Company History:
Engineering PhDs from the University of Maryland’s Chemical Engineering Department teamed up with former Terps' and Ravens' Tight End Matt Furstenburg, and Entrepreneur Businessman Harry Geller in Summer 2012 to tackle one of the biggest problems with football gloves—the rapid decline in tackiness/grip of the gloves (especially after a trip through the washing machine!). Most football gloves lose their tackiness/grip quickly due to intense frictional contact (e.g. glove-jerseys, glove-ground) experienced throughout practices and games during the football season; usually the grip on a pair of brand-new gloves wears down after just a few days of practice.
Two years of iterative product development between football players and chemical engineers led to the creation of Grip Boost Football Gel—the first product ever to restore grip to football gloves without leaving any residue on the ball. Grip Boost is a patent-pending invention and currently licensed by Grip Boost Inc. from the University of Maryland’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC).
The development of the Grip Boost Football Gel has been supported by seed grants from the Maryland Innovation Initiative, The VOLT Fund, The University of Maryland OTC, TEDCO's Technology Commercialization Fund and private investment. Additionally, in Spring 2014 the Grip Boost technology was chosen from over 150 inventions as a Finalist for UMD's Invention of the Year.
Engineering PhDs from the University of Maryland’s Chemical Engineering Department teamed up with former Terps' and Ravens' Tight End Matt Furstenburg, and Entrepreneur Businessman Harry Geller in Summer 2012 to tackle one of the biggest problems with football gloves—the rapid decline in tackiness/grip of the gloves (especially after a trip through the washing machine!). Most football gloves lose their tackiness/grip quickly due to intense frictional contact (e.g. glove-jerseys, glove-ground) experienced throughout practices and games during the football season; usually the grip on a pair of brand-new gloves wears down after just a few days of practice.
Two years of iterative product development between football players and chemical engineers led to the creation of Grip Boost Football Gel—the first product ever to restore grip to football gloves without leaving any residue on the ball. Grip Boost is a patent-pending invention and currently licensed by Grip Boost Inc. from the University of Maryland’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC).
The development of the Grip Boost Football Gel has been supported by seed grants from the Maryland Innovation Initiative, The VOLT Fund, The University of Maryland OTC, TEDCO's Technology Commercialization Fund and private investment. Additionally, in Spring 2014 the Grip Boost technology was chosen from over 150 inventions as a Finalist for UMD's Invention of the Year.
Location: United States, Maryland, Linthicum
Employees: 1-10
Phone: 443-457-6793
Founded date: 2014
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 4
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.11.2017 | Grip Boost is going to the big leagues with distribution deal | A startup founded in part by a former pro football player is finding a market for its gel in baseball. Grip Boost, the university spinout cofounded by ex-Terps and Ravens tight end Matt Furstenburg and a pair of former UMD chemical engineer... |
| 20.03.2017 | There was a Final Four for tech transfer and Maryland dominated | Newsflash: The Association of University Technology Managers met in Hollywood, Fla., and had its own Final Four last week. All of the finalists of the conference’s pitch competition had a common bond: They each had ties to Maryland universi... |
| 29.02.2016 | These 4 companies just received bridge funding from Anne Arundel County | Michael Thomas calls it the “tweener stage.” It’s the phase where startups have “created some value but just a little short in terms of the resources needed to get over the hump for the next round of funding,” said Thomas, the CEO of Appian... |
| 16.09.2015 | These 16 Maryland startups just got $100K each from TEDCO | TEDCO announced the latest round of investment in startups from its Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) to the tune of $1.6 million. The state’s quasi-public entrepreneurship agency doled out awards of $100,000 each to 16 startups. The ... |