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.
Nusano (West Valley City, UT) achieved its first accelerator commissioning milestone, validating core LINAC systems and advancing its West Valley City platform toward commercial radioisotope production by the end of 2026.
Appli (Salt Lake City, UT) doubled its credit union partners to 20 and surpassed $2 billion in member calculations, reflecting accelerating adoption of AI-powered financial calculators that drive engagement, insights, and lending opportunities.
At StartFest 2026 in Draper, Utah, Traeger CEO Jeremy Andrus argued that AI makes execution cheap and leadership scarce — and that Utah's pioneer heritage, not Silicon Valley's transactional model, is the state's most durable competitive edge.
Four speakers at StartFest 2026 in Draper, Utah, converged on a single theme: in the AI era, the differentiator is not the tool. It is the human — empathetic, prepared, and self-aware.
Scaling.com (Lehi, UT) published a national study of 1,000 business owners. It found that 59% mistake activity for growth, with founders themselves identified as the primary barrier to scaling.
HydroBlok’s direct-to-stud HB One Backer CI simplifies wall assemblies, reducing labor, curing time, and construction layers while improving straightness, insulation performance, jobsite efficiency, safety, and contractor workflow outcomes.
Vasion (St. George, UT) has launched Intelligent Print Automation (IPA), a cloud-native platform designed to prevent enterprise documents from becoming unmanaged “dark data” by routing information into compliant, AI-ready business workflows.
