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Spot in Parking Today
Spot Parking, the 2026 Accelerate! winner, transformed a college parking dilemma into a thriving business model. Founders Cooper Young, Ryan Hagerty, and Dean Smith leveraged student insights at BYU to innovate AI-driven enforcement solutions. Their patented technology not only improves enforcement efficiency but also enhances user experience with real-time facility maps.
Workman Nydegger Spotlight
At Workman Nydegger, we’re constantly inspired by entrepreneurs who transform everyday frustrations into innovative solutions. Today, we’re thrilled to share the story of Spot Parking – a brilliant parking management platform created from the real-world struggles of its founders, Cooper Young, Dean Smith, and Ryan Hagerty.
Silicon Slopes Summit provides launch pad for hungry startups
A trio of underclassmen representing both Brigham Young University and the University of Utah set up their area with a live video feed from a camera monitoring a BYU student parking lot in Provo. The camera is part of a...
BYU Rollins Center Investors Day: Student Entrepreneurs Showcase New Products and Technologies
BYU Rollins Center For Entrepreneurship and Technology convened its annual Investors Day on October 4, 2024 to showcase eight BYU startups. Student founders from eight BYU startups gathered at The Garage, John Pestana's personal office located in the Provo's Riverwoods office park. The eight startups presented to a room full of investors...
Steve Young inspires entrepreneurs at start-up incubator iHub’s grand opening
Nearly a thousand people walked through Utah’s latest nonprofit start-up incubator, The Innovation Hub — or iHub for short — on Wednesday to celebrate its grand opening. Based in Provo, iHub’s purpose is to help young entrepreneurs with the challenges of starting a business.
Spot Parking: Innovating New Plans for Parking
Trying to find parking in a crowded area is a notoriously frustrating issue for drivers everywhere, and this problem is especially infamous on college campuses. Spot Parking, one of the prize winners of the 2024 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, is an entrepreneurial effort to counteract these issues and turn parking into an orderly effort.
RECAP: 2024 Student Innovator of the Year
The BYU College of Engineering and Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology presented the 14th annual Student Innovator of the Year (SIOY) competition finals. The finalist innovations ranged from a biotechnical lung cancer treatment
2024 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge
The statewide business-model competition is managed by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, an interdisciplinary division of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, and sponsored by Zions Bank. The final event featured the best collegiate entrepreneurs in Utah competing for more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.
Group of students rolls out new AI tech to solve parking problems
Finally finding a parking spot after a desperate 15-minute search, only to realize it’s already occupied by a hidden tiny car, can be devastating. Students are particularly aware of the perils of parking — roughly 51% of parking violations on college campuses go undetected...
BYU and U of U students use AI to resolve parking issues
Spot Parking was featured on KUTV News for its innovative parking enforcement software after winning BYU’s Student Innovator of the Year (SIOY) competition. The segment highlighted how Spot Parking’s technology uses cameras and AI to streamline campus parking...
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