Siligrams founders Ben and Clay met back in high school, when they rowed as the bow pair on their high school crew team and built wacky, award winning Rube Goldberg machines together.

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They reunited in Baltimore after college, where they'd both been bit by the entrepreneurial bug. Between cracking crabs and fending off rats, they'd casually pitch business ideas to each other. You know, like friends do, for fun.

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In the midst of the pandemic, a local home cooking enthusiast group they had joined started popping off, and they saw an opportunity to make and sell small-batch silicone ice trays and confection molds modeled after Baltimore’s iconic characters and architecture. (Shout out to Mr. Trash Wheel.)

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The response from the supper club was overwhelming, and they refined their production process to create products with more mass appeal: personalized molds for ice cubes, dog treats, soap, candles, and chocolate. They dubbed their creation Siligrams, a portmanteau of silicone and monogram. Clever, right?

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Since then, they've moved production out of a basement in Baltimore and into a proper factory in the Boston area with a crack team of mold makers. The company has grown rapidly, creating American manufacturing jobs while empowering people to express their creativity and shape memories at home.