Amelia England is a content marketer/creative writer from SLC. She has an MA in Literature from Oregon State University. She wrote articles for TechBuzz and worked on Marketing at IsoTalent.
Following the closure of SkyLab Ventures Fund I, co-founder and former president Jesse Silva has founded Maddix Capital, a new and separate entity “born from SkyLab’s success.” The hybrid venture/PE model seeks to disrupt traditional venture via offering value-added shared services to help partners achieve and exceed their
Founded as Mix-Tape (hyphenated) in 2019 and re-founded as Mixtape in 2020, Mixtape Social Music (Lehi, Utah) is a playlist-first streaming platform—a “future nostalgia” blend of old-school music curation and 21st-century functionality. Unlike major music and social apps available for download, Mixtape is not built on number of streams
The 2020 pandemic disrupted nearly every aspect of social and professional life, but studies show its most pernicious and long-haul effects have been felt by women. Women of color, moms with children under 18, single parents, business owners, and those who serve as primary breadwinners for their household are particularly
Vutility (Sandy, Utah) is a leading-edge technology company in the energy and environmental space, offering solutions for data gathering, sensor monitoring, submetering, cloud computing and analytics for an organization’s most critical assets. While measuring a system’s energy usage is nothing new, Vutility promises something a typical power company
This past January, members of TechBuzz, Wasatch Innovation Network, and IsoTalent participated in the Refugee Job Skills Workshop as hosted by Atomic Financial and the Utah Muslim Civic League (UMCL), both based in Salt Lake City. As part of an ongoing initiative to highlight Afghan resettlement efforts in Utah, today’
DaysToHappy, an employee experience platform with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah (headquartered in Boise, Idaho), has launched Ava: an AI-powered virtual Coach designed to deliver customized experiences based on the employee’s “eDNA,” or 23 indicators of engagement. Designed for simple implementation and metric-driven “action plans” for large and
True to their mission to “help more people enjoy the outdoors,” co-founders Sarah Smith and Kevin Long (CEO) are frequent users of their own camping app, The Dyrt. “We were on the road after a van convention in Logan, Utah, and needed to find a spot near Price,” Smith recalls.
As briefly referenced in our recap of the 2022 Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit (co-hosted by the Salt Lake Chamber and Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute), one of Utah’s top legislative and economic concerns is the development of natural, economic, and social resources across rural and urban regions.
