Utah Tech Week
Utah Start-up All-Stars Pitch Night
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Feb3
Tuesday, February 3
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM America/Denver
Pelion Venture PartnersPelion Venture Partners, Future Way, Draper, UT, USA
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Pelion Venture PartnersPelion Venture Partners, Future Way, Draper, UT, USA
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Point of Mountain
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Startups
Product Leaders
AgTech
AI/ML
BioTech
Deeptech
FinTech
HardTech
Enterprise SaaS
E-Commerce
Afternoon
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Utah Tech Week is a smorgasbord of experiences and events hosted by startups, VC firms, community organizations — anyone who supports the startup community.
The “why” behind Utah Tech Week is to cultivate “happy collisions” in the Utah tech community; the kind that lead to friendships, partnerships, and deals.There’s no cost to attend or sponsor, the only requirement is a desire to help build Utah’s tech scene.
Christina Qi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Databento. Databento launched 1.5 years ago, has $40M in funding, and is the data API backbone of over 8,000 companies today. She formerly founded Domeyard LP, a hedge fund focused on HFT that traded up to $7.1 billion USD per day. Failing to earn a job offer after a Wall Street internship, Christina started Domeyard from her dorm room with $1000 in savings, in 2012. Her fund was a tiny minnow amongst the tigers of the hedge fund world, but after Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys came out in 2014 and HFT firms hid from the spotlight, Domeyard accidentally found itself in the center of the ring. Over the next decade, her company’s story was featured on the front page of Forbes and Nikkei, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, NBC, and the Financial Times as a result of the controversy and fascination with HFT. By a series of accidents, Christina became a voice in her industry, contributing to the World Economic Forum’s research on AI in finance and teaching Domeyard’s case study at Harvard Business School. She is grateful to be able to open up about her mistakes, and to help people turn failures into opportunities.
Christina is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee, a standing committee of the MIT Corporation (the board of trustees). She was Co-Chair of the Board of Invest in Girls, bringing financial literacy education to underserved populations across the US. Christina also sits on the Board of Directors of The Financial Executives Alliance (FEA) Hedge Fund Group, drove entrepreneurship efforts at the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association, and served on the U.S. Non-Profit Boards Committee of 100 Women in Finance. Although "X Under X" lists are a gimmick, she’ll admit that Forbes 30 Under 30 made a positive impact on her life by giving her a community - friends who dragged her out of bed during the lowest days of her life. Christina earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from MIT in 2013 and earned her CAIA designation in 2015.
During his career, David Politis has helped transform such breakthrough ideas as spider-venom-based drugs, MP3 player technologies, and electric bicycles into multi-billion-dollar products, services, and industries.
As a seasoned marketing/communications professional, David has served employers and clients alike with strategic business, marketing, messaging, communications, and public relations counsel and implementation campaigns each designed to drive bottom line results and increased valuations, including firms such as Apple, GTE, SANYO, and Schwinn, among others.
David has also helped clients drive hundreds of millions of dollars in new sales opportunities, while also winning hundreds of client awards, ranging from TIME’s Best Inventions of the Year to Popular Science’s Product of the Future Award.
Previously, he was also the Publisher and Vice President, Content for Silicon Slopes, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on supporting and promoting the technology, startup and business communities of Utah. Additionally, David was Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for MULTIVOICE where he led renaming, rebranding and marketing / corporate communications efforts for the firm. He was also CMO for Xi3 Corporation, an emerging startup he helped grow from 4 to 100 employees within three years.
David’s first book — 66 RULES for Publicity Success: Boost Your Company’s Value for Pennies on the Dollar — was published in 2016. Through Utah Money Watch, (an online media property he founded and operates), he currently publishes regular news reports and analyses on the financial and monetary doings of Utah-focused businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs, and investors. David received his Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from Brigham Young University, and in his spare time, he likes fishing, playing volleyball, reading science fiction, preparing for his next tropical destination getaway, and spending time with his family.
Orly Alter is a USTAR associate professor of bioengineering and human genetics at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, a scientific advisory board member of the NCI-DOE Cancer Moonshot collaboration, and the CSO and a co-founder of Prism AI Therapeutics. Her $3.4M NCI Physical Sciences in Oncology project partially supported her developing quantum mechanics-based multi-tensor AI/ML and solving the 75-year-old problem of correctly predicting — glioblastoma patients' survival, targets to sensitize their tumors, and their response — from their genomes. As a genetics postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, she invented the "eigengene" in a top 50 most cited PNAS paper of all time. Her Ph.D. thesis in applied physics, also at Stanford, was published by Wiley and is recognized as crucial to quantum computing.
Alter has mathematically proven that her AI/ML overcomes the challenges of real-world "skinny," noisy, and high-dimensional data. She has computationally shown that her algorithms, known as comparative spectral decompositions, are uniquely able to discover accurate, precise, actionable, and mechanistically interpretable predictors, applicable to the general population, from the multi-omes of as few as 19 patients. She has experimentally demonstrated that the predictors consistently validate across laboratories and sometimes across indications, in federated and imbalanced studies and over time, and outperform all other indicators where they exist.
Cameron Erickson is the Co-Founder and CEO of MediCipher, a startup delivering an AI-native financial operating system designed to save the United States Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) sector from systemic financial collapse. Bridging the gap between deep financial acumen and enterprise technology, Cameron is dedicated to solving the "Reimbursement Paradox" facing the $228B long-term care industry.
Prior to founding MediCipher, Cameron spent over seven years in high-stakes finance, honing expertise in M&A, financial modeling, and complex valuation at firms including Ernst & Young and Roth Capital Partners. He previously served in Corporate Development and Strategy at Liberated Brands, where he orchestrated the strategic acquisition of North American licenses for global brands Billabong and Quiksilver and led the associated fundraising processes.
At MediCipher, Cameron combines this strategic discipline with technical execution. He helped architecture the proprietary calculation logic behind the company’s revenue optimization tools, which are now being piloted by facilities in Utah. Under his leadership, MediCipher has secured initial angel investment and has been accepted into the prestigious Google for Startups Cloud, Microsoft for Startups, and NVIDIA Inception programs.
Cameron holds a B.S. in Economics from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. He is passionate about leveraging AI to turn complex healthcare compliance tasks into proactive, revenue-generating activities.
I’m the Founder & CEO of Geniusee, a software and product development company helping startups and enterprises innovate, accelerate, and thrive through technology.
Before launching Geniusee in 2017, I gained broad experience across finance, retail, and automotive industries while working with Deloitte, CloudMade, and SoftServe. That background shaped my focus on building products that are not only technically strong but also strategically impactful.
Today, Geniusee unites 250+ professionals across our offices in Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Lviv, Kyiv), with a sales presence in Austin, TX. We’ve successfully delivered 100+ projects for startups (including Y Combinator and Techstars alumni) and established companies across the US, UK, and EU.
We specialize in FinTech, EdTech, and AI, combining deep domain expertise with cutting-edge technologies — over 60 tech stacks in total. As an AWS Advanced Partner and ISO 27001 & 9001 certified company, we prioritize quality, security, and long-term scalability.
Lindsay Hancock is a founder, CEO & investor who builds successful businesses without sacrificing individuals’ faith, family, or purpose.
She’s worked with organizations ranging from startups to billion-dollar global brands, bringing clarity, strategy, & growth.
Lindsay is the creator of Strategy of &, a framework that helps founders & executives clarify vision, align priorities & build sustainable businesses—guided by the conviction that no success can compensate for failure in the home.
Today, Lindsay is building a values-driven investment/advisory platform that partners with founders ready for intentional scale. The platform invests in organizations with established offers & proven fundamentals ensuring financial outcomes & growth occur but never come at the expense of human well-being, families or faith.
If you want to be part of it, reach out!
From a small Swiss farming village of 600 people to the frontiers of AI-powered FinTech and Crypto - curiosity has always been the constant driving force in my life. That same curiosity pulled me - somewhat unexpectedly - into the hedge fund world, where I became a founding member of UBS’s prime brokerage business back in 1996. At the time, I barely spoke English and couldn’t even spell “hedge funds.”
Today, that same curiosity has drawn me toward AI and Blockchain technology. These innovations are redefining the business landscape. Leveraging three decades of financial expertise, I am now focused on helping others navigate this shift - bridging the gap between TradFi and the future of AI, blockchain, and tokenization.
Passionate advisor with three decades of experience educating founders, entrepreneurs and multi-generational families on how to best preserve, protect and pass their wealth and values in an efficient and thoughtful manner. Over my career of representing founders, entrepreneurs, and investors I have developed a sophisticated technical expertise and strong pragmatic focus which allows me to guide clients through the critical decision-making process of managing generational wealth.
Specialties: Multi-generational wealth management, strategic tax and estate planning, asset protection, complex trust administration and litigation, family governance, family office management and integrated wealth and asset management.
About Me:
ex-Google, ex-Visa partnerships and GTM leader with an MBA from Cornell. I'm relaunching the Silicon Slopes Neurodiversity Chapter to provide holistic, practical support for neurodivergent members, from career and founder support to executive function systems, community connection, and real-time problem solving.
What I'm working on:
In a high-velocity, high-interruption world, Context Switching is the new Smoking. It is the biological root cause of burnout, missed goals, and bad strategy.
Phossil is the "Exoskeleton for Executive Function." It creates a "Context Fabric" that holds your mental state together so you can recover instantly from interruptions.
Dynamic and relationally driven sales executive with 20+ years of experience in hospitality, tourism, resort operations, and luxury experiences. Proven record of building high-performing teams, driving consistent revenue growth, and delivering guest-centric strategies. Adept at managing cross-functional departments including group sales, reservations, marketing, events, and operations. A natural connector with a passion for innovation, collaboration, and creating unforgettable customer journeys.
Ideation is my nature, building relationships is my language, inspiring others is my joy, and doing good in the world while living my best life is my mantra.
Hello! I have been in the life science business, both in-house and as a consultant for 20+ years. I would love to support the innovation initiative our state has been putting forth! One of my focus areas is to help startups withstand scrutiny and scale - as most unfortunately fail around the Series A/B funding phase. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Entrepreneur, business owner, innovator, and software engineer. Co-founder of unicorn tax and compliance software company TaxBit. Current Founder and CEO of Crofter Market. Our online marketplace and 3PL distribution helps consumers buy fresh, transparently raised and grown groceries directly from farmers with the same convenience as a grocery store.
I am the primary writer for the Slagg Creative Agency. I am an experienced marketing content writer, editor, and strategist. I specialize in developing content and telling brand stories in the tech and education industries. My areas of technical focus include AI, security, cloud computing, DevOps, and wireless networking.