Paul Ahlstrom

Angel Studios is a dispruptive audience-powered film and media studio redefining how values-driven stories are funded, greenlit, distributed, and experienced by global audiences. Thank you to the Angel Guild for proving that audiences, not gatekeepers, can shape the future of entertainment.

Obra is a better way to manage your career. I founded Obra to give individuals ownership of their professional identity and greater control over where their work can take them, beginning with the Obra WorkWallet™. The Obra WorkWallet™ is a portable, user-owned professional profile that brings together your experience, skills, credentials, accomplishments, and goals in one place. It becomes the system of record for your working life. Our vision is to give every individual greater visibility, ownership, and access to opportunity. Using AI and real-time labor market data, Obra matches your WorkWallet with relevant career opportunities, identifies skill gaps, and helps you build a clear path toward your next job and long-term professional goals. With more than 800 million searchable candidate profiles, Obra gives employers and hiring managers a more efficient way to discover qualified talent, engage the right candidates, and make successful hires.

HealthKey.AI builds open-source infrastructure for patient-owned Personal Health Record applications that is the enabling infrastructure for leading health registries. Through PHRAME.org, HealthKey enables healthcare organizations, patient advocacy groups, researchers, and developers to create secure, interoperable health applications that give individuals greater access to and control over their health data. HealthKey.AI has also developed EXACT, a precision clinical trial matching platform that helps thousands of cancer patients identify trials based on their specific diagnosis, biomarkers, treatment history, and clinical profile. HealthKey.ai's mission is to empower a patient-centered healthcare ecosystem, one where individuals can consolidate their health information, discover relevant care and research opportunities, and use their data to improve both personal outcomes and medical discovery.

Meridian Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing immune-based therapies for hematologic malignancies, with an initial focus on multiple myeloma. Our mission is to Intercept myeloma before symptomatic disease takes hold. Our first product is and allogeneic tumor antigen MyeliMMune™. MyeliMMune™ is an off-the-shelf, cell-based immunotherapy that presents a comprehensive antigenic blueprint of multiple myeloma to the patient’s own immune system. Guilt from two human myeloma cell lines together with GM-CSF–secreting cells that act as a built-in immune adjuvant.

TechBuzz.news is a voice for the Utah Entrepreneur. TechBuzz News is a 501c3 non-profit media company that publishes news on the latest Utah start-up life, venture financings, job openings, culture and tech news.

IsoTalent is a technology enabled recruiting service that is disrupting the recruiting industry. (Think Uber for recruiting) IsoTalent provides customers transparency into the hiring process and saves customers 60% to 70% over traditional recruiting models. The key to the IsoTalent model an hourly rate for recruiting services instead of charging a percentage of the annual salary, enabling dramatic cost savings for businesses and better customer alignment. Similar to an attorney, companies turn the IsoTalent recruiting service on and off as they need it. Core to the IsoTalent recruiting process is the IsoConnect software platform which gives each stakeholder transparency into the process. The IsoTalent innovations and model improve candidate fit, reduces time to fill and significantly reduces the average recruiting cost.

Krealo is the corporate venture capital fund and company builder of Credicorp, one of Latin America’s largest financial services groups. Krealo’s mission is to accelerate financial inclusion and build the next generation of transformative financial technology companies in Latin America. Krealo creates, invests in, and scales innovative digital businesses designed to serve micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and consumers across Latin America. By combining entrepreneurial talent, technology, capital, and Credicorp’s regional capabilities, Krealo develops fintech solutions that expand access to financial services and address the evolving needs of underserved markets.

In early 2010 Nathan Furr and I published the first "black cover" version of entrepreneur startup guide "Nail It Then Scale It" a year before the Lean Startup movement hit. In June 2011 we published the second "Red Cover" edition of the book. It is amazing to see the impact the book has had all over the world. Nail It Then Scale it, is now available on Audible, iTunes, Kindle, Amazon and has been printed in English, Spanish and Chinese.

Early stage financing for Latin America's high-tech entrepreneurs

Growth equity for middle market Mexican companies

Angel Studios is a disruptive Movie Studio and media company that allows creators and audiences to form passionate communities around their creative projects, making the story behind the show as important as the final project itself. The studios' first projects -- The Chosen and Dry Bar Comedy -- have earned billions of views around the world. Our movie lineup this year is next level– Young Washington, Hershey, ZeroAD, Runner, Angel & the Badman & Solo Mio.