Utah Business fosters connection, insight and recognition for Utah’s thriving professional community. We're all-in on Utah, and can’t wait to tell your stories.
🔗: https://t.co/U0Ov3Zywxh
Millions of people visit the national parks surrounding Kanab each year. Now, Kanab is making a case for being a destination on its own. 🏜️
The rural Utah town is riding a wave of tourism rooted in experiences, from boarding down sand dunes to a winter hot air balloon festival. But with a population of 5,300, local leaders are navigating a careful balancing act: grow without losing the magic that made people want to stay in the first place.
Read more at the link above.
🔗: https://t.co/juA5KedGbM
Think your company is a great place to work? Let your employees prove it.
Utah Business’s Best Companies to Work For award is determined by the people who know your workplace best: your employees. Through a confidential survey, participating companies receive real data about employee experience, offering valuable insight into what’s working and where there’s room to grow.
Earn recognition, strengthen your culture and discover how your employees are really doing. Apply today at the link above.
Utah’s latest wave of venture activity tells a larger story than the dollar amounts alone.
But those dollar amounts are impressive. Utah’s technology sector has continued its strong momentum this summer with nearly $205 million in new venture funding announced over the past two months and a notable acquisition.
Companies are raising significant growth capital, attracting some of the country’s most respected investors and reaching the scale where acquisitions and billion-dollar valuations become part of the conversation.
Find out more about Redo, @DatabentoHQ, @WeAreEpitel and @Domotalk's venture activity in the thread below.
Founded in a desert town of 12,000, @Tuacahn now draws 350,000 guests a year and rivals the biggest regional theaters in America.
So how did Tuacahn Amphitheatre go from broke to Broadway?
We explore four lessons from Tuacahn's success that creative organizations can learn from in the thread below.
🔗: https://t.co/NETFNmC4jH
A family-owned mountain spring in Bear Lake Valley is taking on the billion-dollar bottled water industry. 💧🏔️
Little Spring Water has transformed a natural spring that sustained generations of one family into a growing wholesale bottling operation serving customers across Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.
Their first major customer? Kroger.
With a Safe Quality Food score of 97%, infrastructure built to protect the spring that started it all, and year-round jobs in a region known for seasonal work, this is a story about building something sustainable from something pure.
Discover how they're doing it at https://t.co/QR2MwnBpNk.
91% of venture dollars are flowing into the top 30 mega-funds. So where does that leave everyone else?
We hosted a roundtable with Utah's top VCs to unpack the growing divide between hyperscale AI bets and the rest of the market. The consensus? Local investors are betting on scrappier founders, smarter niches and a conviction that Utah's entrepreneurs can out-navigate their capital-rich coastal counterparts.
Thank you to Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar for hosting this roundtable gathering.
We're thrilled to share some of the bold voices taking the stage at Utah Business Forward, Utah's premier one-day leadership and strategy conference returning November 10 at the @MarriottSLCUT.
These are the founders, executives, and leaders shaping what's next in Utah's business landscape. They're bringing the insights, strategies, and hard-won lessons you need to move your career and business forward.
Swipe to see who's speaking → 📷
Get Early Bird ticket prices and perks before it's too late. Lock in your spot before August 31:
📷 20% off tickets through August 31
📷️ Breakfast With an Expert included (limited seating)
📷 Access bigger discounts with group pricing
📷 See the full lineup and grab your tickets at https://t.co/5sMOCS5Liv
Before Real Salt Lake, the Mammoth and the 2034 Olympics, there was Cedar City. 🏅🔥
For 40 years, the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games (@UtahSummerGame1) have drawn thousands of athletes to southern Utah, fueling a $17 million annual economic impact and building the sports culture the state is now known for.
With 11,000 athletes this year and a new partnership with the Las Vegas Raiders, the Games are just getting started.
Discover how it all began in the thread below.