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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

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. For decades, Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have been on all of the “Top 10 Places for…” lists. It all starts with people?—?talent.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

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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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week. CareerPlug and Chargify first partnered together in 2018 after CareerPlug recognized it had a significant business problem that fellow Texas-based Chargify could solve. Learn more about Chargify at www.chargify.com.

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Startup Spotlight: Austin-based Affintus

SiliconHills

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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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My PR journey started with an amazing position with the renowned Jason Dady restaurant group in San Antonio, Texas. My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? I caught a glimpse of this energy during my Venture Partner tenure with the folks at GGV Capital , who’ve been successfully investing exclusively across China and the U.S.

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Tales & Advice From a Female Real Estate Investor

Austin Startup

My dad was also looking into buying a place and was excited that I was interested in investing, so we partnered on a deal. A couple of years later I bought a triplex in San Antonio with one of my friends. We have a lot of ideas but could use some help with financing our deals, if you have cash and want to invest?—?hit