Regis Innovation Center
A home for the ideas, people, and turning points that shape our innovation community.
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With support from the Innovation Center, three Regis students took their ideas to San Francisco for the Y Combinator × AgentPhone hackathon—earning third place in the Browser Use Case category among more than 300 participants. Their AI phone agent was designed to help international students navigate the path to studying in the United States.
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Each story will pair a vivid image with a clear angle, a short introduction, and a route to the full journey.
Paul Hunter spent the end of high school without a home. At 20 he started a company. At 22, as a Regis junior, he handed out 400 bowties to celebrities at the 69th Emmy Awards, and the Innovation Center got him there. Then Repurpose won the first Innovation Challenge.
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Lana McClure entered the 2025–26 Innovation Challenge with an idea for families who travel. She left with a win and a team: a Regis grad student and a mentor, who both now work with her full time.
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Anton Cariffe started Traveling Ground in his Regis dorm room, fixing up used bikes he found online and reselling them on eBay. Today it buys, refurbishes, and sells high-end bikes from its own shop on Santa Fe Drive.
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A shared record of the founders, mentors, partnerships and community investment that continue to move innovation forward.
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Ten years of helping founders turn early ideas into ventures—and building an ecosystem that reaches across Regis, Colorado and beyond.
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Leading the Innovation Challenge doesn’t end at graduation. It launches careers.
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It started with a club in 2019. Now Arrupe seniors build businesses for Regis credit, and their best team pitches at the Innovation Challenge Finals every year.
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Founder and CEO Johnathan Bateman and Head of Growth & Community Jennifer Maes are building a privacy-first way to verify who is really on the other end.
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After winning the Regis Innovation Challenge, RenewRx has continued building a more connected model of cardiometabolic care—earning recognition on larger health-innovation stages along the way.
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