Qualtrics co-founder Scott Smith and wife donate $25 Million to UVU On October 27, 2021, Qualtrics co-founder Scott M. Smith and his wife Karen Smith announced plans to bestow a $25 million gift to help fund Utah Valley University’s (UVU) planned engineering building. The new building will be named

Awardco, the Provo-based employee recognition company, today announced that it has raised a $65 million Series A. According to Awardco, this is the largest Series A in HR SaaS history and the second largest Series A in HR tech history. The raise is led by General Catalyst of Cambridge, Mass.

With the abrupt closure of workplaces in response to the 2020 pandemic, traditional office employees scrambled to navigate a new kind of corporate purgatory: the remote workday. Brainstorms became glitchy Zoom calls; stand-ups became dial-ins; team-building became wayward GIFs in a Slack channel. Experiments in remote productivity aside, attempting to

On September 30th, 2021, Qlik announced the acquisition of Salt Lake City-based Big Squid, a leading provider of no-code automated machine learning. It is Qlik's 13th acquisition since its founding in 1993. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. With its US headquarters in King of

Today Udo announced initial funding of $20 million from a network of private investors, many of whom are associated with the healthcare industry. The Farmington, Utah-based privately-held startup also announced the official launch of its new video-based healthcare collaboration app. The initial funding will be used to scale the company’

Brite, a Salt Lake City-based software software startup, has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round led by Elevation Capital. Several Utah and Bay Area angels also joined the raise. The company will use the funds to strengthen the software platform, hire talent, and drive sales and marketing.

TechBuzz is collaborating with the Utah State Board of Education to gather data from the Utah tech sector on the issue of math instruction in Utah K-12 public schools. Should Utah schools be teaching more Data Science?

On Wednesday, the Worldwide Webb Acquisition Corp. announced it was pricing its initial public offering of 20,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit. The Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation (SPAC) is aiming to raise $200 million for the purposes of “effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase,