Diversified Insurance Group of Salt Lake City has been acquired by IMA Financial Group, a North American insurance brokerage firm specializing in risk management, insurance, wholesale brokerage, and wealth management. The details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal came into effect on August 1st. Diversified joins Denver-based IMA

For Utah business, it was a historic week (or slightly more than). Three Utah-based companies were listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and each rang the opening bell within just eight days of each other. Leadership from Instructure, Owlet, and Traeger each commemorated their public listing with the historic

“Salad turns your idle PC time into the rewards gamers want. One click gets you earning your next Steam game, download, or a month of Discord Nitro on us—without reading up on crypto wallets or other heavy subjects.” — The Salad.com Blog, “What Is Ethereum, Anyway?” February 26, 2021

Moss Adams, one of the nation’s largest public accounting firms in annual revenue, will merge with The Cadence Group, a Utah-based risk management and advisory firm, to expand their services and clientele. Effective August 1, 2021, Moss Adams and The Cadence Group will be able to serve clients jointly.

Salt Lake City-based TGPX Holdings I, better known as Traeger Grills, has filed to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the COOK ticker symbol. The listing is expected to happen in 4-6 months. The company initially filed confidentially on May 3, but made a public registration statement with

Today the stock for Lehi-based Owlet, Inc. (ticker symbol OWLT) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock opened at $8.95 per share, and at the time of this publishing had risen to $9.61 per share. Owlet announced a merger with Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation, a Special

On June 30, 2021 the NCAA announced that collegiate athletes would be permitted to monetize their name, image, and likeness. Within two weeks of that announcement, Green Bay Packers tight end (and Provo native) Bronson Kaufusi managed to launch a platform to help collegiate athletes commercialize their almost-pro status. Today

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.