Today BYU Athletics has announced a partnership with IsoTalent and the Salt Lake Chamber to launch a student-athlete career marketplace that will connect BYU student-athletes to many of the Chamber’s eight thousand member businesses located across Utah and the rocky mountain region. This novel partnership, extending the

Working to connect future founders with startup and entrepreneurial resources, we sat down with industry experts Brenda Anderson and Carlton Van Putten to discuss “knowing yourself as a founder”—assessing strengths and weaknesses and evolving as a leader in the early stages of building a business.    Brenda Anderson is the

Today Strider Technologies, Inc. (South Jordan, UT) announced the appointment of Michael Brown to its Board of Directors. In this role, Brown will support and provide guidance to the Strider executive team as the company scales operations to enable more organizations to protect their talent, technology, and supply chains and

On September 6th, 2022, KSL Deseret Digital Media launched Messages on KSL Marketplace. In just four months, the secondhand marketplace has blocked four times more fraud through secure messaging and air-tight algorithms.  “Now we're seeing anywhere between 60 and 80% of the new listings posted going live

Today NRG Energy, Inc. and Vivint Smart Home, Inc. announced that NRG will acquire Vivint for $12 per share or $2.8 billion in an all-cash transaction. The agreement has been unanimously approved by the board of directors of both companies.  NRG will acquire 100% of the outstanding equity

Eltropy, a digital communications platform designed for credit unions and community banks, has announced a partnership with Origence, an Irvine, CA-based lending technology solutions provider for credit unions. Under the partnership, Eltropy will integrate its lending communication capabilities into Origence arc OS, the company’s loan and account origination

Today the Wasatch Innovation Network and the Consumer Summit have opened nominations for the inaugural WIN50 Consumer, a community-nominated and peer-selected process for identifying top founders, CEOs and entrepreneurs who are successfully building fast-growing consumer product brand companies. Starting today, Utahns from across the state can nominate

The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute – a top-5 ranked division of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah – welcomes its third group of Lassonde Founders for the 2022-23 academic year. Thirty-nine students, including some returning to the program for the second or third year, were