It’s that time of year again when Inc. Magazine publishes their list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the country. For the second year in a row, they have expanded the list to 5,000. You can see the entire list of companies, or if you’d like you can see just the companies based in the Austin region. Last week I sat down with Jon Armstrong, CEO of AdLucent (#73 and the fastest growing tech [...]
Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today unveiled new Social Network Accelerators to help its clients effectively leverage social networks in their social commerce strategies. Bazaarvoice, which pioneered the social commerce market, launched ShoutIt! in 2007 to help marketers amplify the voices of their most influential customers on social networks. The company continues to lead the industry in defining new ways to maximize measurable ROI from social [...]
Offers.com has launched a Back-to-School Savings Center to help families save when shopping for back-to-school items. American consumers spend about $50 billion1 on back-to-school shopping and Offers.com can help them stretch their budgets in a challenging economy. The site has also added over 100 new stores and four new service categories, expanding the money-saving opportunities offered. The Back-to-School Savings Center features the best coupons, discount offers and other resources to help families save money. Offers.com [...]
TAKE Supply Chain (formerly ClearOrbit), a leading provider of software solutions to power demand-driven value networks, today announced the acquisition of the product division of privately-held, Gardena, CA-based, EntComm. In April, the two companies partnered to combine TAKE’s supplier collaboration capabilities with EntComm’s software as a service (SaaS) commerce platform. The acquisition solidifies TAKE’s portfolio expansion of SaaS-based applications and leverages TAKE’s global presence across North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific to provide [...]
According to regulatory filings, Austin-based Bandspeed has secured committments of $4.5 million of a planned $9.5 million round of venture financing. Guggenheim Technology Ventures and return backer JatoTech Ventures are listed as shareholders. The company previously raised around $44 million since 2001, including a $10M round in mid-2007, from firms like JatoTech, CenterPoint Venture Partners, Cisco Systems and MSD Capital (Michael Dell’s venture business). The company doesn’t typically release news or details of financing activities. [...]
Today’s guest blogger is Ellen Wood who is the co-founder and CEO of Austin based vcfo, inc. The firm specializes in operational finance and accounting, HR Solutions and recruiting services for companies of all sizes. She can be reached at 512-345-9441. For most entrepreneurs equity is just a word the lawyers and finance people use when talking about funding. It’s not something that is front and center on a daily basis – but it should [...]
SiteStuff today announced that it will soon offer three new business process improvement solutions aimed at increasing efficiency, lowering back office costs and promoting sustainability within the real estate industry. These new additions will complement the existing procurement solution, SiteStuff PROCUREplus™ for which the company has been widely recognized. Beginning in September 2009 SiteStuff will expand its existing technology and services line to include SiteStuff PAYplus™, which provides conversion of paper invoices to electronic data [...]
The annual Innotech Conference is coming back to Austin on October 29, 2009. If you haven’t been, it’s the biggest gather of tech people in Austin (short of SXSW Interactive). Last year attendance was at record levels with about 2,000 people at the conference, and you can register here. There will be a great new addition to the tradeshow portion of Innotech, and that is Startup Row. It’s a chance for younger companies to have [...]
