You go guuurl! Was the common comment I had for the latest batch of ventures entering Seed Spot Fall 2015 class. Out of eleven ventures entering the program, eight of them are women-owned. At the monOrchid, Phoenix Councilman Daniel Valenzuela and co-founder Seed Spot Courtney Klein welcomed their startups to a crowd of Seed Spot alumni, … Read more
Contributions from Chloe Nordquist Gilbert-based telehealth software startup eVisit announced the raise of $1 million in seed funding this week led by Alan Ram, Founder of Alan Ram’s Proactive Training Solutions, Chris Reap, Investor at Northstar Capital, LLC, and Sam Blackham, an SaaS Advisor and Investor. The eVisit software platform was built with two goals in … Read more
Last week, Arizona state legislators passed SB 1124, which includes an extension of the Small Business Capital Investment Incentive. The incentive, more commonly known as the angel investor tax credit, encourages investment in early-stage companies and tech startups in Arizona. The tax credit has made a $1.38 billion economic impact over the last six years. … Read more
Social Leverage, a Scottsdale-based venture capital firm, raised $99 million for its fourth venture fund. The VC group, made up of managing partners Howard Lindzon, Gary Benitt and Tom Peterson, are looking to invest in early-stage SaaS, fintech and consumer startups. Peterson told the Phoenix Business Journal that the partners look for companies on the … Read more
Protecting our kids has never been harder, and the internet is one of the main reasons for that. It’s also something we can’t live without. The internet has become a hunting ground for predators, who lurk on social media sites hoping to take advantage of unsuspecting tweens and teens. Gilbert-based startup Cyber Dive has built … Read more
Founded by a veteran public relations professional, IRIS, a cloud-based public relations management SaaS platform, helps streamline an agency’s administrative tasks and get pros back to doing what they love-creating buzz for their clients. Today the company announced a $1 million equity seed-preferred round, bringing their total funding to $1.25 million. CEO and founder Aly … Read more
SkySong is set to launch a multi-disciplinary network of researchers, technologists and entrepreneurs focused on growing the Valley of Innovation at the SkySong Connect Conference, which will be held at ASU SkySong – the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center. The inaugural event is sponsored by PayPal and is taking place on Thursday, April 17 from 9:30 a.m. … Read more
Our audience is still pumped up from the last FLF talk with Brian Mohr, COO and co-founder of Y Scouts, who inspired and energized the audience with his talk “Building Purposeful Companies.” Mohr motivated the audience to find their “Y” and purpose in the workplace, and shared how to incorporate a purpose-driven recruiting process into … Read more
AZ Tech Beat, Arizona’s premier online news source for the high-tech industry, has been named one of the “50 Must-Read State and Local Government IT Blogs” by StateTech Magazine! Nominations were provided by StateTech readers from around the country and finalists were chosen by StateTech editors. This year’s list included media mainstays and hyperlocal blogs, … Read more
When founder Kelsey Falter of Poptip, a website that can deliver survey results in real time, realized that her star developer Roly Fentanes from Arizona was an undocumented immigrant, she set off on a tireless year-long journey through the web of U.S. Immigrations policy to get him legally on her team. Falter was convinced that … Read more