ARC Innovations was founded in 2017 By Lou Cirillo a successful product designer and Matt Kummer a Boeing Aerospace Engineer while they were skiing in Lake Tahoe. A friend of Cirillo’s couldn’t get his pipe lit in the wind and Lou asked… why doesn’t the pipe light its self?

In June of 2017 ARC was accepted into Gateway Accelerator in Oakland California and went on to win the best pitch prize at the Arcview International Event in LA in 2018, where they not only won $50k but also raised their first investment round. 

Since then ARC has been under development by a team of engineers including product experts from Google and the highest quality manufacturing services locally and abroad.  In 2019 the company moved from San Francisco to Denver Colorado.