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Vijay Ramaswamy

Co-founder, Quupe

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Vijay Ramaswamy co-founded Quupe, a Vancouver peer-to-peer rental marketplace, with three classmates from the Centre for Digital Media's Master of Digital Media program, and led growth and design there. Before the program, Ramaswamy worked as a freelance graphic and UI designer and started two businesses in Mumbai.

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Did Vijay Ramaswamy co-found Quupe?

Yes. The Georgia Straight reported on 2017-07-12 that Angela Hamilton and fellow Quupe founders Zeeshan Rasool, Vijay Ramaswamy and Amanda Shou came up with the idea while attending Vancouver's Centre for Digital Media. Quupe's own About page, archived 2017-09-10, lists Ramaswamy as co-founder and growth design lead.

How did Quupe start?

Quupe's About page, archived 2017-09-10, says the idea came from campus residence at the Centre for Digital Media in 2016, where Zeeshan Rasool kept lending a vacuum to, and borrowing an iron from, next-door neighbour Ramaswamy, with no way to track either.

Where did Ramaswamy study?

The Centre for Digital Media's alumni page, checked 2026-09-25, lists Ramaswamy in the Master of Digital Media class of December 2016 (Cohort 10), with Quupe among the student projects, and says Ramaswamy earlier completed a mechanical engineering degree.

What did Ramaswamy do before Quupe?

The Centre for Digital Media's alumni page, checked 2026-09-25, says Ramaswamy began freelancing as a designer in 2010 and started two businesses in Mumbai: a digital product studio and an online store selling men's apparel in bulk.

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