Apparel & Fashion RetailSalt Lake / Provo

TAFT

Apparel & Fashion Retail · Provo, UT

TAFT is a Provo, Utah-based men's footwear brand founded in 2014, specializing in handcrafted designer boots and shoes. The company focuses on personal expression through distinct footwear and raised a $5.2 million seed funding round in 2018 led by Kickstart Seed Fund.

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Salt Lake / Provo

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About Utah

Utah's "Silicon Slopes" corridor runs along the Wasatch Front, and BYU and the University of Utah both feed it — but the state's tight-knit business and community networks, shaped by its unusually concentrated population base, are a real and underdiscussed reason SaaS companies there have grown as fast as they have. It's a genuinely distinct venture culture, not just a cheaper Silicon Valley.

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Region Stats

Total firms 57

VC / investors 14

Companies 36

Schools 7

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Silicon Slopes

SaaS

Venture