Bellhops Co-Founder Earns Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award

  • Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Bellhops co-founder Cameron Doody (middle) accepts Auburn University’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Raymond J. Harbert College of Business Dean Bill Hardgrave (left) and Kevin Harrington, original panelist and investor from ABC’s “Shark Tank.”
Bellhops co-founder Cameron Doody (middle) accepts Auburn University’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Raymond J. Harbert College of Business Dean Bill Hardgrave (left) and Kevin Harrington, original panelist and investor from ABC’s “Shark Tank.”

Cameron Doody, co-founder of the Chattanooga-based moving company Bellhops, has earned Auburn University’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. 

While studying business at Auburn, Mr. Doody and Stephen Vlahos saw an opportunity to launch a company built on helping college students move in and out of dormitories and apartments. Their business eventually moved out of the dorms and became Bellhops, a tech-enabled, on-demand moving company that Mr. Doody described as “the Uber of moving.” Through its mobile app, Bellhops outfits customers with the muscle necessary to move everything from dressers to refrigerators. 

Mr. Doody was honored during the second Auburn University Entrepreneurship Summit.  Sponsored by Auburn University’s Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, the summit includes the Tiger Cage student entrepreneur pitch competition, the Top Tigers awards honoring fast-growing alumni-led companies and individual recognition for a Young Entrepreneur and Entrepreneur of the Year. Stacy Brown, co-founder of Chicken Salad Chick, the fast casual restaurant concept with two Chattanooga locations, earned the Entrepreneur of the Year Award. 

Mr. Doody, who earned a degree in supply chain management from Auburn, said his company aims to become “the gold standard” among movers. The company has raised more than $22 in venture capital and counts the likes of Canaan Partners, Lowercase Capital, Bullet Time Capital and Binary Capital among its investors. 

“They’re making a bet on us revamping the moving industry,” said Mr. Doody, who serves as Bellhops’ president and chairman. “Three to five years from now, Bellhops will be a household name. In my mind, we will have made it when Bellhops is the first thing people think about when they see an apartment or house full of boxes … becoming that brand name, that gold standard, the company that shook up a dated industry.” 

Bellhops serves more than 86 cities and utilizes approximately 6,000 contractors. 


 

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