Startups to Watch
Utah's high-tech industry is in growth mode and will likely continue on this path. Supported by its business-minded government, universities that promote entrpreneurship and a large array of business associations, Utah is quickly gaining traction as a state worth investing in.
We have highlighted some of the up-and-coming companies in Utah below. They are at various stages along the growth cycle, but they all share one thing in common—great potential.
Check back weekly for new additions to this growing list of great startups.
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Startups
| SpectrumDNA |
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Founder(s): Jim Banister, Robin Rankin |
Founded: 2006 |
Industry: Digital Media |
City: Park City |
You’ve heard of a movie studio, a tv, a music studio. SpectrumDNA Inc. is an enginet studio. Enginets are software applications for web and wireless that, among other things, engage users by activating them as not just consumers, but also as producers, distributors, marketers, vendors, exhibitors, etc. |
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| GuestSpan |
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Added 06/14/2008 |
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Founder(s): Christopher Dalley, Chad Sly |
Founded: 2006 |
Industry: Software, Hardware |
City: Riverton |
GuestSpan brings in-room concierge service to business traveler class hotels, providing guests with self-service, information on the local community and many additional services lacking from the hotel environment. For hotels, GuestSpan provides additional revenue, operational efficiencies and a powerful differentiator through the system. |
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| COMPLETExRM |
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Founder(s): Michael Morgan, Keith Norris |
Founded: 2006 |
Industry:Web-Based Software |
City: Salt Lake City |
COMPLETExRM is the leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 CRM solutions for SMB built on its xRM™ Foundation. Utilizing a Java-based Service-Oriented Application, the xRM Foundation enables companies to customize their dynamic transactions to adjust to the new business needs of dynamic relationships. Using its xRM Foundation, COMPLETExRM creates private-label or OEM customer relationship management (CRM) offerings. |
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| Footnote.com |
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Added 04/17/2008 |
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Founder(s): Russ Wilding |
Founded: 2007 |
Industry: Web-Based Software |
City:Lindon |
Footnote.com is a subscription website that features millions of searchable historical documents, providing users with an unaltered view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. At Footnote.com, all are invited to come share, discuss, and collaborate on their discoveries with friends, family, and colleagues. |
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| Alianza |
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Added 04/14/2008 |
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Founder(s): Brian Beutler (CEO) and Scott Bell (CTO) |
Founded: 2004 |
Industry:Telecom |
City:Lindon |
Alianza has quickly expanded from its initial VoIP services and now provides the first hosted, fully-integrated IP-based platform for delivering Unified Communications Applications via SaaS for Broadband Service Providers. Value-added applications include VoIP, hosted PBX, IVR, integrated messaging, conferencing, and much more. Alianza’s proprietary PowerPlatform enables Broadband Service Providers to launch private-labeled solutions in less than 30 days, with no capital expenditures. |
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| Matchbin |
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Added 04/08/2008 |
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Founder(s): Miles Romney, Brent Christensen |
Founded: 2002 |
Industry:Internet - E-commerce |
City:Bountiful |
Matchbin is a Web 2.0 business creating local, content driven community websites in a revenue sharing partnership with local media outlets. Matchbin applies state of the art content management and display technologies, aggregates visitors from the sites, and provides local and national advertising specifically targeted to these site visitors. The media partners supply an existing loyal user base and ready access to local advertisers. |
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| ACCEPTx |
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Added 04/04/2008 |
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Founder(s): Dr. Jed Feller |
Founded: 2005 |
Industry: Software - Financial |
City:Bountiful |
| Acceptx Financial Solutions, Inc. delivers software to automate and improve the patient point of purchase for orthodontists and others practicing elective medicine.What started as a complex Excel Spreadsheet has grown to become a robust web application. |
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| Zonder.com |
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Added 04/02/2008 |
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Founder(s): Bob Barnes |
Founded: 2005 |
Industry: Internet - Travel |
City:Salt Lake City |
| Zonder was the first vacation home rental company to offer accurate, real-time availability and instant online bookings. Only Zonder gives consumers and partners the necessary tools to efficiently search through tens of thousands of vacation home rentals and narrow their results using a variety of criteria. In addition, Zonder offers partners a powerful, flexible technology platform that makes it simple to add vacation rentals to their product offerings. Founded by search industry veterans, it is the technology behind Zonder that enables its powerful search, filtering and real-time booking capabilities. |
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| 3DVO |
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Added 04/02/2008 |
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Founder(s): Troy Sheen |
Founded: 2006 |
Industry: Internet - Marketing |
City: Salt Lake City |
| 3DVO is an industry pioneer in three-dimensional (3D) modeling technology. The current offering provides small and larger e-retailers with 3D models for their products that can be animated rotated and viewed from all angles. 3DVO was founded to address the rapid increase in demand for compelling 3D digital content. |
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| Zinch.com |
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Added 03/10/2008 |
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Founder(s): Mick Hagen |
Founded: 2006 |
Industry: Internet - User Content |
City: Provo |
| Almost all colleges find and recruit students through standardized test scores. Zinch allows students to be seen for what they are -- not just numbers but people. Colleges are able to communicate and recruit students through a web portal that houses hundreds of thousands of data rich student profiles. |
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