By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY —Pelion Venture Partners [http://www.pelionvp.com/Default.aspx], an early-stage venture capital firm, raised $194 million for its fifth fund. Pelion focuses on software and cloud services, investing in early stage companies raising their Series A or B rounds that have either a

By Joey Ferguson Jordan Monroe, VP of sales for Owlet, presenting at Todd Pederson’s Top Ten, a UVEF event. PROVO —Owlet [http://www.owletcare.com/] has raised $190,000 for its wireless baby monitors. Their preferred funding source: winning competitions, 10 of them so far. The Provo company’s

By Joey Ferguson OREM — Utah Valley University hired Michael Savoie [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjsavoie/] as its new dean for the College of Technology and Computing [http://www.uvu.edu/tc/]. The college includes computer science, information systems and digital media. Savoie is leaving his position as director of

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY —Daniel Sellers [https://twitter.com/daniel_Sellers] and Joe Grigg [https://twitter.com/MrGrigg], the founders of Hack Night SLC [http://www.hacknightslc.com/], want to get developers out of their caves and into the world by providing a place to socialize, collaborate and

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY — App development company Ender Labs’ say its flagship product, EventBoard, is disrupting the conference room management market without a spending a single advertising dollar. Since its launch in 2010, companies like Dolby, Mozilla and Yelp have all signed up for EventBoard. The EventBoard app

By Joey Ferguson The new 241,000-square-foot eBay facility in Draper comes complete with a gym, massages, a game room and a full cafeteria for its 1,800 employees. eBay’s facility in Draper, Utah. The building sits right on a Frontrunner stop, which is a train that extends from

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY —Concept to Company [http://www.concepttocompany.org/], a Grow Utah Ventures [https://www.growutah.com/] event, is offering $25,000 in cash prizes to developers with the best video games for its Utah Game Wars contest [http://utahgamewars2013.eventbrite.com/]. Contestants can enter in

By Joey Ferguson Lonnie Mayne, new president of Mindshare Technologies SALT LAKE CITY — Survey company Mindshare Technologies [http://www.mshare.net/] promoted Lonnie Mayne [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=11817774&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=sFSY&locale=en_US&srchid=352df0db-1ac8-487f-a70e-6d8251017144-0&srchindex=1&