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.
Album VC (Lehi, UT), the Mountain West VC behind seven Utah unicorns, expands its partnership for the first time in a decade, welcoming Ty Boswell and Cash Allred as partners.
Amplēo (Lehi, UT) acquires Crunchfirm (San Francisco, CA), adding full-stack CFO services for VC-backed startups to its growing platform. The deal, the firm's seventh acquisition in under two years, deepens Amplēo Finance's venture-stage expertise and expands its one-stop embedded services model.
AMH opens a Product Engineering hub in Draper, targeting 100 hires as the single-family rental giant bets on Utah's tech talent to build AI-powered tools transforming how Americans find and rent homes.
Altitude Lab’s biotech accelerator portfolio has surpassed $205 million in funding, with Salt Lake City startups reaching clinical trials, pharma partnerships, and commercialization milestones that underscore Utah’s life sciences influence.
SoloFire, a Utah-based sales enablement platform for medical device and life science teams, has launched what it believes is the first AI coaching product in its vertical, letting reps practice realistic sales conversations before entering the field.
Utah's first Salt Lake Art Show, launched under the X5 convergence platform, showcased extraordinary artists including a keyboard-key pop artist, a Navajo-Anishinaabe jeweler, a Burning Man sculptor, and a feng shui painter, signaling Salt Lake City's emergence as a major creative destination.
NetDocuments (Lehi, UT) launched an AI-focused legal platform using a “context graph” to connect documents, matters, and firm knowledge, aiming to improve legal search, workflows, and AI-assisted legal work.
Utah entrepreneur Joshua Ahlstrom built Tilted Spray Co. into a viral success, selling 45,000 units worldwide — then discovered counterfeiters using his own face and photos on Amazon to sell knockoffs, exposing a systemic crisis facing American product startups.
