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 eLearning Brothers (eLB), an eLearning solutions company in American Fork, announced it has raised a $54 million investment from RLG Capital (Park City, Utah) and Trinity Investors, (previously Trinity Private Equity Group), based in the Dallas area. The funding has enabled the American Fork-based learning solutions company to acquire
Utah State Receives EDA STEM Talent Challenge Grant
On January 27, 2021 EDA announced eight grant recipients of its STEM Talent Challenge, a national competition supporting programs to train STEM talent to boost the STEM-capable workforce across the country and increase U.S. competitiveness on the global stage.
From an
Utah State University Partners with FullStack Academy to Launch Tech Bootcamps
Utah State University announced this week it is offering tech bootcamps to equip graduates with a portfolio of work, industry certifications and technical skills. USU's partner in this effort is Fullstack Academy, a New York-based tech education
LVT to Expand Orem Headquarters
LiveView Technologies, Inc. (LVT) plans to expand its Orem headquarters, bringing up to 3,400 new high-paying jobs over the next 10 years, announced The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity (Go Utah) on January 11, 2022. LVT is a cloud-based software platform that
On January 11, 2022, PassiveLogic (Holladay, Utah) announced it has raised a $34 Million Series B round. The round was led by Addition (New York) and Keyframe Capital Partners. Other investors include RET Ventures (Park City), Era Ventures (New York), Brookfield Growth (Menlo Park); and A/O Prop Tech (London)
Continuing our Investor Mindset series, we sat down with Kent Madsen and Nick Efstratis, co-founders of EPIC Ventures, to get to know one of the earliest venture firms in the state, what they focus on, and talk about some of their recent wins.
Some of EPIC Ventures’ recent high-profile investments
Co-Diagnostics Acquires Idaho Molecular and Advanced Conceptions
Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (Salt Lake City) announced late last month it has acquired Idaho Molecular Inc. and Advanced Conceptions, Inc. (both South Salt Lake) for 4.72 million shares of the Company's stock, plus additional common warrants totaling 465,000. The acquisition
Angel Studios (Provo) announced on January 5, 2021, it has raised $47 million in a financing round led by Gigafund (Austin) and Uncorrelated Ventures (San Francisco).
Gigafund may be best known for being one of the largest investors in SpaceX. It has also invested in innovative companies in energy, healthcare,
