Tag Archives: Austin Ventures

Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

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 [...]

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Click Forensics Secures $6 Million Series C

Click Forensics Secures $6 Million Series C

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.

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Virtual Bridges Raises $4M

Virtual Bridges Raises $4M

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 [...]

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Austin Tech Leaders Create Matching HelpHaiti Fund

Austin Tech Leaders Create Matching HelpHaiti Fund

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

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Austin Ventures Entrepreneur Hours

Austin Ventures Entrepreneur Hours

Venture Capital is always the hot topic among startup technology companies. How do you land venture capital? How do you get a meeting? Who do you pitch? What do they want to hear? Most people think that they can call up and make an appointment, do a 60-minute presentation, and then pickup their check at [...]

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NetStreams Acquired by ClearOne

Austin-based NetStreams has been acquired by publicly traded company ClearOne, according to the following press release. NetStreams had raised over $27M from investors, including Austin Ventures.
NetStreams is the global leader in digital media networks based on Internet Protocol (IP) technology that is used in a wide variety of applications, including digital signage, corporate video distribution, [...]

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Manuel Rosso Raises $2M from AV

Manuel Rosso Raises $2M from AV

Manuel Rosso, formerly of Dell’s desktop group and IMVU Inc., a social media startup (co-founded by guru Eric Ries) has raised $2 million from Austin Ventures, the Statesman’s Lori Hawkins reports.
The new company was incubated at AV over the last year, where Rosso served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence.
Austin Startup can additionally confirm that Rosso has hired [...]

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