July proved to be another big month for Arizona tech, with local companies raising millions, out-of-towners relocating to the Valley, and plenty of events and cohorts popping up to support startups. This month, we put a spotlight on diversity and talked to leaders from around Phoenix to give founders tips on how to diversify your … Read more
Thurmon Lockhart, a biomechanics professor at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU, hopes to predict and prevent dangerous falls, especially in older populations or those recovering from orthopedic surgeries. Lockhart was recently named the first Musculoskeletal Orthopedic Research and Education, or MORE, Foundation Professor of Life in Motion, which will help him … 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
A few weeks ago, Greg Head, the founder of Scaling Point and creator of Gregslist, was kind enough to appear on the AZ Tech Podcast. He shared so many good nuggets that Hamid said we’d need to charge for the episode. Of course, we didn’t do that, but Greg dropped all the advice founders need … Read more
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
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
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
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
There’s one thing that Greg Head is confident about: he knows. The people, the startups, the places, the tips to succeed. He’s one of the biggest champions of Arizona’s tech scene. Even though he’s now based out of Dallas, he runs Gregslist in Phoenix, one of the best resources for entrepreneurs, investors and founders in … Read more
Chris Cardinal has a lot to say, and he proved as much on our latest podcast episode. The co-founder of Synapse Studios and CarbonQA doesn’t ever want his employees sleeping on the floor of the office just to make deadlines and he doesn’t necessarily agree with how the leaders of some of the world’s biggest … Read more