| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.02.2022 |
Austin Capital Aims At Fintech Companies
| Irvine-based Austin Capital--not to be confused with venerable Texas-based Austin Ventures--said today that it is making fintech investments from a $125M fund, venture studio, and "digital alternative investment platform". The com... |
| 29.05.2019 | Austin-based Santé Ventures Raises $250 Million Fund to Invest in Healthcare and Life Sciences Companies | Santé Ventures, a healthcare and life sciences investment firm specializing in early-stage companies, announced Wednesday it has closed a $250 million fund. |
| 20.04.2017 | Tasktop raises $11.3 million Series A to ramp up sales of team collaboration platform | Vancouver-based Tasktop, which creates software that automates the software development process, announced that it has closed an $11.3 million Series A funding round.
Tasktop’s funding round was led by Austin, Texas-based AVX Partners, with... |
| 13.04.2017 | AVX Partners Makes Fourth Growth Investment, in Canada’s Tasktop | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Austin—AVX Partners, the small growth-stage venture firm that sprouted from Austin Ventures in 2015, has made its fourth investment: in Tasktop, a Vancouver, BC-based software... |
| 02.03.2017 | Meet Thomas Ball, co-founder of Next Coast Ventures | Next Coast Ventures just closed $85 million for its inaugural fund to focus on disruptive ideas
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder &a... |
| 23.05.2016 | Bloomfire raises $12.8 million to help your staff find the information it needs | Austin, Texas-based startup Bloomfire announced last week that it raised a $12.8 million investment from Austin Ventures.
Bloomfire helps businesses manage and share all information their employees need, using its database. By doing so, emp... |
| 23.05.2016 | Bloomfire raises $12.8 million to help your staff find the information it needs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Austin, Texas-based startup Bloomfire announced l... |
| 05.03.2016 | The Dark Ages of Austin startup capital | Richard Bagdonas Contributor
Richard Bagdonas is an Austin-based entrepreneur. He is currently the chief healthcare architect at MI7.
An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. Th... |
| 20.01.2016 | The Best Way to Find Investors | The Entrepreneur Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Today’s answer to the question “W... |
| 02.10.2015 | RunTitle Closes $8M in Series A Financing | RunTitle, an Austin, Texas-based oil and gas data startup, closed $8m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Founders Fund, with participation from Aubrey McClendon’s Deep Fork Capital, existing investor Austin Ventures, and unnamed in... |
| 28.09.2015 | Civitas Learning Gets $60 Million Commitment From Warburg Pincus | Civitas Learning, the higher education software service provider for student success, has received a commitment of up to $60 million as it looks to expand its suite of products.
The Austin-based company started its development with six univ... |
| 28.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 28, 2015 | Kreditech raised $92M; Paintzen nabbed $7.2M; Simppler received $1.2M
If you're like me, your inbox is filled on a weekly basis with requests for references from recruiters seeking job candidates. Requests are often afforded a cursory look ... |
| 09.07.2015 | Legit Debuts A Social Watchlist App For Finding The Best Movies And Shows On Any Service | With the number of cord cutters on the rise, and even pay TV subscribers spending more of their time streaming video from services like Netflix and Amazon, there’s a growing need for tools that make the experience of finding new and quality... |
| 03.03.2015 | Ways to Get Startup Bucks in Silicon Hills | By Laura Lorek
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 08.12.2014 | Austin-based Boundless Network Acquired by Zazzle | Boundless Network, founded in 2005 in Austin, just got acquired by Zazzle, an online promotional products company, according to Promo Marketing Magazine. |
| 19.06.2014 | Venture Investors Begin To Drill In To Oil Deals | The oil and gas business is technologically challenging, data-heavy, and traditionally ignored by venture capitalists.
But a few firms are looking to change that with a new concentration on software and services that would help improve econ... |
| 17.05.2014 | Compare Metrics Snags $3.8 Million in Follow-On Venture Capital | Austin-based Compare Metrics, which makes analytics software aimed at retailers, announced that is has received $3.8 million in follow-on venture capital.
Austin Ventures led the investment with additional funding by existing investors Juli... |
| 03.03.2014 | Guides to SXSW 2014 in Austin | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 18.02.2014 | LiveOak Venture Partners Sees Lots of Quality Startup Deals in Austin and Texas | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 14.02.2014 | Ten Semi-Finalists Named for SXSW Pitch Competition | By SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 10.10.2013 | VCs and Founders Give Advice on Funding a Startup | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 05.09.2013 | RunTitle Raises $4M in Series A Funding | RunTitle, an Austin, Texas-based online marketplace for mineral acreage title information, raised $4m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Austin Ventures. In conjunction with the funding, Mike Dodd, Partner, Austin Ventures, will be j... |
| 19.07.2013 | OpenIncubate Launches in Austin, Boston and Menlo Park | OpenIncubate, a new accelerator program focused on startups creating open source software and hardware, launched this week.
The program is backed by Austin Ventures in Austin, Battery Ventures in Boston and The Valley Fund in Menlo Park, Ca... |
| 17.07.2013 | Veros Systems Raises $5M in Capital | Veros Systems Incorporated, a College Station, Texas-based developer of an industrial monitoring solution, raised $5m in capital.
Backers included Austin Ventures and LiveOak Venture Partners. In conjunction with the funding, Venu Shamapant... |
| 22.05.2013 | Texas Venture Capital Market “Weak,” But Still Shows Promise | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 5/24/13, 8:23 am. See below.] Blair Garrou came to Houston in 1996, intending to stay four years while his wife completed her degree in veterinary medicine at Texas... |
| 08.05.2013 | Austin Tech Entrepreneurs Need to Think Bigger | BY LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 22.04.2013 | Omni Water Solutions Secures $4M in Equity Financing | Omni Water Solutions, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based provider of automated mobile water systems for water treatment and re-use, has secured $4m in equity financing.
The round was led by Austin Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to... |
| 20.03.2013 | Dachis Group Completes $7.5M Series C Funding | Dachis Group, an Austin, Texas-based provider of data-driven social marketing solutions, completed a $7.5m Series C funding.
The round was led by Austin Ventures.
The company intends to use the capital to accelerate the development of its c... |
| 05.02.2013 | Spredfast Raises $18M in Venture Capital | Spredfast, an Austin, Texas-based provider of independent social marketing software, raised $18m in venture capital.
The round was led by OpenView Venture Partners, with follow-on participation from Austin Ventures and InterWest Partners.
T... |
| 08.12.2012 | Why VCs see gold in energy management software | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The nearly five million commercial and industrial... |
| 14.11.2012 | OutboundEngine Raises $1.6M in Series A Funding | OutboundEngine, an Austin, Texas-based provider of automated, customized email and social media services for managing customer relationships, has emerged from stealth mode with $1.6m Series A funding round.
Backers include Floodgate, Austin... |
| 23.10.2012 | Spinal Restoration Closes $5M Financing | Spinal Restoration, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based developer of new therapies that address unmet needs in spine health management, has closed a$5m financing round.
The financing includes $3m in equity from existing investors Austin Ventures, ... |
| 23.08.2012 | Draker and Solar Power Technologies Merge and Raise $8M in Funding | Vermont-based Draker and Austin, Texas-based Solar Power Technologies, Inc. (SPTI) have merged to create a leading provider of performance management solutions for commercial and utility-scale solar markets.
The combined company, which will... |
| 13.06.2012 | Top People to Talk to About the Thriving Startup Scene in Silicon Hills | |
| 05.06.2012 | MapMyFITNESS Raises $9M in Series B Funding | MapMyFITNESS, an Austin, Texas-based health and fitness technology company, has raised $9m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Austin Ventures and Milestone Venture Partners, with participation from strategic business partners Competi... |
| 05.06.2012 | This Seattle area startup just raised more than $100M in a huge series A financing | You don’t see many $100 million series A financing rounds in Seattle — or anywhere for that matter. But that’s how much cash that Donuts Inc. — a domain name registrar startup led by eNom founder Paul Stahura — has raised from the likes of ... |
| 18.04.2012 | Umbel Closes $3.7M Series A Funding | Umbel, a Austin-based startup provider of digital audience measurement solutions, has closed a $3.7m Series A round of venture funding.
The round was led by Austin Ventures, with participation from angel investors including Herbert Simon, C... |
| 09.03.2012 | Suffering SXSW fatigue? Get feedback from Austin Ventures and VentureBeat | Above: Too much noise?
Are you an entrepreneur looking to push your big product idea to the next step?
Consider shutting out the noise of SXSW for a few minutes (there are tens of thousands of companies vying for attention here), and sittin... |
| 28.02.2012 | Omni Water Solutions Raises $7.9M in Series A Financing | Omni Water Solutions, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based technology company focused on delivering mobile water treatment platforms for water treatment and re-use, has raised $7.9m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Austin Ventures, with ... |
| 28.02.2012 | Omni Water Solutions lands $7.9 million, plans to create clean water systems for oil and gas operations | Omni Water Solutions won the Clean Energy Venture Summit last October.
Now the Austin startup, which makes a portable water purifying system, just landed $7.9 million in a first round financing deal led by Austin Ventures. Backers also incl... |
| 14.02.2012 | Going to SXSW? Or not? Either way, VB has your back | It’s that time of year again for the big South by Southwest (SXSW to its friends) tech and entertainment event in Austin, Texas — and VentureBeat has planned ahead to cover it all.
SXSW is a monster. Some 20,000 attendees run around downtow... |
| 01.02.2012 | MOGL Raises $10M in Second Funding Round | MOGL, a Solana-Beach, California-based provider of a platform that leverages game mechanics and human psychology to offer multiple incentives that motivate consumers to return again and again to member restaurant venues, today announced tha... |
| 31.01.2012 | Dining Out? Mogl Grabs $10 Million For Its Gamified, Charitable Loyalty Program | Would you like some gamification with your french fries? Well, one San Diego-based startup is willing to bet you just might. Mogl, which describes itself as not only “a party in your wallet” but also a “four letter word you can say in front... |
| 17.01.2012 | Onit Raises $4.1M in Series B Funding | Onit, a Houston, TX-based provider of business productivity and process management apps, has raised $4.1m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Austin Ventures, with participation from Houston-based incubator RedHouse Associates.
The co... |
| 13.01.2012 | Big data startup Explorys plans to double employment to 100 this year | To aid in recruiting efforts, the company is hosting a networking event called “Rockin’ Big Data” on the evening of Feb. 1 at the House of Blues in downtown Cleveland. “We want to get to know people and allow them to get to know us,” Loughe... |
| 29.11.2011 | 5 companies using big data to solve healthcare problems | Loosely speaking, big data can refer to anything involving voluminous sets of data. However you define big data, its promise isn’t lost on investors, as shown by a recently announced $100 million “Big Data Fund” from Accel Partners. (The fu... |
| 10.11.2011 | WhaleShark Lands $150 Million Round For Online Coupons | Online coupon company WhaleShark Media has raised $150 million in new venture financing as it continues its roll-up strategy of buying companies the space. |
| 27.09.2011 | Spredfast Raises $12M in Series B Funding | Spredfast, an Austin, Texas-based social media management system provider, has raised $12m in Series B funding.
The round was led by InterWest Partners , with participation from lead Series A investor Austin Ventures (read here).
The compan... |
| 18.07.2011 | NewComLink Raises $10M in Series B Financing | NewComLink, an Austin, Texas-based developer of a technology platform that provides retailers with a range of payment products to extend credit to more customers, has raised $10m in a Series B financing.
The round was led by StarVest Partne... |
| 16.06.2011 | Dreaming of an IPO? Q&A with Explorys CEO Steve McHale | With all that cash going toward EMRs, there’s a strong need for a means of making sense of that data and uncovering any trends it holds that could improve patient care. Explorys believes it can fill that need, and some deep-pocketed investo... |
| 02.06.2011 | Magnablend Receives Equity Investment | Magnablend, Inc., a Waxahachie, Texas-based provider of custom chemical manufacturing, blending, packaging and technical formulations, primarily serving the oil and gas, agricultural, and water treatment industries, has received an equity i... |
| 31.05.2011 | Texas companies: Join us June 7 for presentations and drinks at Austin Ventures | If you’re based in the Austin region and are looking to launch a new tech product in the near future, join us for a meetup at one of Austin’s most respected venture capital firms, Austin Ventures.
We’ll be inviting up to 10 companies that a... |
| 12.05.2011 | Explorys Raises $11.5M in Series C Financing | Explorys, Inc., a Cleveland, OH-based company that provides a cloud-computing data platform that aggregates and standardizes electronic healthcare record (EHR) data across disparate systems, has raised $11.5m in Series C financing.
The roun... |
| 10.05.2011 | Health data firm Explorys raises $11.5M series C investment round | Most of the new hires this year will be technology workers and clinical data analysts, Lougheed said.
Explorys acts as a repository and cleanser of data coming from many different clinics, hospitals, doctors offices and researchers, and put... |
| 09.05.2011 | Cattle Vaccine, Chip Verification Software Take Top Prizes At 2011 Moot Corp. Competition | TNG Pharmaceuticals, developers of a vaccine to keep cattle free of blood-sucking horn flies, took top prize at the “Moot Corp.” business competition this weekend.
Formally renamed the Venture Labs Investment Competition(VLIC) in 2010, but ... |
| 30.04.2011 | Former Demand Media exec Paul Stahura emerges at stealthy Donuts Inc. | Donuts Inc. is likely baking something other than sweet treats (Arnold Gatilao)
Paul Stahura, who sold the domain name registrar eNom to Demand Media in 2006, has emerged at the helm of a stealthy Seattle area company called Donuts Inc. Ver... |
| 29.03.2011 | Limos.com raises $10M from Austin Ventures | The company also announces the launch of Limos.com for Business
Limos.com, the prom night champion of millions (remember, kids: it's all fun and games until someone loses their virginity), on Tuesday announced a $10 million round of funding... |
| 02.02.2011 | Mobestream Media Closes Series A Funding with Austin Ventures | Mobestream Media, the developer of the smart phone shopping app Key Ring™, closed a Series A funding with Austin Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to hire 10 new employees, including Bobby Billman as CMO. Mr. Billman will be in... |
| 05.01.2011 | Lincoln Renewable Energy Closes $14M Funding Round | Lincoln Renewable Energy (LRE), a Chicago, IL-based developer of U.S. solar and wind projects, closed a $14m round of private funding.
The investment was led by Austin Ventures, with participation from private investors, LRE management and ... |
| 03.01.2011 | Solar Power Technologies Raises $6.08 Million To Optimize Commercial Solar Arrays, Wirelessly | Today, an SEC filing revealed that Solar Power Technologies raised $6.08 million for technology that helps wirelessly measure, manage and optimize the performance of large, solar power generating systems. Investors included Austin Ventures ... |
| 03.01.2011 | Dachis Group gets $30M to advance social consulting | The world’s largest social consultancy, Dachis Group, got a late Christmas present today, receiving $30 million in second round funding from previous backers Austin Ventures, CEO Jeff Dachis told VentureBeat.
Dachis Group sells software to ... |
| 03.12.2010 | What you need to know - Friday 12/3/10 | Mingleverse raised $1.4M; 10gen $6.5M; WhaleShark Media $90M; Amazon invests $175 in Living Social
Amazon has made a partnership with LivingSocial, which also included a hefty investment by Amazon. Amazon invested about $175 million in Livi... |
| 08.11.2010 | Austin companies, join us Nov. 19 for feedback and drinks at Austin Ventures | Got an awesome tech product?
Well, if you’re based in the Austin, Texas region, join VentureBeat and DEMO for a meetup at one of Austin’s most respected venture capital firms, Austin Ventures.
On Nov. 19., we’ll be inviting up to 10 compani... |
| 03.11.2010 | Silverback Acquisitions Raises $11.5M From Austin Ventures | Silverback Acquisitions, an Austin, Texas-based value-oriented consolidator of subscale enterprise software companies, has raised $11.5m in a seed funding round led by Austin Ventures.
AV has also committed a total equity growth-capital inv... |
| 26.07.2010 | Austin Ventures backs 'business listening' startup Workstreamer | There’s no shortage of tools for monitoring news and social networking sites, but Austin Ventures is betting on a new one. It just invested $3.5 million in a startup called Workstreamer that offers “business listening” tools.
The most commo... |
| 29.06.2010 | Mavenir raises $13.6M for mobile operator services | Mavenir Systems, a company that helps mobile operators roll out new voice and messaging services to their subscribers, has secured $13.6 million in a fourth round of funding.
The company enables service continuity across wired and wireless ... |
| 30.04.2010 | Reminder: Austin VentureBeat/DEMO meetup next Thursday | VentureBeat and DEMO, the twice-annual startup-launch event we co-produce, will be in Austin next Thursday, May 6, to throw a big cocktail bash at Terrace 59.
If you’re an entrepreneur, investor or some other kind of tech startup junkie, yo... |
| 23.04.2010 | Austin companies: Join us May 6 for pitches and drinks at Austin Ventures | If you’re a tech company in the Austin, Texas region and are considering launching your product over the next year or so, join us for a meetup at one of Austin’s most respected venture capital firms, Austin Ventures.
We’ll be inviting up to... |
| 15.04.2010 | Spredfast Raises $1.6M in Series A Funding | Spredfast, an Austin-based social media management, has received $1.6m in a Series A funding from Austin Ventures.
This initial round will help accelerate the company’s business development and increase brand awareness in the social media m... |
| 03.03.2010 | MySpace co-founder DeWolfe moves into social gaming with MindJolt acquisition | MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe has re-emerged almost a year after leaving the chief executive post at the social network. With backing from Austin Ventures, DeWolfe’s new company Platform G is buying a social gaming startup called MindJol... |
| 03.03.2010 | MySpace co-founder DeWolfe moves into social gaming with MindJolt acquisition | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe has re-emerged almost a year after leaving the chief executive post at the social network. With backin... |
| 01.09.2009 | Dachis Group Acquires Headshift: Say Hello to a Social Business Consulting Powerhouse | The Dachis Group, an agency founded by former Razorfish CEO Jeff Dachis and backed by Austin Ventures, has made its first acquisition. Late Tuesday night the company announced it has bought the London-based consultancy Headshift, giving Dac... |
| 30.06.2009 | MojoPages Raises $5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Diego-based MojoPages, an online business directory that includes consumer reviews, said today it has raised $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding led by Austi... |
| 20.05.2009 | SolarWinds ends the long, IPO-less nightmare for venture-backed companies | SolarWinds, an Austin, Texas-based maker of network management technology, has ended a nine-month stretch where the market saw zero public offerings from venture-backed companies. The company just finished its first day of trading as SWI on... |
| 15.05.2009 | Slacker raises $9.6M for player that customizes radio on the go | Slacker, popular internet radio provider and maker of a customizable radio-listening device, has brought in $9.6 million of what it hopes will be a $10.2 million third round of funding. Based in San Diego, Calif., the company now offers the... |
| 28.04.2009 | Jigsaw launches Data Fusion to clean up sales contact lists | Jigsaw today is launching its cloud-based Data Fusion software for acquiring and managing sales prospect records so that companies can use them to reel in clients more easily.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based Jigsaw said that Data Fusion can aut... |
| 26.01.2009 | Active Network acquires online campsite booker ReserveAmerica | The Active Network, a network of sites targeting athletic and active-lifestyle users, announced today that it’s buying ReserveAmerica, an online service for booking campground space across the U.S., for an undisclosed amount.
It was formerl... |
| 10.11.2008 | Vacation rental site HomeAway gets $250M to buy up the world’s travel sites | Consumers may not feel like traveling much these days. But that hasn’t stopped HomeAway, the online vacation rental marketplace, from raising an astonishing $250 million in venture capital.
The Austin, Texas-based HomeAway will use the mone... |
| 04.11.2008 | Semiconductor maker Alereon buys Stonestreet wireless assets | Fabless semiconductor company Alereon announced today that it purchased intellectual property and requisite engineering teams from software firm Stonestreet One. The sum Alereon paid hasn’t been disclosed. The acquisition will diversify Ale... |
| 18.09.2008 | Final 100 Tickets For Grassroots Roundtable And Austin MeetUp | Next week is our MeetUp in Austin, Texas, but before we party we are going to tackle the issue of how to use the Web to build grassroots support for a business, a cause, or a political candidate. Everyone loves to give lip service to grassr... |
| 15.09.2008 | Austin Roundtable: The Web Starts At The Grassroots (100 Tickets Available) | Today, we are releasing 100 tickets for “The Web Starts at the Grassroots” Roundtable Discussion prior to the TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up at Pangaea. Tickets are $50, with all of the proceeds benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation... |
| 01.09.2008 | Announcing A Grassroots Roundtable And 100 Tickets Available For TechCrunch MeetUp in Austin | Today, we are releasing 100 additional tickets for the TechCrunch Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures. As previously reported, we are in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits music fe... |
| 20.08.2008 | Innography raises $6.5M for patent management and research | Innography, a startup that helps companies manage their intellectual property, has raised $6.5 million in a first round of funding. Austin Ventures led the round, and Hunt Ventures (the initial seed investor) participated.
Austin, Tex.-base... |
| 20.08.2008 | Identity management startup SailPoint Technologies raises $6.5M | SailPoint Technologies, a company that helps corporations manage issues around identity, user access and regulatory compliance, has raised $6.5 million in a third round of funding. All of the company’s existing investors, including Austin V... |
| 04.08.2008 | TechCrunch Event In Austin – 200 Tickets Now Available | Update: The first batch of tickets has sold out. We will add more in the coming weeks.
TechCrunch is heading South for a Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures. We are landing in town on Thursday, September 25 just in t... |
| 18.06.2008 | Bazaarvoice raises $7.1 million to provide brands with consumer-generated content options | Bazaarvoice provides technology for brands to utilize consumer-generated content. Now the company will have more money to do so following its 4th round.
The service has quite a few big name clients including Dell, Petco, The Home Depot, Kma... |
| 05.06.2008 | NileGuide takes another $8 million to enrich travel experiences | NileGuide, the online service that aims to help with every part of a trip, has raised a second round of funding.
The company now offers comprehensive travel planning to over 75 destinations around the world and claims to be adding five new ... |
| 05.12.2007 | Roundup: Divorce360 shows Web 2.0 maturity, Google embraces iPhone & more | Here’s the latest action:
1. Divorce360.com, a Web site for people dealing with divorce
2. Bid4Spots auctions unused radio airtime time online
3. House energy bill may face filibuster and veto
4. Cleantech investors to take a breather?
5. N... |
| 02.12.2007 | Divorce360 To Walk You Through That Statistically Inevitable Breakup | The National Center For Health Statistics (NCHS) says that there are approximately 2.2 million marriages in the U.S. every year. Some of those marriages work out well. But a big percentage of marriages – up to 1.4 million per year – end in ... |
| 14.11.2007 | ON Networks joins the crowded online TV market | ON Networks, a yet another media company offering online high-definition TV programming, said it has raised $12 million in a second round of financing.
The Austin, Tex. company raised the money from Accel Partners, the Silicon Valley firm t... |
| 12.11.2007 | BreakingPoint raises $15M for network testing equipment | Usually the companies we cover have some new angle or industry they’re attempting to grow into. Not so BreakingPoint, a company that makes equipment to stage mock attacks on internet networks.
Network testing equipment is about a $1 billion... |
| 28.10.2007 | FiveRuns raises $6.2M as Rails development spreads | Ruby on Rails, a programming language useful for making web applications, has gained a strong following in the development community because it is much easier to code and maintain than competitors like Java and PHP.
Initially adopted by sma... |
| 23.10.2007 | Cisco gets serious about WiMax, buys Navini for $330M | Cisco, the large networking company, said it has agreed to acquire Navini Networks, a company that offers a WiMAX “upgrade” for mobile customers, for $330 million in cash and stock.
This shows that Cisco is getting serious about WiMax, a te... |
| 10.04.2006 | Jigsaw Raises $12 Million, Still Evil | Jigsaw, a company that I have begged our elected representatives to do something to stop, continues to see skyrocketing growth and managed to convince Austin Ventures to lead a $12 Million series B round of financing. Previous investors El ... |
| 19.10.2005 | Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists | Most venture capitalists don’t understand tagging, blogs, rss, ajax, or the two way web. They scoff at social bookmarking sites and think podcasting is a fad (maybe it is). They desparately “want in” to this renaissance of the web, but can’... |
| - | Health data firm Explorys raises $11.5M series C investment round | Medical data management firm Explorys has raised an $11.5 million series C round of investment that the company plans to use to double its employment by the end of the year.
The round was led by Austin Ventures of Austin, Texas, and Foundat... |
| - | 5 companies using big data to solve healthcare problems | “Big data” won’t do much to improve healthcare without big analytics.
Thanks in part to billions in federal subsidies for electronic medical records (EMRs), it won’t be long before the U.S. is awash in vast, almost incomprehensible amounts ... |
| - | Dreaming of an IPO? Q&A with Explorys CEO Steve McHale | Credit Steve McHale for having a knack for putting himself in the right place at the right time.
Six years ago, McHale and partner Charlie Lougheed sold the previous company they founded, Everstream, for $15 million to Concurrent Computer. ... |
| - | Big data startup Explorys plans to double employment to 100 this year | Healthcare big data company Explorys plans to double its number of employees to 100 in 2012.
The Cleveland-based company is looking to hire primarily software engineers and clinical informatics employees. Software engineers are among the mo... |
