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Lundquist Center Startup Success Stories

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One of the center’s biggest points of pride is the amount and quality of startups born at the University of Oregon. Entrepreneurship students have many routes to success, including the opportunity to participate in business plan competitions to earn recognition and funding. Products by our students are on the shelves of your stores, making the news in your social media feeds, and helping people around the world.

Animosa

This Oregon MBA student's commitment to the environment and women’s health sparked an idea for the creation the ultimate menstrual travel-pack for active women. Animosa’s mission is to provide the tools to empower women to explore the world.

Year Founded: 2016
Founder(s): Kate Blazar, MBA '16
Current Status: Animosa launched their first menstrual product pack in May 2017.
Website: Animosa.com | Crunchbase

Aulaine Enterprises LLC

Aulaine Enterprises is an all-natural skin care line of products. Their first product, Ink Defense Tattoo Care, is an all-natural product to promote healthy healing after getting a tattoo.

Year Founded: 2017
Founder(s): Austin Rieger '16, Elaine Pandolfi
Current Status: Their product is currently available to purchase.
Website: InkDefenseTattoo.com

Bespoke Bride

As an all-encompassing bridal service, Bespoke Bride offers brides help with anything from wedding planning to finding the perfect dress and everything in between.

Year Founded: 2017
Founder(s): Jenn Albertson '17
Current Status: The first Bespoke Bride boutique opened in 2018 in Bend, Oregon.
Website: BespokeBride.com

Cowbucker

A goofy hat idea turned into a thriving business. The Cowbucker was born out of three former MBA students' determination to create a hat that satisfied all conventional hat needs and so much more.

Year Founded: 2014
Founder(s): Chris Watkins, MArch '14, MBA '14, Derek Schloss, JD '14, MBA '14, Whitney Alexander, MBA '14
Current Status: Cowbucker partners with the largest college teams and breweries across the nation to design their hats. Cowbucker hates are sold in stores nationwide.

Floragenex

Floragenex is a biotechnology company that provides solutions for genomic analysis in human, plant, and animal systems. With multiple offices along the U.S. Pacific coast, they are able to investigate and analyze genomes at unparalleled levels.

Year Founded: 2006
Founder(s): Nathan Lillegard, '98, MBA '06, Eric Johnson
Current Status: Floragenex has worked with more than 350 scientists in 26 countries around the world and is continuing to provide expert guidance and support in genomics research today.
Website: Floragenex.com | Crunchbase

Manage My Co-Op

Manage My Co-Op is software for cooperatives and buying clubs to manage their group buy. They provide the platform for people to aggregate their demand to buy products at wholesale or lower prices.

Year Founded: 2013
Founder(s): Nathan Gustafson '06, Kimmy Gustafson '05
Current Status: The company successfully exited in 2017.
Website: ManageMy.Coop | Crunchbase

Orchid Health

Orchid Health was founded by two entrepreneurs with the belief that Oregon’s rural communities deserve to have the same high-quality healthcare as the rest of the population. Their successful business model strives to connect primary healthcare to rural communities, while allowing patients to form meaningful relationships with their providers.

Year Founded: 2013
Founder(s): Oliver Alexander '14, Orion Falvey '13
Current Status: Orchid Health serves more than 300 patients at their two locations in Oregon.
Website: OrchidHealth.org

Original Grain

Two brothers inspired by their Pacific Northwest roots created a watch that emulates the woods they grew up around. Original Grain watches have mastered an exquisite watch design of combining natural hardwood and stainless steel.

Year Founded: 2013
Founder(s): Ryan Beltran '11, Andrew Beltran
Current Status: What started as a Kickstarter in 2013 has turned into a well-known watch brand. They have over 30 different styles of watches for sale on their website.
Website: OriginalGrain | Crunchbase

Perpetua Power Source Technologies

Perpetua Power Source Technologies was founded around the purpose of providing high-quality, easy-to-use, and cost-effective renewable energy products. These products remove the need for battery replacements and are made to match the lifetime of the product it is charging.

Year Founded: 2005
Founder(s): Jon Hofmeister, MBA '05
Current Status: Perpetua's products are available to purchase from their website, as well as directly from Emerson and GE.
Website: PerpetuaPower.com | Crunchbase

Picky Bars

Triathlete Jesse Thomas wanted the ultimate energy bar, balanced with whole foods and clean ingredients—so that’s exactly what he created. Picky Bars is there to satisfy your snack needs without compromising your health, giving you the energy to live an active lifestyle.

Year Founded: 2010
Founder(s): Jesse Thomas, MBA '09
Current Status: Picky Bars has a growing team in Bend, Oregon, added their bars to 153 new stores this past year, and sells nine delicious flavors that have seen great success from their customers.
Website: PickyBars.com

Product Hunt

Product Hunt surfaces the best new products every day. It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.

Year Founded: 2013
Founder(s): Ryan Hoover '09
Current Status: Hoover’s company successfully exited in November 2016 to AngelList.
Website: ProductHunt.com | Crunchbase

Red Duck Foods

Red Duck Foods was founded by three hungry Ducks' desires to bring more zest to the condiment aisle. Today, their success has brought an array of condiments to grocery stores nationwide.

Year Founded: 2012
Founder(s): Shannon Oliver, MBA '13, Karen Bonner, MBA '13, Jessica Zutz Hilbert, JD '14, MBA '14
Current Status: Red Ducks Foods sells four flavors of ketchup, three flavors of BBQ sauce and taco sauce, and one cocktail sauce on their website and in retail stores across the nation.
Website: RedDuckFoods.com | Crunchbase

Revant Optics

Oregon MBA Caleb Iorg teamed up with Jason Bolt to build a business selling licensed sunglasses. After selling the licensed business Society 43 in 2015, Revant Optics has continued to thrive with a replacement lens business.

Year Founded: 2009
Founder(s): Jason Bolt, Caleb Iorg '10, MBA '11
Current Status: Revant Optics' business is thriving, selling over 500,000 lenses in 2015 through their website.
Website: RevantOptics.com

ROAM Fitness

ROAM Fitness aims to provide the ultimate stress reliever in one of the most stressful places there is: the airport. Ty Manegold created this airport gym to cater to frequent travelers or those who are just looking to let off some steam in-between flights.

Year Founded: 2014
Founder(s): Ty Manegold, MBA '15, Cynthia Sandall, MBA '15
Current Status: ROAM Fitness has one location open in the BWI airport and has a goal to open 20 gyms more within five years.
Website: ROAMFitness.com | Crunchbase

Skyward

Skyward has the first operations management solution for commercial drone businesses. The platform connects all the people, projects, and equipment involved in a drone program into one efficient workflow.

Year Founded: 2012
Founder(s): Eric T. Ringer, MBA '14, Dana Maher, MCRP '12, MS '12, Jonathan Evans, Steve McKeon '00
Current Status: Skyward was acquired by Verizon Wireless in February, 2017.
Website: Skyward.io | Crunchbase

Sohr

Sohr aims to support performance by making plant-based nutrition convenient and delicious. They make protein recovery beverages from local and organic ingredients that are perfect for drinking after athletic training.

Year Founded: 2017
Founder(s): Joey Jaraczewski, MBA '17, Andrew Ek, MS '17
Current Status: Sohr currently offers three flavors of their protein recovery beverages.
Website: SohrPerformance.com

TOUGHER

Stacey Gose's dream was to empower women in the manual labor industry and supply them with the apparel to succeed. From this aspiration, TOUGHER was born. TOUGHER strives to design apparel that looks good and feels good for hardworking women everywhere.

Year Founded: 2015
Founder(s): Stacey Gose, MBA '16
Current Status: TOUGHER’s first product, work gloves designed to fit a woman’s hand, are selling in retail stores across Oregon as well as on their website. A successful Kickstarter campaign has launched the production of her work pants line.
Website: WearTougher.com

Townshend’s Tea Company

This thriving tea company began at the University of Oregon as a class project aimed to bring together a casual coffeehouse atmosphere with premium tea. Townshend’s has taken a hold on the Oregon tea market and its teas and kombucha are seen in grocery stores and restaurants throughout the U.S.

Year Founded: 2003
Founder(s): Matt Thomas '02
Current Status: Townshend’s Tea currently has eight tea houses across Oregon. Their line of kombucha can be found in Whole Foods and other grocery stores nationwide.
Website: TownshendsTea.com

Trail Supply Co.

Long distance hikers know the struggle of planning and executing a resupply strategy of essential food and equipment for their voyages—this is where Trail Supply Co is there to help. Trail Supply Co is the ultimate resupply system where hikers can purchase items and Trial Supply will pack, store, and ship your resupply shipments to your exact location on the trail.

Year Founded: 2016
Founder(s): Spencer Holton '18
Current Status: The company is up and running, ready to help distance hikers complete their journeys.
Website: TrailSupplyCo.com | Crunchbase

Tutor Tree

Tutortree is a University of Oregon-based mobile application connecting tutors and students in the most efficient way possible. Students can select a specific subject and course, pick a tutor, schedule an available time slot, and pay their tutors all through their phone.

Year Founded: 2018
Founder(s): Eli Ackerman and Adrian Martushev
Current Status: TutorTree is currently available on the UO campus with an iOS app available for download and an Android app in development.
Website: TutorTree.com

Wildwood Towers

A harmonious blend of the Pacific Northwest’s love for craft beer and the beautiful woods that reside there, the Wildwood Tower is the ultimate beer dispenser to enhance your drinking experience.

Year Founded: 2016
Founder(s): Keenan Hoar
Current Status: Wildwood Towers is selling its products online.
Website: Crunchbase

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