AustinStartup

We first wrote about Caringo two years ago with their first very quiet and secret raise of funds. Today they are putting out a press release announcing their $5M in funding. It’s hard to say if this is in addition to their previous money, or if they’re finally announcing that they’ve raised $5M over the past few years and they’re lumping it all together to call it a Series A.

I think it’s safe to say that early stage funding is going strong in Austin in 2010. It seems that not a week goes by without a notable seed round or A round invested in Austin companies. Back in April we wrote about Workstreamer, a business listening platform, launching their public beta. At the time they had 350 people in their private beta, and hoped to gain momentum and real customer insights from a larger public beta.

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price. But even Walmart (the epitome of brick and [...]

SailPoint announced today that Tesco Bank, the UK’s most successful supermarket bank, has selected SailPoint IdentityIQ™ as its identity governance solution to support information security and compliance programs within the bank. The selection forms part of Tesco Bank’s migration programme from The Royal Bank of Scotland to its own [...]

Click Forensics, a leading provider of online advertising and audience verification solutions, today announced that it recently closed a $6 million Series C funding round led by Austin Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and Shasta Ventures. The funding will help support Click Forensics as it expands development and marketing of new offerings designed to help brand advertisers and agencies verify online audiences and optimize investments for display advertising campaigns.

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) announced today that Cindy R. WalkerPeach, Ph.D has taken on the role of director for the bioscience segment of the organization. Bioscience is one of four stated focus areas for the ATI, the other three being IT, wireless, and clean energy. Dr. WalkerPeach comes from Asuragen and Ambion, two companies [...]

uShip, the global online transport marketplace, today announced the acquisition of boxby.co.uk, the UK’s first web site to offer a transport exchange for couriers. The transaction provides UK house removal firms and eBay couriers access to more delivery jobs, helping them run full and more efficiently as they battle rising fuels costs and [...]

Savara, Inc., an inhalation drug delivery company, today announced that it has been chosen by the state of Texas as the recipient of a commercialization award funded through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). The company, which produces novel respiratory therapeutics, will receive a $1.9 million award for the commercialization of [...]

Austin-based chip development firm Wintegra updated their 2006 IPO filing on Friday. The current plan is to raise $115M on a valuation of somewhere between $250M – $500M. The offering will be led by Barclay’s and Deutsche Bank Securities. The people gaining some liquidity from this deal include funds Magma, Concord, and Genesis, chip makers [...]

Red Oxygen, one of the world’s leading developers and distributors of Enterprise SMS / Text messaging software applications and services, is bringing the speed, security and convenience of text messaging to healthcare companies around the world. With text messaging, companies can get critical information to large groups without the burden of dialing every member or [...]