Up until the past year or two, cryptocurrency has struggled to find a space in the ‘normal’ business day to day. When Bitcoin started in 2009, a marginally small number of people saw it as the next big thing. In 2013, TechBuzz co-founder and writer, Austin Craig, traveled the world

Vutility (Sandy, Utah) is a leading-edge technology company in the energy and environmental space, offering solutions for data gathering, sensor monitoring, submetering, cloud computing and analytics for an organization’s most critical assets. While measuring a system’s energy usage is nothing new, Vutility promises something a typical power company

BeatBread is a pioneering music funding platform enabling artists to access growth capital, especially emerging artists, who might be less interested in paying the high legal costs associated with signing with a label. The company helps artists gain control of their careers and ownership of their music. Earlier this month

Sweater Closes $12 Million Seed Round Sweater announced on February 24, 2022 that it has closed a $12M seed round. The round was co-led by Motivate VC and Akuna Capital, with participation from Jeffrey Cruttenden (Co-founder of Acorns), Eli Broverman (Co-founder of Betterment), Litquidity, MRTNZ Ventures, Bison Venture Partners, Spacestation,

Ember, the Salt Lake City-based startup helping vacation home owners through concierge service, just announced a $17.4 million Series A round of financing led by legendary VC Peter Thiel. Others joining the round include Pando Ventures of Salt Lake City, prior investors Todd Pedersen of Vivint, and Progressive Leasing

Human resource and management teams have had many quick shifts over the last 18 months including issues in workforce shortages, poaching and retention. Companies have done everything they could from a wage perspective to gain the workforce they need from increasing payroll budgets, poaching other companies' talent and bringing

Salt Lake City consumer fintech startup Soon was accepted to the world’s premier startup accelerator, Y Combinator, to participate for the Winter 2022 cohort, happening now. Soon also received a $500k investment from the storied Silicon Valley accelerator. “Here's the truth — any startup that’s anybody in

On February 22, 2022, SoFi Technologies Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Technisys in an all-stock deal amounting to $1.1 billion. Technisys is a pioneer in digital banking, developing fintech software long before the category was created. The company was founded in 1996