UM Grads Ryan Hansen, Mario Schulzke and Will Lapointe Succeed with Start-Up Business Sale

Pathlabs, a Missoula-based digital media company run by University of Montana alumni, recently sold to MiQ, the largest programmatic media agency in the world.

The nine-figure sale is one of the biggest for a start-up in state history, providing Pathlabs with resources across the globe. Pathlabs will remain in the historic Florence Building in downtown Missoula and maintain its more than 100 employees, including nearly half who are UM alumni.

“The fact that you have a huge global company wanting to make that level of acquisition off a bunch of UM graduates is pretty cool,” said Mario Schulzke, chief operating officer at Pathlabs, a UM alumnus and an adjunct professor in UM’s College of Business.

By Kyle Spurr, UM News Service