I’ve talked often about Utah’s tech scene. While it doesn’t always
get the publicity it deserves, there is an incredible booming tech scene
happening here in the Salt Lake City area right now. Just last
Wednesday I attended a Launchup
event, where about 100+ entrepreneurs, investors, and bloggers all
conjoined in this monthly meeting to hear 3 other startups have their
claim to fame. Kynetx, Simler,
and iActionable were all given
advice and free help from those 100+ peers hoping for them to succeed.
With a very tight-knit environment, coworking spaces like BetaLoft and CoWork Utah, along with close proximity to the
mountains, 15 minutes from great skiing, rock climbing, hiking and other
outdoor activities, along with some of the hardest working people I’ve
ever been around, it deserves more attention. Along with all this,
BoomStartup, a new
Mentoring and Seed-Capital program that hopes to mimic TechStars
(out of Boulder, CO) announced it is taking applications for its Orem,
Utah (just outside Salt Lake City) location.
BoomStartup brings such
mentors as Josh James, former CEO and John Pestana, his co-founder of Omniture,
Inc., which just sold to Adobe. Joining them is former Novell
Luminary, Ralph Yarro, former Cisco Executive Martin Frey, and former former HP Executive Warren Osborn. Also participating are Nobu Mutaguchi, one of Utah’s most prolific angel investors and Warren Osborn, an active venture and private equity investor.
To read the full, original article click on this link: BoomStartup Brings TechStars-like Seed-Capital and Mentoring Program to Utah | Stay N' Alive
Author: Jesse Stay
