We’ve reached the end of Season 1 of the AZ Tech Podcast! In the bonus episode, Hamid talks to AZ Tech Podcast producer Adrienne about their favorite parts of Season 1 and what can be expected this summer before the podcast returns with Season 2 later this year. Watch now or listen on Apple Podcasts … Read more
ARIZONA@WORK and the Arizona Department of Economic Security are the first in Arizona to join a new national tech apprenticeship initiative, led by CompTIA and Maher & Maher. The partnership launched to expand and diversify the tech workforce in Arizona, and across the U.S. ARIZONA@WORK is working to build a skilled and qualified labor force … Read more
One day, Chris Ronzio was running a highly-profitable consulting business. The next, he launched Trainual, one of the fastest growing companies in Arizona that streamlines businesses’ training processes. Watching his mom start her own esthetician business and his dad work and travel often for his corporate job influenced Chris on his path to business. Living … Read more
Tech Launch Arizona (TLA) awarded funding to five start-up teams to develop software or mobile apps that will have a real societal impact. TLA collaborated with the University of Arizona Research, Innovation and Impact and Arizona FORGE to host the Impact Software/App Challenge. Doug Hockstad, the assistant vice president of TLA, said the competition was … Read more
Carvana, the Tempe-based e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars, debuted on the Fortune 500 this week, at No. 483. The fast-growing tech company is one of the youngest companies to make the Fortune 500 this year. The company known for its car vending machines was founded in 2012 as a solution for a … Read more
The University of Arizona has received a very generous gift from a graduate: $2 million to advance UArizona’s space exploration. The university said $1.5 million will be used to purchase a nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometer, an instrument that those at the UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory will use to study samples from the solar … Read more
Tuft & Needle co-founder JT Marino could be the poster child of how to bootstrap your way to success. When he was first exploring ideas for the type of startup he wanted to build, he and his friend and co-founder Daehee Park made a very specific set of constraints that included never raising capital. The … Read more
Arizona-based SoulSpark, a virtual clinic that provides mental health services to young survivors of trauma, partnered with Biometrica Systems, a technology company based in Arizona and Nevada that tracks crime and criminals, to protect at-risk youth victims of tragic events. Biometrica created eMotive, a 24/7 criminal background checking software. SoulSpark was the first healthcare organization … Read more
Dr. Grant McFadden is trying to find out if a virus fatal only to rabbits might also destroy cancer cells. He became interested in the myxoma virus in grad school. The virus was first released in Australia in the 1950s to try to control a massive rabbit population . Since then, Grant has turned his … Read more
CNBC announced the ninth annual Disruptor 50 list, made up of 50 private companies with “business models and growth rates aligned with a rapid pace of technological change” that we’re seeing across the country as we head out of the Covid-19 pandemic. Gilbert-based Footprint made its debut on the Disruptor 50, coming in at 45. … Read more