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Scrunch Spent Two Years Teaching Robots to Read Your Website - Then Sold for $225 Million
Chris Andrew bet that AI chatbots, not Google, would become the front door to every brand. Twenty-six months and $26 million in venture money later, Sitecore agreed - and bought the company for a reported $225 million.
MotionOps
MotionOps is a Utah-based vertical SaaS platform that gives home service and home improvement contractors a single system to run their business - CRM, proposals, scheduling, invoicing, payments, timesheets, materials tracking, payroll prep and HR. Founded in 2021 by service-industry operator Trevor Maddux and software veteran Nikola Cvetkovic, it aims to replace the four or five disconnected tools that plumbers, electricians, remodelers, landscapers and cleaners typically stitch together.
Carl Hoiland
Carl Hoiland is the co-founder and CEO of Zanskar, the Salt Lake City company using AI foundation models to find hidden geothermal reservoirs across the American West. A Stanford-trained exploration geologist whose grandfather prospected for uranium and gold, Hoiland built Zanskar on a contrarian bet: that the United States has overlooked geothermal potential by an order of magnitude, possibly a full terawatt of clean baseload power waiting underground with no hot springs or geysers to mark it. In 2025 his team confirmed 'Big Blind,' the first commercially viable blind geothermal system discovered by industry in over 30 years, and in January 2026 Zanskar raised a $115 million Series C to start building power plants.