Five rapidly growing energy companies—Atlantic Key Energy, DECA, Lift Energy, Our World Energy, and Smart Energy Today—merged to form Lumio, a new residential solar energy provider. Lumio announced its launch on June 21, 2021. Based in Lehi, UT, Lumio aims to provide consumers with the easiest and most

Utah EdTech startups have benefited from an unexpected spike in demand for remote learning tools brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of these companies are focused on STEM education, a few are turning their sights to the Humanities.  We recently sat down with Michael Romrell and Lawton Smith,

Parent Playbook, a South Jordan-based parenting app startup, announced today it has raised a $1 million pre-seed investment. The pre-seed round was oversubscribed. “80% of the people we pitched made the commitment to invest,” said CEO and Cofounder, Phil Anderson. “With this round, we’re exactly where we need to

Gabb Wireless launches Gabb Watch On June 15, 2021, Lehi-based Gabb Wireless announced the launch of its news Gabb Watch. It joins the award-winning Gabb Z2 “smart for kids” phone.  Existing Gabb customers who pre-order will receive a 30% discount. The Gabb Watch will be available to the public for

Day One, the award winning app (Apple Design Award, Mac App of the Year, Editor’s Choice) for journaling on both Mac and iOS devices, was acquired by Automattic (WordPress.com, Simplenote, Tumblr) this week, according to a blogpost by Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg and Day One founder

UPDATE: On August 31, 2021, TechBuzz profiled The Final Chapter for XANT. Assets were acquired by Aurea Software, according to a press release dated August 2nd, and all employees have been let go. Last Wednesday, June 9, 2021, multiple posts were made to LinkedIn from now former XANT employees about

On June 16, 2021, process analytics software provider Cardagraph announced it has raised a pre-seed round from prolific investor, Jeff Burningham, Founder of Peak Capital Partners and Peak Ventures. They have funded over 20 start-up teams since Burningham ran for Governor in Utah last year. Burningham and his partners at

We’re all used to working from our laptops for 40 hours a week, but have you ever tried working in VR for a 40 hour work week? Daniel Platt is one of the few who has. Platt is the Director of Product at vSpatial, and co-founded the productivity-focused software