Investors in Utah

Kickstart Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Salt Lake City, UT. Kickstart’s mission is to fuel the best companies in Utah and the Mountain West by providing smart capital, a connected community, and expert guidance. Since raising its first fund in 2008, Kickstart has invested in more than 100 companies.

Fireman Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts and growth equity. The firm seeks to make investments in the consumer products and services sectors. It also seeks to invest in real estate sector in the Northeast corridor of the United States. Within consumer products and services sector the firm seeks to invest in personal care including oral, hairs, soaps, cosmetics, and toiletries; household care including fabric wash and household cleaners; packaged food and beverages; leisure; apparel; giftware including candles and stationary; clothing including jeans and outdoor; and retailer and distributor catalog businesses. The firm seeks to invest in the companies having an EBITDA between $5 million and $100 million and a target market capitalization between $50 million and $500 million. Fireman Capital Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Intermountain Healthcare is a nonprofit health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 22 hospitals, ​about 1,100 employed primary care and secondary care physicians at more than 185 clinics in the Intermountain Medical Group, a broad range of clinics and services, and health insurance plans from SelectHealth. They are the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West, with over 33,000 employees and serving the healthcare needs of Utah and southeastern Idaho residents. Their mission is excellence in the provision of healthcare services to communities in the Intermountain region.

Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow's industry-leading companies. Pelion invests in early-stage B2B software across the US. With 7 investment team members, Pelion has deep and diverse industry and investment experience. They are hands-on in their approach and work collaboratively with each portfolio company.

University Venture Fund is the venture capital arm of The University of Utah. The firm seeks to invest in early stage and later stage. The firm invests in industries spanning consumer products to software to biotechnology. The firm focus on growth equity and buyouts. The firm was founded in 2004 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Service Provider Capital is a venture capital fund that co-invests in series A deals led by institutional venture funds. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Golden, Colorado.

Wasatch Advisors is an investment management company specializing in equity funds. The company manages institutional and individual portfolios. The company was formed in 1975 by Sam Stewart and still follows his philosophy of a bottom-up research method that focuses on long-term growth and finding market inefficiencies. Wasatch Advisors maintains its headquarters at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Founded in 2000, Signal Peak Ventures is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based private equity firm, targeting early-stage investments across the United States.

Decathlon Capital Partners is a private equity firm. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Park City, Utah.

MuckerLab is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, pre-seed, seed, start up, early stage and Series A investments. It targets investing in Internet software, services, and media ventures. It also prefers to invest in Enterprise, fintech, B2B and Consumer Products. MuckerLab seeks to invest in Los Angeles and broader Southern California. It typically invests between $0.25 million and $1 million per deal. It runs an accelerator program. The duration of the program can be as short as 3 months to as long as 24 months. It invests between $21,000 to $150,000 in exchange for a 7% to 12% equity stake. Erik Rannala and William Hsu founded MuckerLab in October 2011. It has its headquarters in Santa Monica in California.