Our Passion

DO COMMON THINGS UNCOMMONLY WELL

Imagine a chaos free move-out week with less traffic and happier students. Traditional moving and storage vendors struggle with damage accountability, inventory, management, and communication. What if the student moving experience could be done so well, that it becomes something families rave about. Meet Storage Scholars. Since 2017, we’ve moved thousands of happy students and hold a 4.8 star satisfaction rating. Students everywhere are telling us that we’ve solved this common storage problem, uncommonly well

Quick Facts

7400+

Customers Served

$804k

Paid in Student Wages

4.8/5

from 3500+ Reviews in 2022

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Operations on 23 Campuses

Quick Facts

15K+

Customers Served

$1.5M+

Paid in Student Wages

4.8/5

from 3500+ Reviews in 2022

73

Operations on 73 Campuses

Company Timeline

Sam Chason at Wake Forest

It all began in South Residence Hall at Wake Forest University in founder Sam Chason’s freshman year dorm room. During the inaugural 2017 season, Storage Scholars served 64 customers with a raving feedback and zero customer complaints.

In Year 2, Sam partnered with Wake Forest's Residence Life and Housing team, met his future business partner Matt Gronberg and reached out to his friends in New York and Florida to launch campuses two and three.

After experiencing the management and operational headaches of managing campuses from five states away, the team decided to stick to North Carolina and have one centrally located storage facility to increase quality control. The first customer success specialist was hired and partnership conversations were opened at Elon University.

The wonderful COVID-19 year brought many lessons of patience, the first being a 75-day straight work session spent Facetiming, packing, and shipping out students' belongings that could not return to campus. A partnership with Wofford was born, expansion grew to seven total campuses and two new customer success team members join the team.

Upon graduation from Wake Forest, the team kicked it into high gear, doubling their geographic footprint. Operations now stretch from Virginia to Texas and total payments to college students break $435,000 since inception!

Storage Scholars welcomed new team members, including Chelsea Goodwin as Head of Business Development, Robert Nielson as Customer Success Specialist, and backend development team members Marcos Carvalho and Sanjay Parmar. Our campus presence has expanded with partnerships formed with Franklin and Marshall, Washington and Lee, and High Point, along with 15 new schools. The highlight of the year was our appearance on ABC's Shark Tank, securing a deal with Mark Cuban for 10% of the company in exchange for $250,000.

Experience a transformative year at Storage Scholars, as we welcome over 10 new full-time employees across various departments. From customer success and technology development to campus management, hiring, and operations, our expansion is fueled by the demand for our services in 50 new markets nationwide.

As a testament to our success, our Shark Tank videos have become viral sensations on TikTok, driving a surge of traffic to our website. In fact, storagescholars.com once ranked an impressive 8th on Google for the keyword ‘storage’ in the entire country!

Amidst this rapid growth, our unwavering focus remains on maintaining exceptional quality. We understand that as our trajectory soars, ensuring the highest standards is paramount. Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to redefine the storage industry.

Founding Story

Prior to my arrival at college in 2016, I struck a deal with my parents. Although they would not pay the full price of private school tuition, they agreed to pay the equivalent cost of a state school education if I covered the remaining fee.  At merely age 18, the burden of a quarter million dollars of debt was not an onus I took on lightly, so I got to work right away looking for any means to pay off my looming loans.
Initially, I saw the need for an optimized campus storage solution from the international student community. When traveling from China, Ethiopia, or India, for example, students would often carry two large suitcases full of supplies and then buy the rest of their belongings locally upon arrival to campus. I knew it wouldn’t make fiscal or logistical sense to ship boxes of bedding, school supplies and winter clothes overseas at the end of the semester. I knew there had to be an easy way for students to move-in and out of school without sacrificing time to study for finals or enjoy the end of year festivities. Thus, Storage Scholars was born…

SAM CHASON
Founder - CEO
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Meet the Team

Sam Chason
Sam Chason
Founder - CEO
Keith Chason
Keith Chason
CTO
Matthew Gronberg
Matthew Gronberg
Co-Founder - COO
Chelsea Goodwin
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Business Development
Jess Yaeger
Jess Yaeger
Campus Teams Manager
Eric Witteborg
Eric Witteborg
Campus Teams Manager
Grace Stokes
Grace Stokes
Campus Recruitment Intern
Jenna Zayicek
Jenna Zayicek
Campus Recruitment
Nick Kulmala
Nick Kulmala
Customer Success Supervisor
Madilyn Glowski
Madilyn Glowski
Marketing Intern
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Head of Customer Success

As Seen On Shark Tank!

On October 14th, 2022, co-founders Sam Chason and Matt Gronberg appeared on season 14 episode 4 of ABC’s Shark Tank. After receiving offers from Mark, Kevin, Robert, and Daymond, they walked out of the tank with a deal from Mark Cuban for $250,000 for 10% of their company.

As seen on Shark Tank.

Watch the episode here:

and read more about them on CNBC here : Mark Cuban invests in Storage Scholars

What Our Customers Are Saying

You're in good company

It was a bit tough to find where to go at the beginning, the home menu isn't very intuitive

EXCELLENT! From service to organization to communication everything was terrific. Thanks!!

Easy and efficient!! Made summer packing and storage a breeze.

Storage Scholars is amazing and a huge help for us living several states away from school! I would highly recommend and will use your services again! The only suggestion I might have is that I didn't know about the $100 fee for summer school up front until after I had signed up. I completely understand as it's another drop-off and pickup but you might consider disclosing the fee in your frequently asked questions. Thank you so very much for your help!

You guys are the best! I can't thank you enough for helping me out through this Covid-19 craziness!!

5 star

wonderful customer service, so helpful!

Great service. Thank you for all your help during these trying times. Stay safe!

Really helpful!

Thank you!!

Great service and great people! I really enjoyed how the members of the team were flexible and FaceTimed me when they were in my room which was greatly appreciated. Additionally, it was not as expensive as I thought it would be at all and any time I had any questions they were available to answer them! Great company.

Great

PLEASE have Madison Head pack my room

Incredibly amazing and convenient!

Seemless and efficient! We could not be happier with the service provided and the customer service. Our packers were excellent from start to finish. Thank you.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for packing and storing our Deacs dorm items this Summer! What a hassle free and thorough process!

Easy set-up and the mover was very helpful and took great care in making sure that everything was in the proper place in storage. Email communication was great as well!

Sam was fantastic when in my daughters room. He FaceTimed is and was so pleasant to work with!

Such a lifesaver especially in light of the current situation! It was so easy!!! Thank you

Really great service! Thank you

It was great, but there were a few items that I wish were packed better because they cracked, shattered, and broke. Overall a very easy and great service to use, though.

Thank you guys so much! Best of luck to you all!

Very professional and seamless service. Thank you!

So proud of Sam!! Exceptional service and saved me in a time of need.

You guys are awesome! Thank you very much for the GREAT communication and fair rates! 10/10. Highly recommend!

Great service! Very kind people during a rough time

awesome! Really appreciate this convenient and user-friendly service.

amazing

They did a Great job packing and communicating with us!!

You made it easy and appreciated the no-contact pick up and packing!

Very helpful!

Great service! Thank you!

Super easy and convenient, Worth It for the price

Professional & very helpful

Beyond amazing. Storage Scholars saved us. We are in some of the most trying times and Storage Scholars made everything EASY. The communication, reassurance of safety with my sons belongings as well as with the safety that we're all facing these days....they blew us away. Every answer was "yes" and every question was "how can we help you"... and they delivered. We feel so lucky to have them work with students on Elon. We can't wait to spread the word.

Amazing service during these unprecedented times. Thank you all!

The Best

Very convenient!

thank you.

Thanks. Relatively easy to work with.

great- picked up and packed items quickly. Hoping they get shipped quickly too. Packer was nice and FaceTimed us

You´re so nice and helpful! :)

Thank you

Amazing customer service!!

The end of the semester is an extremely stressful time and if you're anything like me it's easy to accumulate so many new items during the school year. As an out of state student, it's difficult to travel with everything I own -- I drive to and from Texas in a car that can only fit so much stuff. However, storage scholars made the experience a lot less stressful by providing materials and movers to store my things. The process of packing is hard enough, storage shouldn't be. Thank you storage scholars!

Great service!

Thank you for being super flexible and accomodating!

Thanks!

Great service

Wonderful service!!

So far this has been a very easy process!

Super convenient

Everyone has been so helpful and the service is fantastic. Thanks so much.

Loved this service

You guys have done a great job. You all made moving out of school in the Spring very easy, and have made the process of getting my belongings dropped off for the fall stress free. I would definitely recommend Storage Scholars to my friends at Wake and other schools where Storage Scholars is offered. Thank you.

Great process so far! Been easy!

Thanks!

Excellent online experience. We will use again!

Awesome customer service!!!! And very professional and friendly!!!

Great service, would use again!

Very nice staff, fast and efficient service! Will use again!

Solid

I loved Storage Scholars! They made my departure from school so much easier!

Easy, cheap.

This whole business is a brilliant idea, made this all super easy

the easiest way to move. do it. you won’t regret it.

Very simple/stress-free process from the time I signed up to when my items were picked up, the communication is very good

Thank you.

Great service that is convenient and easy

everything went perfect!

Super easy to use and made moving out such a stress-free experience!

Super easy to use and made moving out such a stress-free experience!

Super quick and friendly service.

Thank you

So helpful and convenient!

Great Service!

Overall very happy, easy to use service. Drop off was hour outside of specified window.

super helpful, thanks!

Helpful, great communication

good deal

REALLY LIKED THIS

Easy process and clear payments

You all are always helpful and easy to use.

Best service

Very good communication. I love the text reminders.

outstanding service! Everyone was extremely knowledgeable about the entire process and beyond helpful. Highly recommend

I love storage scholars. Thanks so much!

Thank you so much!

my extra box was left in my room

Amazing

The 3 movers were awesome! Great service..

The pickup was running about hour after the end of the window but they were responsive to texts and communicated the delay.

Great service.

Good service

Sam was awesome! Thank you so much!

Thank you!

The whole process was fabulous - simple and stress free! It's so nice to not have to schlep her belongs back and forth, cross country. Thank you!

VERY FRIENDLY STAFF, SUCH A FAST AND EASY MOVE-OUT!

Thank you for making moving out as painless as possible. And for not making us wait with our stuff. We were able to catch an earlier flight as a result of your new system.

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