Success Stories Stage

Faculty Success 

Avinash Bala

Perceptivo

A faculty fellow and research associate in neuroscience, Avinash Bala invented a new way to test hearing loss in babies and was awarded a grant to perform critical testing.

Corn

SupraSensor

The more they learned about the agricultural market, the more the team realized the value of their discovery: a possible solution to a $2.4 billion problem.

Dune Sciences

Dune Sciences

A fabric treatment developed by a UO spinoff company is being used to permanently block tough smells from entering athletic shirts and other clothing.

Ksana Health

Ksana Health

Ksana leverages apps which passively pull data from a patient’s phone related to known mental health vectors and securely share that objective data with a therapist.

Graduate Student Success 

Skyward

Skyward

A drone management software firm that began at the Lundquist College of Business is seeing skyrocketing success.
Christina Calvin
Lithium Powered Startup
LCB alumna Christina Calvin founded her own heavy element recycling startup after completing her MBA.

Red Duck

Red Duck

Red Duck Foods is aiming at world “condiment domination.” The company’s products are distributed in 2,500 stores.

ROAM Fitness

ROAM Fitness

Ty Manegold of Chenequa came up with the concept for ROAM Fitness while he was in graduate school at UO.

Undergraduate Student Success 

Townsend's

Townshend's Tea Company

A little more than a decade ago Thomas developed the idea for Townshend's Teahouse in a Lundquist College management course.

Orchid Health

Orchid Health

The concept took second place in the competition and, during the next two years, raised more than $100,000 in funding.

Jennifer Albertson

Bespoke Bride

"At the Lundquist College, everyone is so excited about your idea. For me, it just grew into something bigger than I could even have imagined."
TutorTree
TutorTree
Eli knew there had to be a better way to find quality tutoring. He teamed up with one of UO's most prominent peer-tutors. TutorTree was born.
Sandeep Chandrasekhar and Kevin Hawkins
Protective Headgeer
This spring, now UO graduates Sandeep and Kevin are in the final stages of bringing their product to market.