University of Florida students Samyr Qureshi and Dennis Hansen always envisioned becoming entrepreneurs.
Qureshi, 25, started his own clothing company while still working toward his degree. Hansen, also 25, was vice president of the Entrepreneurship Club. It was during a conversation in 2015 about the lack of easy access to on-campus tutoring that the idea for their business was born.
Now their company — a peer-to-peer student tutoring platform called Knack that uses an app to match students to tutors who have aced the same class they’re having trouble in — is active on 40 college campuses across the country and set to compete for a $100,000 investment prize.
