Startup

We’re like a refreshing new capital alternative for entrepreneurs along the Wasatch Front. While attending BYU as an undergraduate in 2001, Jeff Burningham, founder and Managing Partner of Provo-based early-stage investment firm Peak Ventures, won the BYU Business Plan Competition after pitching Mindwire, an internet development and interactive brand

swop, founded by three currently deferred BYU students, is an app that allows users to easily swop (well, swap) contact information. Close your eyes. Imagine meeting someone at a party, the grocery store, an off-the-chain Beehive Startups event, or a family reunion (I don’t know half the people who

It’s been an awesome ride so far. Qzzr [https://www.qzzr.com/], the Lehi-based company behind the skyrocketing quiz creation tool and platform, has raised $2 million in a funding round led by local venture firm Kickstart Seed Fund [http://kickstartseedfund.com/]. Two other local venture firms, Pelion Venture

There is a real need for new capital sources to fund the brightest entrepreneurs in Utah. Peak Ventures [http://www.peakventurecapital.com/], a Provo-based early stage investment firm and wholly owned subsidiary of Peak Capital Partners [http://peakcapitalpartners.com/], today announced the close of a $23 million venture capital fund.

Utah entrepreneurs unite! One of our own is in trouble. When bee rustlers recently stole [http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58292413-78/hives-bees-bee-beekeepers.html.csp] $12,000 worth of bees and honey from 24 beehives owned by 15-year-old Utah entrepreneur Bryce Bunderson, at first we couldn’t get past our

I think Campus Founders Fund gives us a unique, scalable way to teach a group of students to fish, and then have them take it from there. Kickstart Seed Fund [http://kickstartseedfund.com/] is launching a $500,000 student-run venture fund aptly named the Campus Founders Fund [http://www.campusfounders.

The team at Lucid is ready to do big things with a unique perspective from outside Silicon Valley. When Lucid Software [https://www.golucid.co/], the Utah-based startup behind the popular cloud-based diagramming app Lucidchart [https://www.lucidchart.com/], announced in late May that it had raised $5 million in

The program has graduated more than 80 companies, who have gone on to generate a combined revenue of nearly $100 million with an employee base of more than 750 people. TechX [https://www.mentoredacceleration.com/] is a 12-week revenue accelerator designed to help companies address three major problems: generating more