Jimmer Fredette has joined Tandem Ventures as its newest Partner. The Draper-based investment firm made the announcement today at Silicon Slopes Summit 2022, where Fredette spoke to a crowd of over 8,000 attendees at the biggest annual tech conference in Utah, this year on the floor of the Vivint

VentureCapital.Org (VCO), a Utah-based non-profit organization that assists, coaches, and provides mentoring to entrepreneurs raising investment capital, announced on September 29, 2022, the appointment of Tara Spalding as the organization's inaugural Chief Programming Officer and Director of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Program. Concurrently, VentureCapital.Org announced Marcia

By Karin Anderson When Paul Burgon moved to Utah after almost two decades of facilitating mergers and acquisitions in the Washington D.C. area, he was alarmed to discover that there was no infrastructure for recycling plastics in Utah Valley. “My wife and I had been interested in recycling,” Burgon

Workstream announced on September 29, 2022 it has extended its Series B funding round with an additional close of $60 million, bringing the total Series B financing to $108 million. More than two dozen investors are participating in the oversubscribed extension round, including both institutional funds and angel investors. Led

The Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy in partnership with the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business announced today the fourth class of founders in the Master of Business Creation (MBC) Full-Time program this Fall Semester for the 2022-23 academic year. The group

We often get asked by entrepreneurs from out of state who are thinking of moving to Utah, or have just moved here the question: “How do I get plugged in?” The answer?: “Two things…Read TechBuzz…and attend Silicon Slopes Summit.”  Now in its sixth year, Silicon Slopes Summit is

Salt Lake City-based Boom Interactive, an software development company focused on AI, closed a $5.5 million SAFE note investment. The investment is a precursor to a Series A round. The lead investor has not been disclosed.  The funding will go towards launching the company’s product, Bubbles™, an easy-to-use,

Oops, a return pickup service, raised a $5 million pre-seed round led by Peterson Ventures (Salt Lake City), with participation from EPIC Ventures (Salt Lake City), Pelion Venture Partners (Cottonwood Heights), Maverick Ventures (San Francisco), Village Global (San Francisco), and a number of local angel investors.  Oops solves the pains