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Five months after being expelled from Montreal’s Dawson College for exposing a security flaw in the school’s data system, Ahmed Al-Khabaz has launched a startup with business partner Ovi Mija.

The cofounders are dubbing Outpost Travelas the first aggregator site for peer-to-peer travel services found through online community marketplaces. Websites like Airbnb, Kangaride and craigslist allow people to offer rooms, rides and other assets directly to each other, reducing transaction costs. Outpost Travel scours this “sharing economy” over the web, finding the best and most reliable deals.

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Mr. Mija, 20, called it “the Kayak of the sharing economy,” referring to the popular travel meta-search engine.

The former CEGEP (General and Vocational Colleges) students are already receiving interest from venture capital firms. Last week they competed and won against six other student startups at a pitch competition put on by The Founder Project, a Montreal-based student venture capital firm. Recently they pitched to a crowd of 800 at the FounderFuel accelerator program’s July 11 graduation event for its summer cohort.