Utah physician assistant Bree VanLeeuwen, founder of Daily Shade Sunscreen, will be featured at Ecom Elevated, highlighting her rapid growth and mission to improve sunscreen transparency amid rising melanoma concerns.

Earlyasset (Park City, UT) emerges from stealth with $2 million to build infrastructure for the venture secondary market. TechBuzz sat down with its Co-Founder, Shawn Bercuson, to find out its origin story and vision.

Leland (Lehi, UT) has launched its AI Builder Program, a five-level course teaching professionals to build AI automations and agents. Already its fastest-growing product, the program is drawing strong demand from individual learners and enterprise clients alike.

Path Fertility (Salt Lake City, UT) is challenging reproductive medicine’s most overlooked assumption. The company's SpermQT test, backed by three peer-reviewed studies, shows that “normal” sperm tests miss up to 25% of men with clinically significant fertility problems.

Utah Valley University’s Sandbox Demo Day showcased 25 student startups applying AI and SaaS models across industries, highlighting rapid execution, early traction, and the program’s emergence as a serious startup pipeline.

Utah has awarded YouScience (American Fork, UT) a statewide contract to build longitudinal career mapping infrastructure connecting middle school through postsecondary education, giving students, parents, and counselors data-driven tools to align credentials with workforce demand.

Rizz Lending (Riverton, UT) closes a $300 million facility to scale exotic car financing, targeting an underserved market with long-term loans, data-driven underwriting, and a bet that high-value vehicles behave differently than traditional autos.

Pocket (Lehi, UT) has launched Pocket Drives, a host-first car rental marketplace on iOS. Built by former Turo hosts, it offers significantly lower fees, full operational control, and professional tools for vehicle owners.