Frank Bouchard

Co-Founder - Wipebook

Frank Bouchard launched Wipebook, a company that produces a book that serves as a cross between a whiteboard and a notepad, while studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Ottawa in 2013 with the help of his classmates, Thomas Sychterz and Toby Maurice. The three students collaborated on a class project that eventually led to the development of a product company. The product features glossy, laminated pages can handle a variety of wet- and dry-erase markers and are easy to wipe clean and reuse, or they can be removed and scanned into a computer for safekeeping. Bouchard's project raised nearly $425,000 on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website. Wipebook's product has attracted customers from as far away as Singapore and the Netherlands. They have now sourced production from a factory in Montreal.