Gartner Report Good News for Zilliant

Zilliant today announced that the recently released report from Gartner, “Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2008″ is now available by request at www.zilliant.com. The report reviews over 25 CRM technologies to help companies better understand the maturity, application and rate of adoption for the applications. Included in the review process, is an assessment by Gartner [...]

Significant Venture Funding in Austin During Q4

On Friday afternoon, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial released data showing that venture funding across the US was up, with 963 companies raising over $7 billion in the fourth quarter.  Most interestingly, out of the top 10 deals in 2007, only 3 were in California (local company Heliovolt raised either [...]

EEStor Makes Nice with Lockheed and Mort Topfer

We were hearing rumors that the relationship between EEStor and Mort Topfer was on the rocks, which would be a huge loss for EEStor. But today they released news and made it official that Mort has joined the Board of Directors. The release goes on to say that they have 1 patent issued with 17 [...]

Valuing Early Stage Companies