AustinStartup

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Anthony Castoro, the CEO of Heatwave Interactive. The company has been at SXSW Screenburn showing off Platinum Life, their iSamJackson iPhone app, and Gods & Heroes. Perhaps you were at their party at The Belmont last night?

Gov. Rick Perry today announced on the Governor’s Office Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/TexasGovernor) that the state will invest $1.4 million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) for Facebook to create a sales and operations office in Austin. This investment will create 200 jobs and more than $3.1 million in capital investment. The TEF funding is conditioned upon [...]

The annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival has been known as the launchpad for web-based technology companies. The most famous is probably Twitter, but other companies such as Smule and Gowalla have launched during the festival. Austin-based Localiter is hoping to make a similar splash at the festival with their daily specials made possible by [...]

RenewData, a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines. RenewData’s revolutionary end-to-end platform is the industry’s first solution to expedite eDiscovery of both [...]

It’s time for Capital Factory 2010 to start kicking off with the opening of applications, startup speed dating, and office hours where you can meet the mentors and share ideas. If you didn’t keep track of Capital Factory in our inaugural year last year, five companies were selected for the program (Cubit Planning, Hourville, Sparefoot, [...]

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 [...]

Click Forensics, Inc., the industry leader in audience verification and traffic quality improvement for the online advertising community, today announced that it is working with eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, to help protect eBay advertisers from fraudulent traffic and to improve conversion rates for merchants using eBay’s AdCommerce advertising platform. By working together to [...]

IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed (but you can speculate in the comments). Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes to increase efficiencies [...]

Austin-based SpiceWorks announced last week that version 4.5 has come out of beta, and the final is shipping. This is the 17th software release in 3 years for the company, and contains a handful of great new features. The tool contains support for HTTPS/SSL, so that it can manage networks outside of your firewall with [...]

One of the interesting things that we discovered during our first year of Capital Factory was that very few companies had a complete founding team. By complete, I mean the founding team had people with both knowledge of their product and industry, and technical skills.