Mark Tullis

CEO Cydni Tetro closes one of the largest woman-led funding rounds, and definitely Utah's largest. The raise will accelerate the ecommerce company’s mission-driven acquisition strategy and enhance the technology of its digitally-native platform. Today, August 4, 2021, Brandless announced it has raised $118 million in equity and

Three IPOs: Owlet, Traeger Grills, and Instructure It has been a good week for Utah IPOs. On July 28, 2021, Lehi-based Owlet rang the NYSE bell as a new public company. At the same time the company announced a major milestone: 1 million babies have been monitored by the company&

Instructure Begins Trading on the NYSE On Thursday, July 22nd, Salt Lake City based Instructure rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange as they began trading under the INST ticker symbol. At the time of this publishing, the stock is down -4.29% to $20.08 per share,

Derek Miller, President of the Salt Lake Chamber, wrote an opinion piece in Deseret News in May called, “Can Silicon Slopes Avoid becoming the Next Silicon Valley?” The editorial staff at TechBuzz News found his ideas intriguing and asked him to elaborate. In our interview, Miller explained why Utah should

Pluralsight Acquires A Cloud Guru for $2 Billion Pluralsight has completed its acquisition of A Cloud Guru for $2 billion, as reported by Startup Daily on July 9, 2021. Based in London, A Cloud Guru is an online instructional platform offering courses to prepare users to take certification exams for

With representation from aerospace, agriculture, artificial intelligence, biosciences, engineering, transportation, and more, the new Wasatch Innovation Network will support Utah businesses — start-ups to unicorns — with network development, funding channels, policy development, government relations, and support for research, development and commercialization.   TechBuzz is a Founding Partner in the Wasatch Innovation Network.

Skill Struck, a Utah EdTech startup in Provo providing accessible computer science coursework for students and teachers in grades K-12, recently released its first equity report. The report comes amid Skill Struck’s rapid expansion after closing a new round of funding in which they raised $1.3 million, with

MX-OurBanc Mobile Banking Partnership On July 1, 2021, Lehi, Utah-based MX announced its partnership with OurBanc, an online and mobile banking app that offers personalized financial alerts. The newly launched app gives users the ability to view, manage, move, and grow their money to improve their financial health.  OurBanc is