| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.06.2018 | Social Selling and E-Commerce: Our Investment in DirectScale | Direct selling has been a significant part of the American economy for over one hundred years. From the early days of traveling salesmen pitching cure-all elixirs and bibles, the industry evolved as brands like Stanley Home Products, Tupper... |
| 21.01.2018 | Venture Capital Firm Kickstart Seed Fund Closed Fourth Fund, at $74M | Salt Lake City, Utah-based venture capital firm Kickstart Seed Fund closed its Fund IV, at $74M.
Several institutional investors, as well as notable Utah entrepreneurs, Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight, Jeremy Andrus of Traeger Grills, Ryan Sm... |
| 17.01.2018 | Kickstart Seed Fund raises $74M for largest ever seed fund in Utah | The Salt Lake City-based firm invests in companies that provide tools to small businesses
Outside of Silicon Valley, there are few areas that have also become synonymous with tech investing: New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle, among ... |
| 17.01.2018 | Utah’s Kickstart raises $74 million seed fund for Mountain West startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Kickstart Seed Fund, based in Salt Lake City, Uta... |
| 17.01.2018 | Utah’s Kickstart raises $74 million seed fund for Mountain West startups | Kickstart Seed Fund, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, announced today that it has raised a fresh $74 million fund.
By Silicon Valley standards, a $74 million seed fund is not a powerhouse. Sequoia Capital, for example, is reportedly raising a... |
| 09.12.2015 | Savonix raises seed funding to get a snapshot of your brain with cognitive assessment app | The seed round marks the first health tech investment by BMNT Capital, which works with federal agencies such as the Department of Defense and set up shop in the Silicon Valley earlier this year. Peter Newell, a partner with BMNT Capital, s... |
| 27.10.2015 | DirectScale Raises $4M in Series A Funding | DirectScale, a Lindon, Utah-based provider of a software platform purpose-built to serve the direct and social selling industry, raised $4m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Kickstart Seed Fund and strategic investor NetSuite.
The c... |
| 22.10.2015 | Movement Ventures raises $5.5M to BuzzFeedify the Web | Touting Boombox, a creative suite for polls and quizzes, Utah-based firm picks up its Series A round
More polls! More quizzes!
Movement Ventures, a collective of entrepreneurs that builds interactive content publishing and marketing tools, ... |
| 25.06.2015 | Beehive Startups Built a Startup Studio in Utah | StartStudio is not your typical three month accelerator program. In fact, it's not an accelerator at all – there is no demo day, applications are always open, and participating startups aren’t broken down into cohorts.
Rather, Beehive Start... |
| 30.01.2015 | Utah-based Kickstart Seed Fund Raises $39.2 Million | Early stage venture capital investors Kickstart Seed Fund announced today that it has raised a $39.2 million investment round from various Utah investors. This is the third round for the seed fund and one of the larger rounds in Utah ventur... |
| 24.09.2014 | Qzzr Launches Out Of Stealth With ESPN, Yahoo Partnerships And $2 Million In Seed Funding | Online quiz master Josh Little started Qzzr just five months ago out of his home in Utah. The site officially launches today with an infusion of $2 million in seed money and partnerships from ESPN, Yahoo, Mashable, Reddit, College Humor and... |
| 09.07.2014 | RackWare Raises $2.3M in Funding | RackWare, a Santa Clara, CA-based provider of software that integrates data center and cloud resources into a scalable and intelligently managed computing environment, raised $2.3m in funding.
The round was led by existing investors Kicksta... |
| 10.10.2013 | Utah-based WAVE nabs $1.4M to bring wireless electric buses to a dozen cities (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If batteries weren’t so expensive, most cities wo... |
| 22.07.2013 | Contatta Completes $3.25M Financing | Contatta, a Phoenix, Arizona-based CRM company, completed a $3.25m financing.
The investment was led by Kickstart Seed Fund II and Grayhawk Capital (Grayhawk Venture Fund II), with participation from all of current board members.
The compan... |
| 26.04.2013 | Kickstart, a Utah-Based Seed Investor, Adds $26M to Regional Pot | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s more money for entrepreneurs and startups in the Rocky Mountain West, following Kickstart Seed Fund’s announcement this week that it has raised $26 million to make see... |
| 23.04.2013 | More Money For Utah & Other Mountain-Area Startups: Kickstart Raises $26M Second Fund, Invests In RackWare, Its First Non-Utah Company | Kickstart Seed Fund (not to be confused with crowdfunding giant Kickstarter), has raised $26 million for a second fund to invest in Utah-based startups, along with others in the “Mountain West” region of the U.S. Since its launch in 2008, w... |
| 23.04.2013 | Kickstart Seed Fund Closes Second Fund at $26M | Kickstart Seed Fund, a Salt Lake City, UT-based seed fund, closed its second fund at $26m.
Fund II will focus on sourcing, syndicating and assisting seed-stage venture capital investments in Utah and surrounding states.
Kickstart Founder an... |
| 04.02.2013 | DropShip Commerce Raised $4.3M in Venture Funding | DropShip Commerce, a Salt Lake City, UT-based provider of virtual supply chain management software, raised $4.3m in venture funding.
The founders committed $2.8m. Kickstart Seed Fund led the additional $1.5m with participation by Peterson V... |
| 31.01.2013 | Power Practical Closes Seed Funding | Power Practical, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based an alternative-energy startup that provides a portable personal power generator, closes a seed funding of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Kickstart Seed Fund.
Led by Matt Ford, CEO, Pow... |
| 21.10.2011 | GroSocial Raises Seed Funding To Give Brands An Easy, Affordable Way To Build A Social Media Presence | GroSocial, a startup that makes social media marketing software, announced today that it has closed a $450,000 round of seed funding, led by the Kickstart Seed Fund, with additional contributions from Monarch Ventures, Rock & Hammer Ven... |
| 19.10.2011 | SMB social marketing startup GroSocial gets $450K | The seed round is led by Kickstart Seed Fund, with help from Monarch and Rock & Hammer
Orem, Utah-based social marketing company GroSocial announced Wednesday that it has raised $450K in a round of seed funding led by Kickstart Seed Fun... |
| 27.01.2011 | International business model competition | Helping transform entrepreneurship in Utah Utah may be known for many things, but who would have thought that Utah, and particularly Brigham Young University (BYU), would be participating in the transformation of entrepreneurship?
I spent l... |
| 20.04.2010 | Zerista raises more funding for mobile-centric social tools | Zerista chief executive Charlie Savage has called his company’s product “the first community platform designed from the ground up for the mobile web.” First or not, Zerista was chosen as one of the best startups for VentureBeat’s DEMO Sprin... |
| 20.04.2010 | Zerista raises more funding for mobile-centric social tools | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zerista chief executive Charlie Savage has called his company’s product “the first community platform designed from the ground up for t... |
| - | Savonix raises seed funding to get a snapshot of your brain with cognitive assessment app | Several health tech companies are developing health tech focused on the brain that claim to do everything from help people to relax and concentrate to assess cognitive functions.
Savonix is one such business. It’s raised $1.5 million to com... |
