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10 College Startups - That Are Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship


If you take a good look at the world today, you’ll find that there are tons of top-notch innovative products that are changing the way we live. The best part, we’re seeing new startups and inventions every other day.

Well, one important thing to note is that all these bright ideas started from somewhere and in recent times, we see the brains behind these innovative products are starting in a dorm room!

Today it’s pretty clear to see how college students are getting more interested in entrepreneurship.

This is especially true because we’re now living in the golden age of entrepreneurship and no one wants to be left out.

Today, a significant number of innovators and business incubators are college students, and the number keeps increasing every day.

In this post, we’re going to explore ten innovative start-ups from different colleges throughout America. The goal is to inspire you to bring your own ideas to life! Sounds good? Let’s check them out!

Hub Charge

Company: HubCharge

College: Babson College

Product:

HubCharge is a tech startup that provides reliable wireless charging solutions for mobile devices. This patent-pending technology provides clients with accessibility to wireless charging with the capability to charge devices including mobile devices, laptops, and wearable technologies.

The bottom line is HubCharge uses its transmitters and beacons to create a network of wireless power so venues (restaurants, bars, hotels, offices, etc.) can offer customers a wireless charging experience while enhancing shopping experience via BLE technology.

Black Pine Engineering

Company: Black Pine Engineering

College: Michigan State University

Black Pine Engineering is focused on marketing a less complicated method of manufacturing compressors and turbines by making use of continuous carbon fiber. Their Woven Wheel Technology can come in handy for some large market applications. Moreover, the technology has been tested as a water turbine, refrigerator compressor, desalination compressor and geothermal non-condensable gas removal compressor.

Ziel Solutions

Company: Ziel Solutions

College: Rice University

Ziel Solutions provides wearable technology that helps reduce the risk of injury from a continuous physical activity. This great innovation combines muscle sensors with motion analysis to detect harmful pitching of baseballs.

The company also produces sensory sleeve which is sure to work great for baseball players when it comes to reducing the risk arm injury. The best part is, this technology can also come in handy for other repetitive physical activity including repetitive stress injuries in the workplace, workouts, and marathon running.

KraffIT

Company: KraffIT

College: University of Southern California

Product:

KraffIT is yet another tech startup that makes use of its unique hardware and software to offer the public new solutions for the internet of things. The company is more focused on providing sustainable solutions to indoor and outdoor air quality.

Fiddler

Company: Fiddler

College: Southern Methodist University

Product:

Fiddler provides customers with the first smart-connected turbine to suit the needs of the modern home. This innovation is sure to be an excellent alternative to the current wind energy solutions that are expensive and inaccessible to the customer.

MaidBot

Company: Maidbot

College: Cornell University

Product:

Maidbot is a company that looks to revolutionize the hospitality industry with artificial intelligence. The robotics company created Rosie the Robot to help reduce costs and inefficiencies in commercial and residential cleaning. What could be better than having a robot do all the hard work while you sit and relax? Well, I don’t think there’s anything better!

ThirdEye

Company: ThirdEye Technologies

College: University of Pennsylvania

Product:

ThirdEye is a wearable technology that’s specifically created for visually impaired people — it helps them recognize what they’re looking at. The technology integrates computer vision with Google glass to give the visually impaired the freedom and independence they deserve.

Top Tier Learning

Company: Top Tier Learning

College:  The University of Texas at Austin

Services:

This particular college startup provides affordable tutoring services to students in various communities across the United States. Top Tier Learning employ intelligent and knowledgeable high school seniors to tutor other students in one-on-one sessions.

Yorango

Company: Yorango

College: Cornell University

Services:

Yorango develops software to make the rental process a whole lot easier for midsize landlords and their tenants. The company provides an easy-to-use suite of online tools which has been helping thousands of renters. It also includes online rent collection, maintenance tracking, e-signing, messaging and listings.

WAVVE Stream Inc.

company: WAVVE Stream Inc.

College: University of Houston

Services:

WAVVE Stream Inc. has a sole mission to provide high-quality water to end-consumers. They have a belief that having clean water is a fundamental right for every person around the world. For the most part, WAVVE Stream Inc. produces patented technologies that improve the contaminant removal capabilities for existing water distribution channels.

And that’s it! One thing that all these startups have in common is they were founded by college students. 

Hope this post fires you up to bring your startup dreams to life and become the successful college entrepreneur you’ve always wanted to be.


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