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Meet the 2025 Mountain West winners

Congratulations to the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2025 Mountain West winners, the shapers of our future! These ambitious visionaries are boldly disrupting markets, revolutionizing industries, and transforming lives, paving the way for a brighter tomorrow!

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Xiao Wang | Co-founder and CEO | Seattle, Washington

Boundless Immigration helps immigrants navigate the US visa and green card process. It provides step-by-step guidance, legal support and document preparation services to simplify applications for marriage-based green cards, US citizenship and work visas. The company aims to make the immigration process more affordable and accessible by combining technology with expert assistance from independent immigration attorneys. Boundless has helped more than 100,000 families on their immigration journey.

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Jennifer Halford | Caliola Engineering, LLC | Colorado Springs, Colorado

Caliola is a woman-owned defense contractor headquartered in Colorado. Caliola builds secure and resilient solutions for mission-critical communications. The company specializes in military satellite communications; waveform design; modernized high frequency communications; alternate positioning, navigation and timing; automated communications and mission planning; and secure networking. Caliola aims to power one billion mission-critical communications links by 2034.

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Grant Quasha | Eco Material Technologies Inc. | South Jordan, Utah

Eco Material is North America’s leading producer and supplier of sustainable cement alternatives, serving 6,000 unique customer locations with 10 million tons per year of recycled material from more than 115 sites across 46 states. The company, which also markets and distributes fly ash and other pozzolans, has the industry’s only true national footprint of logistics networks and distribution channels. Eco Material also produces and markets nontraditional supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) via the beneficiation of landfilled/ponded ash, bottom ash and natural pozzolans. Eco Material has nine plants in production and under construction that can produce more than four million tons per year of these sustainable, “novel” SCMs.

Eco Material’s proprietary Green Cement technology utilizes fly ash and other pozzolanic materials to produce near-zero-carbon products as green substitutes for Portland cement in concrete. While the company’s standard SCMs, like fly ash, replace approximately 20% of Portland cement in concrete mixes to create a stronger, cheaper and more environmentally friendly concrete, Eco Material’s Green Cement products — PozzoSlag, PozzoCem and PozzoCem Vite — upgrade fly ash and natural pozzolans into 50% to 100% replacement products for Portland cement in concrete.

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Karalynne Call | Just Ingredients, Inc. | Orem, Utah

Just Ingredients, a health and wellness company founded by Karalynne Call, has quickly risen to rank among Utah’s top 10 fastest-growing companies. Committed to creating products from carefully selected, real and organic ingredients, Just Ingredients offers a diverse product line of more than 200 nutrition and beauty products. Karalynne’s significant influence on social media, along with her top 20 podcast, inspires and educates individuals to make informed choices for a healthier, happier life.

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Wendy Kunkle | Kemo Sabe | Aspen, Colorado

Kemo Sabe is a premier Western retailer renowned for its high-end, handcrafted cowboy hats, boots and accessories. With multiple retail locations, Kemo Sabe offers an immersive shopping experience that embodies the spirit of the American West. Each store is stocked with hand-picked, high-quality pieces, and its in-house hat shaping and branding services ensure that every hat is uniquely tailored to the customer. Known for top-tier craftsmanship and legendary customer service, Kemo Sabe is where luxury meets grit. Whether catering to city dwellers with a taste for Western flair or those looking to elevate their style. Kemo Sabe delivers one-of-a-kind, timeless pieces that turn heads and last a lifetime. 

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David Layton | Layton Construction Company | Sandy, Utah

Layton is a privately held firm established in Utah in 1953. The company is a nationally ranked contractor with proven experience in virtually every industry and has expanded significantly throughout the United States. Layton manages and executes commercial construction contracts for private and public clients who value transparency, open communication  and predictable outcomes — delivering thousands of facilities and structures from strategically placed offices.

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Tommy Higham and Will Higham | Lola Blankets | Lehi, Utah

Lola Blankets creates life-changingly soft faux-fur blankets that are redefining what it means to be cozy. Lola Blankets creates products that are both chic and comfortable, enhancing every room they are in. With an innovative approach to both creative content and product development, Lola Blankets is one of the leading blanket brands in the US.

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Ryan Porter | LVT | American Fork, Utah

LVT (LiveView Technologies) is a leading provider of cloud-based video security and analytics, offering solar-powered mobile security units. The company provides a software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service solution for remote live video, bringing safety, security, and analytics to companies across industries and government organizations.

LVT currently serves 94% of the Fortune 100 retailers nationwide and more than 55% of the Fortune 50 businesses worldwide. This complements the wide use of LVT in the public sector, the federal government, critical infrastructure, transportation and more. 

Its customizable, solar-powered units allow security teams to monitor various environments: retail parking lots, college campuses, construction sites, warehouses and more. The company’s system is trained on volumes of behavioral data to understand how individuals typically move and act in public spaces. This allows it to identify and deter suspicious activity like individuals weaving through cars (potentially to break into them), driving or parking in ways that are typically a precursor to smash-and-grabs, or if an altercation occurs.

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Brian Hall | NIC Industries, Inc. | American Fork, Utah

NIC Industries is a global leader in advanced coating technologies, specializing in high-performance solutions for a wide variety of applications, including defense, aerospace, medical, lifestyle goods and industrial sectors. Known especially for its industry-defining Cerakote liquid thin-film ceramic polymer coatings, NIC manufactures innovative finishes engineered to enhance resistance and performance properties in the most demanding environments.

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Chris Ariante | Nira Energy | Denver, Colorado

Nira helps renewable developers find the most economic locations on the electric grid for new solar, wind and storage projects. By ensuring developers’ site projects in the most advantageous locations, Nira is dramatically accelerating the number of renewable projects that connect to the grid each year. To date, Nira has enabled the connection of more than 400 GW of projects years faster than they would have otherwise come online.

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Tyrone Poole | OneApp, Inc. | Portland, Oregon

In partnership with more than 1,800 properties across the US, OneApp provides an avenue to housing for people who don’t pass traditional screening criteria, while boosting occupancy and mitigating risk for property managers. All humans need housing to thrive — even if they’re not “perfect” on paper.

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John Lippert | Scientia Vascular, Inc. | West Valley, Utah

Scientia Vascular believes that without access, therapy cannot exist. Through cutting-edge innovation, the company is answering its calling to radically disrupt the way diseases of the brain are treated. Scientia’s teams have been at the forefront of neurovascular systems, pushing beyond established boundaries to deliver the products physicians and patients need most.

Scientia strives to serve humanity with medical solutions that disrupt the status quo. Through advanced technology and boundless creativity, the company empowers physicians to improve patient outcomes and redefine the possibilities of health care. Scientia collaborates with medical professionals and employees in a shared mission to drive transformative change in the world of patient care.

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Matt Parry | The Good Crisp Company | Boulder, Colorado

The Good Crisp Company is a next-generation snack brand dedicated to making better-for-you, delicious snacks with clean ingredients. The company’s mission is to provide a guilt-free alternative to traditional junk food without compromising taste or quality.

All the company’s snacks are gluten free, non-GMO, allergen friendly and free from artificial flavors, colors and preservatives, ensuring everyone can enjoy them.

The Good Crisp Company offers three core product pillars: Canister Chips, Crinkle Cut Chips and Cheese Balls, providing a snack for every occasion and family member.

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Even Rogers | True Anomaly | Centennial, Colorado

True Anomaly is delivering space defense and security solutions for modern strategic global competition. Threats to the space domain threaten our way of life, and the US and its allies lack the solutions required for space superiority. True Anomaly designs and builds spacecraft and software required to enable a secure, stable and sustainable space environment for the US and its allies and partners. True Anomaly will be the global defense prime for deterrence and security in the space domain.

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Daniel Haarburger | Woof | Denver, Colorado

Woof is a pet wellness brand dedicated to creating innovative, high-quality products that enhance the health, happiness and overall wellbeing of dogs and their owners. With a mission to create innovative pet care through functional and engaging solutions, Woof has redefined the pet industry by offering premium dog toys, treats and supplements designed with both pets and owners in mind.

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