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.
Pactsafe Acquired by Ironclad
On March 25, 2021 PactSafe announced that it has been acquired by Ironclad. Pactsafe is a portfolio company of Signal Peak Ventures. Signal Peak, pictured left, participated in Pactsafe’s $5.5 million Series A investment in July 2018, along with Vulpes Innovative Technologies, Mercury Fund
Cardagraph, makers of business productivity analytics software, announced today the public beta launch of its SaaS platform, after two years of development and beta testing. The Cardagraph Platform uniquely bridges the gap of data visibility plaguing business leaders by extracting data across popular software tools such as SalesForce, HubSpot, Trello,
Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group has hired John Torrey as a Venture Partner to source new deals for the firm’s new Acceleration Fund II that was announced on December 30, 2020. Madrona has raised over $2.2 billion over 10 funds. The company is known for its seed and early-stage
Divvy, a Utah-based payment and expense management platform for businesses, secured a $165 million Series D funding on January 5, 2021 from Salt Lake City-based Pelion Venture Partners. Other investors in this round include New Enterprise Associates, Insight Partners, PayPal Ventures, and Jonathan Wiener, a venture partner at Oak FT/
“If investors were innovators, they’d be founders, not investors.”
It’s a potentially controversial take from Troy Harvey, cofounder of PassiveLogic. In fairness, he’s spent a lot of time in front of investors.
“When we first started, we went to [the hub of investors in the San Francisco
KLYP based in Salt Lake City has launched their app for stylists of all kinds. Steven Sylvester, founder and CEO, describes KLYP as “a cosmetology services app that connects beauty service professionals to clients on an easy-to-use platform.” The app launched on the App Store and Google Play store in
Kiln, the Utah-based premium coworking company, is expanding its operation with new locations in Park City, Utah, and Boulder, Colorado. This brings its total coworking sites to four, joining their Lehi and the Salt Lake City locations.
CEO and Cofounder Arian Lewis says the company is just beginning their western
This week Epic Ventures, a VC firm in Salt Lake City, closed its 2013 investment of Volta Industries through a purchase of Volta by Tortoise Acquisition Corp. II, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). SPACs are an increasingly popular way to acquire, merge, purchase, or take a company public. SPAC
