According to PE Hub, PTV Sciences, one of the areas leading biotech venture capital firms, gained some star power today when it announced that Rick Anderson, the former chairman for Johnson & Johnson and worldwide franchise chairman for Cordis Corp., has joined the firm as managing director. PTV has been in the news recently for its funding activities, including Apollo Endosurgery and Asuragen. Between PTV and Sante, expect great things from the up and coming [...]
NextIO, Inc., the leader in I/O virtualization solutions, today announced it closed an $18.8 million Series C funding round. Adams Capital Management and Crescendo Ventures led the round with participation from other inside investors as well as two new strategic investors. The funding will be used by NextIO to further expand its development team and sales channels in preparation for the upcoming release of several virtualization system products in 2008. To date, NextIO has raised [...]
Austin-based provider of ad supported IT management software Spiceworks, has been named by the editors of Webware, a CNET site, as a finalist in this year’s “Webware 100” Awards for Utility and Security category. Voting is open to the public beginning Monday, February 25, 2008 at noon PACIFIC and closes on Monday, March 31, 2008 and can be accessed at http://www.webware.com/100 “The Webware 100 recognizes the best Web 2.0 applications of the year and we’re [...]
For those of you exploring the clean energy space, here’s a venture capital firm that you should be talking with. Good Energies is a global investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Let me share with you a quote from the CEO Richard Kauffman that should grab your attention. “We want to invest half a billion US-dollars per year into companies and technologies that can speed up energy transition.” They are a global company, with [...]
TechTurn, an Austin-based technology recovery, refurbishing and resale company, today announced that Vito Fabiano has joined the executive team as Chief Operating Officer. Fabiano brings to TechTurn global leadership experience from key executive rolls at Dell and Pitney Bowes. Fabiano will be responsible for helping TechTurn fully realize its unprecedented potential within the exploding corporate green movement. Fabiano comes to TechTurn after nine years at Dell, where he was the founder of Dell Managed Services, VP/GM [...]
Caringo Inc., wich recently received an undisclosed amount of financing, unveiled the CaringoConnect Developer Program for software developers in the ISV, academic, systems integrator and Web 2.0 sectors. The company provides content storage software that enables clustered storage for active and archive content. CaringoConnect is a dedicated web portal that streamlines the integration and validation process with Caringo CAStor for any organization delivering solutions that manage, store and archive digital content. It’s as simple as [...]
Here is the job page for Google positions in Austin: http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=11713&dep_id=1173 Looks like they are hiring for advertising sales (imagine that!). There are inside sales, but also technical engineering positions. There are also openings for enterprise sales and tech support. Plus you get to work in that cool downtown office building! Give us some comment love if you’re working at Google in Austin, or intereviewing for a position.
Tim Westergren, founder of the personalized online radio service Pandora, posted an announcement on his blog that he will be having a Pandora meet-up at the Alamo tonight. From the blog: We are having a Pandora meet-up at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin. Hope to see you there–excited to meet our Austin listeners! If you would like to attend, please RSVP by sending an email to Angie at tour@pandora.com with AUSTIN in the subject line. [...]
Americans fed up with terrible neighbors have been actively contributing data —including the street, city and a description of the bad behavior— to a new real estate search tool that focuses exclusively on the “neighbor-space.” Posts on awful —and the occasional great— neighbors already number in the hundreds of thousands, making a search of the site in virtually any city turn up productive information for the potential renter or homebuyer. The site, RottenNeighbor.com, features user-contributed [...]
Austin-based Pluck announced that it has signed a deal with Hearst digital. The Pluck social media technology will power the audience participation and community features of the websites of some pretty major Hearst brands including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Harper’s Bazaar. Alex Ballantyne, Hearst digital’s Managing Director, says: “Based on our review, no other social media platform can scale to support traffic volumes in the millions like Pluck SiteLife. In addition, the integration of the [...]
