We hosted our annual Lassonde Demo Day on April 29, 2026, at Lassonde Studios. At this event, we invite everyone to join us to meet student startup teams, honor our student leaders, and celebrate the end of the year. Watch this video for highlights from this year’s event. Learn more about Lassonde Demo Day at […]
UV Sense, a University of Utah startup focused on skin cancer monitoring, was a semi-finalist in America’s Startup, a national collegiate startup competition created to spotlight early-stage business ideas with the potential to drive America’s future economic, technological, and societal progress. UV Sense produces hardware and software technology that enables users to track their real-time […]
Team ARSS has been named the Grand Prize winner of the 16th Annual Bench to Bedside Competition, hosted by the University of Utah’s Center for Medical Innovation (CMI), for its automated patient repositioning system designed to prevent pressure ulcers and reduce caregiver injury. ARSS (Automated Repositioning Support System) replaces manual patient turning with a disposable glide sheet […]
Browse photos from Demo Day 2026. At this annual event, the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute welcomed dozens of student entrepreneurs at the University of Utah to celebrate the end of the year by showcasing their products and services. Learn more at lassonde.utah.edu/demo.
Here are the photos from events and activities at Lassonde Studios in April 2026. During this month, we signed the wall with the L10 student community, finished our classes for the spring semester, attended Make It activities, learned new skills at Workshops, enjoyed the outdoors, and more. Find upcoming events here: lassonde.utah.edu/calendar
Congratulations to everyone who graduated with a Master of Business Creation (MBC) or entrepreneurship degree in the class of 2026! Browse photos from their graduation ceremony on May 2 in the gallery below. Learn more about options to study entrepreneurship at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business here: https://eccles.utah.edu/entp.
In 2018, Kelby Gatrell was approached by his brother-in-law, Abraham Bedard, about starting a golf company. Even though Gatrell had never played a round of golf in his life, he decided to take the risk and launch Yatta Golf. As co-founder and vice president of sales, Gatrell watched the company grow but also noticed critical […]
Pretend is building a platform designed to help teams keep up with the demands of content creation without relying on the slow, complex structure of traditional creative work. Michael Potter, a filmmaker and creative entrepreneur, brings years of experience in film production and client work to Pretend. Potter joined the University of Utah’s Master of […]
When Princess Bombyck was 9 years old, a civil war forced her family from their home in Liberia. In the chaos, a young American public health student showed up to help. She provided basic health care to families who had nothing, and though she may never know the impact of that one act, it changed […]
As the founder of Gilded, Annika Stacey didn’t set out to make just another coffee table book. She set out to create something that mattered. After moving into a new home, she placed a handcrafted oak table, built by her father-in-law, at the center of her space. As she searched for a book to place […]
