Austin Startup

Infoglide Announces I-BIRDS

Bryan Menell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:00:47 +0000

Infoglide is announcing a unique application that allow bank and other financial institutions to collaborate when spotting and tracking fraudulent and money laundering activity. There are several anti-fraud technology solutions that help a department, or an entire bank detect fraud. But I-BIRDS (Inter-Bank Intelligent Risk Data Search) is the first collaborative tool that works across several organizations, and is also data privacy compliant. “Individuals and businesses involved in serious fraud and money laundering often spread [...]

Startup Guide to SXSW

Bryan Menell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:15:57 +0000

I’m re-posting the recommended events from Capital Factory’s site, but this list will be updated over time so you might want to check out the original post for updates. Yes, it’s that time of year… SXSW is approaching and I’ve spent hours and hours going cross-eyed as I reviewed every single panel, party, event and meetup at SXSW Interactive. Plus combing through all of the invites to unofficial events. Here it is – cleaned up, [...]

Silverback Acquisitions Closes Two Deals

Bryan Menell — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:37:33 +0000

Silverback Enterprise Group, which acquires and builds industry-leading enterprise software companies, announced today the acquisitions of PowerSteering Software, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based enterprise project and portfolio management (PPM) software, and Tenrox, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based, workflow-driven project workforce management software. With over 500 active enterprise customers and 150,000 active users in more than 50 countries worldwide, the combination of these two companies creates the largest pure-play cloud PPM provider in the [...]

Boundless Network Announces Patent on their Group Buying Technology

Bryan Menell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:33:03 +0000

Boundless Network today announced that a patent has been issued for their unique GroupBuy solution. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Patent 8,065,192 relating to systems and methods to leverage organizational spending to realize cost savings on branded products across multiple buyers and entities. Boundless Network’s GroupBuy solution enables multiple buyers within a single organization and buyers across different organizations to purchase products together while still allowing them to be independently branded. [...]

Austin Tech Happy Hour SXSW Kickoff

Bryan Menell — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:21:42 +0000

March 8th at Molotov, 6p – 8pm It’s hard to believe that we’re celebrating the 5th anniversary of our pre-SXSW kickoff happy hour! Come and share your tips for the best sessions and parties, what company will totally “break out” at southby, and how your company is dealing with the huge growth of the festival this year. As always, this is not an official SXSW event and no badge is required in order to attend. [...]

Family Trends in Mobile Media

Bryan Menell — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:16:31 +0000

The most connected people in family friendly games happen to be right here in Austin, Texas at Famigo. They recently published an infographic describing current trends in mobile as it relates to family gaming activity.

Qcue to Dynamically Price Padres Tickets

Bryan Menell — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:52 +0000

Qcue, the dynamic pricing engine for live entertainment, today announced the San Diego Padres are the first team to dynamically price tickets using Paciolan’s new repricing tool, part of its core ticketing platform integrated with Qcue. Dynamic pricing has quickly become an industry standard across Major League Baseball (MLB) with 50 percent of MLB teams implementing the practice. In 2011, Qcue saw clients increase individual ticket revenue by an average of 30 percent in high [...]

SaaS University on Feb 28th/29th and We Have the Hookup

Bryan Menell — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:32 +0000

Softletter’s SaaS University is coming to Austin on February 28th/29th and we’ve got discounts, a scholarship program, a free ticket for a trivia content winner, and more. Several Austin-based companies are on the speaker roster, including Transverse CEO Chris Couch who will be presenting on a major shift in how Software as a Service companies bill their subscribers. “I invited Chris to present at SaaS U because over the last five years Softletter has been [...]

How Important Are Industry Clusters To Startups?

George Dearing — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:19:00 +0000

If I suggested a way for your clean energy startup to set-up shop near a bunch of companies involved in things like renewable technology and the smartgrid, what would you say? If I sweetened the deal and told you the list of companies included a few of the Fortune 500 and a slew of established mid-market companies, you’d probably say, “sign me up!” So goes part of the argument for industry clusters, a term [...]

Capital Factory Aligns Schedule with SXSW

Bryan Menell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:05:00 +0000

Historically, SXSW is the peak season for applications to Austin’s technology accelerator program Capital Factory. The program has run during the Summer for the past 3 years. Capital Factory is announcing that the program schedule going forward is going to align with the SXSW Interactive Festival and Conference. There are several reasons for the shift including: Companies in the program enjoying the mild winters in Texas Mentors and supporters typically taking vacations in the summer [...]