Karin Anderson

By Karin Anderson Jeanette Padilla demonstrates how a childhood on the edges of poverty can inform astute humanitarian leadership. Padilla’s nonprofit organization, Food Justice Coalition, operates in answer to lived experience. The coalition works to provide blankets, kitchen implements, money, and bureaucratic assistance to people living without shelter, but

By Karin Anderson When Paul Burgon moved to Utah after almost two decades of facilitating mergers and acquisitions in the Washington D.C. area, he was alarmed to discover that there was no infrastructure for recycling plastics in Utah Valley. “My wife and I had been interested in recycling,” Burgon

By Karin Anderson Blue Planet Lawn provides zero-emissions, solar powered yard care—from transport to trimming, mowing to mulching. Founder Christoph Heinrich has watched traditional mowers, trimmers, and blowers roaring through local yards long enough to commit to better methods of maintaining neighborhood beauty—and quiet. Considering the troubled quality

By Karin Anderson On the heels of "crazy growth" this past year, Brite, based in Salt Lake City, recently raised a $7.8M Series A investment led by Elevation Capital with additional support from Cameron Ventures. As previously covered by TechBuzz last October, Brite raised a $1.5

By Karin Anderson Merit3D founder Spencer Loveless tells a compelling story of family ingenuity, generational know-how, and gutsy innovation as he describes his additive manufacturing (commonly referred to as “3D printing”) company in Carbon County, Utah. Additive manufacturing enables entrepreneurs and inventors to solve many manufacturing challenges across multiple sectors

By Karin Anderson Clay Olsen, founder and CEO of Logan-based Impact Suite, has built a bouquet of subscription mental health apps based on the conviction that mental or mood disorders are largely caused by external pressures. That is, human beings do not live in bodies that are innately disordered so

The first ever Consumer Summit invites entrepreneurs in the Utah consumer goods industry to gather for a day of celebration, exchange, and education. The event takes place on April 28, 2022, at the Slopes EVNTS Center in Draper, UT. The main organizer of the summit, Cydni Tetro, CEO of Brandless,