Provo Labs
Our Companies
10Speed Media helps affiliate web sites and bloggers make more money using its online video badge and its inventory of short format video clips. And it helps companies get wide online distribution for videos about their products and services. Led by Silicon Valley veteran Erik Johnson, the company is poised for meteoric growth as the web becomes more and more video based.
Finding your ancestors can be overwhelming, and expensive. At WorldVitalRecords.com, we're making it easy and affordable for individuals to connect to their families and find answers to their genealogical questions. Led by Paul Allen, who after founding Ancestry.com, which became the largest genealogy company in the world, now aims to be the number two player in the genealogy industry with WorldVitalRecords.com. WorldVitalRecords.com is now being re"vital"ized to offer users international record databases, references to top genealogical resources, a blog planet, podcasts, videocasts, Webinars, expert advice, training, and user-generated content.
Formed: 2006
Provo Labs Academy is more than just a new business location with office facilities. The Academy is a place where entrepreneurs come to succeed with their startup companies, learn the key to Internet marketing success, and access a variety of resources, such as weekly training, cutting-edge technology, office space, and social networking.
In partnership with Deseret Book, LDS Media operates owns LDSAudio.com , the leading MP3 download site for LDS music, talks and audio books. The company also sells CD ROM products and has launched the most comprehensive LDS search engine ever at LDSLibrary.com.
Founders: Paul Allen and Dan Taggart
A free "matching service" for entrepreneurs and angel investors. Entrepreneurs can also find service providers (marketing, PR, legal, accounting) and mentors who can help them prepare their companies to be fundable and to succeed in the marketplace.
Angel investors can join the network to find deals and to interact with other angels. Organized angel groups can use the service to rate and vote on business plans that they want to pitch to their angel groups. The privacy of the angel investors is protected.
Launched in January 2005, FundingUtah.com was so successful that sites were launched for every other state by summer 2005. Founders: Paul Allen, David Bradford. CEO: Brock Blake.
WebEvident generates free traffic for business Web sites. The Searchability(TM) service helps Web site managers select keywords, build Web pages, and get incoming links in order to get high natural rankings from search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. The service can be privately labelled for partners who do Web hosting, payment processing, and domain name registration. Partners include The Search Doctor and Prosper Learning.
CommerceFly
Formed: 2006
CommerceFly is developing SMS alert technologies for consumer product pricing and other applications. Co-founded by Grow Utah Ventures.
Packard Technologies
Acquired: 2006
Packard Technologies sells CD ROMs and thousands of ebooks in the Mobipocket reader format. See ChristianCDR.com and ldspocket.com