Mark Tullis
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 the Salt Lake Chamber presented the Business Champion awards to Utah legislators who stood for the interests of continued prosperity and quality of life for Utah employers and employees during the 2022 General Legislative Session. The Salt Lake Chamber is Utah’s largest and longest-serving business association. As a
by Mark Tullis
Scorpion Appoints Saurabh Goyal as President of SMB Scorpion announced on May 9 2022 that Saurabh Goyal, a global product strategy and sales enablement leader, has been appointed its President of SMB. Goyal will report directly to Scorpion Chief Operating Officer Raj Ramanan. As President of SMB, Goyal will oversee
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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
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BioUtah Honors the Life of Senator Orrin Hatch On April 23, 2022, Senator Orrin Hatch passed away at age 88. He had served 42 years in the US Senate. He was the longest serving Senator in Utah’s history. Reflecting on the Senator’s life and legacy, Kelvyn Cullimore, president
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The results are in. The Wasatch Innovation Network (WIN), a partnership between the Salt Lake Chamber and TechBuzz News, has completed its inaugural round of the WIN100, a community-nominated, peer-selected process of selecting top 100 venture entrepreneurs in Utah. The premise of the WIN100 is simple: Create a mechanism to
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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
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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’
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BoomStartup Announces Pitchup Three Awardees BoomStartup announced on April 22, 2022 the category winners of its PitchUp Three virtual pitch competition. 21 companies pitched 12 investors, media (including TechBuzz), accelerators and other members of Utah's entrepreneurship ecosystem. Organized and led by Tara Spalding, Managing Director of BoomStartup Accelerator,
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