In 2009, Cheng co-founded International Student Connection, an international student agency that was named "Best New Student Business of the Year".^[5]

In 2011, Cheng launched TEDxSFU, an annual TEDx event at Simon Fraser University.^[6] That year, Cheng also co-founded WittyCookie which offers website creation and maintenance to small businesses.^[7]

In 2012, Cheng was selected by the Surrey Board of Trade as one of the "Top 25 Under 25" entrepreneurs.^[4] He was also given the "SFU Entrepreneur of the Year" award^[1]^[8] and the "Surrey Business Excellence Award".^[9]

In 2013, Cheng co-founded Needle HR, an Internet marketplace for web designers and other creative services.^[10] Cheng received "The Satchu Prize" and "Outstanding Venture Award" from educational organization, The Next 36.^[11]^[12] and was selected by Maclean's Magazine as one of the "Future Leaders of Canada".^[1] He was also selected by 24 Hours (newspaper) as one of "Top 24 Under 24".^[13]

In 2014, Cheng co-founded Covr,^[14] a music discovery platform,^[15] and was selected by BCBusiness as one of "Top 30 Under 30".^[16] That year, Cheng also co-founded Beta Collective,^[17] the first Coworking space in Surrey, British Columbia.,^[18] as well as Sniply, an online marketing tool^[19] which was later acquired in a multi-million dollar deal.^[20]

In 2017, Cheng co-founded Lumen5,^[21] an online video creator,^[22] which was ranked one of "Canada's Top Growing Companies" at #93 by The Globe and Mail in 2020,^[23] as well as one of "Canada's 50 fastest-growing technology companies" at #34 as ranked by Deloitte in 2021.^[24]

Michael Cheng

Born	Hong Kong, China
Nationality	Chinese Canadian
Alma mater	Simon Fraser University
Occupation	Entrepreneur

Early life and education

Career

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