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| May 5, 2021 | Inside San Antonio’s Office of Innovation, which plans to bridge the digital divide with smart technology and infrastructure | San Antonio, Texas. Shutterstock
The Office of Innovation in San Antonio, Texas, is working to advance technology and infrastructure.
Created in 2007, the office is expanding Wi-Fi access for kids with Connected Beyond the Classroom.
A smar... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | September Tech Events to Attend in San Antonio | |
| Mar 19, 2018 | Geekdom Teams With Alamo Angels to Launch a Pre-Accelerator Program in San Antonio | Geekdom, the tech co-working space at the heart of San Antonio’s technology district, announced recently that it has teamed up with Alamo Angels to launch a pre-accelerator program designed to nurture new startups. |
| Feb 26, 2018 | San Antonio Tech Events to Attend This Week | |
| Feb 10, 2018 | Geekdom Launches a Community Fund to Ignite Startups | The epicenter of San Antonio’s startup system downtown is Geekdom, which occupies its own building, the historic Rand Building, on Houston street. |
| Jan 30, 2018 | Free Coffee, Workshops, and … Money? Geekdom Begins Offering Grants | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Antonio—Geekdom, the six-year-old co-working space in downtown San Antonio, has added a new perk to the free coffee, workshops, and mentorship opportunities it offers its ... |
| Aug 16, 2017 | Coming of Age: San Antonio Startups Experience Busy Summer of M&A | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Antonio—Business leaders have been working for years to recast the Alamo City’s image, in an attempt to brand it as a hub of tech and healthcare startups as much as it is ... |
| Feb 19, 2017 | Tech Events to Attend in San Antonio This Week | It’s a busy week for tech events in San Antonio with Startup Weekend kicking off Friday and running through the weekend. |
| Jan 27, 2017 | RealCo, a Startup Accelerator, Plans to Launch at Geekdom in San Antonio | RealCo, a startup accelerator, plans to launch in San Antonio at Geekdom next month. |
| Jan 9, 2017 | Seven Tech Events to Attend in San Antonio This Week | Geekdom is still the center of technology entrepreneurial activity in San Antonio as evidenced by the number of events taking place this week. |
| Dec 23, 2016 | Top 20 San Antonio Technology Stories in 2016 | San Antonio had a roller coaster year in tech in 2016 with the sale of one of its largest technology companies, Rackspace, to Apollo Global for $4.3 billion. |
| Dec 12, 2016 | Geekdom has a Huge Impact on San Antonio’s Downtown Tech District | |
| Apr 14, 2016 | New Trinity Program Offers Paid Internships at San Antonio Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Antonio — Two local tech-related organizations have announced a new program with Trinity University that will offer paid internships at San Antonio startups this summer.
C... |
| Dec 5, 2015 | Geekdom puts on a Geekshow Party for San Antonio | For its fourth birthday Geekdom hosted a free Circus-themed party in downtown San Antonio Thursday night at Main Plaza. |
| Dec 4, 2015 | Geekdom Transforms San Antonio’s Technology Industry in Four Years | What kind of impact can a privately financed technology incubator have on a city? |
| Nov 3, 2015 | Competition to Award $50K in Grants to 3 Tech Startups in Bexar County | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Aug 5, 2015 | Google Fiber is Coming to San Antonio | |
| May 20, 2015 | A Technology Revolution is Brewing in San Antonio | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Lightphile Won the 2015 InnoTech Beta Summit | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Feb 13, 2015 | Mass Venture of San Antonio Approved as Texas’ First Equity-Based Crowdfunding Portal | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Jan 21, 2015 | SXSW Interactive 2015 to Feature More on Startups and a Robot Petting Zoo | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Dec 16, 2014 | Payment Data Systems Buys Akimbo of San Antonio for $3 million | |
| Sep 27, 2014 | YupiCall Wants to Connect People Internationally for Less Money | By JONATHAN GUTIERREZ
Reporter for Silicon Hills News |
| Sep 3, 2014 | San Antonio-based Storific Wins People’s Choice Award at M2M Conference | |
| Aug 2, 2014 | Mexico’s Resources Fuel The Texas Startup Economy | Sara Inés Calderón Contributor
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| Jul 24, 2014 | SAPitch Provides an Informal Setting for San Antonio Startups to Pitch to Investors | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Jul 1, 2014 | WP Engine Opens an Office at Geekdom in San Antonio | By LAURA LOREK
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| Jun 26, 2014 | Disrupting Education to Create a Highly Skilled Workforce | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| May 17, 2014 | San Antonio Ranks Third on Forbes List of the Nation’s Tech Hot Spots | Forbes names San Antonio-New Braunfels as one of America’s technology hot spots. |
| May 7, 2014 | UTSA Hosts the Open BigCloud Symposium | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Apr 28, 2014 | 3 Day Startup Green Tech in San Antonio Sprouts Startups | By LAURA LOREK
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| Apr 21, 2014 | Geekdom Moves Into its New Headquarters at the Rand | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Geekdom on the Move | For the first time in its more than two year history, Geekdom will close its doors Friday at 2 p.m.
But don’t fret.
It’s only temporary.
Geekdom, the downtown technology incubator and co-working space in San Antonio, is moving to the histor... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | Codeup Bootcamp Aims to Turn Non-techies into Web Programmers | By ZACH REED
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Apr 3, 2014 | Coworking Options for Yogis, Dog-Lovers and Everybody Else | By SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Mar 5, 2014 | We Walk and Others Pitch at San Antonio New Tech | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Mar 2, 2014 | Geekdom Fund Invests in Three San Antonio Startups | By LAURA LOREK
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| Feb 21, 2014 | Tips for Startups on Raising Old Money and Crowdfunding | |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Tips on Branding for Startups | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Feb 14, 2014 | San Antonio-based Carbon Black is Acquired by Bit9 | Carbon Black, a San Antonio-based cyber security startup, has merged with Waltham, MA-based Bit9.
Carbon Black makes software to deal with detection of hackers on a computer system and response to hackers once an incidence has occurred. Bit... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | Opportunities and Obstacles in America’s Visa Options | BY SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Jan 2, 2014 | San Antonio’s Top 10 Tech Stories for 2013 | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Dec 27, 2013 | The Rise of San Antonio as A Center for Diabetes Research | By SHIR EVEN ZOHAR
Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Geekdom Gets a Hip Makeover at its New Digs in the Historic Rand Building | |
| Nov 16, 2013 | SparkFun’s National Tour Teaches Kids the Basics of Programming | By ANDREW MOORE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Nov 14, 2013 | ZippyKid Relaunches as Pressable | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Diabetes Management Platform: Dario to Debut at Geekdom | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Nov 5, 2013 | How I learned to stop worrying and love the Internet (again) | Lately, there’s been an undercurrent of criticism against the web, and not just the web itself, but its constant intrusion into our lives due to smartphones.
Recently, a clip of comedian Louis C.K. on Conan O’Brien’s show went viral (ironic... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | How I learned to stop worrying and love the Internet (again) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lately, there’s been an undercurrent of criticism against the web, and not just the web itself, but its constant intrusion into our liv... |
| Oct 24, 2013 | Codeup Seeks to Create New Developers in San Antonio | By ANDREW MOORE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Sep 27, 2013 | Five Nonprofit Organizations Pitch Startups at Tech Summit | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Sep 22, 2013 | Bob Metcalfe at Startup Grind San Antonio | Startup Grind San Antonio features an interview with Bob Metcalfe Tuesday at Geekdom in downtown San Antonio.
Metcalfe has had five careers so far and currently serves as professor of innovation at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Int... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Akimbo and Toopher Pitching at Finovate in New York | Two Central Texas technology companies are presenting at FinovateFall 2013 in New York today and tomorrow.
FinovateFall 2013 is a two-day showcase of cutting-edge financial and banking technology innovations from startups as well as establi... |
| Aug 6, 2013 | Riding the Rails Between Austin and San Antonio | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Jul 29, 2013 | San Antonio-based TrueAbility Lands $2 Million in Funding | The year-old San Antonio startup TrueAbility, which tests people for their technical aptitude, closed on $2 million in funding led by Austin Ventures.
The company, founded by former Rackspace employees, also received money from the Cloud Po... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | 3 Day Startup San Antonio Accepting Application | 3 Day Startup San Antonio is taking applications for its next program, which will take place on August 9th and run through August 11th on the 10th floor of Geekdom at the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio.
The deadline to apply is July ... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Need Startup Cash? Check out the Geekdom Fund in San Antonio | By ANDREW MOORE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| May 23, 2013 | San Antonio Marches for Innovation and Immigration Reform | By ANDREW MOORE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Apr 27, 2013 | Inside 3DS (Part I) | By Ian Panchèvre
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Apr 23, 2013 | González and Mosier is Hacking the Law at Geekdom | By Ian Panchèvre
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Six Startups to Compete at the 2013 Innotech San Antonio Beta Summit | At the Innotech San Antonio Beta Summit Wednesday at 3 p.m. six startup companies will pitch their companies. The audience will select one startup as the winner of the 2013 Beta Summit and that company will receive the trophy pictured here.... |
| Apr 13, 2013 | Startup Grind San Antonio Launches Featuring Interview with Jason Seats | Startup Grind, based in Mountain View, Calif. seeks to foster entrepreneurship through storytelling.
Derek Anderson founded Startup Grind, which now has chapters in 40 cities and 20 countries around the world.
One of the latest chapters is ... |
| Apr 3, 2013 | ParLevel Systems, Greenhouse and Conspire Present at SA New Tech | Close to 70 people turned out for the eighth SA New Tech meetup at Geekdom in downtown San Antonio Tuesday night.
Cole Wollak, SA New Tech founder, kicked things off by having everyone introduce himself or herself to a stranger.
That got th... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | Geekdom to Move into Historic Rand Building | Geekdom, the collaborative coworking site is moving into the historic Rand Building downtown in December.
Weston Urban, the commercial real estate firm owned by billionaire Graham Weston, Monday announced it has bought the Rand Building, co... |
| Mar 8, 2013 | Kirpeep’s SXSW Swag Challenge Featured on A Slice of Silicon Hills | Kirpeep’s Leticia Barrientos, vice president of outreach, talks with Slice of Silicon Hills Host Andrew Moore about the startup’s plans for South by Southwest this weekend.
The company, based at Geekdom, is having a swag challenge at SXSW. ... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Geekdom Launches GeekdomX, a Global Coworking Affiliate | Geekdom, the collaborative coworking site in downtown San Antonio, has launched GeekdomX, a new affiliate in which it will seek partners globally to open similar coworking sites.
Geekdom, which launched a little over a year ago, has 600 mem... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Coworking Grows as Traditional Workers Look for Alternative Workspaces | BY L.A. LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Feb 22, 2013 | ZippyKid Featured on A Slice of Silicon Hills | This week on Slice of Silicon Hills News, host Andrew Moore interviews Vid Luther, founder of ZippyKid, a WordPress hosting site.
The startup, founded in 2010, is based at Geekdom, a sponsor of Silicon Hills News.
Moore interviews Luther at... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | TechStars Alumni Weekend Unites New and Old Cloud Startups | BY ANDREW MOORE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Feb 15, 2013 | A Slice of Silicon Hills Features TrueAbility | This week, Andrew Moore talks with Frederick “Suizo” Mendler, co-founder of TrueAbility.
The San Antonio-based startup, founded by four former Rackspace employees, known as Rackers, has created an online testing and assessment system for te... |
| Feb 10, 2013 | Kirpeep Allows People to Exchange Goods and Services | BY IAN PANCHEVRE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Jan 29, 2013 | TrueAbility Selected as a SXSW Interactive Accelerator Finalist | San Antonio-based TrueAbility made the finalist list for the SXSW Accelerator in March.
TrueAbility, one of the TechStar Cloud companies based at Geekdom, is the only startup from Central Texas to make the list. A few Austin companies made ... |
| Jan 22, 2013 | A Video Tour of Geekdom, Texas’ Largest Co-working Space | Nick Longo, director of Geekdom, provides this insight into Geekdom, a year-old collaborative coworking space in downtown San Antonio. It is Texas’ largest co-working site. Geekdom, which is a sponsor of Silicon Hills News, has expanded fro... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | Geekdom Fund Awards $25,000 to SportyBird | Want to keep track of your kids’ soccer stats throughout the season and years?
SportyBird.io, a new San Antonio-based startup, has created a mobile application for that.
Founded by Josh Swank, 28, and John Trenholm, 27, SportyBird has creat... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | TrueAbility Lands $750,000 in Seed Stage Funding | TrueAbility, a technology recruiting startup in San Antonio, has landed $750,000 in seed stage funding.
Rackspace Co-Founder Pat Condon and Graham Weston, Co-Founder and Chairman of Rackspace led the funding round.
TrueAbility, based at Gee... |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Diverse Tech Companies Demo at SA New Tech | By ANDREW MOORE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Dec 10, 2012 | Geekdom Launches Open Cloud Academy | Geekdom plans to launch the Open Cloud Academy early next year to teach veterans and the public technology skills.
The Open Cloud Academy will be located on the 6th floor of the Weston Centre downtown. Its eight-week classes will begin in t... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Four New San Antonio Startups Demo at SA New Tech | By ANDREW MOORE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Nov 20, 2012 | San Antonio’s CallGrader In DreamIt Ventures Philadelphia | |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Seven Startups Debut Out of 3 Day Startup San Antonio | |
| Oct 29, 2012 | “We Are the Entrepreneurs of the Future” | At the end of the SparkED program at Geekdom on Sunday, the kids presented their projects to their parents.
“My name is Ryan and I’m a Web designer,” said a member of the website team.
He then told the packed room of proud parents about how... |
| Oct 13, 2012 | SparkEd Kicks Off at Geekdom | This weekend, Louis Pacilli will lead a test run of Geekdom’s SparkEd program with 40 at risk Junior High School kids.
The program officially starts next weekend at Geekdom, on the 11th floor of the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio.
“I... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Zippykid, Elequa and Soloshot Demo at SANewTech | Zippykid’s Founder Vid Luther kicked off the second monthly meeting of San Antonio New Tech at Geekdom in San Antonio on Tuesday night.
Zippykid offers managed WordPress hosting free to sites with less than 5,000 monthly pageviews and $25 a... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Zippykid Unveils New Features and “Next Generation” Services | Vid Luther started Zippykid in 2010 to meet a need for dedicated hosting of WordPress sites.
The San Antonio-based startup has quickly grown. It now occupies one of the largest offices at Geekdom and has nine employees. During a recent meet... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | Education is Key to San Antonio’s Innovation Economy | “We know that you can’t be pro-business unless you’re pro-education,” San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro at the Democratic National Convention. |
| Sep 7, 2012 | Rackspace, Cirrus Logic and SolarWinds Make Fortune’s Fastest Growing List | CNNMoney, a service of CNN, Fortune and Money, reports that Rackspace Hosting ranks at number No. 67 on Fortune’s list of the country’s fastest growing companies.
Rackspace had three-year revenue growth of 25 percent and profit growth of 45... |
| Sep 7, 2012 | Grapevine wins $25,000 from Geekdom Fund | One of the first recipients of the Geekdom Fund is Grapevine in San Antonio.
Geekdom announced the news Friday morning.
“This allows us to buy Ramen at the very least,” said Richard Ortega, one of Grapevine’s founders. “It gives us the oppo... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | Perfecting the Tech Pitch | |
| Aug 1, 2012 | ZippyKid Will Pay $3,000 & New iPhone for Employee Referral | Everyone knows by now that tech talent is in short supply nationwide.
So ZippyKid, a fast growing WordPress hosting site, is offering $3,000 and the latest iPhone to someone who refers the winning candidate for its job opening.
The company,... |
| Jul 27, 2012 | DreamIt Ventures Launches Pre-Seed Stage Accelerator in Austin | Got a dream for the next big thing?
Then DreamIt Ventures has got an pre-seed stage accelerator program for you.
The Philadelphia-based incubator will launch its first accelerator program in Austin, which will kick off in mid-December and r... |
| Jul 20, 2012 | Geekdom Launches Seed Stage Fund for Startups | Geekdom is taking a gamble on new technology startups.
The collaborative coworking site today launched the Geekdom Fund, seed stage capital for technology startups in San Antonio.
The fund will provide startup teams with $25,000 equity inve... |
| Jul 7, 2012 | Floating Ideas at Central Texas Barcamp at Geekdom | A white board plastered with dozens of sticky notes tells part of the story of the first Central Texas Barcamp at Geekdom.
People attending this unconference filled the board with ideas for sessions including ethical hacking, how to create ... |
| Jul 3, 2012 | Startup Weekend San Antonio at Geekdom | In the old days, inventors tinkered in obscurity in their garages, spare bedrooms and basements.
But now that cool collaboration and coworking spaces like Geekdom have arrived on the scene, there’s no need to tinker in private. And if you’v... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | Top People to Talk to About the Thriving Startup Scene in Silicon Hills | |
| Apr 9, 2012 | Apply for 3 Day Startup San Antonio | This weekend a special 3 Day Startup takes place at Home Away’s headquarters in Austin.
And another 3 Day Startup is scheduled for the weekend of April 27 at Geekdom at the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio.
The deadline to apply to par... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | CallGrader Wins the InnoTech San Antonio Beta Summit | A self-described “motley crew of passionate developers, marketers, mattress testers, and professional eaters” took home the top prize at the fourth annual InnoTech San Antonio Beta Summit Thursday.
CallGrader, a 9-month old startup, won the... |
| Mar 31, 2012 | Forging the TechStars Cloud companies | At the Geekdom, twice a week, entrepreneurs behind the 11 TechStars Cloud companies gather to pitch their ventures. |
| Mar 24, 2012 | Bill Boebel Recounts Webmail’s Path to Success | Running a technology startup takes perseverance, money, luck, talent and the ability to adapt quickly.
That’s the takeaway from Bill Boebel’s Startup Ignite talk at the Geekdom in San Antonio Friday night.
Boebel, now an angel investor and ... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | What’s brewing in Silicon Hills? Coffeehouses hotspots for startups | |
