Socialware, the leader in social media compliance and engagement, today announced that CrunchFund, founded by tech industry veterans Michael Arrington, Patrick Gallagher, and MG Siegler, will join other investors in a $7M series C round of funding. While CrunchFund was founded to invest in promising early stage startups, the investors see great potential in Socialware’s grasp on the importance of personal interaction in social business initiatives. “Many companies miss the mark by only leveraging social [...]

Socialware, the leader in social media compliance and engagement, today announced that it has secured $3 million in additional funding from existing investors, including FLOODGATE, G-51 Capital and Silverton Partners. Socialware has attracted tremendous interest from the venture capital community and will use this new capital to extend its market leadership and expand its platform reach and capabilities to meet the growing needs of enterprises who are embracing social networking, even in industries with the [...]

LiveOffice, the number-one provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions and Socialware, the leader in helping companies manage, embrace and leverage public social networks, today announced a partnership. Together the companies will provide LiveOffice users with the ability to pre-review and route social networking activity through their existing compliance workflow within LiveOffice AdvisorMail, while automating social media policy throughout the entire organization. The new offering will integrate Socialware’s policy enforcement, [...]

Socialware is emerging from stealth mode, and being increasingly public about its products and services. In the interest of full disclosure, I’m an advisor to Socialware along with Jeff Dachis (Dachis Group), Paul Rogers (Google), and Kenny Van Zant (Solarwinds). The company has been funded to date by some incredible investors, including G-51 Capital, Silverton Partners, and Maples Investments.

This was originally posted on the Dachis Group Collaboratory. A recent study by Robert Half and Associates found that 54% of companies ban the use of public social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the workplace. The reasoning could be that productivity would be hampered, or that your organization must be compliant with regulations from the SEC, FINRA, Sarbanes Oxley, or HIPAA. The risks are real. Confidential information can be revealed, and brands can [...]

I originally posted this interview on the Collaboratory, but I wanted to also share it with AustinStartup readers. I had a chance to sit down with the founders of Socialware for an interview. I edited our talk down to under 5 minutes. Socialware is an alliance partner of ours, and is  creating a new category of software named “Social Middleware.” We discuss what need they fill in the market, as well as the business cases [...]

Dachis Group announced a select group of alliance partners today, including Socialware. Both companies are based in Austin. You may have read that I recently joined the Dachis Group, and I promise that the blog won’t become a platform for our news. But I think it’s significant that with a handful of partners in the announcement, that an Austin startup (Socialware) is in the alliance along with other great companies such as IBM, SocialCast, CoTweet, [...]

Normally, my goal with this space is to write about Austin-area companies that are intriguing, but maybe not “on the radar” yet. But, I’m cheating a bit this time, by writing about Conformity. I met Scott Bils, its founding CEO, more than three years ago when we were both laboring away at ventures – me in services, he in software – that were focused on helping companies in the post-Sarbanes Oxley regulatory world. Scott’s firm [...]