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Venture Capital

A collection of 39 posts

Magazine

Utah’s Rising Tide: A VC’s Perspective

By Gavin Christensen, founder of Kickstart Seed Fund. This article was originally published in the Spring 2017 edition of Silicon Slopes Magazine. Along with many of you, I had the experience of attending

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Entrepreneurship

Funding Females

A look into what it’s like raising venture capital as a female. I need to start by telling you that in writing this piece about the female funding gap, I feel very

  • Meg Walter
    Meg Walter
9 min read
Community Board

How And When To Pitch Silicon Slopes Your Story

The content most prominently featured on our site can be broken down into four categories: News, Features, Community Board, and Community Voice. Stories published inside News and Features are written exclusively by our

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Podcast

Sorenson Capital’s Fraser Bullock

This week we are speaking with Fraser Bullock, co-founder and senior advisor of Sorenson Capital, a private equity firm founded in 2003. Prior to Sorenson Capital, Fraser was a partner at Bain Capital.

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Podcast

Chatbooks CEO Nate Quigley

Podcast Welcome to the Silicon Slopes Podcast. I’m Jordan Burke. This week we are speaking with Nate Quigley, co-founder and CEO of Chatbooks, a subscription-based photo book printing service. Before Chatbooks, Nate

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Podcast

EPIC Ventures Managing Director Nick Efstratis

Podcast Welcome to the Silicon Slopes Podcast. I’m Jordan Burke and this week we are speaking with Nick Efstratis from Epic Ventures, a Venture Capital firm. Nick received his B.S. in

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Podcast

Zetta Venture Partners Managing Director Mark Gorenberg

https://soundcloud.com/siliconslopes/19-zetta-venture-partners-mark Today we are talking with Mark Gorenberg at Zetta Venture Partners, a firm focusing on analytics startups.**Prior to Zetta Venture Partners, Mark served as managing director at

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Podcast

Kickstart Seed Fund Managing Director Gavin Christensen

Podcast This week we’re talking with Gavin Christensen, founder and managing partner at Kickstart Seed Fund. Gavin graduated from BYU with an economics degree and later did his MBA at Northwestern. He

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Podcast

Owlet CEO Kurt Workman

https://soundcloud.com/siliconslopes/7-kurt-workman-owlet This week we’re talking with Owlet co-founder and CEO Kurt Workman about saving lives of newborns and infants. His company has made a sock that will monitor

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Podcast

Welcome To The Silicon Slopes Podcast

https://soundcloud.com/siliconslopes/0-silicon-slopes-introduction Welcome to the Silicon Slopes podcast. Each week we are going to talk with the people building Utah’s technology ecosystem — from designers to engineers to entrepreneurs and

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Features

How MityLite Built A Business From Tables And Chairs

When people think of Mitylite, they don’t think of us as a product so much as a vendor. When you transcend the product, that’s where real value is created. MityLite has

  • Meg Walter
    Meg Walter
2 min read
Features

Getting Operational Results

When you bring people together and align processes, a lot can happen. When you run a company that sells products, there is quite a bit of planning that goes into determining how much

  • Meg Walter
    Meg Walter
2 min read
News

Grow: The Everyman’s Business Intelligence Dashboard

Provo-based startup Grow is bringing company scores to TV screens around the office. “What’s the score? Hey, man, do you know the score? SOMEBODY TELL ME THE SCORE!” It seems to be

  • Meg Walter
    Meg Walter
3 min read
News

Simplus Raises $4.2M in Seed Round Led By EPIC Ventures

As someone who’s already built a company and had a nice exit, Ryan Westwood and the direction he takes Simplus will be something to keep an eye on. Simplus, a Utah-based SaaS

  • Clint Betts
3 min read
News

Beehive Startups Announces StartFEST — Utah’s Largest Grassroots Startup Festival

We hope you’ll join us for four days of education, adventure, entertainment, collaboration, and fun. Building upon the overwhelming success of StartSLC, Beehive Startups is proud to present StartFEST. Set to take

  • Clint Betts
3 min read
News

Marketware Raises $1.4 Million From EPIC Ventures and Peak Ventures

The Marketware platform provides real value in the form of higher revenue and lower costs to healthcare providers. Marketware, a Utah-based startup specializing in relationship and business intelligence solutions for healthcare providers, has

  • Clint Betts
1 min read
News

Zenefits Officially Responds to Utah Insurance Department

The Utah Insurance Department’s ruling is unsupported by the facts and Utah law. Zenefits, the San Francisco-based online HR platform company, has officially responded to the Utah Insurance Department’s recent letter

  • Clint Betts
3 min read
News

Utah Lt. Gov.

It’s important to note that this was just a very initial step in the investigation and decisions process. Following our initial story on Wednesday, we reached out to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’

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News

Utah’s Attempt to Shutdown Zenefits Highlights a Very Troubling Trend

The Utah Insurance Department’s decision could potentially have devastating implications on Utah’s future as a technology hub. One day, when we’re all sitting in rocking chairs on our front porch

  • Clint Betts
6 min read
News

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert Issues Statement on Zenefits Controversy

In Utah, we take very seriously our goal to lead the nation as the best performing economy and our reputation as the most business-friendly state. Following a story published on Beehive Startups this

  • Clint Betts
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News

Zenefits Responds to Gov. Herbert’s Statement

We welcome Governor Herbert’s support of innovation and eliminating unnecessary regulations, but the fact remains that Zenefits is legal under existing Utah law. Zenefits, the cloud-based HR platform currently under fire from

  • Clint Betts
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News

Room Choice Raises $600,000 Seed Round Led by Kickstart Seed Fund

We are expecting big things from Room Choice. Utah-based property management startup Room Choice has raised $600,000 in a seed round led by Kickstart Seed Fund. “We went with Kickstart Seed Fund

  • Clint Betts
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Features

Peak Ventures Hopes to Change Venture Funding in Utah

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

  • Clint Betts
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News

Qzzr Raises $2 Million in Funding Round Led by Kickstart Seed Fund

It’s been an awesome ride so far. Qzzr, 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

  • Clint Betts
3 min read
News

Peak Ventures Closes $23 Million Fund to Invest in Utah Startups

There is a real need for new capital sources to fund the brightest entrepreneurs in Utah. Peak Ventures, a Provo-based early stage investment firm and wholly owned subsidiary of Peak Capital Partners, today

  • Clint Betts
2 min read
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