Innovate Utah: NEW IDEAS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM UTAH COMPANIES

Shipito LLC, an international parcel forwarding company based in Salt Lake City and serving over 220 countries, has launched Shipito for Business, a third-party logistics solution that includes international shipping, order fulfillment and returns management for small to midsize businesses globally and in the U.S.

Shipito is a portfolio company of Tritium Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas.{mprestriction ids="1,3"}

For global businesses purchasing goods from U.S. retailers that don’t ship to international addresses, Shipito provides addresses at its Torrance, California, and Tualatin, Oregon, warehouses, where goods can be received, stored, consolidated, packed and shipped. Shipito also offers purchase assistance and multilingual websites and customer support in over 10 languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Japanese and Chinese. Shipito for Business offers the same services the company’s individual customers receive but adds the international element.

“We developed Shipito for Business as an outgrowth of our consumer program, after we surveyed our customers and found that some of them were actually running small businesses using Shipito for shipping and fulfillment,” said Dave Robinson, general manager of Shipito. “For merchants that size, fulfillment and returns are often an afterthought, but they quickly become a headache. Additionally, it’s often a challenge for small and midsize businesses to find a logistics partner willing to take them on. Unlike our larger competitors, we had the agility to pivot and innovate a comprehensive logistics solution for those small businesses, beyond what we were providing our individual users.”

Filevine, a Salt Lake City-based legal work platform, has launched .vine, a document format designed for legal drafting. The new program powers Filevine Document Assembly, a document generation tool that replaces word processors like Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Document Assembly auto-populates data, clauses and other information stored in Filevine to accelerate legal document generation. “We believe that Document Assembly and .vine will become the new standard in the legal industry. Combined with .vine, Document Assembly becomes a process that word processors are ill-equipped to do,” said Ryan Anderson, CEO at Filevine. “Fundamentally, legal work is about producing and exchanging complex documents. By bringing this task into our platform — and connecting it to all the case data Filevine collects — we’re enabling legal teams to streamline a crucial part of their work.”

Oceanic, a 50-year-old diving equipment developer and manufacturer and a brand of Salt Lake City’s Huish Outdoors, has launched its native app Oceanic+, now available for free download in the App Store. The Oceanic+ app allows Apple Watch Ultra users to use their devices as dive computers. “We’ve designed the Oceanic+ app with all the key features for recreational divers and snorkelers alike,” said Mike Huish, CEO of Huish Outdoors. “The familiar user interface makes it easy to plan your dives. Even better, our dive planner goes beyond calculating just depth and time, by integrating dive conditions including tides, water temperature and even up-to-date information from the dive community such as visibility and currents.” The Oceanic+ app uses common gestures to access additional screens, such as setting a compass heading.

Lendio, a Lehi developer of platforms for small business, has introduced the company’s newest lending technology, Axis, at “Money 20/20,” a financial industry show in Las Vegas last month. Lendio markets the new SaaS software as a way for lenders to improve processes, decrease risk and increase profitability in historically small-margin, small-business lending. “It’s intelligent SaaS,” said Abby Sleight, Lendio data scientist. “Behind the scenes, Axis fuses business logic with machine learning to improve the profitability of small-business lending.” “Teams who it was made for — smaller local and regional financial institutions — will be able to see how Axis can change their margins. Axis will become an extension of a financial institution’s lending team,” said Lendio co-founder and CEO Brock Blake. “The concept resonates once you see it in action.”

Kaysville-based Reading Horizons, an online platform for teaching beginning and struggling readers, has announced the next generation of its Horizons Discovery, a multisensory method designed to help educators deliver effective, science-based reading instruction. It provides engaging, accessible, grade-specific lessons to guide K–3 students in mastering foundational reading skills, the company said. The new program provides instant and actionable data to inform instruction. Mastery is supported by integrating phonemic awareness and phonics through a simplified scope and sequence. “With an intentional focus on helping students become proficient readers by third grade, we’re committed to providing teachers with turnkey lessons that put our proven method into action,” said Tyson Smith, the CEO of Reading Horizons. “This new program continues our mission to provide every student consistent, engaging, and effective foundational reading instruction.”

Stutor, a Lehi-based startup that bills itself as a “24/7 tutoring marketplace,” has launched a new app to help students find a tutor at any time, around the clock. The app will be introduced initially at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University. College students can use the app to find on-campus student tutors who have passed the specific class they’re studying for. Students can connect with these tutors at any time, even if they’re cramming for a test at 1 a.m., the developers said. “So, if a student says, ‘Hey, I need help today with Finance 201 from Professor Larson from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.,’ it pings and notifies every single tutor eligible to teach that class, so it’s kind of an instantaneous help model,” said C.J. Lee, Stutor cofounder.

Xenocor, a privately held company based in Salt Lake City that designs, develops and commercializes medical devices, has announced the commercial launch of its Saberscope, what the company said is the world’s first true high-definition, fog-free, articulating, single-use laparoscope. “With the Saberscope’s innovative single-use design, it sets itself apart from all other laparoscopes on the market today,” said Tony Watson, chief operating officer of Xenocor. “All traditional laparoscopes present unnecessary visualization challenges, workflow complexity, patient risk, cost and waste. The Saberscope system addresses every one of these challenges. It is completely fog free, sees better through smoke and steam and articulates to 90 degrees in every direction. By virtue of being single-use, it eliminates complex setup and sterilization logistics as well as scope-related cross-contamination risks.

Quotient, a Salt Lake City digital promotions and media technology company, has announced the U.S. launch of its Shopmium grocery savings app. The app has seen success in France where it originated. It is also available in the United Kingdom and Belgium. Shopmium offers consumers the ability to earn cash back on the things they buy every day. With no threshold for payout and offers available anywhere in the U.S., shoppers buy the featured product online or in-store, take a picture of the receipt and receive cash back into their PayPal account. “Consumers have responded to inflation-related price pressures by seeking value and savings more than ever,” said Quotient CEO Matt Krepsik. “This exciting U.S. launch of Shopmium offers American consumers an interactive platform to discover products and earn cash back.”{/mprestriction}