Mark is Co-founder/Editor of TechBuzz News. From Ogden, UT, Mark attended WSU, BYU, and Tufts. He has been involved in tech, media, publishing since the 80s.
Today, Jane, an online marketplace based in Lehi, announced it has raised $40 million in a Series A investment from Austin-based Tritium Partners. Jane is a boutique marketplace where customers, mostly women, can find high quality products—clothing, accessories, shoes and home decor—from a curated network of over 3,
PathologyWatch has announced $2 million in extension funding of its $5 million series A round that it raised earlier this year. The extension funding comes from life science investors based in Germany, Neue Fund, and Bioventures GmbH. Lateral Capital, BeniVC, and Sky Ventures also participated in the extension round.
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Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) today announced that it has agreed to acquire Pluralsight, Inc., the technology workforce development company for $3.5 billion. It is an all-cash transaction acquiring all outstanding shares of Pluralsight common stock for $20.26 per share. The company’s stock dropped precipitously in March 2020,
Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm with offices in Chicago and San Francisco, announced a strategic growth investment in Venafi, the Salt Lake City-based cybersecurity pioneer and inventor of machine identity protection. The transaction values Venafi at $1.15 billion and continues Thoma Bravo’s tradition of acquiring growth
PointClickCare Technologies, a cloud-based medical technology company in Ontario, Canada, providing software for the long-term and post-acute care market, has announced its intent to acquire Collective Medical, a Salt Lake City-based technology company whose software connects more than 1,300 hospitals, thousands of ambulatory practices and long-term post-acute care (LTPAC)
Parents face many challenges as they guide their children and try to solve myriad problems of childhood and youth – physical, emotional, mental health issues, and more. Parents of children with difficult disorders in particular require more information and resources even more urgently.
Parent Playbook, a new Utah software startup, responds
Strider Technologies has established an office in South Jordan, Utah to complement its Washington D.C. office. The company recently closed a $10 million Series A investment led by Koch Disruptive Technologies joined by Ottawa-based One9 Investments. Michael Palmer, president of i360, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, has
A big problem in K-12 education is the difficulty and inefficiency experienced by schools in finding substitute teachers. When a school needs to fill the spot of an absent teacher, it typically goes through what Andrew Dadson calls “the big hustle.” Dadson is the cofounder and CEO of Ready2Teach, a
