Five student startup teams received $6,685 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the round ending in April 2022. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final event for the regular grants was hosted at Lassonde Studios. It included live startup pitches, free food, and public voting to see who received […]
Topic: Get Seeded
Get Seeded Awards $6,453 in Grants for February
Seven student startup teams received $6,453 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the round ending in February 2022. This includes regular grants and microgrants for this period. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final event for the regular grants was hosted at Lassonde Studios. It included live startup pitches, […]
Get Seeded Awards $7,500 in Grants for January
Eight student startup teams received $7,500 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the round ending in January 2022. This includes regular grants and microgrants for this period. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final event for the regular grants was hosted at Lassonde Studios. It included live startup pitches, […]
Get Seeded Awards $9,800 in Grants
Ten student startup teams received $9,800 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the second round of grants for the fall 2021 semester. This includes regular grants and microgrants for this period. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final event for the regular grants was hosted at Lassonde Studios. It […]
Get Seeded Awards $7,360 in Grants
Six student startup teams received $7,360 in Get Seeded milestone grants in the first round of grants for the fall 2021 semester. This includes regular grants and microgrants for this period. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final event for the regular grants was hosted at Lassonde Studios. It […]
Neighbor Closes a $53 Million Funding Round
Neighbor, a peer-to-peer storage company, proved that early failures don’t always determine the success of a startup. While competing in one of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute’s Get Seeded grant rounds for student entrepreneurs, Neighbor came in last place. Five years later the company has closed its $53 million Series B round of funding. Neighbor was […]
No Society Media: Making Professional Video & Photos Accessible for Everyone
Professional video and photo production quality is often not an option for small businesses and personal projects, but Syd Ostendorf is changing that as the founder of No Society Media and an entrepreneurship and film student at the University of Utah. Ostendorf’s company aims to make high-end, commercial work accessible to everyone. She wants to […]
Foam: Laundry for Students, by Students
Finding the time to do laundry while living on campus is a common struggle for many college students. Foam is a student startup at the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute with a goal to eliminate the challenges that come from doing laundry in a dormitory by offering a 24-hour turnaround service where students can have their laundry […]
How Jared Pieper ‘Entrepreneured’ His Apple Career
In his senior year of undergraduate degree at the University of Utah, Jared Pieper realized something was missing in his engineering program. “The concepts were interesting, but the type of work I realized I might be doing didn’t fit my personality,” he said. “I wasn’t excited by the prospect of doing simulations by myself, sitting […]
Get Seeded Awards $9,400 in Grants in June
Ten student startup teams received $9,400 in Get Seeded milestone grants for June. This includes regular grants and microgrants for this period. See below for a list of teams and their product ideas. The final event for the regular grants was hosted on Zoom and broadcast on YouTube for the public. It included live startup […]