A startup that helps women treat yeast infections without antibiotics became the latest to win a $50,000 grant from the Venture Attractor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs during a ceremony Oct. 30 at the Pinery at the Hill.
Lodgeit, founded and headed by Lauren Little of Denver, is required to move to Colorado Springs to get the grant, which is expected to happen in the next few months after Little finds a local place to live, secures manufacturing space and hires a third-party logistics provider to handle order fulfillment. The company has about 200 test users and Little says she hopes to begin customer sales early next year.
“I’m incredibly excited to get the award. We plan to use the proceeds [funds] for packaging, product manufacturing, marketing and legal costs,” says Little, who started the company in 2023 while working in the hospitality industry. She says she expects the company to generate nearly $350,000 in revenue next year through sales at events on college campuses and through the company’s website.
She developed a boric acid suppository that she plans to market as a health supplement designed to restore natural pH balance in a woman’s vagina, reducing itching, odors and other symptoms of pH imbalance. Lodgeit also will sell pH strips that help measure the pH levels in a women’s vagina, which can be a sign of a yeast infection or other condition that needs treatment with the suppositories.
Read the full story in December’s Digest.