Women Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship@DU’s inaugural 6-week summer accelerator lifts business ideas to the next level.

Carrie Gamper (BSBA 2011) was a Division I athlete on the University of Denver’s lacrosse team. Post-graduation, Gamper worked various jobs in the sports industry, as well as com ...

Harry Potter has his “Room of Requirement,” a space at Hogwarts that transforms into whatever he needs it to be. Skye Barker Maa has Factory Five Five. At 10255 E. 25th Ave. ...

Growing up, Colleen Reilly (MBA & MS 2000) wanted to be a doctor, like her neurosurgeon father. She pursued that dream through college as a pre-med major. When her dad died in ...

Grace Wankelman didn’t mean to start a movement. When she teamed with Shannon Saul (BA ’20) and Madeline Membrino, a rising fourth-year student at the Josef Korbel School of I ...

Lauren Barnes and Kayle Migaki, University of Denver sophomores in the Daniels College of Business and Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, respectively, are the f ...

Sarah Laughlin (MBA 2019) launched Slope Threads in November 2018. Slope Threads allows vacationers to rent a full set of cold-weather wear—sent to the doors of their condos, ho ...

MBA@Denver student Whitney Sjostrom leverages campus programs to develop sustainable agriculture from afar In 2016, Whitney Sjostrom took a vacation. After serving as an intelligen ...

Imagine you’re on vacation in Italy. You spend your mornings sipping cappuccinos at a quaint café near the piazza, and your afternoons exploring sunny cobblestone streets with a ...

Lauren Yeates (MBA 2017) thought she would spend her career climbing the corporate ladder. Instead, she built two companies from the ground up. Yeates was almost halfway through Da ...