Stacey Higginbotham is breaking the news over at GigaOM property Earth2Tech that Joel Serface, director of the Clean Energy Incubator, will be leaving to become an Entrepreneur in Residence at Kleiner Perkins Department of Energy Program, which is an effort to commercialize clean technology coming out of the national laboratories.
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HelioVolt, the well-funded Austin startup lead by Dr. B.J. Stanbery, is rumored to be announcing a breakthrough in CIGS efficiency with its CIGS cells. According to the company, it’s proprietary FASST reactive transfer printing process can produce cells with a 12.2% conversion efficiency in a mere 6 minutes. The announcement is expected come [...]
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HelioVolt, Austin’s very own thin film photovoltaic company that recently raised just under $100 million in venture financing, scored a huge hiring win today, announcing that Louay Eldada has been hired as CTO. Eldada was previously the CTO at du Pont, and served as a director for DuPont Photonics Technologies.
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Click Forensics, the Austin-based company which creates software to help people battle click fraud which recently raised $10m from Sierra Ventures, Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures, has announced that Paul Pellman has been named to the position of CEO. In his new role, Pellman will oversee strategic company initiatives, operations, and key growth and business [...]
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In case you missed it in the Statesman today, here is a great article about Bijoy Goswami, and his thoughts on Bootstrapping.
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Austin Ventures announced that Thomas Ball and David Lack were promoted to partner. Tom Ball has emerged as the go-to guy for investments that are more oriented towards Web 2.0. He sits on the boards of Bazaarvoice, Pluck, Spiceworks, Jigsaw, and Boundless Network. “In a heavily competitive Series A, Tom made the difference. His blend [...]
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TechTurn, an Austin-based technology recovery, refurbishing and resale company, today announced that Vito Fabiano has joined the executive team as Chief Operating Officer. Fabiano brings to TechTurn global leadership experience from key executive rolls at Dell and Pitney Bowes. Fabiano will be responsible for helping TechTurn fully realize its unprecedented potential within the exploding corporate green [...]
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FiveRuns, a company that provides enterprise class management services for Ruby on Rails, announced that Todd Barr has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development. Todd previously held various positions at Red Hat including Senior Manager of Partner Development, and Senior Director of Customer Marketing. Barr will help to expand the Rails Application [...]
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SemiSouth Laboratories, a Mississippi semiconductor company, has moved its headquarters to Austin. The move follows on the heals of the appointment of Vess Johnson as President. Johnson, who was previously President of Nascentric, Inc., an Austin Ventures backed company, will now be leading a company that develops silicon carbide electronics and power semiconductors. [...]
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Austin-based Sailpoint Technologies announced the appointment of Darran Rolls to the position of Chief Technology Officer. Sailpoint is a technology company that is creating leading edge enterprise solutions in identity management and compliance. Sailpoint recently raised $10M in a Series B funding, and we featured them in a Q&A Wednesday segment back in November.
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