Matt Silk, one of the co-founders of Waterfall Mobile, was in Austin for a few days. We had a chance to catch up with him and ask him about what the company was up to these days. The company is based in the Silicon Valley, but works with big brands everywhere. The company did some really incredible work with their Msgme platform, which allowed the average person to provide neat SMS features without having all [...]
Adlucent, a leader in performance-based search marketing, today announced the appointment of two executives to its management team. The company has promoted Accenture veteran Jon Armstrong to the position of CEO, and appointed former Trilogy executive Ashwani Dhar to the position of Senior Vice President. In their new roles, they will help manage and drive growth for the firm, which has grown revenues by 150 percent in the past year by helping some of the [...]
Phurnace Software, the Java application deployment company, today announced the addition of two software industry veterans to its sales team. David Plunkett and Paul Shomper both come from the IT and development tools industry, and join Phurnace as senior sales engineer and senior account executive, respectively. “David and Paul are proven experts in their field, and bring a deep understanding of the challenges customers face in deploying complex, custom-developed applications,” said John Balena, vice president [...]
UnboundID, a developer of identity management software for Internet-driven, consumer-facing architectures, today announced that Steve Almquist was recently appointed to the position of Director of Global Sales. In his new role, Mr. Almquist will lead expansion efforts for the new UnboundID Directory Services 2.0 software platform, which will be launched in the first half of 2009. “Steve Almquist is one of the top sales professionals in the field of identity management software,” said Stephen Shoaff, [...]
On Networks, a creator and distributor of high quality short form video programming, announced today an original series aimed at young girls called Smart Girls at the Party. The show is created by and stars actor/writer Amy Poehler, and friends Meredith Walker, former senior producer for Nickelodeon’s Nick News, head of talent for Saturday Night Live, and Amy Miles, recording artist and performer, host of PBS children’s show LOMAX: Hound of Music. Smart Girls celebrates [...]
The Austin Technology Incubator has created an additional focus in the area of Bioscience, and hired Jessica Hanover to be the director of the initiative. Bioscience is now the third area of vertical focus for the ATI, joining clean energy, and IT/wireless. There is one company in the bioscience incubator so far, Terapio, which is focused on theraputics around a particular protein that can make cells deals with toxins better. Terapio was one of two [...]
Ian was a co-founder of innovative video sharing site Revver, and also did some groundbreaking work with Thoof which is a news site that changes itself based upon user behavior. Thoof appears to be down now, but it sounds like Ian is taking some of Thoof’s basic technology to create a collaborative filtering product. It will be interesting to see what finally comes out of the labs, but Ian always seems to develop his websites [...]
Stacey Higginbotham is breaking the news over at GigaOM property Earth2Tech that Joel Serface, director of the Clean Energy Incubator, will be leaving to become an Entrepreneur in Residence at Kleiner Perkins Department of Energy Program, which is an effort to commercialize clean technology coming out of the national laboratories. Maybe he will favor us with a comment, and let us know if Kleiner is going to make him move to the valley. http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/14/austin-cleantech-guru-to-be-kleiner-eir/
HelioVolt, the well-funded Austin startup lead by Dr. B.J. Stanbery, is rumored to be announcing a breakthrough in CIGS efficiency with its CIGS cells. According to the company, it’s proprietary FASST reactive transfer printing process can produce cells with a 12.2% conversion efficiency in a mere 6 minutes. The announcement is expected come today at the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, where Stanbery is expected to disclose the efficiency threshold which HelioVolt has reached in its [...]
HelioVolt, Austin’s very own thin film photovoltaic company that recently raised just under $100 million in venture financing, scored a huge hiring win today, announcing that Louay Eldada has been hired as CTO. Eldada was previously the CTO at du Pont, and served as a director for DuPont Photonics Technologies. Prior to his five-year tenure at DuPont, Dr. Eldada founded and managed Telephotonics Inc., which was acquired by DuPont. Dr. Eldada also served at Honeywell [...]
