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Startups at ASU’s Skysong surpass more than $1B in external funding

Adrienne St. Clair — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:24 +0000

Arizona State University has announced that the startups in the Skysong Innovations portfolio have raised more than $1 billion in external funding. This is a major accomplishment for Skysong Innovations, which is the entity that gets ASU research out into the world. “A billion dollars of investments is an incredible milestone that signals enormous accomplishment, ... Read more

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LawLytics bought by massive global legal technology group led by Australian millionaire

Adrienne St. Clair — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:00:00 +0000

LawLytics, a legal technology management software company based in Tucson, has been acquired by the Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, a global legal practice management and legal search technology company. The goal is that LawLytics will expand the offerings of Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, as well as help the group become more firmly established in the United States. LawLytics provides ... Read more

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Pagely acquired by Arizona unicorn GoDaddy

Adrienne St. Clair — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:22:24 +0000

Pagely, a WordPress hosting and support service for enterprise, public sector and media companies, has been acquired by GoDaddy, an all-in-one website building platform and one of Arizona’s most successful tech startups. The companies haven’t disclosed the terms of the deal, but both companies are excited about the acquisition. “Pagely possesses the platform, expertise and ... Read more

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Rizing Tide announces first group of Crest Scholarship recipients

Adrienne St. Clair — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:55:49 +0000

Rizing Tide, a foundation started by WebPT co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer Heidi Jannenga, has announced its first cohort of scholarship recipients who will be awarded designed to help students from underrepresented communities become physical therapists. The foundation selected three BIPOC graduate students to receive scholarships of up to $14,000 to help fund their continuing ... Read more

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Keap’s IKON is back: Co-founders Clate Mask and Scott Martineau really want to help you grow your small business

Adrienne St. Clair — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:50:48 +0000

keap, a sales and automation platform designed to help grow your small business, resumed its annual IKON conference with a motivational — and vulnerable — opening keynote from co-founders Clate Mask and Scott Martineau. The keynote was delivered to a crowd of about 200 people, which is significantly less than attendance numbers in the past. ... Read more

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Construction technology company Mosaic announces $44M Series B round

Adrienne St. Clair — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:08:58 +0000

Mosaic Building Group, a construction technology startup based in Phoenix, has announced a $44 million Series B funding round. This round brings the company’s total funding to $68.75 to date. The round was led by Peak State Ventures, Andreeson Horowitz, Starwood Capital, Founders Fund, Innovation Endeavors and Building Ventures, among others. Mosaic will use the ... Read more

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SIGN UP NOW: AZ Tech Podcast live podcast recording on Nov. 11

Adrienne St. Clair — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:11:14 +0000

Do you love the AZ Tech Podcast? Have you missed interacting with our tech community in person? AZ Tech Beat is proud to announce the first live podcast recording of AZ Tech Podcast. Host Hamid Shojaee will be chatting with some of our favorite friends of the podcast: Bob LaLoggia, Founder of AppointmentPlus, Mike Roberts, ... Read more

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New fintech company built on Buy Now, Pay Later launches, announces $3M seed round

Adrienne St. Clair — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0000

equipifi, a fintech company that helps banks and credit unions incorporate a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) option, launches today with $3 million in seed funding. The Scottsdale-based startup is designed to help banks and credit unions offer users the chance to buy now, pay later. The cloud-based platform is “built to be launched effortlessly” ... Read more

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Rehab therapy platform WebPT announces new CEO

Adrienne St. Clair — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:42:11 +0000

WebPT, a rehab therapy software platform based in Phoenix, has announced the appointment of Ashley Glover as the company’s new CEO. For the past five years, WebPT has been led by Nancy Ham, who is retiring and will now head the company’s board. “We are extremely excited to welcome Ashley to the WebPT team,” Ham ... Read more

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Multi-Cloud computing service provider announces Phoenix data center

Adrienne St. Clair — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Expedient, a cloud computing and data center infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider, has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Phoenix. The data center will allow Expedient to meet increased demand for the company’s services in the Western United States. The Pittsburgh-based company focuses on helping companies transform their IT operations ... Read more

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Reproductive telehealth company launches in Arizona

Adrienne St. Clair — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Twentyeight Health, a women’s telehealth company from New York, will launch today in Arizona, which means the platform can officially serve Arizona residents. The Brooklyn-based company aims to increase access to birth control for women in underserved communities. Twentyeight Health co-founder Amy Fan told AZ Tech Beat that there are at least 450,000 “contraceptive deserts,” ... Read more

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ASU joins Sierra Space, Blue Origin, Boeing and others to build commercial space station

Adrienne St. Clair — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:05:43 +0000

Arizona State University is joining the charge to commercialize space. The school is now one of the organizations working toward building a commercial space station. The private station is called Orbital Reef and will be a “mixed-use business park” for national governments, private industry and space tourists to lease and use. The effort is led ... Read more

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Early stage EdTech startup raises $1.9 million in seed money

Adrienne St. Clair — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:49:51 +0000

ActiveClass, an early stage education technology company designed to help increase student engagement, has raised $1.9 million in seed money. The Scottsdale-based startup will use the money to hire more employees to support growth, improve customer service and speed up product development. “We are beyond excited for what this means not just for us at ... Read more

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AZ Tech Podcast: News RECAP – Week ending Oct. 22

Adrienne St. Clair — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 23:04:22 +0000

This week, AirGarage, a startup founded in Tempe that’s designed to improve the public parking experience, announced a $12.5 million raise led by Andreesen Horowitz. MediaKits, a startup that provides “digital resumes” for influencers, raised $1 million. We also talk about the massive amount of investment capital in Arizona. We also discuss the metaverse, the ... Read more

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Digital Air Strike named leader in six different consumer technology categories

Adrienne St. Clair — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Digital Air Strike, a Scottsdale-based startup designed to help car dealers improve marketing and customer engagement, has received awards in six different consumer technology categories as part of the 17th annual Dealers’ Choice Awards program from Bobit Media. This is a record number of awards for Digital Air Strike (DAS), and the company was one ... Read more

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GitKraken acquires Git extension, the company’s second acquisition in a month

Adrienne St. Clair — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 19:58:55 +0000

GitKraken (formerly Axosoft), a Scottsdale-based Git productivity and collaboration company, has acquired GitLens, a Git extension for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code). The acquisition is GitKraken’s second in less than a month, as it acquired Git integration for Jira in September. GitLens was created by Eric Amodio in 2016. It’s a free, open source ... Read more

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And the winners of Venture Madness 2021 are…

Adrienne St. Clair — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:26:28 +0000

Venture Madness, an annual conference put on by Invest Southwest, happened this week and we’ve got the winners of the Venture Madness competition. Venture Madness brings together investors and some of Arizona’s stand out startups for two days of networking and pitching. Earlier this year, Invest Southwest announced 25 finalists — five companies in five ... Read more

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September roundup: The weather might be cooling down, Arizona tech is not

Adrienne St. Clair — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:40:35 +0000

It’s fun to see all the exciting wins for many Arizona tech companies. We continue to see more investments, more national attention and more semiconductor and EV activity. Here’s just some of what happened last month: Botco.ai launches AI chat and live agent support solution BotcoLive with major urgent care franchise Botco.ai, a HIPAA-compliant chatbot ... Read more

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Genetic sequencing startup raises $20M in growth equity capital

Adrienne St. Clair — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:40:27 +0000

Genetic sequencing startup Tesis Labs has announced a $20 million of growth equity financing, marking the company’s first external raise since it was founded in early 2020. This financing put the company at a post-money valuation of $520 million. The round began and ended in September of this year and it was led by Xcellerant ... Read more

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AI chatbot startup Botco.ai raises $3.6M in seed funding round led by LA-based VamosVentures

Adrienne St. Clair — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:40:38 +0000

Botco.ai, a Scottsdale-based artificial intelligence chatbot platform designed to support enterprise healthcare organizations, closed a $3.6 million seed round led by VamosVentures, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. This win is another in a string of achievements this year for botco.ai. Botco.ai will use the funds to speed up the company’s product development ... Read more

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