Ilium was built by three founders - Jensen, Samantha, and Paulina - with a shared background in fitness, recovery, and entrepreneurship.

As students in the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona, we came together through a program focused on building real businesses from the ground up. Ilium is not just an idea, it’s a product of hands-on development and testing driven by both education and lived experience.

What connects all three of us goes beyond business.

We’ve each gone through surgery and the recovery process that follows, spending time in physical therapy and working through targeted, muscle-specific training. That experience gave us a deeper understanding of how important proper positioning, stability, and comfort are. Not just for performance, but for preventing further injury.

In the gym, we all ran into the same problem:

the equipment we were using wasn’t designed with those details in mind.

That's where Ilium was born.