About

About The Utah List

A curated, community-verified map of Utah's software ecosystem — from Jon Jessup.

Origin story

Inspired by Gregslist, built for Utah

The Utah List is a pet project of Jon Jessup, a multiple-time software founder and CEO. Jon has been friends with Greg Head for more than 15 years and has always been intrigued by what Greg built with Gregslist — a personally curated directory of the local software industry that founders, investors, operators, and job seekers actually rely on.

Utah has one of the most active software communities in the country, but it didn't have a single, current, curated list of its software companies, their founders and teams, and investors. So Jon started one.

The name

Why not "JonsList"?

We'll be honest — "JonsList" doesn't quite roll off the tongue the way Gregslist does. So this is The Utah List: named for the community it serves, in the spirit of the original.

Utah roots

Park City since 2005

Jon moved to Park City, Utah in 2005 and started his first company there in 2008. He's been part of the Utah tech / Silicon Slopes community ever since — through booms, busts, relocations, and the steady drumbeat of new software companies being founded across the Wasatch Front and beyond.

A gift to the community

Connector across the ecosystem

Jon spends most of his time connecting people across the tech ecosystem — founders and investors, startups and enterprise buyers, operators and service-based businesses that support them. The Utah List is an extension of that work, and a gift to the Utah tech and Silicon Slopes community: a shared, sourced, up-to-date place to find who is building what, who backed them, and who to talk to.

In the press

Quoted in the Wall Street Journal

Jon was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in "Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley With Them" — on the migration of software talent to mountain towns like Park City.

What we track

Data on The Utah List

Companies

Software and software-adjacent companies with a real Utah nexus — HQ, engineering, sales HQ, or founder base.

Funding & exits

Funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs, and closures — dated and sourced.

People

Founders, executives, and heads of function at active Utah companies.

Industries & investors

Industry classifications and the investors backing Utah software companies.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is The Utah List?

The Utah List is a curated, community-verified directory of Utah's software ecosystem — active companies, their founders and executives, funding rounds, industries, and the investors backing them.

Who runs The Utah List?

Jon Jessup, a multi-time software founder and CEO based in Park City, Utah. Jon built the list as a gift to the Utah tech and Silicon Slopes community, inspired by 15+ years of friendship with Greg Head and Gregslist.

What does The Utah List track?

Software and software-adjacent companies with a real Utah nexus — HQ, engineering, sales HQ, or founder base — along with funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs, closures, founders, executives, industries, and investors.

How do I contribute or correct a listing?

Anyone can submit a new company, correction, funding round, or closure at /submit. A source URL makes review faster. Company representatives can claim their profile to become the primary editor.

Contribute

Help keep the list current

Anyone can submit a new company, correction, funding round, or closure. A source URL makes review faster. Company representatives can claim their profile to become the primary editor. Corrections are always welcome — this list gets better the more people touch it.