David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2019

By Kristina Modares If you’ve lived in East Austin for a while, you may remember passing the yellow abandoned building pictured below. When I started my search to find an office space in Austin, I was a bit overwhelmed at the costs associated with it. It’s no longer abandoned. So, I started looking into it and asking questions.

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SiliconHills

JULY 15, 2013

Austin-based TrustRadius, a crowdsource software review site for companies, landed $5 million in Series A financing from Mayfield Fund. Rajeev Batra, Mayfield Fund partner, will also join its board of directors. Last November, the company debuted at Innotech Austin’s Beta Summit.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Clarify, an Austin-based startup offering a platform for audio and video search and analytics announced today that it has closed a $1 million seed financing with enthusiastic participation from Projector Ventures and Silverton Partners, and additional notable support from Austin-based Blake Chandlee together with several other early Facebook executives; (..)

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SiliconHills

APRIL 10, 2020

The company, founded in 2010, is based in San Francisco but has a large presence and office in Austin. Austin-based Elsewhere Partners led the financing round. Airbrake, which makes software that tracks errors in web apps, announced this week it has raised $11 million in funding. Airbrake has an interesting history.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

million in Series B financing. The Austin-based company raised a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital of $7 million in 2011, bringing its total funding raised to $24.7 Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round of financing with other investors including Citi Ventures and [.]

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Self Financial announced it has closed on $40 million in additional financing. The Austin-based fintech startup has raised $77 million to date, including $20 million raised in February. Meritech Capital led the latest round with participation from existing investors including Altos Ventures, Conductive Ventures and Silverton Partners.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 20, 2017

One of the latest startups to spin out of the University of Texas at Austin, GenXComm has received a $1.5 million seed round of financing. The Austin-based startup is focused on doubling the amount of traffic a wireless network can handle. Its patent-pending technology is called S-SIX.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. among them the Smart L/C and other trade finance solutions, and Smart Air Waybills for the air freight industry. and we are already building a strong network of partners and customers.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The Austin-based company plans to use the money to fund its growth next year. InterWest Partners and Mesirow Financial Capital Partners led the round, according to a news release. Other funders included Focus Ventures, Lightspeed Partners, Silver Creek Ventures, Northleaf Ventures and Wilson Sonsini.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. Grow our partner community and get more people actively volunteering. Walk us through the process of acquiring a VOLO partner. What are your goals for VOLO in 2019?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Winners in 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony (7 pm Sunday, March 11), at the Hilton Austin. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

I have been responsible for organizing and wrangling mentor groups for the Longhorn Startup Program for UT Austin undergraduates when I as an instructor there. The better universities, like GA Tech and UT Austin, are leading the charge in making entrepreneurship part of the curriculum at the undergraduate level.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

The percentage of female investment partners across $100M+ funds: 5.7%, 7%, 9% over the past 3 years. With all of the discussion around equality of opportunity, I’m also proud that Silverton has backed some very impressive female leaders in Austin including Heather Brunner at WP Engine and Autumn Manning at YouEarnedIt.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I apologize in advance that it is pretty hard-hitting but I want to be raw and honest with you in order to do my best to help you: We are at the tail-end of RISE week here in beautiful Austin. And, overall, it has been another great week for Austin, with TechStars announcing their launch, which I wrote about in this Lucky7 post.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

Shep: “Shep is an employee-centric tool that lets HR and Finance departments guide and track real-time spending as employees book business travel on any site they like.” So get out there and practice your pitch to your partner, co-founder, Mom, and, most importantly your mirror. Litr.ly: “Litr.ly on Medium , Twitter or AngelList.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. But then Mike called me about some more stuff a week later.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

Austin has built a name for itself within the startup scene, ranking among the top cities in the U.S. In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Since the field’s estimated beginnings in 2009 , subsegments like “feminomics” and “inclusive finance” have spun off, but at it’s core gender lens investing is: incorporating gender as a factor to guide investment strategies.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 20, 2013

Q2ebanking has closed on $20 million in Series C financing. The Austin-based company provides highly secure electronic banking solutions for banks and credit unions throughout the U.S. Existing investor Adams Street Partners also participated. Battery Ventures, a new investor, led the round.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Umbel, which makes a customer data platform, announced it has raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Cielo Private Equity. The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds to expand its sales and marketing efforts. Lisa Harris, managing partner of Cielo Private Equity, has joined the company’s board of directors. “We

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

Today, May 2nd, two years from the day I invested in the angel round, the company announces Series A financing with major institutional support and launches Bitfusion Flex in beta. Bitfusion proudly partners with IBM for today’s launch. In the end, IMPACT is what matters. And wow, Bitfusion is on that road.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 26, 2011

For other local bootstrapping resources here in Austin, check out the Bootstrap Austin site. The reality is that traditional sources of financing a new business are a long shot at best, especially in the new economy. There are a countless number of creative ways that you can finance a start-up. That’s the bad news.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Veros Systems announced Monday that it has received $8 million in Series A venture financing. Chevron Technology Ventures led the deal with additional investment from Austin Ventures and LiveOak Venture Partners. Austin Emerging Technology Fund venture capital Veros Systems'

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 20, 2019

Austin-based ScaleFactor, an intelligent finance, and automated accounting platform, announced recently it has closed on $30 million in funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led ScaleFactor’s Series B round of funding. ScaleFactor has raised $53 million to date, according to Crunchbase.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Clarify, which makes audio and video search technology, announced Wednesday that it has closed on $1 million in seed stage financing. Austin Clarify.io Paul Murphy Silverton Partners'

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Austin Startup

JULY 7, 2011

million Series A round of venture capital financing. They are hiring in Austin, seeking office space, and moving significant operations here. The round was co-led by Texas-based DFJ Mercury and Silverton Partners, and included co-investment from Pittsburgh-based Innovation Works.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

The Austin-based recruiting and HR software company saves up to six hours a week, or 25 days a year, by using the new product. This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week. CareerPlug is just barely scraping the surface of what this tool is capable of, but I am a raving fan already!”

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SiliconHills

JULY 16, 2012

Last week at San Francisco Bakery and Café on Anderson Lane, Paula Soileau, cofounder and partner at Affintus Scientific Hiring, sat down with me to talk about her startup. Before Affintus, Soileau worked at the American Heart Association as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 6, 2017

million round of financing. Activate Venture Partners, based in New York, and LiveOak Venture Partners in Austin led the Series B financing round. The Austin-based startup plans to use the money on marketing and product development. Digital Pharmacist announced Tuesday that it has closed on a $6.5

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

It could be a new partner willing to work for stock. Need to have your arms around company finances but hate bookkeeping? I've found that "virtual assistance" services (like Four Star Service in Austin) are surprisingly affordable if you have a lot of little time-consuming tasks. It could be an intern. Bookkeeping is like that.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The Zebra, an insurance comparison marketplace, announced Tuesday that is has closed on $40 million in financing and hired Former Kayak Executive Keith Melnick as its new Chief Executive officer. The Austin-based startup reported Accel Partners led the Series B financing round, the largest Texas Series B financing this year.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Or, put another way, great product managers are often the “weird kids” in the MBA program who, while sitting in a finance class, wonder if they should have enrolled in a design school or coding bootcamp instead. (I I pitched potential teammates to join me, investors to fund us, businesses to partner with us and customers to use us.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 14, 2014

(Let’s not get into exactly what sort of “shingle” is hanging out with the oldest profession …) This past weekend, WP Engine hung its shingle as well, but this time it’s so much more meaningful, and not just because this building doesn’t have rats: I grew up in Austin.

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SiliconHills

MAY 22, 2013

million in first round financing led by Austin Ventures. Other investors included Mike Maples with Floodgate, Bob Greene with Contour Venture Partners, Julie Allegro with Allegro Venture Partners and Ralph Mack with Mack Capital as well as investors Tom Meredith and Adam Ross. The Austin-based company plans to [.]

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