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San Antonio-based Pathwire Bought for $1.9 Billion by Sinch

SiliconHills

In a big win for San Antonio’s technology industry, a Swedish company is buying Pathwire, an email delivery platform spun off from Rackspace, for $1.9

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San Antonio’s Rackspace is Grappling with a Ransomware Attack

SiliconHills

A ransomware attack at San Antonio-based Rackspace Technology has caused service disruptions for thousands of its customers. The ransom wear incident affected Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange Email business, which represents one percent […]. The attack began last Friday, Dec.

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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.

Texas 90
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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

SendGrid is a transactional email platform. That accelerator was in San Antonio , Texas in partnership with Rackspace. The geographies of the accelerators that funded the known unicorns are: Seattle: 3 Boulder: 2 New York City: 1 San Antonio: 1 Boston: 1. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

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Mailgun Raises $50 Million and Spins Out From Rackspace

SiliconHills

Mailgun, an email startup, spins out of San Antonio-based Rackspace and announces it has raised $50 million. Mailgun, based in San Antonio has offices in Austin and San Francisco. Turn/River Capital led the investment round with participation from Scaleworks and Rackspace.

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Calling all startup community organizers in Texas for GEW!

Austin Startup

Email me at josh@quityourjob.com or Ellen Bateman at ellen@genglobal.org with questions. GEW Confirmed Participants Email me to add your name to the list! It’s a great opportunity to show off your startup community and get the message out to new people who might not have been exposed to entrepreneurship before.

Texas 89
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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications. We facilitate Design Sprints in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco.