Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Monday, October 27, 2014 BeatBox Beverages Gets $1M Austin-based BeatBox Beverages, a developer of wine-based cocktails sold in campy boxes, has scored $1M in an investment round from Mark Cuban. The funding came as part of ABC's "Shark Tank", aired Friday. BeatBox is led by Justin Fenchel. The actual investment was made in June, when the episode of Shark Tank was filmed. The company will use the funding for production and marketing. posted on Monday, October 27, 2014 (More)(Full story) WP Engine Claims Record Growth Austin-based WP Engine, which provides a hosting platform for WordPress websites and applications, said today that it saw record growth in the last 12 months. The company says it had a customer increase of 130 percent in the last 12 months, and now has 23,000 customers with 200,000 plus domains on its service. Actual financials were not announced by the company. WP Engine says it also has grown its employee base, and now has 195 employees spread acros (More info...) posted on Monday, October 27, 2014(Full story) Bigcommmerce: Back To School Shopping Drove Strong Q3 Ecommerce Austin-based Bigcommerce said that it has launched a new quarterly Ecommerce Report, which will release quarterly sales data from small- and mid-sized merchants running its software. According to the company's first report, it saw Q3, online merchant sales increase 25 percent, year-over-year, due to what the company said was a strong back-to-school season. The company said that the strong areas of growth were in the "Lifestyle & Home" and "Computer (More info...) posted on Monday, October 27, 2014(Full story) |
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