Trojans in Business

By Mark Love ‘16

I search the web during lectures frequently. I know it’s not the honorable thing todo, but with my classes lasting well beyond three hours, I think I deserve to take brief intermissions and indulge myself with anything the world wide web has to offer. Anyway, I ran across an article yesterday about college students starting their own businesses. I scrolled through the list of the entrepreneurs, and found not one, not two, but THREE different business ventures operated by fellow Trojans. It’s exciting to see people who are around my age making moves that can grow into multi-million dollar industries, and I just had to give these future magnates justice by sharing their start-ups with you guys.

Start Up: EnvoyNow

Founders: Anthony Zhang, Gabriel Quintela, Nick Wang, and Chad Massura

Launched in 2014, this on-demand food-delivery mobile app that brings the myriad of restaurant options around college campuses to the students’ fingertips. Using logistics algorithms, their Envoys, or delivery people, enable restaurants around campus to offer delivery, taking away the nightmare of providing delivery away from the restaurant.

The start up has generated $22,000 in revenue thus far, and these guys plan on expanding their company to other college campuses including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Indiana University-Bloomington.

Start Up: Stasis Labs

Founders: Dinesh Seemakurty and Michael Maylahn

This innovational health-monitoring platform is modernizing how health care is practiced in medical facilities across the world. These guys created the app earlier this year in hopes of creating an affordable option for people to check their physical well-being. The system consists of custom vital sign monitors that continuously measure six core health parameters and wirelessly transmit the information to Android tablets for doctors.

Seemakurty and Maylahn plan on entering the health sector in India to benefit from the country’s growing medical market by 2016.

Start Up: TalentTrail

Founders: Ryan Choi and Sydney Liu

This 2015 start up allows companies to recruit the top business and computer science students at universities. Using their own algorithm, TalentTrail filters students based on culture and work experience so that companies can find their perfect candidate quickly and more efficiently.

The company has garnered $13,000 from various competitions including USC’s New Venture Seed competition where the founders won $5,000.