Following the closure of SkyLab Ventures Fund I, co-founder and former president Jesse Silva has founded Maddix Capital, a new and separate entity “born from SkyLab’s success.” The hybrid venture/PE model seeks to disrupt traditional venture via offering value-added shared services to help partners achieve and exceed their

By Elainna Ciaramella  Utah is the birthplace of numerous tech startups that have put the Beehive state on the map as a high-tech hub, rivaling Silicon Valley as an epicenter for technology and innovation. Now, Utah isn’t only incubating some of the best technology companies in the world, its

The Women Tech Council is hosting their annual Talent Summit on May 4 at Thanksgiving Point. The theme for this year’s summit is “From resignation to reinvention,” examining the opportunities the new job market has created, especially for women. Cydni Tetro, co-founder of the council and CEO of Brandless,

BioUtah Honors the Life of Senator Orrin Hatch On April 23, 2022, Senator Orrin Hatch passed away at age 88. He had served 42 years in the US Senate. He was the longest serving Senator in Utah’s history. Reflecting on the Senator’s life and legacy, Kelvyn Cullimore, president

The results are in. The Wasatch Innovation Network (WIN), a partnership between the Salt Lake Chamber and TechBuzz News, has completed its inaugural round of the WIN100, a community-nominated, peer-selected process of selecting top 100 venture entrepreneurs in Utah. The premise of the WIN100 is simple: Create a mechanism to

Today HomePace announced it has secured $7 million in Series A funding led by LENX (Miami), the corporate venture arm of Lennar, a Miami-based builder of "affordable, move-up, and active adult" homes that founded in 1954. Lennar is the second largest home builder in the US. Prior investors

By Elainna Ciaramella    “In the modern era, we’ve had the Industrial Revolution, the Information Age, and soon, the Space Age. Space is the next industry to totally change the world,” says Brian McCann, CEO of Intergalactic (formerly known as Airborne ECS, a re-brand covered by TechBuzz), a St. George-based

Today Strider Technologies announced that it has closed $45 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Valor Equity Partners (Chicago), with participation from existing investors DataTribe (DC area), Koch Disruptive Technologies (Wichita, KS), and One9 Ventures (Ottowa, Ontario). Costa Saab of Valor Equity Partners will join Strider’