Introducing EshipX: The Online Marketplace Built Exclusively for Young Founders

Supporting young founders on their startup journey is at the core of LaunchX Entrepreneurship Program. Beyond teaching the knowledge needed to build a business, LaunchX helps students find their voice to advocate for their vision. Now, we are giving them the platform to showcase their hard work and turn those concepts into tangible realities.

EshipX is exactly that: a real marketplace for young founders under 25 to showcase their products and ideas.

Selling is the Proof

Ideas get real the moment someone pays for them. EshipX facilitates a platform for young entrepreneurs to sell by giving you a storefront, checkout, and customers without building any of it yourself. The team at LaunchX runs the platform, handles checkout, and pays you your earnings, so you can just run your store. 

To make transactions seamless, buyers shop across all stores in one place and pay once. The money flows to LaunchX's Stripe account, which then pays each seller their share. This ensures you focus on the product and the customer - the hardest, most useful founder skills.

The platform has two main audiences:

• Summer program teams: These are Flagship teams who must generate real revenue with a $250 goal per team. EshipX is where they build a store, list products, and sell.
• Alumni ("Launchies") and the public: The longer-term vision is where any young entrepreneur can open a store.

Everything You Need to Sell, From Day One

The platform operates on a simple loop: list your product, sell when a customer checks out, fulfill by shipping the product or delivering the file, and get paid in the weekly payout.

• A storefront: You get a branded page for your store and products, live on the web.
• Checkout & payments: Secure card checkout is handled for you and powered by Stripe, the same infrastructure millions of real businesses use.
• Real customers: Your store is discoverable in the EshipX marketplace.
• Get paid: Earnings land in your (or your guardian's) account on a weekly cycle.

Three Ways to Sell

Founders can pick the setup that fits their product:

• Storefront: The main path for most Flagship stores features full checkout on EshipX. After a free launch period, sellers keep 90% of their sales and a 10% platform fee is applied.
• Slingshot: For a $95 one-time fee (refundable within 14 days), you are listed on EshipX but buyers check out on your own external store, with no platform fee.
• Free listing: A $0 directory listing allows people to find you, with no products or checkout on EshipX.

Uncompromising Trust & Safety

Buyer protection and clear return policies establish the essential trust needed to drive sales, while active content moderation keeps the overall marketplace credible. EshipX safeguards younger founders by limiting their public information and requiring parental consent. If a seller is under 18, they retain full control over running their day-to-day store, but a parent or guardian must manage the payout account until the founder reaches adulthood.

Let's Launch Your Store

EshipX is officially open for onboarding. In the onboarding hub, you will create your founder profile, set up your storefront, publish your first product, and connect your payouts from start to finish. Visit eshipx.com to launch your store today.