St. George entrepreneur Matthew Dickerson launches Tdooz, a fixed-price home services booking app he calls the "DoorDash for home services." The platform targets a $650 billion industry, beginning with a Washington County beta ahead of a planned Phoenix expansion.

Craig Cossairt is preparing to launch Bloom, an AI-native dating app that converts into a relationship app once couples commit — a first for the industry. He's building toward launch after winning a UVU data governance bounty in June.

Back Nine Golf (St. George, UT) has grown from a startup into a nationwide franchise network offering automated 24-hour indoor golf facilities, combining simulator technology with a low-staff operating model and international expansion.

Jump Aero (Petaluma, CA) brought its all-electric Pulse aircraft to South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan, pitching Utah on a rapid-response eVTOL designed to get a single paramedic to rural emergencies faster than an ambulance or helicopter.

South Jordan-based Obra emerges from stealth with two linked products, Obra Jobs and Obra Hire, betting that AI broke hiring's inbound signal and that a trust-first, outbound-focused platform can restore it.

Filevine (Salt Lake City, UT) launched its LOIS platform, adding an AI-native legal citator that targets specific passages rather than whole opinions, using dual-pathway retrieval to surface uncited "sub silentio" conflicts.

A Utah courtroom dispute over edited surveillance footage highlights a growing challenge: verifying digital authenticity. Mike Nelson from DigiCert (Lehi, UT) explains why AI-driven manipulation demands stronger provenance standards to establish trust in images, videos and digital evidence.

Rodatherm Energy (Salt Lake City, UT) and Fulcrum Point Holdings (Salt Lake City, UT) are applying a shale-drilling financing model to scale waterless geothermal power near Brigham City, pairing it with Utah's nuclear buildout in a phased, cash-flow-funded energy campus strategy.