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Today, Instructure of Salt Lake City announces the successful acquisition of Concentric Sky of Eugene Oregon. Concentric Sky is the primary force behind the Open Badges 2.0 micro-credentialing framework, and the makers of Badgr, a custom digital badging system. Currently the default micro-credentialing tool within Canvas LMS, Badgr will

The Milken Institute released its 2022 rankings of “Best Performing Cities: Charting Economic Resilience and Opportunity”. Utah cities dominate the rankings for both Large Cities (more than 250,000 residents) and Small Cities (more than 60,000, fewer than 250,000 residents). The Santa Monica-based think tank ranked cities across

SudShare,a laundry service marketplace based in Salt Lake City, Utah has raised a seed round of $10 million from Headline (San Francisco), Origin Ventures (Salt Lake City and Chicago), Ludlow Ventures (Detroit), Starting Line VC (Chicago), and the appropriately named Clean Ventures, a fund focused on the laundry industry.

The release of fantasy novels isn't the usual fare for TechBuzz News. But when a Utah author uses Kickstarter to pre-sell nearly $30 million of books, the highest any project the premier crowdfunding platform has ever raised, we'll make an exception.  In Utah startup land, we&

Dónde, the travel as a work benefit startup in Salt Lake City, has announced a $3.3 million Seed round with Kickstart Fund leading, along with Next Frontier Capital of Bozeman Montana, Jeremy Andrus (CEO at Traeger Pellet Grills), Aaron Skonnard (co-founder and CEO at Pluralsight), and a syndicate of

It’s been a full week since Russian forces rolled into Ukraine. With the images and stories of Ukrainian citizens fleeing and a much smaller military showing strength against the larger Russian military, many in the Utah tech community are asking how they can help the Ukrainian people. Austin Walters

Ember, the Salt Lake City-based startup helping vacation home owners through concierge service, just announced a $17.4 million Series A round of financing led by legendary VC Peter Thiel. Others joining the round include Pando Ventures of Salt Lake City, prior investors Todd Pedersen of Vivint, and Progressive Leasing

Salt Lake City consumer fintech startup Soon was accepted to the world’s premier startup accelerator, Y Combinator, to participate for the Winter 2022 cohort, happening now. Soon also received a $500k investment from the storied Silicon Valley accelerator. “Here's the truth — any startup that’s anybody in