Mark Tullis

BioUtah Honors the Life of Senator Orrin Hatch On April 23, 2022, Senator Orrin Hatch passed away at age 88. He had served 42 years in the US Senate. He was the longest serving Senator in Utah’s history. Reflecting on the Senator’s life and legacy, Kelvyn Cullimore, president

The results are in. The Wasatch Innovation Network (WIN), a partnership between the Salt Lake Chamber and TechBuzz News, has completed its inaugural round of the WIN100, a community-nominated, peer-selected process of selecting top 100 venture entrepreneurs in Utah. The premise of the WIN100 is simple: Create a mechanism to

Today HomePace announced it has secured $7 million in Series A funding led by LENX (Miami), the corporate venture arm of Lennar, a Miami-based builder of "affordable, move-up, and active adult" homes that founded in 1954. Lennar is the second largest home builder in the US. Prior investors

Today Strider Technologies announced that it has closed $45 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Valor Equity Partners (Chicago), with participation from existing investors DataTribe (DC area), Koch Disruptive Technologies (Wichita, KS), and One9 Ventures (Ottowa, Ontario). Costa Saab of Valor Equity Partners will join Strider’

BoomStartup Announces Pitchup Three Awardees BoomStartup announced on April 22, 2022 the category winners of its PitchUp Three virtual pitch competition. 21 companies pitched 12 investors, media (including TechBuzz), accelerators and other members of Utah's entrepreneurship ecosystem. Organized and led by Tara Spalding, Managing Director of BoomStartup Accelerator,

Proggio, a next-generation Project Portfolio Management solution based in Tel Aviv with offices in Salt Lake City, recently closed a $7M Series A round led by 2.0 Ventures (Salt Lake City) with participation from both existing investors Mangrove Capital Partners (Luxembourg) and Cresson Management (Israel). Proggio will use the

Pelion Venture Partners Leads Trace's $47 Million Series C Round Trace, a sports video technology company based in Austin, Texas, raised a $47 Million Series C round. Pelion Venture Partners, based in Salt Lake City, led the round with participation from Lakestar (Zurich, Switzerland), Toba Capital (New Port

On April 28, 2022, the region's first annual Consumer Summit will take place at the Slopes EVNTS Center in Draper, UT. This event will gather leading consumer and consumer-tech companies that will focus their attention on the changing landscape of consumer companies and their customers. The half-day event