Austin Craig

The Utah state council of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) hosted a first of its kind event on Friday February 26th. Many are familiar with Shark Tank on ABC, the TV show where entrepreneurs compete for investment and favorable terms from a panel of “shark” investors. Utah SHRM

“If investors were innovators, they’d be founders, not investors.” It’s a potentially controversial take from Troy Harvey, cofounder of PassiveLogic. In fairness, he’s spent a lot of time in front of investors.  “When we first started, we went to [the hub of investors in the San Francisco

foreUP, the management and marketing system for the golf industry, has been acquired by Clubessential Holdings, a Battery Ventures Company. Based in Pleasant Grove Utah, foreUP was founded in 2011 by Evan Teshima (CEO), Joel Hopkins, and Joel Ragar. The startup took only two small rounds of investment. Till now,

Lehi Utah-based technical recruiting firm Alta Scout has merged with executive recruiting firm IsoTalent of Lindon, Utah. The new company aims “to create Utah’s premier recruiting firm and redefine the recruiting model” according to Robb Lifferth, co-founder at Alta Scout and COO at the combined firm. The company will

The Milken Institute released their 2021 rankings of “Best-Performing Cities: Foundations for Growth and Recovery“. The Santa Monica-based think tank ranked cities across the nation by aggregating factors like jobs, wages, and high tech growth. The 2021 report also incorporates new measures of housing affordability and household broadband access. The

Owlet Baby Care based in Lehi Utah announced today it will be joining Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation, a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation (SPAC) in a merger meant to take Owlet public on the New York Stock Exchange. The new ticker symbol is expected to be “OWLT”. The projected valuation after the

Latitude, the Provo based software company behind AI Dungeon, announced it has raised $3.3 million in seed funding. The round is led by NFX Partners out of San Francisco, with Utah’s Album VC and Los Angeles based Griffin Gaming Partners also participating. This comes on the back of

MetaSource, LLC, with corporate offices in Draper Utah, recently announced their acquisition of Digiscribe, a similar business on the East-coast. The acquisition price wasn’t announced. MetaSource offers various services in enterprise automation and document digitization to help businesses with their complex back office workflows.  “We help other organizations manage