Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Jason Chapnik has been an entrepreneur and investor for over 25 years. As a teenager, he co-founded Kaboom Fireworks Inc., the leading provider of family fireworks in Ontario. In 1995, Jason co-founded TouchTech Corporation to provide consumers access to real estate listing information.

In 1997 TouchTech was acquired by Homestore Inc. (later Move Inc., Nasdaq:MOVE). In late 1998, Jason founded The .TV Corporation to market the dotTV top level domain, in partnership with the government of Tuvalu. In 2002, The .TV Corporation was acquired by Verisign Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN). In 2001, Jason joined the board of directors of Dealer.com Inc., a leading provider of automotive Internet marketing solutions.

Jason is currently the Chairman of the Board of Dealer.com. He also sits on the boards of Method, Nulogy, StickerYou, and OpenApps. He lives in Toronto, with his wife of fifteen years and their three children.