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VC (Institutional)
Kickstart is an industry agnostic, early-stage (pre-seed & seed) venture capital firm that invests in startups throughout Utah, Colorado, and the Mountain West. The firm’s mission is to build great companies by backing the most visionary entrepreneurs with capital, community, and expertise for the journey.
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VC (Institutional)
Album VC is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology ventures, shaping the future of technology and culture.
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VC (Institutional)
Peterson Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on SaaS, digital commerce, and healthcare. The firm is based in Salt Lake City, UT.
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VC (Institutional)
Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow’s industry-leading companies
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VC (Institutional)
Mercato Partners is a growth equity fund that pursues investments in high technology and consumer businesses worldwide.
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VC (Institutional)
Prelude partners with founders building technology companies that are critical to their customers operations. Prelude companies have demonstrated product-market-fit and have deep customer relations.

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VC (Institutional)
Banyan invests in and grows early-stage companies (revenue <$10M) in the Intermountain West.
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VC (Institutional)
Cross Creek seeks to invest in later stage companies through its direct and fund investment strategy.
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VC (Institutional)
EPIC Ventures is an investment company working with driven entrepreneurs to build successful and lasting companies.
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VC (Institutional)
Origin Ventures is a VC firm that invests in emerging software and technology-enabled B2B and B2C marketplace businesses.
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VC (Institutional)
Elevation Capital is an early-stage venture fund with a presence in Utah and is looking to back local tech entrepreneurs.
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VC (Institutional)
Sorenson Ventures focuses on accelerating innovations in the software and security sectors.
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VC (Institutional)
RET Ventures is an industry backed early-stage VC helping build the real estate industry’s cutting edge technology providers.
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VC (Institutional)
RenewableTech Ventures is an early-stage cleantech venture fund investing in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. and Canada.
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VC (Institutional)
Royal Street Ventures is a seed stage VC fund, investing in companies from the Midwest to the Pacific U.S.
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VC (Institutional)
Signal Peak invests in information technology companies. Specific areas of focus include Internet, SaaS, enterprise software, communications, security, and mobile computing.
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VC (Institutional)
UVF is the largest student-run venture fund and includes students from Brigham Young University, University of Utah, Westminster College and Wharton School of Business.
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VC (Institutional)
NGVP is a seed stage VC firm focused on writing $500k - $2M checks into enterprise software startups. NGVP brings a tech platform and venture partner network to assist founders as they build their companies. The firm has a GP and an active venture partner network in Salt Lake City.
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VC (Institutional)
Darling Ventures invests in capital efficient software startups and writes their first pre-seed / seed check of up to $500K. Along with investment, they specialize in helping founders stand a grade-above the rest and arrive at their Series A with sophistication and velocity. One partner (Pascal) is based in Utah.
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VC (Institutional)
Service Provider Capital is a Denver-based venture capital fund whose limited partners include the most knowledgeable, respected and best connected service providers in the industry.
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VC (Institutional)
University Growth Fund is the largest education-based private equity fund in the country, giving university students the opportunity to gain real-world experience as they invest alongside top tier investors in many of the best companies in the country.
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VC (Institutional)
Campus Founders Fund is a $1M student-run venture fund based in Salt Lake City, Utah focused on empowering students to find and fund the best entrepreneurs on campus. CFF is powered by Kickstart Fund.
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VC (Institutional)
Rose Park Advisors is an investment firm focused on identifying investment opportunities by applying the framework of disruptive innovation.
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VC (Institutional)
Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs in ‘Next Coast’ markets.
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VC (Institutional)
Contrary is a venture fund that identifies the world’s top early-career engineers, designers, and product minds, and invests in companies they start or join. Investing up to $500K and leading on most deals.
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VC (Institutional)
Savory partners with restaurateurs to expand unique brands that target unique, new and undiscovered parts of the food & beverage industry.
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VC
42 Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and actively supports the growth of software-based businesses focused on highly defined industry markets. The firm make investments of $250k to $2M.
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VC
The Mountain Pacific Venture Fund invests in early-stage biotech and life sciences companies that have established proof-of-concept and are poised for value inflection within three to five years.
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Beehive is a community-centric venture capital firm & angel syndicate dedicated to improving the Utah tech ecosystem.
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VC
Crocker Ventures is an independent, privately held life science, heathcare and high-technology investment firm that funds promising seed- and early-stage companies in five primary areas: biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, medical devices, drug delivery, diagnostics and information technology.
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Intermountain Ventures partners with early- and growth-stage companies, corporations, venture capital/private equity firms, technology organizations, and mission-based organizations who are leading the charge to improve health.
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Medici Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, created to manage and oversee the company’s investments in firms building solutions leveraging and servicing blockchain technologies.
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VC
Provider of seed capital for simple, disruptive Healthcare solutions.
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VC
This fund was formed by Western Governors University in partnership with EPIC Ventures, to develop the innovations that will redefine a post-secondary education that supports the future of work.
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VC
Pando Ventures is a firm that accelerates scalable consumer and technology companies in the Mountain Region (typically investing at the Series B)
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VC
Early-stage investment fund focused on investing in tech companies throughout the western U.S.
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VC
SkyLab Ventures is rocket fuel for in-revenue, early-mid stage companies. We work with founders who are ready to scale and recognize the necessity to build a robust and focused management team, master marketing and customer acquisition, and align with a clear growth-to-exit journey over a ~2-3 year period. We believe success can be defined in many ways and does not require $1B+ valuations and endless rounds of capital.
Jesse Silva
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Smart money means financial partners who have founded, managed and held meaningful operational roles with successful companies. In addition to smart money, Sandbox Capital provides active management and operational consulting expertise to our partners when needed.
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Ollin Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed capital and start-up investments. It seeks to invest in technology and consumer goods. It invests between $25,000 and $100,000 in its companies.
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Assure Syndicates charges no brokerage or management fees. Instead, we align our interests with both investors and founders by co-investing alongside the lead investor and participating in the carry.
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Hall Venture Partners operates a tax advantaged venture fund that allows investors to participate in a group of companies that have been developed over multiple years within Hall Labs.
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Atua conceives, launches and scales next-generation enterprise cloud companies alongside entrepreneurs and innovators
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Studio
Hall Labs brings together a team of innovators—scientists and engineers—at a modern, state-of-the-art campus located in Provo, Utah, to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems ranging from sustainability to personal transportation.
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Studio
Summit Venture Studio identifies and commercializes software solutions and potential products at institutions of higher education, and creates new startups, categories, products and features that are ready to go-to-market.
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Studio
The Future of Work Studios is building the companies that will bridge the skills gap and empower the humans of the future.
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Studio
Labs invents, builds, and invests in innovative education products and offerings that multiply the effects of WGU’s mission to have a transformative impact on higher education
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Studio
Mountain venture studio incubates startups as well as co-invests in existing companies.
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Secondary
Equity investor via secondaries.
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Secondary
Frazier Fund III is a direct secondary fund that purchases stock in venture-backed Utah companies from "secondary" sources--founders, employees, and early investors.
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Personal financing solutions for venture-backed company founders, employees and investors.
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Secondary
Alpha provides liquidity solutions for entrepreneurs, early investors, and employees involved in companies that provide disruptive solutions and services to improve resiliency, equity, access, and sustainability for all.
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Other
Persistent Ventures is a small family office making diversified investments.
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Other
Indie.vc is a venture capital firm that provides risk capital for real businesses focused on profitability.
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Other
Decathlon is the country's largest revenue-based funding investor and supports companies in a wide range of sectors.
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Other
The center assists Utah's small technology businesses to navigate and win non-equity position federal grants.
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Spacestation Investments is the investment arm of the and looks to add value with influencer marketing.
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Rock Creek Capital is a venture and equity investment firm that helps entrepreneurs and founders of companies realize their dreams.
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Other
Ideaship Fund is an early-stage patent capital fund providing in house patent department services, external patent counsel funding, and fundraising support.
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Aries Capital Partners is a Salt Lake City based private equity firm that seeks attractive buyout and growth equity investment opportunities in middle-market companies. The principals of the firm are the sole investors in the fund.
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Black Oak Capital Partners invests in companies that 1) generate $5 to $25 million in revenue and 2) are working capital constrained. Black Oak provides Senior Secured Debt, Subordinated Debt, Unitraunche and very selectively may invest in Preferred Equity. Black Oak invests in companies that are in the Rocky Mountains and West Coast.
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Other
BUILD is a stage-agnostic capital company that works with its portfolio companies by infusing capital and providing high-value strategic relationships.
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Other
Clarke Capital is a Family Office that invest in levered buyouts, intellectual property portfolios, university-licensed/acquired technologies, and fast growing founder-run businesses with real profits.

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Other
Frazier group invests in Utah Series A and Bridge to Series A private companies with a focus on software, technology, and healthcare.
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Other
JNivin assists companies with their move to the next level.
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Other
KEB Enterprises is a private investment firm focused on partnering with or acquiring existing businesses or assets.
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Levinthal Capital is an independent venture capital firm managed by Michael Levinthal.
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REES Capital provides angel capital investments and consulting services including leadership training; product and market assessment; marketing, sales and public relations strategy; financial modeling; organizational structuring; strategic planning; acquisition and exit strategy; and other key areas.
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A family office focused on providing capital and operational expertise to support and build meaningful & profitable businesses and real estate development.

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Other
Tamarak is a venture-focused, multi-family office headquartered in Springville, Utah. The firm is invested in numerous industries, including B2B software, consumer software, home technology, industrial, fintech, automotive, and real estate.
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Ten Eighty Capital incubates high-growth concepts and invests in growth oriented private operating companies.
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GSD Capital provides funding to early-stage Mountain West companies. The firm focuses on both SaaS lending and traditional equity investments. They are generalist investors with a deep understanding in B2C and B2B SaaS.
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HyperActive Capital invests in fellow founders at the seed stage.
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Debt
This fund provides business training and funding to entrepreneurs in start-up & existing businesses that do not qualify for traditional funding sources.
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Wasatch Guaranty Capital provides real estate developers, entrepreneurs, and promising companies the money they need to grow through capital investments or debt / credit guaranties.
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Debt
Lendio is a free online service that helps business owners find the right small business loans through their marketplace of lenders.
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Debt
Nav offers a business loan marketplace that matches businesses to lending options based on their approval odds.
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Debt
SVB provides a full range of financial services and expertise to companies of all sizes
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Debt
This fund allows for businesses within Provo City boundaries to apply for a minimum of $50,000 and up to $175,000 of a low-interest rate loan.
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Debt
The Salt Lake City Economic Development Loan Fund offers loans to businesses located within Salt Lake City’s boundary.
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Bridge provides innovative financial services to emerging growth technology companies in all stages of their life cycle throughout the Rocky Mountain Region.
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Angel Group
Group of 40+ accredited investors located in Park City, Utah.
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Angel Group
Group of Salt Lake City-based, accredited investors interested in early-stage, high-growth companies.
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Angel Group
UA2’s membership is composed of former or current high tech executives and former entrepreneurs that are looking to invest time and money to develop cutting edge businesses.
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