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Jeremie Curadeau wins the Kickstart Final Pitch

Congratulations to Jeremie Curadeau, this year’s Grand prize winner of the Kickstart SLC final pitch! Jeremie`s start-up company, Reparation JCPC, offers repair services for electronic devices of all sorts. The prizes received will help expand his business and offer even more services in the future. For more information: www.reparationjcpc.com

Our `coup de Coeur`winner, Benjamin Larose-Giroux impressed the judges with his well prepared pitch and new approach to tutoring, with his start-up called Tutoria. He is looking forward to test his business model in different high schools in the region.

A special mention to our finalists, Jean Gleizes and Juan David Fernandez Tarazona. Jean is working on offering festivals an original and very practical backpack to sell beer more efficiently.  He will also participate in the regional finals of Ose Entreprendre.  Juan wishes to start a more efficient delivery service application with his brother called Gogogo.

Thank you to our judges: Arnaud Hamelin-Lachapelle and  Christian Sarailis  from Saraïlis Avocats, Francois Lanthier Nadeau  from Snipcart and Lucas Marcotte Richardson from Xpertsea.

A special thank you to our sponsors, RBC, Spektrum and Sarailis Avocats, and the many mentors who contributed to this second edition of Kickstart SLC, a business start-up initiative for St-Lawrence students. 

Description of prizes:

Grand prize winner Jeremie Curadeau : Réparation JCPC

  • $1,000 Bursary offered by RBC
  • 10 hours of Tecnhological support, marketing and coaching offered by Spektrum     
  • 3 months access to the BNKR offered by Spektrum
  • 2 hours of free consultation from Saraïlis Avocats

‘Coup de Coeur’ prize winner Benjamin Larose-Giroux :  Tutorioa

  • $250 bursary from the RBC
  • 1 month access to the BNKR, co-working space
  • 1 hour of free consultation from Saraïlis Avocats

Finalists: Jean Gleizes for Back Pack for festivals and Juan David Fernandez Tarazona for Gogogo

  • 1 month access to the BNKR, co-working space