Yesterday, the University of Utah’s Partners for Innovation, Ventures, Outreach & Technology (PIVOT) Center launched Summit Venture Studio (SVS), a unique software enterprise for commercializing software applications developed at the university. SVS provides capital and experienced talent to develop, launch and scale university software startups. It is headed by

Can VR pioneer James Jensen, co-founder of The VOID, reinvent location-based VR again? The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted some more than others. One industry hardest hit is location based entertainment, including Disney, who just a year ago was considered unstoppable. For only the third time in history,

Just like almost everyone else with an office job, the company told us to head home and plan on working there for two weeks. Two weeks blurred into months and then we got an email. The message was clear: “Come clean out your desks. We’re redesigning the office spaces

The COVID pandemic has been difficult for the whole world, but children are uniquely impacted. Through critical developmental years, many are isolated from peers and supportive teachers, lacking the social environment to come to understand the world. They’re sometimes stuck at home with parents who are pressed to greater

Multiple Intermediate Clinical Trials Underway in Japan and the US. Low back pain is a pervasive human condition affecting millions of people across the globe causing untold suffering. Salt Lake City biopharmaceutical technology company, DiscGenics, Inc., is tackling the problem through a novel regenerative cell-based therapy that it calls

Sam & Kacie Malouf are on a mission to do good in the world, starting with a business to provide their clients with the best sleep possible, and also by eliminating one of the most vexing issues on the planet—human trafficking. Human trafficking is the second-largest illegal industry

University of Utah has recently announced the creation of the Partners or Innovation, Ventures, Outreach & Technology (PIVOT) Center, a centralized office that will drive the university’s expanding efforts for economic engagement for the greater Utah community. The new office builds on the work by the Center for Technology

Artificial Intelligence has been popularized in Hollywood through the portrayal of countless killer robots, or networks gone haywire, or androids that learn to love. AI is even the namesake for Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film about a robot boy who becomes all-too-human. But in the real-world, AI