It appears that Utah has more companies included on the Inc. 5000 list this year than in any prior ranking.

Cottonwood Heights, Utah-based Mercato Partners [https://mercatopartners.com/] has led a $60 million Series A round of funding in Chicago-based Klover [https://www.joinklover.com/]. According to the news release [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mercato-partners-traverse-fund-leads-series-a-funding-for-fintechdata-disrupter-klover-301354012.html] , the Mercato investment in FinTech Klover was made through Mercato's growth

The rumors were true; TaxBit has closed a $130MM Series B round of funding.

Add Campfire [https://www.getcampfire.com/] to your growing list of Education Technology firms HQ'd in the land of Silicon Slopes. And while you're at it, chalk 'em up as being another firm that's landed funding. In this case, Lehi, Utah-based Campfire just

"the numbers are staggering ... at least by the standards previously set within Utah ..."

"How rapidly we've been able to execute on our strategy has been really remarkable." Cydni Tetro, CEO Brandless

The former InsideSales.com has been acquired by Texas-based Aurea.

ICYMI:Salt Lake City-based Traeger [https://www.traeger.com/] went public yesterday (NYSE:COOK [https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COOK?p=COOK&.tsrc=fin-srch]), selling 23.5 million shares in its Initial Public Offering and raising over $420 million in the process. As of this moment, Traeger shares are