Noesis Energy is targeting the estimated $70B in annual U.S. energy waste by helping commercial and industrial customers drive greater energy efficiencies out of their operations. Backed by an initial investment of $6.5M from Austin Ventures, and support for follow-on acquisitions, the company plans to unveil a cloud-based energy management platform that combines free analytics tools, energy market data, educational resources and a community of experts to help in-house energy managers and third-party consultants make [...]

Two of my favorite companies have now combined forces. Today in my email I received a message from the founder of Capital Factory company Keepstream. I will re-post it here for you. Congratulations to everyone involved! Keepstream is joining Infochimps! We are excited to announce that Keepstream has been acquired by Infochimps, leading API provider and data marketplace! Keepstream co-founders Jim England, Tim Gasper, and Huston Hoburg are joining Infochimps in order to help them develop exciting new [...]

One of Austin’s fastest growing companies, BuildASign.com, announced the acquisition of ReflectiveRealEstate.com, an innovative sign company that manufactures and sells reflective real estate yard signs. Reflective sign technology allows real estate yard signs to be visible 24 hours a day when vehicle lights shine on them. “We are very enthusiastic about the acquisition of ReflectiveRealEstate.com,” said Andy Knopp, Director of Corporation Development at BuildASign.com™. “They have a strong base of loyal customers and an impressive [...]

PetsMD, an Austin-based company that was part of the 2009 class of Capital Factory, announced today their acquisition by Pet360, a leading Pet ecommerce, community and information company. The acquisition of this pet health information and care resource site reinforces Pet360’s position as a leading provider of comprehensive, all-inclusive online information for pet owners and pet services providers.

After recently acquiring Austin-based NetQoS, CA Technologies announced today a definitive agreement to buy Hyperformix, a leading provider of capacity management software for dynamic physical, virtual, and cloud IT infrastructures. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Virtualization capacity management is among customers’ most critical IT management needs,” said Roger Pilc, general manager of CA Technologies Virtualization and Automation customer solutions business. “An important aspect of our virtualization and cloud strategies is to help customers [...]

RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, has taken three screen delivery to the next level with today’s acquisition of RipCode, Inc., a privately held developer of solutions for mobile IP video. RGB will incorporate RipCode’s technology into its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) enabling video service providers to cost-effectively deliver services to their subscribers on TVs, PCs and mobile devices. “As video service providers consolidate their headends and build converged delivery networks, they require [...]

Zynga announced today that they’ve acquired Austin-based social game company Challange Games. Zynga is one of the fastest growing gaming companies in history, and are the creators of the most popular facebook games including Mafia Wars and Farm Town. Challenge Games was founded by serial entrepreneur Andrew Busey, who had previously founded companies such as iChat, Living.com, Question.com, and Pluck.

It was just a matter of time before Phurnace‘s time-saving tools for developers would be noticed by a larger player like IBM, CA, HP, or BMC. Congratulations to the Phurnace team for having the company you’ve built recognized for the value it provides the developer community. Phurnace was a winner of the Moot Corp competiton at the University of Texas, and is also a graduate of the Austin Technology Incubator. Their success is a great [...]

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 and reduce costs. Organizations are struggling to find ways to simplify their business operations to better reach partners and clients, [...]

It’s a story that has been 10 years in the making. Husband and wife team Joel Trammel and Dr. Cathy Fulton could foresee that internet traffic would continue to grow substantially, data centers would consolidate, and there would be network congestion. As that happened, enterprises would be keenly interested in performance management. Thus, NetQoS was born. Recently, NetQoS was named to the Inc. 5000, ranking #2081 with $56.5M in trailing revenue. Being acquired for $200M [...]