University of Utah Lassonde Entrepreneurship Institute
resource active confidence: Medium status: Useful updated 2026-08-11
Summary
The Lassonde Entrepreneurship Institute is the University of Utah's hub for student entrepreneurs and innovators. Its unusual strength is stacking community, housing, workshops, seed funding, competitions, startup support, and academic pathways into one campus institution.
Who It's For
University of Utah students from any discipline who want to explore entrepreneurship, join a founder community, form a team, test an idea, build a product, apply for seed funding, compete, live in an entrepreneurship environment, or launch a venture.
It can also be relevant to alumni and community partners, but the core public positioning is student-facing.
What It Provides
The official site points to Lassonde Studios, programs and academics, events, launch stories, workshops, Get Seeded, Make Program, Lassonde DevLab, Hours with Experts, Tim Draper Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, Bench to Bedside, meetups, Entrepreneur Club, student leadership and scholarship opportunities, entrepreneurship classes and degrees, Master of Business Creation, Lassonde+X, and related startup pathways.
The page also highlights student startup examples and current events, which makes it useful for seeing the active program surface.
How To Use It
Start with the official website, then confirm current programs before recommending.
- Official website · https://lassonde.utah.edu/
- Email: lassonde@utah.edu
- Startup State listing: https://startup.utah.gov/business-resource/university-of-utah-lassonde-entrepreneurship-institute/
Cost / Eligibility
Eligibility is primarily tied to University of Utah students. Public pages indicate many opportunities are student-facing, but costs and eligibility differ by program, housing, class enrollment, competition, or funding opportunity. Verify details on the specific program page before recommending a next step.
Best Fits
Lassonde is an excellent fit for a University of Utah student or student team that wants a campus-based entrepreneurship ecosystem rather than a single advising appointment.
It is less direct for nonstudent founders, established companies, or researchers whose main need is SBIR/STTR strategy, though Lassonde can still be a useful ecosystem door for student talent and venture education.
Evidence
- Lassonde Entrepreneurship Institute Official Site · https://lassonde.utah.edu/
- Startup State Resource List source note · https://startup.utah.gov/resources/
Open Questions
- Which Lassonde programs are open to non-University of Utah participants?
- Which programs are best for deep-tech or university-research commercialization versus ordinary student ventures?
- What are the current award sizes and deadlines for specific competitions and seed-funding programs?
- Confidence is capped at Medium because no primary record for this institute could be found. Searched 2026-08-11: USAspending returns no federal award whose recipient or description names Lassonde (the University of Utah's NSF I-Corps Site awards, 1347345 and 1735781, belong to its Center for Medical Innovation, not to Lassonde), and the institute is a university unit with no separate legal entity, so it has no EIN, UEI, or state registration of its own. The records that would raise this page to High: the Utah Board of Higher Education's program-approval record for the Master of Business Creation and the entrepreneurship degrees, a state appropriation line item for the institute in the Legislature's appropriations reports at
le.utah.govor expenditure records attransparent.utah.gov, or an award record for Get Seeded / the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge if either is publicly funded. Until one of those is cited, every claim here traces tolassonde.utah.edu.