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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Sevin Rosen in Dallas launched the next year and throughout the 1980s and 1990s the two firms vied for their place in the Texas market. Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001.

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Austin’s Entrepreneurial Landscape

Austin Startup

That is, if you’re part of the entrepreneurship community giving back and paying it forward is expected, which makes it a very accessible and friendly place to meet people. states for fastest growth in the number of women-owned businesses — a number that grew by 98 percent between 1997 and 2014.