Category: USC

  • Meet USC Alum Safiya Adatia, Founder of BollyStep

    Meet USC Alum Safiya Adatia, Founder of BollyStep

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    Tell us about your company: BollyStep is an AI-powered virtual dance-learning and coordination platform for cultural event dances such as South Asian weddings. We eliminate the chaos of sourcing dances, unclear group-chat videos, time-zone and scheduling barriers, and unprepared dancers. With expert choreographers and smart learning and coordination tools, we make asynchronous dance learning faster,…

  • Meet USC student: Sam Cheng, Founder of Classmate

    Meet USC student: Sam Cheng, Founder of Classmate

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    Tell us about your company: Classmate gives purpose-built AI powered writing feedback that’s actually useful. What inspired you to start your business? College applications sucked – many had private tutors that cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, but they weren’t accessible to everyone, and were slow, so people turned to new AI tools…

  • Meet USC alums Vem & Noy Chatoyan, Founders of StripIt

    Meet USC alums Vem & Noy Chatoyan, Founders of StripIt

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    Tell us about your company: StripIt is reimagining the way people take supplements through oral dissolving strips that are simple, portable, and easy to work into everyday life. Instead of relying on traditional formats, our strips dissolve directly on the tongue in seconds. We developed each formula from the ground up with one goal in…

  • Meet USC alum Emmy Rener, Founder Sophisticated Spreads

    Meet USC alum Emmy Rener, Founder Sophisticated Spreads

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    Tell us about your company: We are a charcuterie board company based in Los Angeles, focused on creating bespoke grazing tables and artisanal cheeseboards with the highest quality and locally sourced ingredients. What inspired you to start your business? During a gap year after high school, I decided to turn my passion for cheese and…

  • Meet UC Irvine & USC Alum Cory Olson, Founder of Good Grains

    Meet UC Irvine & USC Alum Cory Olson, Founder of Good Grains

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    Tell us about your company: Good Grains is a modern cereal brand creating organic, minimally processed products made from puffed whole grains. Unlike most conventional cereals, our products are puffed rather than extruded and contain no refined sugars, seed oils, or preservatives. Sweetened only with organic honey, Good Grains delivers the nostalgic taste and crunch…

  • Meet USC alum Holly Paul, Co-Founder MIZO

    Meet USC alum Holly Paul, Co-Founder MIZO

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    Tell us about your company: MIZO makes bold, non-carbonated spiked juice pouches with 90% less sugar than leading flavored alcoholic drinks. No bubbles. Real fruit juice. No artificial flavor, sweeteners or dyes. What inspired you to start your business? A few years ago, I started experiencing chronic gut issues and was surprised to learn that…

  • Meet USC alum George Zhou, Co-Founder Buffs

    Meet USC alum George Zhou, Co-Founder Buffs

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    Tell us about your company: Making the worlds first beef puff. What inspired you to start your business? Health and wellness affect more than your body, but your mind, focus, and productivity. We saw how important food was to our livelihood and wanted to make the best snack on earth. One made out of one…

  • Meet USC alum Karan Kanchan, Founder of Equilibrium by Vayu Technology

    Meet USC alum Karan Kanchan, Founder of Equilibrium by Vayu Technology

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    Tell us about your company: Democratizing musculoskeletal health, wellness, and fitness solutions to optimize performance, prevent injuries, and accelerate recovery for everyone. What inspired you to start your business? From athlete to engineer, I turned my injury experience into innovative solutions for improving human movement. What are your proudest achievements so far? Ability to empower…

  • Meet USC alum Houston Buehrle, Founder of Little Zing

    Meet USC alum Houston Buehrle, Founder of Little Zing

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    Tell us about your company: Little Zing is a small batch condiment company built around a 100 year old Danish mustard recipe passed down from founder Houston Buehrle’s great grandmother, Helle Jorgensen. What started as a holiday tradition made by Houston’s father Peter has grown into something Houston felt was too good to keep within…

  • Meet USC alum: Zac Coughlin, Founder of Zac’s Sweet Shop

    Meet USC alum: Zac Coughlin, Founder of Zac’s Sweet Shop

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    Tell us about your company: Zac’s Sweet Shop is a chocolate company making gourmet, innovative, and delicious bite-sized chocolate confections including truffles, cookies, pretzels, and chocolate bark. Zac is on the mission to reinvent the box of chocolates experience through purpose, passion, and innovative products. What inspired you to start your business? Ever since I…