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, Luz, a South Jordan-based startup offering a ML (machine learning)-powered retail database built for market research, competitor tracking, and product development, announced it is rebranding with a new name: Particl.
Accompanying the name change, Particl closed an $8.5 million Series A investment. The funding round was led
Today Deloitte released its “North America Technology Fast 500,” an annual ranking of the fastest-growing North American companies in the technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech sectors, now in its 28th year.
Eight Utah companies made the list:
* Filevine: No. 167
* Kenect: No. 292
* Lendio: No. 345
BoomStartup Accelerator announced today it is now a part of non-profit entrepreneurship organization VentureCapital.org (VCO). Cottonwood Heights-based Assure, a large private asset and SPV administrator and BoomStartups' previous home, has agreed to VentureCapital.org's acquisition of BoomStartup.
Founded in 2010, BoomStartup has supported over 150 Utah
Last week Sweater hosted an event for its portfolio companies' founders and local entrepreneurs at its offices in Boulder, Colorado.
As an investment fund, Sweater is quite different from traditional VCs. With approval of the SEC, Sweater has pioneered a way to allow non-institutional investors invest relatively small amounts
Today the Larry H. and Gail Miller Enrichment Scholarship commemorated 20 years of providing scholarships to students. Student scholarship recipients under this program, many of them first-generation, have attended the University of Utah to gain a free education. They have gone on to make contributions to the community. The Miller
Today Whistic, the network for assessing, publishing and sharing vendor security information, announced it is launching a new Trust Center, outlining its commitment to global security and privacy standards and transparently addressing important topics relevant to the thousands of companies joining the Whistic Network each month.
This announcement also furthers
Today WorkWave (Holmdel, NJ) announced it has acquired Salt Lake City-based TaskEasy, a leading service marketplace for rental property owners. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. Kickstart (Salt Lake City) is an investor in TaskEasy, along with Camber Creek, Access Venture Partners, Modern Ventures, RC Capital, Delta Electronics
Humless, a Lindon, Utah-based energy storage company has been awarded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 9540 certification for its redesigned and expandable Universal 6kW System, a streamlined hybrid inverter system for energy storage.
The system includes the Humless AC/DC coupled, UL listed hybrid inverter in combination with Humless 5kWh Lithium-Iron Phosphate
