Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Siluria Gets $30M For Natural Gas Fuels, Plans Houston Office Silicon Valley-based Siluria, a developer of technology to convert natural gas to gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, has raised $30M in a funding, and is targeting the opening of a Houston office. Siluria announced today that it has raised $30M as part of a Series D funding, which was led by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), and also included the company's prior investors. The company's CEO Edward Dineen, is based in The Woodlands, having been COO of Ly (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 (More)(Full story) Tsugi Acquired By Unity Technologies Austin-based game testing software startup Tsugi has been acquired by game engine developer Unity Technologies, Unity said this morning, to help add to its services for developers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tsugi is a developer of software use for building, testing, and deploying games. As part of the buy, Unity Technologies said it will be opening an new office in Austin--Unity Austin--wh (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014(Full story) Unseen Gets $2.1M For Anonymous Photo Sharing Austin-based Bearch, a developer of social collaboration tools, said Tuesday that it has raised $2.1M in funding for its anonymous photo sharing app, Unseen. The funding came from Dirk Elmendorf (co-founder of Rackspace), Rony Kahan (CEO/co-founder of Indeed.com), Doss Cunningham (CEO of Woodbolt International) and other angels. Unseen was created by Bearch co-founders Michael Schramm and Munjal Budhabhatti, and lets college students share pho (More info...) posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 (More)(Full story) Polygraph Media Buys Offergraph Austin-based Polygraph Media, the developer of tools to help brands with their social media campaigns, has acquired fellow Austin software company Offergraph. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Offergraph was founded by Ian Karnell, Jeremi Karnell, and Dr. Edo Airoldi, and also was developing predictive marketing software. Polygraph Media is led by Chris Treadway. posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014(Full story) Alkami Gets Digital Banking Win In Pacific Northwest Plano-based digital banking software developer Alkami Technology reports a win today with a Spokane, Washington-based credit union. Alkami said that STCU, which is the inland Northwest's largest credit union, with $1.9 billion in assets, is using its digital banking platform. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. Alkami's ORB banking platform is aimed at online and mobile banking for both credit unions and banks. posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2014(Full story) |
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