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Congratulations Jason Neitsch!

Posted on: Apr 20, 2020

Jason Neitsch, a fourth-year Bachelor of Management student at Âé¶¹Ô­´´ and Innovation Launchpad @ Âé¶¹Ô­´´ participant has been selected for the Student Founder Program!

Jason is the founder of , a company that facilitates the buying and selling of cards for users who play the Pokémon Trading Card Game online. Jason is the co-founder of ,  a website accompanied by an online app,   that has more than 5000 downloads on the Google app store. Make sure you check it out!

Jason was also featured as the Âé¶¹Ô­´´ entrepreneur of the month in the . Read his story! We are sure you will enjoy it. 

As part of the program, Jason will get a stipend of $10,000 to work on advancing his company while building a network of like-minded entrepreneurs and growing his client base. In addition, this program will help Jason:

  • Identify and develop early customers
  • Prove the company’s market 
  • Build a strong foundation for the product, team, and company 
  • Learn to sell the product and company to customers and investors. 

There were 47 applications for the Student Founders program and 10 student-led companies made it to the final list. Read the more about the program and the finalists . The student founder program is funded by Startup Edmonton and Western Economic Diversification. 

It is a proud moment for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ to see our student entrepreneur become successful.

Congratulations Jason! We look forward to the great things that will come out of this!

Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Innovation launchpad @ Âé¶¹Ô­´´:

Innovation Launchpad @ Âé¶¹Ô­´´ is a program for innovative student leaders, like you, to help advance your ideas into innovative solutions. The program employs an objective-based mentoring process with a goal of advancing ideas into reality, and enabling you to tackle the multi-disciplinary world we live in. It prepares you to think differently, communicate effectively and, most importantly, build a network for gurus preparing you for success! Read more about the program here!