By Jenny Rollins A new Utah startup wants to recreate the sense of connection back when regulars would walk into a mom-and-pop shop and be treated like an old friend—a bestie, even. Trevor Crump and Mark Goldhardt worked together in ecommerce and digital marketing for various companies. They have

Tacos Together is at it again with another original charity, networking, and community-building event on December 1, 2022. Their goal is to provide Christmas for 10,000 children with a toy drive going on throughout November and culminating into a celebration at Automotive Addiction.  “My parents are first generation immigrants.

BoomStartup Accelerator announced today it is now a part of non-profit entrepreneurship organization VentureCapital.org (VCO). Cottonwood Heights-based Assure, a large private asset and SPV administrator and BoomStartups' previous home, has agreed to VentureCapital.org's acquisition of BoomStartup. Founded in 2010, BoomStartup has supported over 150 Utah

Sam Shillingford, Co-Founder and CEO of KnowMe, noticed a need for a safe space for capturing memories when his good friend battled stage 4 cancer.  “He was having miserable experiences with chemo that he was sharing with our group chat,” remembers Shillingford. “Every few days we would get a new

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