Six student startup teams received $5,556 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the round ending in September 2024. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas.
The final pitch event for regular grants was held at Lassonde Studios. It included live startup pitches, free food, and public voting to determine who received grants.
Get Seeded is a milestone grant funding program open to all students at the University of Utah. Students requesting more than $500 follow a three-step process, concluding at the final pitch event. Students requesting $500 or less — called microgrants — are funded after a two-step process.
All University of Utah students are welcome to apply for grants. The first step is to apply online.
The program is managed by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Utah and sponsored by Doxy.me and the Rosann Family.
Learn more about Get Seeded and apply for a grant here: lassonde.utah.edu/getseeded.
Regular Grants
Bookworm — $1,500
BookWorm is a virtual hub for book lovers. Through features including a social feed of friends’ reading activities, reviews, book clubs, and reading habit tracking, Bookworm aims to make reading fun for the social generation.
HomeBrew — $1,500
HomeBrew is an all-in-one business management application designed for the small business owner of the 21st century. Housing a full suite of business development applications, a forum for small business owners to communicate and trade, and a custom-built scalability framework designed to suggest business development solutions, HomeBrew is the final word in starting, running, and growing any small business.
Curvetta Labs — $1,056
Curvetta Labs is developing an advanced slicing algorithm for creating non-planar 3D prints. Their algorithm offers capabilities beyond that of what traditional 3-axis printers are capable of.
Microgrants
1.21 Studios — $500
1.21 Studios fuses the practical effects and rich storytelling of the 1980s with modern-day visions for cinema, using methods like 3D printing and modeling to make effects.
Quinn Briley Photography — $500
Quinn Briley Photography provides families with maternity, newborn, family, and milestone photos.
Storefront — $300
Storefront will be an e-commerce application that integrates social media aspects. Sellers will be able to post and sell items and post videos that showcase those items and users will be able to interact with the sellers via their posts and inquire through chats. Sellers sign up through a subscription-based model so they can sell to customers without a percentage being taken from their sales.
