AustinStartup

Capture Design, a local Austin based product development services company, has been on a steadily paced growth since its inception in 2006. The company hosts an array of services, catered specifically to startups, early-stage companies and entrepreneurs. They do so by offering a highly flexible working structure with no minimums or commitments, and by being [...]

We hope you had a great holiday break! We’re excited to kick off the new year with a happy hour at Molotov on Thursday, January 28th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. We’d like to thank our sponsors Spiceworks and TicketCity. Come on out meet some of the folks from Spiceworks and TicketCity, as well as your [...]

ReachForce, the leading provider of 100% guaranteed, role-based contact lists, data cleansing services and analytics-based targeting software (SaaS) to laser focus lead generation initiatives, today announced the close of additional financing by Greenhill SAVP. The latest round of funding will go toward the hiring of sales, marketing, and product development personnel. This [...]

With all the recent tablet talk, we check in with Austin’s own tablet trendsetters, Motion Computing

If you remember over a year ago we wrote about Convio pulling their IPO and turning the corner on profitability at the same time. Today they re-filed for an IPO, although at $57.5M this one is a little bit smaller. I’m sure while this registration was in the works, they had no idea about last [...]

Austin-based Virtual Bridges announced a $4M Series A financing from Austin Ventures. The company is in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market, and claims faster payback than Citrix or VMWare. Coverage by The Statesman, and the full release can be found here.
“Austin Ventures is excited to be partnering with Virtual Bridges in the desktop cloud [...]

You may have seen them demo at Innotech at the Beta Summit, but today Spredfast is being launched to the world. It allows companies to manage, monitor, and measure their messages and voices across multiple social media channels. They are getting good coverage on the release today, with a story on GigaOM, and some coverage [...]

Calling upon all central Texas tech companies, employees, entrepreneurs and friends to donate to the $600,000 matching fund for Haiti assistance

Investcorp Technology Partners, the technology private equity arm of alternative investment manager Investcorp, announced today that its Fund III has agreed to acquire an equity stake in CSIdentity, the Austin, Texas-based technology leader in identity theft and fraud protection services. CSIdentity was started by entrepreneur and co-founder Bill Morrow. The Fund has made [...]

5 Minutes, 20 slides, any topic! Ignite comes to Austin tonight.