Seven student startup teams received milestone grants at the Get Seeded Final Pitch Event in April 2018 at Lassonde Studios. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. Get Seeded is a monthly milestone grant funding program open to all college students in Utah. The first step is to apply online. Top teams advance […]
Category: Startups
Learn about some of the amazing student startup companies at the University of Utah. Students from all departments are inventing new products and starting businesses.
VIDEO: LIT Outdoors Startup Feature
Get to know LIT Outdoors, a Lassonde startup providing innovative outdoor equipment, including the “Tammock.” Learn more about this company and others at lassonde.utah.edu/launched
VIDEO: ColoClean Startup Feature
Get to know ColoClean, a Lassonde student startup developing a colonoscopy prep kit. Learn more about this company and others at lassonde.utah.edu/launched
VIDEO: Blyncsy Startup Feature
Get to know Blyncsy, a Lassonde student startup tracking the movement of people. Learn more about this company and others at lassonde.utah.edu/launched
Rendezvous Box: A Date Night Subscription Service
“I don’t know, what do you want to do?” Does this sound familiar when searching for date ideas? Well, a startup out of the University of Utah, led by students from the David Eccles School of Business, has solved this well-known issue. The company, Rendezvous Box, is a date night subscription service that pairs couples […]
Live Create Launch Podcast: Jaron Hall, Founder of Utah Maids
Jaron Hall is our guest in this edition of the Live Create Launch Podcast. Our host Gavin Van Wagoner talks to Hall, the founder of Utah Maids and recent graduate from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Listen for insights into the startup process and being a young entrepreneur […]
Tourism App Wins Bootcamp Competition
Have you ever been somewhere new and wished you had a local to show you around? If the answer is yes, you need to know about The Local. It’s a new tourism app and website being developed by a team of students at the University of Utah. They won first place in the spring 2018 […]
Utah No. 1 for Entrepreneurship, says Amazon
In a new study, Amazon ranked Utah No. 1 in a list of the Top 10 Most Entrepreneurial States with the most small and medium-sized businesses per capita selling on Amazon. “It is exciting to see Utah at the top of our list ahead other great entrepreneurial states like California and New York,” said Nicholas Denissen, […]
2018 Bench-to-Bedside Awards Grand Prize to Real-Time Fertility Device
Fertility issues can be physically and emotionally taxing for couples that can be exacerbated by the financial strain associated with assisted reproductive technology. For many people, trying to start a family, which should be the happiest time of their lives, can become draining. These sentiments are shared by 12 to 13 percent of United States […]
CleanFare Kicks-Off Beta Test with a Competition for All Testers
This week, CleanFare, a student startup working at the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, launched a public beta test of their new mobile app. CleanFare aims to help clean up the air in Salt Lake City by diverting commuters away from using personal vehicles and encouraging them to take more “green” modes of transportation such as walking, […]