VisionWare has raised $8.2M of a $14.2M Series B round, according to Texas TechPulse. The company develops audio and video digital interconnects. You can see a video here about one of their first products, and HDMI cable made for really high end video uses. I always think of cables as just a bunch of wires with connectors at the end. These products have circuitry at both ends of the cable to ensure low data loss, [...]
Cleantech Friday by Steve Guengerich I have to admit: I’m a big Bruce Sterling fan. As a certifiably “famous” science fiction writer – counting as yet another of the partially-resident celebrities that Austin loves to claim as its own – Sterling has always struck me as among those folks like David Bowie’s character in the wonderfully creepy movie “The Man Who Fell to Earth” …someone not quite fitting in with the present times. For years, [...]
Creditcards.com started the trend, and now Austin-based Convio has filed papers with the SEC for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of their stock. The offering is led by Goldman Sachs, one of the premier investment bankers in the world. Convio was founded in 1999 initially with the name ShowSupport.com. Earlier in the year, Convio acquired GetActive Software of Berkeley, California which had revenues of $12.8M in 2006. The filing discloses revenues dating back to 2004, [...]
Thom Singer, Author / SpeakerSome Assembly Required Blog You are up to your elbows in your technology start-up and the last thing you have time for is networking. It is a given that life in a start-up is all consuming, and the long hours of micro focus can leave you little time for anything else. The last thing on your mind is taking the time to meet new people (outside of investors, co-workers and prospective [...]
Q&A Wednesday proved to be a popular feature. This week our Q&A is with Dennis Cox, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer at BreakingPoint Systems. BreakingPoint recently announced the launch of their first product, the BPS-1000, for networking and intrusion testing. Q: You have created a very technically sophisticated product for the really smart people that maintain and test networks against intrusion. It seems like a daily battle of new viruses, exploits, and other attacks. How [...]
Spiceworks, one of five companies named the "Next Big Thing" at the Enterprise 2007 conference, announced today that is has raised an additional $8 million in venture funding from Shasta Ventures and current stockholder Austin Ventures. The company, founded by four former Motive employees, focuses on providing a simple, downloadable IT infrastructure and generates revenue from the clickable ads featured in its IT Desktop console program via a partnership with Google Adsense. And, according to [...]
Austin-based Apogee Search was featured in the Wall Street Journal today on page B4 in an article titled Paying Bloggers For Online Review Can Fan Fame. Not bad! We have yet to ask company executives, who specialize in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consulting, how they got such great placement. The article talks about "Pay Per Post" or "Sponsored Reviews" in which bloggers are paid to write about someone’s product or service in exchange for a [...]
World Talk Radio has an interview with Bazaarvoice CEO Brett Hurt, which you can find here. It’s an MP3 file, not streamed, so it will take a few seconds for you to download it. In an interview with Lisa Morgan, Brett talks mostly about his background and interest in technology at an early age. Brett talks about the interview on the company blog, which also has links to upcoming events they are involved with such [...]
It seems that our Q&A Wednesday feature has sparked some renewed interest in the format, and today TexasTechPulse is featuring an interview with Craig Malloy, CEO of LifeSize. We believe LifeSize is a stellar company with fantastic prospects. You can find their jobs page here.
