You can add ActaCell to the growing list (2 so far!) of highly secretive battery technology companies in Austin. The company announced a $5.8M Series A financing today.
ActaCell is creating some sort of new technology in the Lithium-Ion battery market, and has been in the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) for several months now. It appears [...]
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Phurnace Software announced that it has completed its $5 million Series A financing, led by S3 Ventures, a Texas-based venture capital firm. Previous investors, including DFJ Mercury, also participated in the financing. The capital will be used by Phurnace to expand sales, marketing and development activities for its patent-pending deployment automation products.
We first saw Phurnace [...]
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Entorian Technologies (NASDAQ: ENTN), formerly Staktek Holdings, announced the acquisition of Augmentix Corporation, a leader in rugged computing solutions. Both companies are headquartered in Austin. The acquisition positions Entorian to further expand into high-growth markets and to build on its 18-year history of manufacturing and packaging intellectual property (IP) for thermally and performance-intensive environments. Terms [...]
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Nuventix, creators of the SynJet™ technology cooling solution, announced today the completion of a $14 million round of funding led by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV). New investor Braemar Energy Ventures and existing investors CenterPoint Ventures, InterWest Partners and RHO Ventures also participated in the round of financing. The new funding will support rapid market adoption the [...]
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If you have your iPhone handy, and want to know when the next bus is coming, check out a new website optimized for the iPhone called Me2Bus.
http://www.me2bus.com/austin/
The application was created by Nfomedia. Company founder John Erdner told us that initially it started as a reference tool that people in the company used themselves, but later [...]
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The folks over at TechCrunch announced today that they’ve opened up an API to CrunchBase, their comprehensive wiki of tech companies. We’re going to start using the CrunchBase widget here in AustinStartup, so if you want to see a nice widget of your company below any postings of your company make sure you are in [...]
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The folks at Door64 are holding a High Tech Career Faire on August 7th from 3pm - 9pm. The career faire itself runs from 3p - 6pm, and then from 6pm - 9pm there will be networking and socializing. The event is free to the public.
If you’re in the market and looking, or maybe just thinking [...]
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If your iPhone application is in the iPhone app store, and you’re an Austin-based company, we’d like to hear from you. We’re searching, and so far we see zippo. Zero. Nothing.
Please ping the editor [at] austinstartup with dot com as the top level domain.
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Challenge Games, developer of the popular Duels online fantasy game and member of the Austin Emerging 100, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, which has a long history of investing in market-leading gaming companies – including being the original investor in Atari, Electronic Arts and nVIDIA. Challenge [...]
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This week’s Q&A Wednesday is with Games2U, an exciting new Austin-based company focused on creative entertainment. What’s that have to do with Austin Startup? Well, there actually is a lot of cool technology that goes into the company. So, we sat down with David Pikoff to find out more about the company and what the [...]
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