Magazine Silicon Slopes Community Hero: Amy Wylie "These emotional connections, these expressions of gratitude, every day it drives me. This is very hard work, and it’s emotional, and there are days I could just sit down and cry at what these students have gone through."
Magazine Silicon Slopes Lifetime Achievement Award: Alan & Karen Ashton “For my wife and I, it’s been very exciting and fulfilling to see Thanksgiving Point become a gathering point.”
News The Karl Sun Is Shining: Lucidchart Raises $72M, Prepares To Open Amsterdam Office Where would we be without the light of Karl Sun?
News Four Ballers, My Surrogate Grandparents & A Pink Button-Up: A Recap Of The Silicon Slopes Community Awards The four Community Heroes — Mary Crafts, Lori Kun, Stephenie Larsen, Amy Wylie — are ballers, plain and simple. I've spoken with all four and they inspire me to be a better human.
News Teem Acquired By WeWork Teem will be acquired in its entirety and continue to operate as an independent business.
Features 5 D's & 1 AIGA Fellow Award: The Tale Of Randall Smith & modern8 Randall Smith, founder of modern8 and recent recipient of the prestigious AIGA Fellow Award, is a man of eclectic and refined tastes.
News Vance Checketts Is Now The COO of DSCO His 30-year career has touched a variety of areas: General Manager of Dell EMC's Utah operation; COO of Mozy; product strategy and solution architecture leader with Oracle. He's the nicest and most encouraging man on Twitter, which goes contrary to everything we know about Twitter.
News Podium Moves Into New Building In Lehi, Ivanti Breaks Ground For Global HQ In South Jordan Big, beautiful buildings.
News RiskRecon Closes $25M Series B Round Led By Accel Total funding for RiskRecon is now north of $40 million.
News Divvy Raises $35M Series B Round From Insight Venture Partners Months after raising a Series A round, Divvy is at it again.
News Apply For Pluralsight's Create The Future Awards & You Can Win $50K Application deadline is August 1, Finalists will pitch at Pluralsight LIVE on August 29.
News Nasdaq Announced As Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2019 Presenting Sponsor “Silicon Slopes Tech Summit has been remarkable at highlighting the rising talent and entrepreneurs in Utah and around the world,” said Nelson Griggs, President, The Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
News JJUMPP Raises $3M From Arthur Ventures Previously self-funded, JJUMPP was started less than 2 years ago and now has nearly 50 employees working in Thanksgiving Point.
News AvidXchange Unveils New Office In Utah, Commits $35M To The Area They plan to have 200+ employees inside Silicon Slopes within the next few years.
News SimpleNexus Raises $20M From Insight Venture Partners "As we historically have been self-funded, we know that this new partnership with Insight Venture Partners will catalyze our growth, and provide our executive team with the additional resources to drive market expansion."
News Bevy Raises $6.4M Investors: Upfront Ventures, Steve Blank, Ryan and Jared Smith, Aaron Skonnard.
News Canopy Reaches Agreement With GOED, Will Add 500+ Jobs To Utah's Economy Canopy's growth continues.
Podcast This Is The Place Podcast (Episode 41) Topics: Podium $60M funding, Silicon Slopes events, unfortunate bagged surprise, counterfeit bills.
News TAFT Closes $5M Seed Round Led by Kickstart, participation from M3 Ventures, Fifth Wall Ventures, Peterson Partners, Dwyane Wade, Andre Iguodala, Jeremy Andrus, Clarke Miyasaki, Aaron Skonnard, Nate Quigley, Davis Smith, Nate Checketts.
News Podium Announces $60M Series B Round Led by IVP, participation from Accel, Summit Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Y Combinator.
