On April 6, 2022, Salad, based in Salt Lake City, announced a $17 million Series A round led by Left Lane Capital (New York) and Origin Ventures (Salt Lake City & Chicago). Other investors included Kickstart (Salt Lake City), Royal Street Ventures (Park City), and Carthona Capital (Sydney). Benjy Boxer,

Founded as Mix-Tape (hyphenated) in 2019 and re-founded as Mixtape in 2020, Mixtape Social Music (Lehi, Utah) is a playlist-first streaming platform—a “future nostalgia” blend of old-school music curation and 21st-century functionality. Unlike major music and social apps available for download, Mixtape is not

The Milken Institute released its 2022 rankings of “Best Performing Cities: Charting Economic Resilience and Opportunity”. Utah cities dominate the rankings for both Large Cities (more than 250,000 residents) and Small Cities (more than 60,000, fewer than 250,000 residents). The Santa Monica-based think tank ranked cities

Deadline Approaching - Nominate Entrepreneurs to the WIN100 by Monday at Midnight Hundreds of you have nominated your entrepreneurs to the WIN100, Thank you! The WIN100 is a superb way to recognize those tenacious, committed entrepreneurs who collectively make up Utah's vibrant and healthy entrepreneur ecosystem—the backbone of

SudShare,a laundry service marketplace based in Salt Lake City, Utah has raised a seed round of $10 million from Headline (San Francisco), Origin Ventures (Salt Lake City and Chicago), Ludlow Ventures (Detroit), Starting Line VC (Chicago), and the appropriately named Clean Ventures, a fund focused on the laundry industry.

Today, Nivati, based in South Jordan, announced a $4 million seed round, $500,000 higher than originally planned. The round was led by Firebrand Ventures (Boulder, CO & Kansas City, KS) with participation from Access Ventures (Denver area, CO), Service Provider Capital (Golden, CO), Peak Capital (Provo), and angel investor

By Elainna Ciaramella  On April 4, 2022, Colby Jenkins will assume the role as CEO of SchoolPulse,"a text based platform that connects individual students to valuable positive psychology and reinforcement to help solidify well-being and self-confidence," according to the St. George-based company. Jenkins has

Salt Lake Chamber’s Roadmap to Prosperity Coalition March Update On March 25, 2022, the Salt Lake Chamber’s Roadmap to Prosperity Coalition, in partnership with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, has updated the Economic Dashboard for March 2022. Three key insights stand out:  1. Utah’s unemployment rate