’t know they were questions I should have been asking from the beginning. I had already poured thousands of dollars into that guesswork. It wasn’t until I saw what clarity looked like with CanaGlobal that I realized how much of a fog I had actually been in.
Purpose shifted about halfway through. I thought I had it nailed. Gerald challenged me in the ways I needed to be challenged. What I love about this program is that CanaGlobal doesn’t hand out participation trophies. If something is off, he calls it out and lovingly — but truthfully — sends you back into the fog to wrestle until you come out with clarity. Where I landed took me by complete surprise. I wouldn’t have gotten there without someone willing to make me uncomfortable and push me through it.
Startup Church has been like going to church, and in some ways better, because it ties faith to calling in a practical way. We talk about the real things founders wrestle with while building. The working sessions are so full of raw, authentic faith that this has become an extension of my church family. I look forward to the calls. Learning how to build with a faith-driven mentality has been even more valuable than simply learning how to build a successful business. Watching them, I’ve learned that protecting time with God in the mornings really is the secret sauce. I’ve also learned to stop fighting the fact that it’s okay to be flawed. Being faithful matters more. God can work with the hot mess.
The ongoing support has been excellent. The founder working sessions are the after-party. Training sets the foundation. The work continues after the training ends. Those sessions keep me accountable and motivated, and I learn from what other builders are running into. It’s a mastermind for new businesses. I try to plan my week around them.
If you’re considering joining: do it. If you need more than that, the advice is still do it. The time, energy, and money you save will be worth its weight in gold, because you won’t have to figure out what has already been figured out. Buy yourself wisdom.
Founder, Foodynamics · Former Fortune 5 COO
Sean Jones had already been a chief operating officer inside a Fortune 5 company, earned an MBA, built companies, and raised capital. CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator still changed how he prepared for investors and how he thought about the buyer. What he learned there contributed to hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, and in relatively short order, to the sale of the company.
The lessons came in two parts. Before CanaGlobal, I did not have a clear enough understanding of how to prepare a company for investors. I had significant business experience. Gerald Duran put a disciplined, practical framework around the process: how investors evaluate an opportunity, how a founder needs to prepare before seeking capital, and how to pitch a business so it makes sense to someone considering an investment.
The second shift mattered even more. I learned to think strategically about attracting both investors and customers. The teaching on customer acquisition, positioning, and the buyer journey changed how I approached B2B and direct-to-consumer growth. We stopped approaching people as if we were trying to convince them to choose us. We got intentional about positioning the company as something investors and customers would want to pursue. That change affected how we communicated value, how we approached opportunities, and how we thought about the whole buyer journey.
It was not theoretical. Refining the buyer journey contributed to hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue I do not believe we would have generated otherwise. The preparation and strategic clarity contributed to something larger than customer acquisition. In relatively short order, we accepted an offer and sold the company. I have been through many business programs. Very few have produced that kind of measurable impact.
We had always called ourselves purpose-driven. CanaGlobal challenged us to go deeper than the label. We reexamined assumptions about the company, the customer, the problem, and why the problem mattered. Gerald pushed us on problem-solution fit: understand the customer, define the problem, communicate the solution, and connect those to the larger purpose. It forced a distinction between what we assumed and what the market was actually saying. We moved from believing we were purpose-driven to being able to articulate the purpose and build a strategy around it — why the business existed, whom we were called to serve, and what we were uniquely positioned to provide.
Faith had been in the business for years. What I rarely said out loud was the guilt. I have already been extraordinarily blessed, personally, professionally, and with my family. Praying for the success of a company, or asking the Holy Spirit for direction on a business decision, sometimes felt selfish. I questioned whether I should be asking God for help with something related to business when I already had so much to be thankful for. Gerald and CanaGlobal helped me see that differently. Seeking God’s guidance is not asking Him to make a business successful. It is seeking wisdom, discernment, stewardship, direction, and courage in how to use what we have been given. Business is one of the places faith gets lived out: in how we serve people, treat employees and customers, steward resources, and decide when the right path is not obvious. Faith does not have to sit outside the business.
If an entrepreneur is considering the accelerator, I would tell them to do it. I have multiple graduate degrees, including an MBA. I have spent decades in business, including as a chief operating officer in a Fortune 5 company. I have built companies, scaled them, raised capital, and seen both success and failure. I learned more practical, immediately usable information from Gerald Duran and CanaGlobal Startup Accelerator in a matter of weeks than I learned during large portions of my business education and career. I do not say that casually. He connects strategy, customer acquisition, investor readiness, positioning, purpose, and faith into a framework a founder can actually use. He challenges assumptions, forces clarity, and turns aspirations into something executable. For a founder serious about building something sustainable, this was one of the most valuable business experiences of my career.
Founder, JiTpro
Jeff came to CanaGlobal with almost 40 years of construction experience and a strong conviction that his industry had a serious procurement and planning problem. What he had to learn was that experience alone doesn’t build a company. Along the way, JiTpro stopped being just a procurement tool and became a mission: helping contractors prevent problems before they ever reach the field.
One of the biggest lessons for me was slowing down enough to clearly define the problem before rushing to build a solution. I came in with almost 40 years of construction experience and a strong conviction that the industry has a serious procurement and planning problem. But experience alone does not automatically translate into a successful company. The programs helped me think more intentionally about the customer, the problem we are actually solving, how to validate assumptions, and how to communicate JiTpro’s value in a way others can immediately understand. I also learned that a startup requires a different mindset than running an established construction company. You have to be willing to test, listen, adjust, simplify, and sometimes let go of ideas you were convinced were right.
At first, JiTpro was primarily about building better procurement tools for contractors. Over time, I realized the deeper purpose is helping contractors prevent problems before they ever reach the field. I spent most of my career dealing with the consequences of decisions already made — or decisions not made soon enough. Crews would be ready to work, but materials were late, information was missing, approvals were incomplete, or dependencies had never been identified. JiTpro has become less about simply managing procurement and more about helping contractors gain control earlier. The program helped me separate the product from the mission. The software may evolve considerably over time, but the purpose is much more durable: identify tomorrow’s problems early enough to prevent them.
This journey has required me to trust God in a different way than I have before. I have spent most of my life in construction, where I generally understood the business, the risks, and how to solve the problems in front of me. Building a technology company has put me in situations where I do not always know the next step or the outcome. That has forced me to become much more comfortable with doing the work I believe I am called to do while leaving the results to God. It has also caused me to think much more seriously about stewardship — of my time, my experience, the people God has placed around me, and the opportunities I have been given. My faith has become less about asking God to make my plans successful and more about asking whether I am faithfully pursuing what He has put in front of me.
I have been very grateful for the continued support. One of the things I appreciate most is that the relationship did not simply end when the formal program ended. Having people available who understand entrepreneurship, understand the challenges of building something from the ground up, and are willing to continue asking questions and offering perspective has been valuable. As JiTpro has developed, the problems I am working through have changed substantially. Continuing to engage with people who understand the journey has helped me maintain perspective as the company has evolved. I also appreciate that the support has gone beyond the mechanics of the business. The integration of faith, purpose, leadership, and entrepreneurship has been particularly meaningful to me.
I would tell a founder to come into the program willing to be challenged. Do not come simply looking for someone to validate your idea. Come willing to have your assumptions questioned, your message simplified, and possibly even your understanding of the problem changed. For me, the greatest value wasn’t getting a formula for building a company. It was being placed in an environment that forced me to think more deeply about the problem, the customer, the business, and ultimately why I was building it in the first place. If you are teachable, willing to do the work, and willing to examine your business and purpose honestly, the program can materially change how you approach building your company.
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