Travel is often an opportunity for many to relax and take a break from their everyday lives. However, there are specific groups of people that often feel isolation or stress due to conditions or impairments that impact their daily lives. Tristan Tierce, a student in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State…

The beauty of entrepreneurship is that it comes in many shapes and sizes.  Lena Dick, a senior studying Mechanical Engineering at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, took a different path than her typical engineering projects when it came to her venture idea for the FSE301 class. What started out as an outlet to reduce…

15 of ASU’s top Venture Devils startup founders attended the Tech Devils Annual Innovation Retreat hosted at the ASU California Center in Los Angeles. The Prescott Student Venture Fund sponsored the trip, which strives to help students with venture development experiences and explore different startup communities. The retreat culminated with the Pitch Showcase, where all…

The Skysong Innovations Startup Challenge is an annual pitch event where Arizona State University startups compete for a chance to gain a total seed investment of $50,000. Grace Microsystems, one of the four finalists received $25,000 for their innovative medical device to treat migraines. Grace Microsystems is led by faculty Bruce Towe and Jitendran Muthuswamy from the School of Biological…

From the back of the lecture hall to public-facing software entrepreneur, John Baker applies his programming skills to help students find housing. Re-Lease, a joint venture founded by John Baker and his mechanical engineering roommate John Valentine, is a startup aiming to relieve students of the stress involved with finding housing. Both Johns decided to…

While entrepreneurship and engineering may seem to teach diametrically opposed principles, one ASU Barrett student is looking to use his knowledge of both to create a successful startup venture. John Valentine is a junior studying mechanical engineering, while also taking an entrepreneurship and value creation course. He used the principles of engineering that taught analytical…

In the most recent Devils Invent, five teams from ASU earned awards for their innovative solutions taking home prizes worth $25,000. Devils Invent is a weekend-long hackathon focused on solving a variety of design challenges put on by ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. This event’s theme was “Protecting America’s Public Access Areas” and featured…

At the semiannual Techiepalooza, founders, techies, and business owners converge to discuss their ventures and skills. Techiepalooza host, Michael Hool, a venture lawyer with Hool Coury Law and associate professor of law in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, and Brent Sebold, director of Entrepreneurship + Innovation at the Ira A. Fulton…

According to the Association of University Technology Managers, Arizona State University ranks among the top 10 research institutions without a medical school for inventions disclosed, U.S. patents secured, license and option deals closed, and startups launched. Their latest survey comprised 147 U.S. and Canadian universities, hospitals, and research institutions. Skysong Innovations, ASU’s exclusive technology transfer and…

Safe-Li licensed breakthrough technology on fire-safe lithium-ion batteries and lithium-metal batteries. The startup has the exclusive license to commercialize the technology from ASU’s Skysong Innovations. Through this partnership, Safe-Li was accepted into Shell’s GameChanger Program with $300,000 in seed funding awarded. Dr. Jerry Lin, the chief scientist of Safe-Li, has developed an innovative coating method…