As a teenager, AJ Brau saw the need for an interactive, offline map while sitting in the middle of Lake Powell with no cell service trying to use a paper map.  As a native to Utah, Brau grew up in Alpine and played a lot of sports. Her family didn’

By Jenny Rollins Five years ago, Elliot Harris was washing his fishing boat and accidentally dropped his phone in water. He ran to Best Buy and asked if there was anything they could do to save his waterlogged phone. The workers recommended he try a bowl of rice. Harris ran

Air pollution on Utah’s Wasatch Front isn’t hard to miss. Besides great skiing and world renowned snow, Utah’s winters also see dirty air and gray skies. On top of this, we’ve seen all time lows in Utah Lake levels and precipitation, with the Great Salt Lake

By Jenny Rollins A new local software company is determined to end the pain that comes from managing promotional material—making sure partners and sales reps have documents that are consistent, current, co-branded, and compliant. The team behind PieceKeeper is tackling the seemingly impossible task of keeping hundreds of PDFs

By Jenny Rollins On September 15, Paul Shin and his community development company Tacos Together are going for a Guinness World Record — the world’s biggest blanket fort. They are inviting the local community to help them build a 10,000 square foot blanket fort at Rio Tinto Stadium in

Cardagraph has announced today it has completed its $860,000 pre-seed funding round with the final investment coming in from Startup Ignition Ventures (SIV). As noted in a recent Investor Mindset profile of Startup Ignition Ventures, investments from SIV range between $250,000 and $750,000.  Cardagraph, based in Lehi,

Tired: Buy low, sell high. Wired: Time in the market beats timing the market. Inspired: Don’t time the market. Just harvest profits with every spend.   At the end of July, Americans found out the economy had shrunk for a second quarter in a row. There was plenty of debate

Upkid, the on-demand marketplace for childcare centers and teachers, has announced a $1.7 million pre-seed investment from Newfund Capital of Paris, France; Corazon Capital of Chicago Illinois; and Beehive Venture Partners of Lehi, Utah. Upkid will use the capital to hire key staff and expand into new markets. “We