Last week Sweater hosted an event for its portfolio companies' founders and local entrepreneurs at its offices in Boulder, Colorado. As an investment fund, Sweater is quite different from traditional VCs. With approval of the SEC, Sweater has pioneered a way to allow non-institutional investors invest relatively small amounts

By Elainna Ciaramella    Chad Bennett is a former teenage hacker of the non-malicious kind, who in the early 1990s, got his kicks downloading viruses. Today, Chad is the founder of HEROIC Cybersecurity, based in Lehi, Utah, a company fighting the endless battle to protect the data, devices, and cloud services

By Karin Anderson Jeanette Padilla demonstrates how a childhood on the edges of poverty can inform astute humanitarian leadership. Padilla’s nonprofit organization, Food Justice Coalition, operates in answer to lived experience. The coalition works to provide blankets, kitchen implements, money, and bureaucratic assistance to people living without shelter, but

In the publishing industry there are five large publishing houses often called the “big five:” Penguin Random House (PRH), Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan. In 2020, PRH announced that it would buy Simon & Schuster for more than $2 billion, causing unease among the book and

Give Blockchain, a crypto nonprofit marketplace, is hosting a fundraising and crypto event for Free a Girl on Friday, November 11th, 2022. The event is from 5pm-10pm at Nerd United’s headquarters, 2000 N Ashton Blvd Lehi, Utah. All proceeds will go towards Free a Girl. Free a Girl is

On November 3rd, 2022, JPMorgan Chase announced the induction of DeepSee.ai into the JPMorgan Chase’s Hall of Innovation. This Innovation award recognizes select emerging tech companies for their innovation, business value, and disruptive nature and is given out once a year at JPMorgan Chase’s Tech Summit.  “DeepSee

Today the Larry H. and Gail Miller Enrichment Scholarship commemorated 20 years of providing scholarships to students. Student scholarship recipients under this program, many of them first-generation, have attended the University of Utah to gain a free education. They have gone on to make contributions to the community. The Miller

Today Whistic, the network for assessing, publishing and sharing vendor security information, announced it is launching a new Trust Center, outlining its commitment to global security and privacy standards and transparently addressing important topics relevant to the thousands of companies joining the Whistic Network each month. This announcement also furthers