Fire Up Your Funding Crowdfunding – Panel

Date:  January 18, 2022

Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Location:

The Mill at SLCC

(Building 5)

Floor 3, Room 333

9690 South 300 West

Sandy, Utah 84070

Bryce Hansen

Over the last decade, Bryce has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and companies on business planning, strategy, financial analysis, fundraising guidance, product development and commercialization.  He successfully launched his own proprietary product, the Ergo Spout®, on Kickstarter in 2018, and led the SBDC’s effort in organizing the Utah Crowdfunding Summit from 2015 to 2019.

Clint Stoker

Clint Stoker, a writer of prose fiction, found success with  All for Owen.  After that success, he wrote his first comic, Downcast, launching it on Indiegogo in 2019, raising $31,000.  He quickly followed that success up with Downcast: Wrize & Fall  and FATL, both in 2020, raising  $43,219 and $98,741, respectively. Recently, he continued the Downcast saga with Downcast 3: Submerged, in July, 2021, raising $46,181.

Blake & Mara Repetto Hansen

Combining Blake’s passion for knives and Mara’s passion for design and cooking, the couple created Dedfish Company, and launched their first crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in the Summer of 2021.  They went on to raise $161,056 for their innovative portable kitchen knife set – goof for both indoors and outdoors.

Rusten Gomez

Rustin’s Alchemy Home Products is dedicated to improving lives and saving time with innovative and efficient home products. Rusten’s autospout Kickstarter campaigned raised $25,848 in 2021 and is currently finishing up the tooling process.