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 […]
Topic: Company Launch
Craft Casket Co.: Modern Designs for an Old Industry
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. […]
Beacon Sleep Solutions: Everyone Deserves a Good Night’s Sleep
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 […]
Meet Our Company Launch Startups for Summer 2019
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 […]
Rexchanger: The Airbnb of Outdoor Recreation
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 […]
Crepes with Culture
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 […]
NipaYe: Making Breastfeeding Easier and More Comfortable
Started by University of Utah MBA student Nana Ewusi-Emmim two years ago, NipaYe is a breastfeeding-help company focused on assisting mothers to produce milk for their babies. With help from the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, she is developing a tool she hopes will be more comfortable and easier to use than what is currently on the […]
Spoonful: Get Cereal Delivered Anywhere on Campus
Spoonful is a student startup selling cereal by the bowl and delivers cereal anywhere at the University of Utah by using its newly release app on the Apple App Store. It sounds like a lot of fun (and it is!), but the company started as a solution to a serious problem. The company’s mission from the beginning […]
Clockwork Forge Games: Exploring the Klondike
Clockwork Forge Games is a video-game development team led by Entertainment Arts & Engineering students at the University of Utah. With the release of their first game, “Hyperborean Charter,” the team is excited to show everyone the world they’ve built. “Hyperborean Charter” takes place in the far north in a climate like the Klondike and […]
Company Launch Program: Get Startup Support & Resources
Do you have a startup company or idea and need help developing it? Check out the Company Launch program at the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Utah. Whether you are at the beginning of your business idea or have a full-fledged plan, the Company Launch program is here for you. It doesn’t matter […]
