Articles in the "Money" category primarily relate to a funding announcement of some sort, typically from an institutional investor such as a venture capital firm, or from a family office, an angel investor, or any combination of private investors. These stories focus mainly on the funding details (who, when, how much, what it will be used for, etc.)
Money
Articles in the "Money" category primarily relate to a funding announcement of some sort, typically from an institutional investor such as a venture capital firm, or from a family office, an angel investor, or any combination of private investors. These stories focus mainly on the funding details (who, when, how much, what it will be used for, etc.)
Today Album VC announced its fourth fund, a $200 million seed fund that follows Album's successful seed investment formula. The firm plans to invest half of the fund into new projects and set aside the remaining half for follow-on investments. It's the largest fund Album has
Salt Lake City-based startup Errand (formerly Izzy) has raised a $455k pre-Seed round (set to close an additional $300k at the end of May) for its “on-demand, errand runner” platform. Co-founded in 2022 by Kason and Claire Larsen and Scott Young, Errand is designed for users to hire drivers to
Today Leland, based in Stanford, CA and Lehi, UT announced a $4 million Seed Round led by Contrary Capital (San Francisco). Other investors included Peterson Ventures (Salt Lake City), FJ Labs (New York), Goodwater Capital (San Francisco), and Next Play Ventures (Menlo Park) led by former CEO of LinkedIn, Jeff
Today Leland, based in Stanford, CA and Lehi, UT announced a $4 million Seed Round led by Contrary Capital (San Francisco). Other investors included Peterson Ventures (Salt Lake City), FJ Labs (New York), Goodwater Capital (San Francisco), and Next Play Ventures (Menlo Park) led by former CEO of LinkedIn, Jeff
Today Album VC announced its fourth fund, a $200 million seed fund that follows Album's successful seed investment formula. The firm plans to invest half of the fund into new projects and set aside the remaining half for follow-on investments. It's the largest fund Album has
Salt Lake City-based startup Errand (formerly Izzy) has raised a $455k pre-Seed round (set to close an additional $300k at the end of May) for its “on-demand, errand runner” platform. Co-founded in 2022 by Kason and Claire Larsen and Scott Young, Errand is designed for users to hire drivers 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’
By Jenny Rollins
alphaMountain, a Salt Lake City-based computer and network security company, announced it has received $2.7 million in seed funding, led by Mercato Partners’ Prelude Fund (Cottonwood Heights, UT) with participation from the private equity firm Crosspoint Capital Partners (Menlo Park, CA). The company will use the
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
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
