Meet the startup teams in our Company Launch program at Lassonde Studios for fall 2019. Find a complete list below. They range from sleep tech to water purification. Company Launch is a startup support program that offers office space at Lassonde Studios, peer coaches, professional mentors, and more. All students at the University of Utah […]
Behind every athlete who wows the world at the Olympic Games is years of hard work, dedication, and sacrifice. These athletes need a wide network of support to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. Peter Sullivan, a junior studying marketing at the University of Utah, grew up speed skating and realized that these […]
LIT Outdoors is a company dedicated to providing innovative products for outdoor enthusiasts. Freestanding and fully portable, LIT Outdoors created “The Tammock.” It’s not a tent, or a hammock. It’s a Tammock. LIT Outdoors released the Tammock on Kickstarter in April 2019, with a goal to raise $70,000. The campaign ended a month later exceeding […]
Aidan Daoussis is the inventor and founder behind the company, Portal Power, the world’s first portable charger within a cord. He launched the company from his dorm room at Lassonde Studios in 2016 and has since graduated with a degree in entrepreneurship. Through hard work and dedication to the idea, Portal Power launched their product […]
Grip’n’Strip offers versatile water-bottle sleeves in many different sizes with a magnetic attachment and key-chain clasps. This water-bottle sleeve allows you to attach your phone, your wallet, and your keys. The product makes it easy to carry your belongings whether you are at the gym, at school or on an adventure. Grip’n’Strip is one of […]
Matt Henke and Tanner Curtis, master’s of architecture students at the University of Utah, are bringing a unique industry into the modern era — caskets. “In almost all industries, contemporary design takes a portion of the market — whether it’s cars, phones, or even into the more carpentry-based industries of cabinetry and furniture,” Curtis said. […]
When Joseph Arrington was a child, he dreaded sleeping. Arrington, a University of Utah graduate with an MBA, has suffered from various sleeping disorders, like sleep paralysis and sleep terrors, since his youth and, as an adult, he wanted to find a new solution to the parasomnias. His answer was a company — Beacon Sleep […]
Twenty student startups are hard at work this summer in the Company Launch program at Lassonde Studios. They are working together to refine their products, build their teams, make money, change the world and everything in-between. The founders come from all majors and backgrounds. They are launching ideas from caskets and video games to fashion […]
For outdoor enthusiasts, it can be difficult to access necessary equipment. Gear can be prohibitively expensive, and people who do own equipment might not use it enough to make the cost worth it. Tyler Sanford, Sam Tyler and Cara MacDonald created Rexchanger, a startup to address this issue. MacDonald, who is studying communications with an […]
University of Utah students Daniel Damiani and Felipe Perrotti did not plan to make crepes when they first got the idea to start a food truck. Luckily, the idea of crepes took off and the U’s Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute awarded them a Get Seeded grant and a place in the Company Launch program to enlighten […]
