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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 EyeQ Raises $3.5 Million For In Store Displays Austin-based eyeQ, a startup developing in-store displays which interact with shoppers, has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding. The finding came from Align Capital, along with others. As part of the funding, Lisa Harris of Align Capital has joined the company's board of directors. eyeQ is led by Michael Garel. The company develops personalized, interactive displays, giving shoppers access to ratings and reviews, recommendations, product informatio (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (More)(Full story) Accelerate Learning Gets $10M For STEM Education Houston-based Accelerate Learning, a developer of digital resources for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The funding came from Owl Resources. Accelerate Learning is a spinout of Rice University, and previously has raised funding from Rice Management Company, the steward of the Rice University endowment. Accelerate Learning develops (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (More)(Full story) SailPoint Receives Software Patent Austin-based SailPoint announced today that it has received a patent, which it says covers its Identity-as-a-Service technology. The patent, number 9,319,395, was actually granted on April 19th, and names Craig Robert William Forster, Daniel Thomas Greff, Crandall B.T. Chow, and Phillip Goldenburg as inventors. The patent as filed on June 27, 2014, with SailPoint being represented by Sprinke IP Law Group. SailPoint said its patent covers the "uniqu (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2016(Full story) CyrusOne Signs Houston Area School District Dallas-based colocation provider CyrusOne reported a win with the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, the third largest school district in Texas. Financial impact of the win was not announced. According to CyrusOne the school district has deployed colocation services within its Houston West data center. The school district has a student body of more than 114,000 students. Cypress-Fairbanks said it has migrated its IT infrastructure to Cyrus (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2016(Full story) |
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