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title: About Kibbi | Women-Led, Immigrant-Founded, Canadian-Owned
description: Founded in 2021 by Hong Phuc (HP) Nguyen, Kibbi connects Canada’s credentialing networks to employers. Meet our founders and Peeky.
---
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Why we're building Kibbi
# Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be too.
We're building the infrastructure that connects employers with the communities preparing, supporting and credentialing talent.
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## Built from lived experience.
Our founders built Kibbi because we know what it feels like for qualified people to be overlooked. We saw how community organisations work to help people find opportunity, and built Kibbi to connect employers with the talent they might otherwise miss.
**Hong Phuc (HP) Nguyen, MBA**Founder & CEO
**Han Tran, MPA**Co-Founder & CSPO
Our origin
## How Kibbi got here.
We built Kibbi because no one else had built the thing we needed. Associations credential millions of qualified professionals. Settlement networks support thousands of internationally trained newcomers. Campus career services launch graduates into their first jobs. The talent is there. The infrastructure connecting it to employers wasn’t. So we started building.
**2020**
HP arrived in Calgary from Hong Kong with $30,000 in savings and an MBA employers couldn’t see past her accent. Calgary was in a labour shortage. Qualified newcomers were invisible.
**2021**
She built Kibbi: a multilingual job platform for newcomers and the small businesses hiring them. $1.1M raised. School and settlement partners. Thousands of job seekers.
**2023**
Han joined. She arrived in Canada as a child refugee with her family, saw firsthand the agencies that helped them rebuild, and spent her career helping newcomers settle and succeed. She brought a settlement and employment lens to Kibbi.
**The listening years**
Years of conversations with associations, employers, government, schools, career centres, and settlement and employment agencies made it clear: vetting was happening everywhere, just not connected as an ecosystem.
**Today**
Kibbi turns Canada’s credentialing networks into one hiring infrastructure. Vetted channels instead of volume. Trust instead of noise. Same community-first roots, scaled.
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Meet Peeky
## The meaning behind our name and mascot.
We almost called it Jobs Mama. We’re glad we didn’t. Kibbi was inspired by the word “kibbutz,” a concept of communal living, shared work and gender equity. We needed a name that meant community, because that’s the whole bet: employers, schools, settlement agencies and neighbours showing up for each other.
Our mascot Peeky is an Arctic Tern, the bird with the longest migration on Earth, flying the equivalent of six round trips to the moon in a single lifetime. Our logo shows Peeky flying toward the sun: a nod to our immigrant founders, our mission to empower job seekers, and a shared hope for a brighter future. On a side note, Peeky loves being dressed in partners’ uniforms!
## Canadian-owned. Women-led. Immigrant-founded.
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**Immigrant of Distinction Award**Entrepreneurship & Innovation, 2023
**Formidable Women Across Alberta**Calgary Region Immigrant Employment Council (CRIEC)
Kibbi is a Canadian-owned, women-led and immigrant-founded hiring platform based in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 2021 by Hong Phuc (HP) Nguyen, MBA, with co-founder Han Tran, MPA, Kibbi connects associations, colleges and community agencies to employers across Canada, on a platform hosted in Canada.
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