University of Illinois Foundation
LEADER
Building an online community of Illini entrepreneurs.

Like Bigfoot, the list of Illinois startups was a mythical compilation of examples heard far and wide across campus. LEADER used social media and digital advertising to dramatically grow the crowd-sourced collection of Illini-founded startups at entrepreneurship.illinois.edu.

LEADER Status

Scale Ongoing

LEADER Team

Jed Taylor

  • S19

Katy Swanson

  • S19

Matt Wszolek

  • S19

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