Salt Lake City, aka Silicon Slopes, is a tech and startup region on the rise, challenging the dominance of the major coastal cities for attracting talent. It’s also home to these 10 businesses which recently closed funding rounds that grew their companies by 25 million dollars or more – which means they’re potentially going places, and soon. The money will most likely be used by these companies to accelerate growth, kick off new sales and marketing efforts, and hire new employees.
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Total Funding: $226.4M
Recursion Pharmaceuticals combines experimental biology, automation, and artificial intelligence to quickly and efficiently identify treatments for any disease which can be modeled at the cellular level. The company is aggressively leveraging technology to build a robust and reliable map of human cellular biology, which will enable a radical shift in the pace and scale at which new treatments will benefit patients. It raised $121M during its most recent funding round.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals employees rated their company culture an A+.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: FinTech
Total Funding: $175M
MX enables fintechs and all financial institutions to aggregate, enhance, analyze, present and act on financial data. MX enables banks and credit unions to achieve record-breaking growth by winning their competitor’s most profitable account holders. The company recently raised $100M.
MX Technologies is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Total Funding: $167.2M
Venafi is a cybersecurity company automating security for all keys and certificates. The company finds all keys and certificates and puts them under surveillance to detect anomalies, and learns and adapts as it works. During its latest round of funding, the company raised $100M.
Venafi is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Financial Services
Total Funding: $252.5M
Divvy is a secure financial platform for businesses to manage payments and subscriptions, build strategic budgets, and eliminate expense reports. By integrating real-time tracking for every business transaction, Divvy provides organizations with instant insight into their spend. Divvy raised $200M during its most recent funding round.
“They are smart, they care about each other’s opinions and input and they are able to pivot quickly when they need to in order to make sure things get done quickly and efficiently.”
– Divvy Employee Review
Divvy employees rated their company culture an A+.
Divvy is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Software
Total Funding: $114.1M
Lucid Software is focused on building graphical web applications that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the browser. The company’s goal is to create cutting-edge web applications that transcend the experience of working on a desktop program. The company raised $72M during its most recent funding round.
“All of it is really great. Amazing health benefits, great office, incredible unique benefits like fertility, sabbatical, etc.”
– Lucid Employee Review
Lucid is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Communications
Total Funding: $75.1M
Weave is a customer communication platform. It automatically texts a caller a customized message from a customer’s office number – so they recognize it – allowing follow ups with them when the team is back in the office. The company raised $37.5M during its most recent funding round.
Weave is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Healthcare, Analytics
Total Funding: $83.8M
Artemis Health operates as a health data analytics company. It operates a platform that provides self-insured employers with actionable data on their benefits programs, opportunities and gaps, and tools to help them make decisions. The company raised $25M during its most recent funding round.
Artemis Health is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Software
Total Funding: $41.5M
RainFocus is a next generation event software company completely built in the cloud. The platform captures an unprecedented amount of data and makes it actionable, seamlessly integrating with your marketing software stack to help you drive the highest ROI from each of your events. The company raised $40M during its most recent round of funding.
RainFocus is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Robotics
Total Funding: $56.1M
Sarcos is a global leader in the development and production of dexterous robotic systems for use in unstructured environments. Leveraging more than 25 years of research and development, Sarcos is producing human-controlled robots to improve health, safety, and quality of life by keeping humans out of harm’s way. Sarcos raised $30M during its most recent funding round.