The funding round announced by Austin's ProspX earlier this week was worth $8.2M--with a target of $9.3M--according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The company announced the funding round in conjunction with the appointment of Tod...

Allen, Texas-based PFSweb, the provider of e-commerce services to many major brands, said today that it has raised $14.7M in an equity investment. The investment came from Japanese digital marketing services and call center outsourcing comp...

Cloud services and hosting firm Rackspace has backed a developer of cloud-based databases, Cloudant, in a venture deal this morning. Cloudant said it raised $12M in a second round of funding this morning, including investments from Rackspac...

Austin-based ProspX, which develops software for managing the commercial insurance process, said today that it has closed additional funding, and named a new CEO. Details on the funding were not announced. ProspX said the new funds will go ...

Dallas-based HipLogiq, a developer of social media marketing software, announced Monday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. According to HipLogiq, the majority of the funding came from Hadron Global Partners. HipLogiq says i...

Texas investors might not be getting much attention in the latest Forbes Midas List, the publication's annual ranking of the top venture capitalists--but, two Texas firms did help three of the investors on the list this year. Austin's Bazaa...

Houston-based Behavioral Recognition Systems said today that it has opened up a new, preferred funding round to help support the company's research and development. The firm did not say how much it is looking to raise in its funding efforts...

Plano-based Vivify Health announced yesterday that it has received funding, from Ascenscion Health Ventures and Heritage Group, for its cloud-based, remote care platform. Financial details of the funding were not disclosed. Vivify said it w...

Austin-based Spiceworks, which develops IT management software, has a new line of business: helping startups get off the ground. According to Spiceworks, it has helped a second, IT startup get its offering off the ground via its SpicePanel ...

Jim Breyer, a partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, is stepping down from the board of Round Rock's Dell, the company announced Monday afternoon. According to Dell, he will not stand for re-election to the board at its next annual...

Austin-based cellular communications developer M-87 has a $500,000 check in hand--presented at Thursday's Longhorn Startup Program demo day--part of a $1M, seed financing round. The funding came from The Horizon Fund, the startup investment...

Austin-based DBI, a developer of IBM DB2 database optimization tools, said Thursday that it has received its first major outside investment. Size of the investment was not announced by the company. The company said the investment came from ...

Dallas-based Bookshout, which operates an online book community and sales and marketing site for book authors, has raised $6M in a Series B funding, the firm announced today. The funding was led by Ambassador Enterprises. Bookshout, which i...

Austin-based Omni Water Solutions, the developer of mobile water treatment systems being used in the oil and gas industry, has raised another $4M in funding, the company said this week. The company said the new funding came from Austin Vent...

Texas venture capital investments in Q1 bucked the national trend of declining dollars and deals, instead posting a big increase both quarter-to-quarter and from year-to-year, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree report. The r...

Frisco-based telecom equipment maker GENBAND has raised an enormous, $343.47M in funding, according to information details in the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. No details on that fundin...

The Central Texas Angel Network continues to be one of the most active angel investment groups in the nation, according to a new ranking released this morning studying angel investment activity nationwide. According to the 2012 Halo Repor...

Austin-based Bypass, the startup developing tablet-based, point-of-sale equipment aimed at entertainment venues, has scored $3.5M in a Series A funding round, the firm disclosed Wednesday. The new funding was led by eBay and AEG. The firm, ...

Dallas-based Safarious, which is developing an online social networking and community site for those interested in wildlife and adventure, is in the midst of raising $1.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm tod...

Austin-based mobile banking software developer Malauzai Software has raised $3.0M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on that funding have not been announced by the company. Malauzai develops m...

Plano-based NetSocket, the developer of unified communications (UC) products, said today that it has raised $9.2M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Venture Investors, and also included Sevin Rosen Funds, Silver Creek Venture...

Austin-based Q2ebanking, which develops electronic banking software, said last week that it had raised $20M in a Series C funding round. However, it looks like the story is coming around again this week thanks to the firm's investment banke...

Plano-based Choose Energy, which operates an online energy marketplace which allows consumers to choose power suppliers, has raised $4M in a funding round, the firm announced this morning. The funding came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & By...

Austin-based cloud-based data backup provider Spanning Cloud Apps said this morning that it has raised $6M in a Series B funding round. According to the company, the new funding was led by an undisclosed, strategic investors. Foundry Group ...

Austin-based mobile and online banking software provider Q2ebanking said today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by new investor Battery Ventures, and also included prior investor Adams Street Partners...

Austin-based Dachis Group, the social marketing software and solutions firm headed by Jeff Dachis, has raised $7.5M more in a Series C funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by Austin Ventures. According to Dachis, in a blog ...

Austin-based Savara Pharmaceuticals, which is developing inhaled antibiotics to treat MRSA infection in cystic fibrosis patients, has raised $16M more in a Series B funding round. The round came from the Tech Coast Angels, Rady Venture Fund...

Tyler, Texas-based iPawn, a startup offering up asset-based, online loans, said today that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The firm said the funding was led by Rafi Gridron, along with other angel investors. The company said the new f...

Endgame, a developer of cyber security, visualization, and analytics tools which has offices in San Antonio, said today that it has raised $23M in a Series B equity financing round. The firm said the Series B was led by Paladin Capital Gro...

Austin-based mobile development firm Chaotic Moon Studios, which provides mobile design and development services, has scored a big investment from a Hollywood investor. According to Chaotic Moon, William Morris Endeavor (WME), the big enter...

A team of Austin enterprise software veterans think they have a new way to help companies better manage customer relationships--and now have the funding to make it happen. Handshakez, a new, enterprise software startup co-founded by Jason W...

Irving-based oneSource Virtual, which provides business process outsourcing services in conjunction with human resources software-as-a-service provider Workday, has raised $15M in a funding round, the firm announced this morning. The compan...

Austin-based Bloomfire, the startup headed by Craig Malloy which develops enterprise, social knowledge sharing software, has raised $8M more in a funding round, the firm said today. The funding came from Austin Ventures and Redpoint Venture...

Do you wish your smartphone was a little smarter, and could help you keep your email organized? A new, Austin-based startup, Taskbox, is looking to do exactly that, and said today that it has launched a new version of its iPhone app--plus r...

Dallas-based MicroTransponder, a developer of neurostimulation devices being used to treat tinnitus, has raised $3.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the company is in the midst of rais...

Austin-based security analytics software developer Click Security announced this morning that it has landed a big, Series B funding, worth $17.7M. According to the company, the round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and also included...

Austin-based Infochimps, the developer of software used for implementing big data infrastructure in the cloud, has raised $2.8M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not been anno...

Houston's SURGE Accelerator, the startup accelerator which is focused on software startups in the energy sector, announced its latest class of startups Thursday, the second batch of companies out of the startup acceleration effort. Accordin...

Austin-based uninterruptible power supply developer Xtreme Power has just raised $5.75M in a debt financing round, according to a regulatory filing by the company. The funding is part of an ongoing, $10.0M funding effort. It appears the fun...

Plano-based Optimal Blue, a developer of web-based software for pricing, managing, and locking mortgages, has gained funding from a private equity firm. According to private equity firm Serent Capital, it invested in Optimal Blue and its su...

Austin-based private equity investor Blue Sage Capital said today that it has raised $150M in commitments in an oversubscribed, second fund. Blue Sage focuses on growth, recapitalization and buyout financings of smaller middle market compan...

Austin-based Hospitalists Now, a provider of technology to the healthcare industry, has scored $2.5M in a credit facility, according to lender Square 1 Bank. Square 1 said the credit facility will provide working capital and help support gr...

Austin-based Xeris Pharmaceuticals said Monday that it raised almost $6M in funding in 2012. The firm said the funding included funds from angel investors, the Texas Emerging Technologies Fund (TETF), as well as National Institutes of Healt...

Austin-based Microventures, the crowdfunding-meets-venture-capital startup founded by Bill Clark, has made another investment, this time in San Francisco-based social commerce firm Ribbon. Ribbon announced a $1.6M funding for its service, a...

Austin-based Spredfast is growing, true to its name, with a new, $18M funding round, the firm said this morning. Spredfast, which is led by Rob Favaron, said today that it has raised $18M in a Series C funding round, which was led by Open...

Austin-based Insurance Zebra, a yet-to-launch startup providing car insurance shopping, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The round came from Silverton Partners, Mark Cuban, Floodgate, and Birchmere Labs. The firm said it will be us...

Toopher, a new startup created by a student and adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said today that it has raised $2.0M in a Series A funding, and has moved into the Austin Technology Incubator. The startup, started by E...

The Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs, the startup support effort based at the University of Texas at Austin, is looking to expand its investment competition and support to companies from other universities, with the appointment of a new Assis...

Austin-based Latakoo, the developer of high definition video uploading tools, has raised $2.0M in a combination of equity and debt, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The filings indicate the firm raised $1.8M out of a $2.0M eq...

Austin-based Adometry, the developer of marketing analytics software, said today that it has raised $8M more in a round of financing. According to the company, the round was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included Austin Ventures and Sier...

Dallas-based, the provider of equity and debt to technology and other companies, said this week that it has made an equity investment in R2integrated, a digital and social marketing agency based in Baltimore, MD. ORIX did not say how much i...

Venture capital investments in Texas dropped in Q4 of 2012, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), with 33 deals totaling $196.152M during the quarter, d...

Who's the latest startup investor in Texas? It's none other than Fort Worth-based American Airlines, which apparently launched a new startup investment fund at CES called Blue Ocean. In a panel, Jason Oshiokpekhai, American's manager of ...

Houston-based ipDataTEl, a developer of wireless equipment used to connect security, home automation, and other devices into the Internet, said this morning that it has raised $2.85M in a growth financing round. The firm said the oversubscr...

San Antonio-based TrueAbility, which develops technology to help companies evaluate candidates for technical job positions, has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The seed funding came from Rackspace co-founders Pat Condon and Graham ...

Venture capital firm Austin Ventures is all about Austin today, after the venture capital firm (named after Austin), based in Austin, has tapped entrepreneur Gene Austin as its newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Gene Austin is the former CEO...

Dallas-based Affinaquest said Friday that it has scored a round of growth capital, for its nonprofit donor management system. The company said the funding came from Social Sector Ventures. Affinaquest, which was founded by Jeff Shy, said th...

Round Rock-based Dell, via its Dell Ventures arm, has backed the provider of OpenStack integration and tools, Mirantis. Mirantis, which is based in Silicon Valley, said it received $10M in funding from Intel Capital, WestSummit Capital, and...

Austin-based Gazzang, the developer of Linux-based security and encryption tools, said Thursday that it has raised $4M in a funding round, as it saw a record 2012. The firm said that the funding came in December from Austin Ventures and Sil...

Red Book Connect, a newly launched, cloud-based technology developer for the restaurant, hospitality and retail industries, has scored major funding from Fort Worth-based TPG Growth, along with Instawares Holding Company, the firm said toda...

Austin-based Iconixx Software, a developer of sales performance management software for the enterprise, has raised $4.5M in a funding round. The funding came from Ballast Point Ventures. According to the firm, the funding will go towards sa...

Dallas-based outsourcing and consulting firm Alsbridge said today that it has received an investment from private equity firm LRR Partners. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. According to the company, the funding will g...

Vobi.com, a new Austin-based working on cloud-based collaboration software, said Friday that it has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Trailblazer Capital. Vobi is headed by Mark Castleman....

A new, Austin-based startup focused on online learning, Schoox, has raised $1.0M as part of an ongoing, $2.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. The startup looks to be developing an online learning site...

Houston's SURGE Accelerator, the energy-software focused accelerator program, has now raised $575,000 in its investment fund, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The filing indicates that SURGE has around 18 investors ...

Dallas-based Gradalis announced this morning that it has raised $24M in a Series B round of financing, which will go towards financing late-stage trials of its personalized cancer vaccine. Gradalis is developing treatments for advanced stag...

Austin-based Fisoc, which develops Buzz Points, a provider of loyalty programs aimed at banks and credit unions, said over the holidays that it has raised $5M in its Series C funding round. The firm said the lead investors included Greycro...

Looking for an investment from Whole Foods' $30M venture capital fund? It looks like it's not so likely, based on a report today from the ABJ, which says that Whole Foods has invested in only one company, five years after creating its own $...

Austin-based uShip, the online marketplace for shipping services and transportation, has raised $18M in a new funding round, the firm announced today. The funding came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. According to the company, the new...

Austin-based Ortho Kinematics announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, as part of a Series B funding. Source of the funding was not announced. According to the company, the new funds will go towards commercializatio...

There's been a lot of turmoil in the land of venture capital in recent years, and it looks like those troubles don't seem to have gone away, at least according to local angel Hall T. Martin. Martin, an angel investor known for his role at t...

Austin-based Fisoc, a developer of software for running loyalty programs for merchants, has raised $1.7M in a funding round, part of an ongoing, $2.67M funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the funding have not...

Austin-based Charity Dynamics, a provider of online marketing and fundraising software for nonprofits, has raised a round of equity investment, the firm announced this morning. The round came from Vitesse Capital Partners, an Austin-based i...

Dallas-based Naya Ventures announced this morning that it has launched a new, $50M early stage venture capital fund. The new fund is aimed at the mobile and cloud market. Naya Ventures is headed by Dayaka Puskoor (Microsoft), Prabakar Reddy...

Startups looking to tap into the accelerator at UT Austin, the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs, have until December 15th to apply to the program, the accelerator said Monday. The accelerator, which works with startups to help them get funded...

Austin-based Macheen, the provider of mobile, broadband connection services for electronic devices, has scored a strategic investment from wireless company Qualcomm, the company said this morning. Size of the investment round was not announ...

Austin-based OutboundEngine, headed by Branndon Stewart, said today that it has raised $1.6M in a Series A investment round for its automated email and social media marketing service. The round came from Floodgate, Austin Ventures, Silverto...

Dallas-based venture lender ORIX Ventures, which provides venture debt funding to startups and other high tech companies, said that it has provided a $10M growth capital commitment to Talyst, a provider of pharmacy automation technology. Te...

Bazaarvoice's loss is Austin Ventures gain, as Austin Ventures said that Brett Hurt has joined the company as a Venture Partner. Hurt, who recently shifted from CEO to Vice Chairman at Bazaarvoice, will focus on early stage investing for Au...

The Central Texas Angel Network is among the top angel investing groups in the country, according to the latest HALO Report from the Angel Resource Institute, Silicon Valley Bank, and CB Insights. According to the report, in the first half...

Austin-based mezzanine capital provider Escalate Capital has put its financial backing behind software-as-a-service developer AtTask. AtTask, which develops software used for project and work management in enterprise teams, said it received...

MeetMeTix, a new Austin startup helping to connect people with sports, concert, and other tickets in a peer-to-peer marketplace, has raised an initial tranche of its Series A financing round, the firm said Thursday. The company said the fun...

Prolific Dallas angel investor Mark Cuban has backed another startup, this time, a developer of immersive video players which run on tablet devices. Condition One, which is based in New York, said it has raised $2.35M in funding, which came...

Austin-based Mirna Therapeutics, which is developing microRNA-based therapeutics for treating cancer, has raised $34.5M in a Series C funding round. The firm said the funding was led by Sofinnova Ventures, and also included New Enterprise A...

Fort Worth-based ZS Pharma has raised a huge, $46M funding round, for its efforts to treat patients with kidney and liver disease. The pharmaceuticals developer said the Series C financing was led by Alta Partners, and also included Venture...

Venture funding numbers from the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report shows a steep dropoff in the amount of venture capital raised in Texas in Q3, with only 35 deals worth a total of $127.7M...

Quarri Technologies, which develops security software, reported this morning that it has raised $1.288M in a funding round for its software. The round was led by the Houston Angel Network and Daylight Partners, and also included the Texas H...

Verdande Technology, a developer of real-time decision making software for the oil and gas, financial services, and healthcare industries, said today that it has raised $8M in a funding round. The firm--which has offices in Houston--said th...

San Antonio-based mobile healthcare application and hardware developer AirStrip Technologies has scored a round of investment from the Wellcome Trust, the two said this morning. Financial details of the investment were not announced. Wellco...

Austin-based AeonClad Coatings, a developer of advanced materials and coatings, has scored an investment from outdoor products firm Patagonia. According to Patagonia, it has taken a 15 percent equity stake in AeonClad, whose products includ...

Houston's SURGE Energy Software Accelerator said Thursday that it has officially opened up applications for its Spring 2013 class, the group's 13-week program to help incubate, mentor, and help energy related software firms get funding. The...

Austin-based Silvercar, the startup led by Luke Schneider, is looking to improve the car rental experience with a new take on airport car rentals: offer only a single make and model of a car, and let users rent cars using a smartphone. The ...

LoneStar Heart, a life sciences firm whose technology is based on research out fo the Texas Heart Institute, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and which has operations in Dallas, said today that it has raised $20M in fund...

Austin-based Zenoss, which develops IT management software used to manage physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure, said Tuesday that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Summit Partners, and also included...

Calxeda, the developer of ultra-low power, ARM-based datacenter server equipment, has added to its warchest, with a new $55M funding round, the company said this morning. Calxeda said the funding came from Austin Ventures and Vulcan Capital...

Austin Startup Week, which is being held the week of October 8-12th, is shaping up with a new batch of events. According to organizer Jacqueline Hughes, a new set of Mentor Office Hours has been added to the schedule, with ATI, Capital Fact...

Dallas-based FireHost, the provider of cloud hosting services, said today that it has raised another $10M in funding, via a Series C round. The round came from its existing investors, which include The Stephens Group and angel investors. Th...

Plano-based VAZATA, a provider of managed hosting and colocation services, said Wednesday that it has raised $13M in a growth equity funding. The funding was led by Altpoint Capital Partners, and also included Ballast Point Ventures. The fi...

Splother, a startup which is developing an online website service offering pre-cleared, licensed music, said Tuesday that it has added Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf as a strategic advisor and investor. Financial terms of the investmen...

Bigcommerce, the developer of e-commerce software for the small and medium sized business market, has scored a $20M, Series B funding round, the company announced this morning. The Austin firm, which was co-founded by Eddie Machaalani and M...

Austin-based energy management software and services firm Noesis Energy has raised $8M in funding, and launched a new free online energy management service, the company said this morning. The new funding round was a Series B, and was led by...

Austin-based Macheen, the developer of services which help connect devices to the Internet using mobile networks, said that it has raised an additional $10M in financing. The funding came from GemVentures, and also included existing investo...

Dallas-based Compass Datacenters, a builder and operator of data centers, said this morning that it has scored its first major round of funding. The firm said it has gained a $45M credit facility, which can be expanded up to $100M, to finan...

Dallas-based venture debt provider ORIX Ventures said today that it has provided $10M in venture debt financing to Fuhu, a developer of an Android tablet aimed at kids. Terms of the venture debt deal were not announced. Fuhu develops the na...

Dallas-based DxUpClose, whic is developing in-vitro, antibiotic sensitivity tests, has raised $1.0M in a Series A funding. The round came from angel investment group Golden Seeds. According to Golden Seeds, which announced the funding this ...

Fort Worth-based technology startup incubator TECH Fort Worth said this morning that it has launched a new, angel program called Cowtown Angels. The incubator said the new effort will help connect local angel investors with companies needin...

Austin-based RallyHood, the online and mobile app provider headed by Patti Rogers which helps groups manage their activities, announced this morning that it has raised $1.3M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Tom Meredith, Co...

Austin-based Rallyhood, the startup developing online group management tools and software, has raised $1.37M as part of an ongoing, $1.5M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company this week. The firm, which is headed by...

Mark Cuban, the prolific Dallas angel investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has invested in a company which lets college graduates trade a portion of their future income, for a chunk of capital. Upstart, a Silicon Valley startup, said...

TuneIn, an online music, news, and sports streaming service which has its roots in Dallas, said Monday that it has raised $16M in a venture funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners, and also included Jafco Ventures, Goo...

Austin-based Nitero, which is developing 60Ghz, Wi-Fi semiconductors, said today that it has secured an additional round of funding for the firm. Size of the round was not announced. Nitero said the funding came form Trailblazer Capital, So...

College Station-based Veros Systems, a developer of a system to monitor the reliability and energy efficiency of rotating machinery, said today that it has received a third tranche of a $1.5M investment from the Texas Emerging Technology Fu...

Austin-based Ordoro, a developer of software to manage the inventory and shippping of e-commerce retailers, has raised $1.2M, the company disclosed Thursday. The funding came from a European investor, along with angels who found the company...

Prolific Dallas angel investor Mark Cuban has made another seed investment in a technology firm, this time, in online app marketplace Apptopa.com. Apptopia.com said that it is closing out a $1M funding round, with Mark Cuban leading the inv...

Is the world of venture capital investing just a game? It is, now, thanks to Austin-based MicroVentures, the online crowdfunding and investment platform run by Bill Clark. MicroVentures rolled out a new, Facebook game Tuesday called the Mic...

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, shows that Texas venture investments dropped in Q2 of this year. The report tallied $179.25M i...

Dallas-based GiftCardLab.com, which provides customized plastic and e-gift cards for both consumers and corporations, has raised $3M in a debt financing round, the firm announced today. The firm said the funding came from Cypress Growth Cap...

Angel investment group Keiretsu Forum said Tuesday that its member invested more than $3M in the Series B funding for Austin's Savara Pharmaceuticals. Keiretsu said it contributed $3M in equity, with the additional $5.4M in the round in the...

Austin-based startup Audingo, which has developed a service which delivers personalized audio and video content from celebrities to mobile users, said Tuesday that it has raised $3M in an angel funding round. Audingo said that its service l...

Dell has released more details on its new, $60M investment fund aimed at the storage sector by Michael Dell Tuesday, saying that it expects to invest in five to ten promising storage startups via the fund, which is being run by Dell Venture...

Round Rock-based Dell is hoping to bolster investments in storage startups, with a new, $60M fund, according to Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell. According to several reports today at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Dell h...

Cloudability, one of the companies out of San Antonio-based, TechStars Cloud program, has raised funding, one of the first venture fundings out of the program. Cloudability, which develops cloud spend monitoring software, said it raised $8....

Austin-based Portalarium, the social gaming startup founded by game developer Richard Garriott, has raised another $7M in funding, according to a report this morning. The new funding round came from m8 Capital, FF Angel, and BHV Venture Cap...

The angel investment group made up of angels linked with Waco's Baylor University apparently are having a record-setting year for angel investments, according to the university Monday. Baylor said that the Baylor Angel Network has made more...

Austin-based MapMyFITNESS, the developer of mobile fitness apps and website services, reported this morning that it has gained $3M in a financing from Square 1 Bank. The debt funding comes on top of a recent, $9M Series B equity financing f...

Round Rock-based Dell said this morning that it has reached a definitive agreement with Quest Software to acquire the IT management software firm. Dell said it would pay $28.00 per share in cash from Quest, for a total price of approximatel...

Austin-based mobile apps developer TabbedOut has raised $3.5M out of a $4.0M, convertible debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing earlier this week. Details on the funding for ATX Innovation have not yet been announced by the c...

Austin-based VolunteerSpot, an online website focused on helping noprofit leaders, moms, teachers, and others coordinate volunteers, has raised $1.5M in a funding round, the firm said yeterday. The funding was led by ff Venture Capital, and...

Austin-based Skyonic, a developer of carbon capture technology, has raised $9M as part of a $35M funding round, the firm said Tuesday. The company said it is piloting a carbon capture and utilization plant in the United States. The funds ar...

Plano-based Layered Technologies said this morning that it has secured $38M in a credit facility. The funding came from Fortress Investment Group, and will go towards enhancing and expanding its compliant hosting and cloud services. Layered...

Richardson-based EnTouch Controls, which develops energy management systems aimed at the small business market, reported this morning that it has added $500,000 to its Series A funding round, bringing the funding to $2.5M. EnTouch said the ...

Austin-based ESO Solutions, a developer of software and information technology products aimed at the emergency services sector, has raised $4M in a Series B round. The round came from Austin Ventures. ESO Solutions, which is led by Chris Di...

Dallas-based entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has led an investment in a Silicon Valley startup, SwitchCam, worth $1.2M. The round also included 500 Startups, Turner Media Camp, Vikas Gupta, Niket Desai, Reed Morse, David Beyer and Jeff...

A new, Austin-based firm focused on providing branding, identity, and other services to startups, said it launched Wednesday. Napkin Venture, headed by Tina Cannon, said it would provide business classes, legal documents, branding and ident...

A venture capital firm with offices in El Paso has made an investment in a renewable biofuels company. Cottonwood Technology Fund, an early stage, technology commercialization fund headed by David Blivin, led a $1.5M, Series A funding of In...

Austin-based Savara Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceuticals developer focusing in on a treatment for cystic fibrosis, said today that it has raised $8.6M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by angel investment group The Keir...

Austin-based MapMyFITNESS said this morning that it has raised $9M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Austin Ventures and Milestone Venture Partners, along with strategic investors Competitor Group, Inc. and The Running Speci...

Austin Ventures is one of the key backers of a huge, new domain registrar startup, Donuts Inc., which said today that it has raised $100M to apply for an operate 307 new top level domains (TLDs). The firm, headed by former Demand Media Pres...

Austin Ventures is one of the key backers of a huge, new domain registrar startup, Donuts Inc., which said today that it has raised $100M to apply for an operate 307 new top level domains (TLDs). The firm, headed by former Demand Media Pres...

Austin-based Alereon, the developer of ultra wide band (UWB) radio technology used for wireless communications between consumer electronic devices, said today that it has closed on $6M of additional funding for the company. The company, led...

Houston-based Alert Logic, a developer of web-based security tools, said today that it has raised $12.2M more for the company. The Series F round was led by Industry Ventures and DH Capital, new investors in the company, and also included p...

Austin-based Civitas Learning, a new startup focused on helping college students better select classes and majors, has raised $4.1M in a funding round, the firm said Thursday. The round came from Austin Ventures, First Round Capital, and Fl...

Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies, which is developing microinverters for the solar power market, said today that it has raised $25M in a Series D funding round. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $71M in funding. The ...

Austin-based NextIO, the developer of I/O virtualization products led by K.C. Murphy, said today that it has closed a $12.3M, Series F funding round. The company said the round included its existing investors, as well as an un-named strateg...

Houston-based Equivalent Data, a provider of electronic discovery software to law firms and corporations, has scored a funding from Dallas-based private equity fund Trinity Hunt Partners. Size of the investment was not disclosed. Equivalent...

Austin-based HomeAway has made an investment in a Chinese operator of an online vacation rental site, the firm said yesterday. HomeAway said it has purchased a minority stake in Tujia which it says is the first site in China to target the h...

Austin-based Mass Relevance, the provider of social curation software headed by Sam Decker, announced this morning that it has raised $3.3M in a Series A round. According to Mass Relevance, the round was led by Austin Ventures, included new...

Austin-based low voltage semiconductor developer Calxeda has raised another $12M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today, as the firm is on the cusp of shipping chips for servers based on 32-bit ARM mobile processors....

Austin-based CopperEgg, the devleoper of cloud monitoring and analytics software, announced this morning that it has raised $2.1M in additional funding as part of its Series A round. The firm said that Silverton Partners lead the round, and...

Austin-based Ziften Technologies, the developer of enterprise monitoring software run by Mark Obrecht, has raised $5.5M in a Series B funding, and launched its first product, the firm said today. The new funding was led by Fayez Sarofim & C...

The Texas Venture Labs, the effort at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business which helps accelerate startups from the University of Texas and help them get to market, has scored $6M in a gift from oil and gas entrepreneur Jon Brumley. Accor...

Four, Texas high tech companies are behind the top rankings of venture capitalists in the Forbes Magazine annual Midas List, the magazine's rankings of the top venture capital investors. Although there were no Texas investors listed on the ...

Austin Ventures has helped to fund the merger of two benefits management companies via a funding round announced Wednesday, according to BenefitMall and CompuPay. Dallas-based BenefitMall and Miramar, Florida-based CompuPay both provide pay...

Dallas-based entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has made another investment in smart television app publisher Flingo, Flingo said Wednesday, adding $1M to the firm's first round. The firm said the funding brings its first round to $8M. Fl...

Houston-based OrthoAccel Technologies, the developer of an FDA-cleared device which helps speed up orthodontic procedures by accelerating teeth movement, has raised $10M in a growth capital funding, the firm said today. The round was led by...

Houston-based Validas, a developer of a software decision engine which tracks trends, patterns, and behavior in mobile phone usage and billing for enterprises, said Monday that it has received a strategic investment from Huntsman Gay Global...

Houston-based Aggredyne, a developer of biomedical diagnostics products for measuring platelet function, said today that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The firm, which is headed by Edward R. Teitel, did not disclose the sour...

A brand new, venture investing firm based in Houston, Crest Capital Ventures, is the lead investor in a developer of online, cloud-based video editing software, WeVideo, WeVideo announced Friday, leading a $19.1M round for the company. WeVi...

Texas companies raised $388.47M in venture capital funding in Q1 of the year, according to numbers released this evening by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters. Acco...

Partners over at Dallas-based venture capital investor Sevin Rosen Funds might just be breaking out the bubbly for lunch, after one of its portfolio firms--Splunk, debuted this morning in a huge debut on the Nasdaq. Splunk, whose other inve...

Dallas-based venture investor Sevin Rosen Funds has re-upped its backing of antibody developer Alder BioPharmaceuticals, participating as part of a $38M Series D funding for that company. Alder said that its new round was led by Novo Ventur...

Austin-based Umbel, a developer of software that measures audiences for publishers, agencies, and advertisers, has raised $3.7M, the firm announced Tuesday. The funding was led by Austin Ventures. Along with the funding, Umbel said it has h...

Austin-based WhiteGlove Health, the provider of mobile medical and preventative care services, said today that it has raised $12.9M in funding, plus $15.3M in warrants over the next two years, led by Burrill & Company. The company said the ...

Dallas billionaire Mark Cuban has put more funding into mobile games maker Mention Mobile, the gaming developer said this morning. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The Los Angeles-based company has previously raised $750,000 from ...

Austin-based Illumitex, which develops LED lighting products, said this morning that it has raised a new, $9.3M in funding. The funding came from existing investors, including NEA, Morgan Creek Capital, Mousse Partners, Apex Venture Partner...

Dallas-based Koupon Media announced this morning that it has raised $4.5M in a Series B round, for the firm's mobile coupon applications. The round was led by Trailblazer Capital, and also included prior investors DFJ Mercury and The Matthe...

Splunk, the developer of enterprise indexing software whose lead investor is Sevin Rosen Partners, the Dallas venture capital firm, has moved one step closer towards its IPO. Splunk, which is based in San Francisco, said it expects to price...

Austin-based Malauzai Software, which develops mobile banking apps for community financial institutions, said this morning that it has raised $2.3M in a fundraising effort. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. According to the compa...

Austin-based Famigo, the startup which helps families find family-friendly apps for their smartphones and tablets, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a seed round of financing. The round was led by Silverton Partners, and also incl...

Austin-based Nuventix has raised another $10M in funding for the firm's cooling technology for the LED lighting market. The funding came from existing investors Braemar Energy Ventures, CenterPoint Ventures, InterWest Partners, Rho Ventures...

Austin-based tweetTV, which is developing an online, real-time social TV guide, said this morning that it has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round .The round came from angel investor Joe Kalfa. The social television conversations site, w...

Austin-based UnboundID, the developer of identity management software headed by Steve Shoaff, has added $12.5M to its coffers in a new venture funding round, the company announced this morning. UnboundID said the Series B funding round came...

San Antonio-based BiO2 Medical, a developer of medical devices, reported late Friday that it has completed a $13.7M, Series B funding round. The round came from the Targeted Technology Fund and Pasadera Capital. The company said the round i...

Austin-based Bloomfire, a new startup co-founded by former LifeSize founder Craig Malloy, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round, to go towards helping manage sales team productivity. The round was came from Austin V...

Dallas-based TableTop Media, a developer of touchscreen enabled, restaurant kiosks, has received a debt funding round, according to Dallas venture debt provider ORIX. According to ORIX, it has provided a senior secured debt facility to Tabl...

Las Colinas-based Yootoo, which operates an online service which allows people to record videos on their computer or smartphone, and have them incorporated onto live TV, has scored an investment from reality show producer Mark Burnett. Acco...

A report released Thursday has identified Austin-based Central Texas Angel Network as one of the most active, angel investment groups in the country. According to the new HALO Report, released today by Silicon Valley Bank, the Angel Resourc...

Houston-based Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, a developer of therapeutic cancer vaccines, announced today that it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round. The round included AVG Ventures and Remeditex Ventures. According to the firm, the fund...

Austin-based Drilling Info, a provider of oil and gas exploration and analysis information, said Monday that it has raised $165M in an investment round. The round was led by Insight Venture Partners, and also included Battery Ventures and ...

Austin-based Omni Water Solutions, a developer of water treatment systems for use in oil fracking operations, said last week that it has raised $7.9M in funding. The funding was led by Austin Ventures, and also included a number of family o...

Another, Austin-based mobile development studio, CANWE STUDIOS, which is headed by Brooke Braswell and Dan Kloiber, said today that it has scored funding, to the tune of $1.5M. The firm said the funding came from private investors, and goes...

Austin-basd Black Sand Technologies, a semiconductor firm which develops power amplifiers for the wireless market, said Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding. Te funding was led by Northbridge Venture Partners and Austin Ven...

San Antonio-based AirStrip Technologies, the developer of mobile healthcare products, said today that it has scored a strategic investment from Qualcomm, via Qualcomm's Qualcomm Life Fund. Financial details of the strategic investment were ...

Austin-based Pivot3, the developer of virtual server and storage appliances, said today that it has raised $23M more in funding. The funding was led by Samsung Ventures, and included all of the firm's prior investors, which include Focus Ve...

Austin-based Tango Health, the developer of Health Savings Account (HSA) management software headed by Duncan Van Dusen, announced this morning that it has raised $4M in a Series B funding. The funding round was led by S3 Ventures, and also...

Austin-based Apollo Endosurgery has raised $47.6M in a funding round, the company announced this morning, for its endoscopy products. The firm said the funding came from investors Novo A/S, Remeditex Ventures, and CPMG, Inc., along with pri...

Austin Ventures said today that it has added Andrew Busey, the founder and former CEO of Challenge Games, as a Venture Partner at the venture capital firm. Busey--who was most recently serving as VP and GM at Zynga--will focus on finding ve...

Companies in Texas raised $306.2M in venture capital in Q4 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. The report is based on data from Thomson Reuters. The...

TECH Fort Worth, the technology incubator in Fort Worth, said this week that it is working with The Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT), to help the group review Texas healthcare companies for funding. TECH ...

A long list of Texas investors--plus Google's Eric Schmidt--said Tuesday that they have backed an effort to commercialize the research out of HRL Laboratories, the former research and development arm of Hughes Aircraft, which is based in Ma...

Houston-based Onit, a startup developing business productivity and process management tools, said today that it has raised $4.1M in a Series B funding. The round was led by Austin Ventures, and also included the principals of Houston incuba...

Austin-based Socialware, the developer of social business software, said this week that it has added CrunchFund, the investment fund run by TechCrunch's Michael Arringotn, as an investor. Socialware said that the investment comes as part of...

The Houston-based SURGE Accelerator, the energy-focused, business accelerator looking to apply the popular business acceleration model pioneered by YCombinator and TechStars to the energy software market, is making a last push for applicant...

Dallas Mavericks owner Marc Cuban has seeded another technology startup, this time a developer of customer relationship and contact management software. Nimble said late last night that Mark Cuban, along with Google Ventures, led a $1M seed...

Austin-based Unwired Nation, a provider of mobile application development services and platforms, is announcing today that it has raised $6.5M in a funding round, which it is using to expand its offices, employees, and executives. The firm,...

Irving-based eRecyclingCorps said this morning that it has raised $35M in a funding round, to go towards its wireless recycling and trade-in programs. The firm said the round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. eRecyclingCorp was c...

Houston-based Waste Management has made another investment in plastics-to-oil company Agilyx, Agilyx said today. Agilyx, a developer of processes which converts unwanted plastic waste back into crude oil, said it has raised $25M in a Series...

Austin-based Appconomy, a developer of mobile application development software, said this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the funding comes from Chinese venture capital firm Qiming Ventures, as wel...

Round Rock-based Dell is getting back into the venture capital business, and has set up a new corporate venture arm, Dell Corporate Ventures, VentureWire reported Friday. According to the WDJ, Jim Lussier, formerly of Norwest Venture Partne...

The latest report from Texas Entrepreneur Networks, the networking effort run by Hall T. Martin, says that Austin was the top location for startup funding in Texas for Q3, although Dallas startups received the highest dollar amount in the q...

Austin-based MicroVentures, the crowdfunding startup headed by Bill Clark, has raised another $150,000 for the company, according to reports. The Statesman said the funding comes from Silicon Valley investor Irfan Ahmad, along with other an...

Venture capital firm Essex Woodlands, which has offices in Houston, is the lead investor in a developer of DNA identification technology. Silicon Valley-based IntegenX said that Essex Woodlands led a $40M, Series C funding for the firm toda...

Dallas-based SoftLayer, the provider of managed and cloud hosting services, said today that it has added Greylock Partners' David Strohm to its board of directors. The privately held firm also said that its revenues hit $85M in the third qu...

Richardson-based EnTouch Controls, a startup developing commercial energy management systems for small businesses, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Trailblazer Capital. EnTouch Contr...

ServiceMesh, a developer of cloud computing management software which has operations in Austin, said this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round. The funding came from Ignition Partners. ServiceMesh, which is headed by Eric Puli...

Austin-based WP Engine, a provider of hosting and security for the WordPress blogging software package, said this morning that it has raised $1.2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Silverton Partners, and also included angel...

Naya Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on India, has backed a developer of mobile shopping and discovery apps, Zoomingo. According to Zoomingo, which is based in Seattle, it raised $1.3M in a first round of funding from ...

Austin-based SalesVu, a developer of a mobile, cloud-based payment product, announced today that it has raised $600,000 in a angel investment round. The firm said the funding will go toward product development and marketing. The company di...

Austin-based KLD Energy Technologies reported Thursday that it has received $10M, in a convertible debt offering. The firm said that the round will go towards further development and application of its technology. The firm said it now has r...

Austin-based WhaleShark Media, which operates a network of online coupon such as RetailMeNot.com, announced today that it has raised a huge, $150M financing round. The funding came from J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Institutional Venture...

Dallas-based Koupon Media, a developer of digital coupon software for mobile devices, said Wednesday that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included the Matthew Pritzker Company. Koupo...

A social gaming firm which develops iPhone and Android mobile games, Mention Mobile, announced Tuesday that it has scored $250,000 in funding from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Mention Mobile, which is based in Los Angeles, develops th...

Dallas-based mobile barcode reading app developer Shopsavvy said today that it has raised $7M in new funding, led by Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook. The round also included Brad Martin (Saks Fifth Avenue), and James Bailey. Saverin...

Austin-based Noesis Energy, a new startup targeting the energy efficiency market for commercial and industrial customers, said today that it has received an initial investment of $6.5M, from Austin Ventures. Noesis said it is planning to un...

Austin-based Quarri Technologies, a developer of information and content security software, announced today that it has raised $3M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by the Houston Angel Network (HAN), and also include Daylight ...

Austin-based Microventures, the crowd-funding site run by Bill Clark, said Thursday that it has helped to raise $300,000 for a fund created to buy private shares in Facebook on the secondary market. The firm said it was able to land that $3...

Austin-based Quarri Technologies, a developer of security software for the business web application market, has raised $2.77M, part of an ongoing equity funding round targeted at $4.6M. The funding came to light via a regulatory filing by t...

Grapevine, Texas-based videogame retailer GameStop is the lead investor in a maker of online, TV games, PlayJam. PlayJam said this week that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding, which came from GameStop Digital Ventures, Adobe Ventures,...

Three, Dallas-based investors--S3 Ventures, Mark Cuban, and Tim Headington--have invested in a maker of device identification software, BlueCava, that firm announced Tuesday. BlueCava said that it has raised $9.5M in a funding round, which ...

Austin-based myEdu, a developer of software which helps college students manage their classes, schedules, textbooks, and more, said today that it has raised $10M in a funding round. The round came from the University of Texas System. Accord...

Venture capital investments in 38 Texas firms rose to a total of $595.75M in Q3 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital MoneyTree report, based on data from Thomson Reuters. The Mone...

Austin-based OwnLocal, which develops products to help local publishers grow their web services, said today that it has raised a new round of funding. Amount of the funding was not announced, however, the firm said it now has raised around ...

Dallas-based private equity firm glendonTodd Capital said today that it has made an investment into technology firm Enterra Solutions. Enterra is a Reston, Virginia-based developer of technology for rapidly processing real time data, applyi...

Austin-based Reddwerks has bumped its current funding round to $5.8M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The firm--which has been in the midst of a Series C-3 Preferred stock round since November of last year--said in the...

A Russian company developing open source, web server software--NGINX--has scored an investment from the private investment firm of Michael S. Dell, the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Dell Computer. NGINX said Tuesday that it had raised $3M i...

Houston-based Cyberonics, the publicly held developer of medical devices for treating epilepsy and other diseases, said today that it has invested $12M in a developer of sleep apnea treatment devices. According to Cyberonics, it made the in...

Dallas-based Authentix, a developer of security and anti-counterfeiting technology used in oil and gas, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and other industries, announced today that it has raised $15M in a Series C growth equity funding. The f...

Austin-based Spredfast, the social media analytics and management software developer headed by Rod Favaron, announced today that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Interwest Partners, and also included prio...

Austin-based HelioVolt, which manufactures thin film photovoltaic modules for the solar power industry, has scored $50M in an investment, the firm said Monday. The investment comes from South Korean energy firm SK TIC and SK Innovation. Hel...

Dallas-based FireHost, a provider of cloud-based secure hosting, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by The Stephens Group, LLC, and also included the fimr's earlier investors. FireHost said the...

Dallas-based Teladoc, which provides healthcare and medical care via telephone and videoconferencing, said this morning that it has raised $18.6M in a funding round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and also included c...

A developer of low cost, low power sunlight readable LCD panels with offices in Austin has scored a funding round, the firm announced today. Silicon Valley-based Pixel Qi said today that it has raised funding from 3M New Ventures, the ventu...

Three competitors of Austin-based WhaleShark Media, the online coupons site operator backed by Google, Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and Adams Street Partners, have banded together for support, and gained a round of venture fun...

Dallas-based ShopSavvy, the developer of mobile barcode scanning apps for both Android and iPhone, has raised $1.0M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. ShopSavvy, which is headed by Alexander Muse, apparently raised th...

Austin- and Toronto, Ontario-based Affinium Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceuticals firms developing anti-infectives, said Monday that it has raised $15M in a financing round. The round came from SV Life Sciences, Genesis Capital Partners and Fo...

Dallas- and Austin-based venture capital investor Sevin Rosen Funds has re-upped on a developer of molecular diagnostics services and technology. Reserach Triangle Park, North Carolina-based Metabolon, which is developing molecular diagnost...

Austin-based MTPV, a developer of semiconductor chip technology to convert heat to electricity, has raised $6.5M in funding, part of a $8.5M round currently in progress, according to a regulatory filing. Details on the funding have not yet ...

Austin-based Whale Shark Media, the operator of a portfolio of coupon and deal sites, has raised another $18.0M in an equity funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. According to the filing, the funding round opened Au...

Austin-based molecular diagnostics firm Asuragen has raised $5.0M, on its way to a $10.0M funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Asuragen is a spinout of Ambion, the molecular biology reagent firm founded by former...

Austin-based SpaceCraft, a developer of website development software, has raised $1.3M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. SpaceCraft says it is "changing the way small businesses create and manage we...

Austin-based Socialware, the developer of enterprise social media tools, said this morning that it has raised $7M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. Socialware, which is led by Chad Bockius, ...

Dallas-based Airband Communications, the provider of fixed wireless voice and data services, said today that it has raised another $20M in funding. The round came from ABRY Partners, and will go towards financing further growth. Airband sai...

Austin-based Uplogix, the developer of systems management software, has raised $1.2M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Terms and details of the funding have not been announced by the company. T...

Austin-based Whaleshark Media, the online coupon and deals site operator, has scored backing from Google Ventures. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. WhaleShark operates RetailMeNot.com and many other coupons and deals ...

Austin-based NextIO, the developer of I/O virtualization products for speeding up server I/O, has confirmed it has raised $8.5M in a Series E funding. The funding was covered by this publication in May via regulatory filing, and was confirm...

Austin-based BigCommerce, a developer of online e-commerce and shopping cart software, has raised $15M in a new round of funding. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners. The firm, which was co-founded by Eddie Machaaslani and Mitch ...

Austin-based Kimbia, which makes web-based event management and fundraising software, said today that it has raised $4M in a new round of funding. The firm said the Series 2 round was led by S3 Ventures, and also included angel investment g...

Dallas-based Peloton Therapeutics, an early stage cancer drug discovery and development startup, said today that it has raised $18M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by The Column Group, and also included Remeditex Ventures a...

The latest MoneyTree Venture Capital report, from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, was released Tuesday evening, finding that Texas companies raised a total of...

Austin-based Nuventix, the developer of LED lighting technology, said today that it has raised $10M in a new investment round. The round came from The Bergquist Company and GE. Nuventix said the new funding will go towards global expansion ...

Austin-based Ziften Technologies said over the weekend that it has raised $5.8M in a Series A funding. The round came from Fayez Sarofim & Co. and Trellis Partners. Sarofim and John Long of Trellis Partners have joined the company's board a...

Austin-based NewComLink, a provider of products for the retail credit market, said today that it has raised $10M in a new funding round. The Series B funding came from Austin Ventures and StarVest Partners. According to the firm, it will us...

Austin-based CopperEgg, a developer of real-time, analytics software, said today that it has raised $2M in its Series A funding round. The firm said the round was led by Silverton Partners. As part of the funding, Silverton's Kip McClanahan...

Kyle, Texas-based Xtreme Power, the developer of energy storage technology backed by SAIL Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, The Dow Chemical Company, Fluor Corp., BP Alternative Energy, Dominion Resources, POSCO ICT, SkyLake & Co...

Dow Jones reports this morning that the amount of venture capital raised by funds in the first half of the year was up 19 percent, however, that funding went to a much smaller number of brand name funds. According to the report, $8.1 billio...

Austin- and Pittsburgh-based BlackLocus, a developer of cloud-based, pricing optimization and revenue management software, is announcing today that it has raised $2.5M in its Series A funding round. The firm said the round was led by DFJ Me...

Startups bemoaning the lack of angel investors in Austin -- will have those angels coming to them in droves, although they'll have to wait until next year. The Angel Capital Association, a national group representing a significant number of...

Austin-based Hart InterCivic, the developer of electronic voting systems, said today that it has scored a strategic investment from private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. According to Hart ...

Plano-based Diodes Incorporated, the manufacturer of analog semiconductors, said today that it has invested in a Taiwanese component maker. Diodes said it has agreed to invest in ERis Technology Corporation, which provides design, manufactu...

Austin-based NaturallyCurly network, which operates a website focused on people with curly hair, has raised $1.2M in a Series C funding round, the firm said Thursday. The firm said the funding will go towards hiring talent, acquisition, inf...

Austin-based Nuventix, the developer of thermal management technology headed by Jim Balthazar, has scored backing from GE. According to GE, Nuventix was one of ten companies it invested in as part of a $63M energy investment effort. Amount ...

Houston-based LiquidFrameworks, a developer of workforce automation and operations management software for the oilfield and industrial/environment service provider market, said today that it has scored a round of venture funding. Size of th...

Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies, the developer of microinverters for the solar power industry, announced this morning that it has raised $19M more in funding. The Series C round brings the company's total raised to $46M. Name of the l...

Austin-based Macheen, the developer of cloud services software, said Wednesday that it has raised $10M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by North Bridge Venture Capital. Prior investors DFJ Mercury and angels Tom Meredith, Mi...

Austin-based Illumitex, a developer of high power, LED lighting systems, has raised $13.52M more in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. Illumitex is ventu...

Grand Prarie-based Neos Therapeutics, a contract biopharmaceuticals manufacturer, has raised $13.5M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The filing indicates t...

Austin-based BuildFax, an online database of historical permit data used by the commercial and residential real estate industry, said today that it has raised $4M in funding. The funding was led by DMGI, and also included Environmental Data...

Austin-based Hyper Wear, a developer of fitness equipment and weights, said Tuesday that it has raised funding from the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), Concho Valley Angel Network (CVAN), Baylor Angel Network (BAN), Joel Trammell, CEO o...

Irving-based Net.orange, a developer of healthcare management web applications, has scoerd a "significant" round of growth equity, the firm announced today. The funding came from billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong, via his firm California ...

Austin-based WhaleShark Media, the operator of RetailMeNot.com and other coupon sites, has raised nearly $10.0M in new funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. Details on the funding have not been announced. WhaleShar...

Austin-based QuickGifts said today that it has raised $1M in a Series A funding round, led by Thinktiv, for its online gift card marketing service. QuickGifts was founded by Stacy Young, and allows consumers to purchase and send gift cards ...

Austin-based Portalarium, the videogame developer co-founded by gaming designer Richard Garriott, said today that it has raised a second round of bridge financing. The firm said the funding came from UK investor m8 Capital, as well as the F...

Richardson-based Mavenir Systems, the developer of LTE and mobile infrastructure products led by Pardeep Kohli, said today that it has raised $40M in a fifth round of funding. Mavenir also said it has acquired Airwide Solutions, a provider ...

Austin-based Javelin Semiconductor, a developer of 3G, CMOS power amplifiers for the communications market, has raised $4.0M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the new funds were not discl...

Dallas-based IDENTEC GROUP, a provider of RFID tracking products and services, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a equity financing round. The firm said the funding came from un-named private investors. The firm said the new fun...

Austin-based RF Code, which develops RFID-based asset management systems, has completed a $12.0M funding round for the firm, according to a regulatory filing by the company this week. The funding looks to be part of a round which was kicked...

Pasadena, Texas-based Kior, which is developing renewable fuels technology, has scored $55M in a Series C round, according to an updated S-1 from the company. The firm is currently in IPO registration. Kior is venture backed by Khosla Ventu...

Austin-based NextIO, the developer of virtualization products for the data center market, has raised $8.8M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. Th...

Houston-based Waste Management has made an investment in a German developer of waste-to-energy technology, Agnion Energy, the firm said this morning. Size of the investment was not disclosed. Waste Management said it joined Kleiner Perkins ...

Austin-based Tabbedout, a developer of mobile payment applications for the iPhone and Android, announced today that it has raised $5.75M in a Series A funding round. The firm said it added $3.7Mfrom New Enterprise Associates to boost the fu...

Two Texas "venture accelerators", Tech Wildcatter in Dallas and Capital Factory in Austin, are among the top venture acceleration efforts in the country, according to a list released this week compiled as part of the Kauffman Fellows Progra...

Austin-based Spredfast, the social media management software developer headed by Rod Favaron, has added another $2.0M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. The firm, which is backed by Austin Ventures, said that o...

Irvine-based OnAsset Intelligence, a provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless asset tracking products, announced today that it has secured a new funding round. The amount of new funding was not disclosed. The round came from Main Stree...

Austin-based SpiceWorks, the developer of IT management software, announced this morning that it has raised $25M in new, Series D financing. The new funding round included new investors Adams Street Partners and Tenaya Capital, along with e...

Two executives from San Antonio-based Rackspace have made new investments in a provider of video transcoding services, Encoding.com. According to Encoding.com, it raised $2.0M in a funding round led by Metamorphic Ventures, and which also i...

Houston-based venture capital firm DFJ Mercury said Tuesday that it has promoted Russ Lebovitz to Venture Partner, and hired Dan Janiak as an Associate. According to DFJ Mercury, both will help the firm in developing and originating science...

Austin-based Digby, the developer of mobile commerce software run by David Sikora, said this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Battery Ventures, and also included current investors BlackBerry P...

Investments in Texas companies by venture capital firms was up in Q1 of the year, rising to $259.24M, according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based ...

Houston-based Alert Logic, which provides security software-as-a-service, said Monday that it has raised $12.6M in a Series E funding round. The round came from existing investors Updata Partners, Covera Ventures, DFJ Mercury, and Access Ve...

Austin-based Spanning Cloud Apps, a developer of a backup service for Google Apps, announced today that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Foundry Group. Spanning Cloud Apps is headed by Charlie Wood. The fu...

The Houston Technology Future Fund, a new venture capital firm, said Tuesday that it is aiming to raise $100M to invest in a 30-county region in Texas. The early stage venture fund said it will invest in aerospace, energy, information techn...

Austin-based Spanning Cloud Apps, a developer of Google Apps applications for synchronizing Apple iCal with Google Apps, has raised $2.0M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Financial terms of the deal were...

Austin- and Los Angeles-based GameSalad, the developer of game creation software for the iPhone, has raised $6.1M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ F...

Angel investment group the Open Angel Forum is eyeing Austin as the location of a new chapter for the investment group. The group, formed as a response to fee-based angel pitching conferences and groups, currently operates in Los Angeles, S...

Austin Ventures has backed the operator of an online limousine search site, Limos.com, to the tune of $10M. According to Limos.com, the new funding also includes the addition of AV's Mike Dodd and John Thornton to its board of directors. Li...

Austin-based Uplogix, which provides systems management and remote management products for data centers, has upped its latest funding to $12.8M, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details of the funding have not been annou...

Austin-based Microventure Marketplace, which is developing a service to help entrepreneurs and small business owners to connect with "micro" investors, has raised $200,000 as part of a $500,000 funding round, according to a recent regulator...

Austin-based Mass Relevance, the social curation and social media startup headed by Sam Decker, said Wednesday that it has closed on its seed funding round. The firm said it has raised over its $2M goal, with funding coming from Allegro Ven...

Dallas-based CoreXchange, the provider of colocation and other data center services, said today that it has scored an equity funding from Orix Corporate Capital, along with existing investor Red Barn Investments. Financial details of the fu...

Dallas-based CoreXchange, a provider of colocation and related services, has raised $8.9M in a funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. CoreXchange's chairm...

Dallas-based Mozido, a firm which says it is developing low cost, white-label mobile financial transaction services, announced today that it has received a round of growth funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The company said t...

Austin-based SpareFoot.com, which provides an online marketplace for finding self-storage facilities, said this week that it has raised $1.5M in an extension to its Series B funding round. The round included Silverton Partners, FLOODGATE, a...

Austin-based Infochimps, which operates an online marketplace for large datasets, said last week that it has added three new investors to the firm. Amount of the investments were not disclosed. Infochimps said that it has added MFI Capital,...

Austin-based ProspX, the developer of software-as-a-service for the commercial insurance industry, said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Adams Capital Management, and also included prior investo...

Austin-based WhiteGlove House Call Health, which offers up on-call healthcare at home or work via a membership program, said Tuesday that it has raised $12.5M in a funding round. The round was led by Enhanced Equity Fund. WhiteGlove said it...

Austin-based CLEAResult, a firm which helps to design and implement energy efficiency and renewable energy programs for utilities, said Tuesday that it has scored a "significant capital investment". The funding came from General Catalyst. F...

Austin-based InView Technology Corporation, a developer of high-performance cameras and hyper-spectral imagers, said this morning that it has received a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence communi...

Austin-based TechSkills, the operator of IT, health service, and business training centers, has upped its most recent funding round to $5.175M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Wednesday. The filing indicates that OCA Ventures...

Austin-based Nuventix, the developer of LED cooling products led by Jim Balthazar, has just scored $4.9M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing, the funding is part of a series BB round...

Austin-based Cinsay, a developer of enterprise video player technology, said today that it has inked a deal with Pepperwood Partners LLC, where Pepperwood will provide the firm up to $40M in debt or equity financing. The firm said the capit...

Austin-based Socialware, a developer of social networking compliance tools for the enterprise, said this morning that it has raised $3M in additional funding. The funding came from existing investors FLOODGATE, G-51 Capital and Silverton Pa...

Austin-based Boundless Network, the promotional products firm, said today that it has raised another $4M in funding. According to the company, the round came from existing investors Austin Ventures and Silverton Partners. Boundless said the...

Richardson-based AirWlk Communications, a developer of femtocell and other related, wireless radio technology, said Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a Series D funding round. The round was led by Sevin Rosen, and also included TL Ventures...

Austin-based uShip, an online site helping businesses and individuals connect with shipping and transport companies, has raised $2M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the funding have not ye...

Austin-based ReachForce, a developer of marketing automation software used to clean and cleanse contact lists, announced today that it has raised $4.6M in a growth financing round. The round was led by MK Capital, and also included the firm...

Austin-based LibreDigital said this morning that it has scored $4M in additional funding for the firm's digital reading technology. The firm, which provides software and services to help book and other publishers reach the electronic book r...

Irving-based Net.Orange, a developer of web services software for the healthcare industry, has raised $5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. No details on the funding have been announced by the firm ...

Austin-based HelioVolt, the developer of thin film photovoltaic solar power modules, has raised $8.5M, in what appears to be the first funding on an ongoing $10M funding round. The funding came to light via a regulatory filing by the firm F...

Houston-based ConocoPhillips joined with GE and NRG Energy Thursday, saying that the three have created a joint venture to invest in emerging and innovative energy technology companies. According to the three companies, they have committed ...

Austin-based Entreave, a startup providing online job matching services, said this week that it has raised a seed round of funding from angel investors. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Entreave was co-founded by Vamsi Mohun and Joh...

Dallas-based Teladoc Medical Services said today that it has raised $4M in a new funding round. According to the firm, the funding came from existing investors Cardinal partners and HLM Venture Partners. Teladoc said the new funding will go...

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association were released this evening, finding that there was $137.5M raised in venture capital by Texas companies in Q4. The fundi...

Houston-based NEOS GeoSolutions, a provider of software and services to oil and gas exploration companies which helps them determine where to explore, lease, and drill, has raised a big $60M funding round, from Bill Gates and a slate of oth...

Austin-based TalentGuard, a provider of career seminars, said this week that it has raised $400,000 in a Series A financing round. The firm said the round came from angel investors, including Jim Schneider, former CFO of Dell and Chairman o...

Houston-based Main Street Capital said today that it has invested $7.5M in funding in Televerde, a provider of sales lead and demand generation services for the IT hardware and software industry. Main Street said the investment included $6....

Austin-based CacheIQ, a developer of caching products for file-based storage, has raised $6.0M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Source of the funding was not disclosed. CacheIQ was co-founded by Joel Trammel...

Austin-based Uplogix, a developer of remote management software for computer networks, has raised $11.3M in an equity funding round, according to filing from the firm Monday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Uplogix has previous...

Austin-based Dachis Group, the social business consultancy headed by Jeffrey Dachis, has raised another $30M in funding, the firm said this morning. The Series B funding was led by Austin Ventures. According to the firm, the new funding wil...

Austin-based Solar Power Technologies, a developer of optimization and monitoring systems for photovoltaic solar arrays, has raised $6.08M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The firm is backed by Austin Ventur...

Austin-based Atonometrics, a developer of test and measurement equipment for the photovoltaic equipment industry, has raised $1.7M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the funding was not disclos...

Sugar Land, Texas- and Colorado-based Wireless Seismic, a developer of a wireless, seismic data acquisition system used by the oil and gas industry, said today that it has raised $19.5M in a new funding round. The round came from Chesapeake...

Austin-based Mass Relevance, a new startup headed by former Bazaarvoice exec Sam Decker, has raised somewhere around $2.0M in funding, according to multiple reports. The funding came from Austin Ventures and Floodgate. Mass Relevance is app...

Houston-based private equity firm Rock Hill Capital Group announced today that it has invested in Applied Global Technologies (AGT), a service provider for the video conferencing market. Size of the investment was not disclosed. Applied Glo...

Austin-based Ortho Kinematics, a developer of spine motion analysis and diagnostics technology, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a new funding round. The round was led by TEXO Ventures, and also included PTV Sciences and Gatebrid...

Austin-based Gazzang, a developer of cloud infrastructure software, said today that it has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Austin Ventures, and also included un-named individual investors. As part of the funding, ...

Austin-based WhaleShark Media, the operator of a number of online coupon and deal sites, has raised $87.0M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the funding came from ten investors, and...

Austin-based Tango Health, a provider of a web-based, Health Savings Account (HSA) management service for employers and employees, has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from S3 Ventures and angel investors. Tango Heal...

Ambiq Micro, a developer of energy efficient microcontrollers, said today that it has raised $2.4M in a seed round of funding for the firm. The round was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included ARM, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Cisco, The Frankel...

Austin-based Infochimps, which operates an online marketplace for data sets, has raised $1.2M in a Series A funding. The round came from DFJ Mercury. Blair Garrou of DFJ Mercury joins the company's board as part of the funding. Infochimps h...

Austin Ventures said today that it has committed to invest up to $50M in a new, consolidation firm called Silverback Acquisitions, headed by Austin entrepreneur Jack McDonald. McDonald is the former Chairman and CEO of Perficient. According...

Austin-based HomeAway, the online vacation travel marketplace, has scored a big vote of confidence from Google, and has taken an investment from Google's venture capital arm, Google Ventures, according to the New York Times today. According...

Dallas-based Telligent Systems, a developer of enterprise social networking software, has raised $2.3M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. According to the filing, the new equity funding round came from 1...

Austin-based Riptano, a developer of open source, transaction database software, has raised $2.7M in a funding round, according to the firm's investors. The round came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Rackspace Hosting, an...

Austin-based MicroVentures, which operates an online marketplace for finding small business funding, has inked a deal with a provider of investor management software. According to MicroVentures and CapLinked, users of MicroVentures will get...

SemiSouth, the Starkville, Mississippi developer of high-voltage, silicon-carbine semiconductors which also has operations in Austin, has scored $30M in an investment from Power Integrations, a California-based manufacturer of power convers...

Austin-based Offers.com, an online coupon and deals site, is announcing Monday that it has raised $7M in a growth equity investment, to accelerate its growth and expansion. The investment is coming from Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLLP. Offe...

Mark Cuban, the Dallas technology mogul who owns the Mavericks, and Dallas-based oil billionaire Tim Headington are the lead investors in a California maker of security tools. According to BlueCava, a developer of device authority and authe...

San Antonio-based ViroXis, a developer of an anti-viral biopharmaceutical derived from sandalwood oil, has raised $2.5M in an investment round, according to Startech and the South Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization. T...

Dallas-based All Access Telecom, a wholesale telecommunications carrier, has received $250,000 in a loan, according to lender Thermo Credit LLC. According to Thermo Credit, the asset-based loan is being used for growth capital by All Access...

The latest venture capital investment numbers, released this evening by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters, find venture capital investments in Texas reached $380.6M in Q3...

Austin-based Microstaq, a developer of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMs) based electronic fluid control valves, has raised $10.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the firm is...

Austin-based StoredIQ reports this morning that it has raised $10M in a new investment round. The developer of electronic discovery and compliance software said the new funding comes from PerformanceEdge Partners, and also included prior in...

Austin-based AnovaStorm, a developer of software used for J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application deployment, said today that it has closed on an initial round of funding. Size of the round was not disclosed. The funding came from CAG ...

Webster, Texas-based IDEV Technologies, a developer of minimally invasive stents for treating arterial disease, said today that it has raised a $46M, Series D round of funding. According to the firm, the round was led by Piper Jaffray & Co....

Dallas-based ENTACT, a provider of environmental remediation and construction services, said Wednesday that it has gone through a recapitalization with TGF Management and Austin Ventures. ENTACT did not disclose exact financial terms of the...

Texas venture capital total for Q3 are around $592M, according to a recent analysis of venture funding activity in the region from Texastechpulse.com. The analysis--which is based on information gleaned from funding announcements, regulator...

Austin-based ATX Innovations, the developer of the TabbedOut mobile application, which allows users to pay their restaurant and bar tab using their smart phone, has raised $2M in a new funding round. The round came from New Enterprise Assoc...

Austin-based Quaresso, a developer of endpoint security technology for protecting web browsers, has raised $270,000 out of a $500,000 funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Details and source of the new funding ...

Austin-based Spacetime Studios, a developer of 3D, massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), said this week that it has raised a new round of funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. According to the firm, the new round came from ...

Three Houston companies are sharing a total of $2.9M in funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF), according to the Gulf Coast Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization. According to the GCRCIC, AuricX Pharmaceuticals...

Dallas-based MicroTransponder, a developer of a medical device for the treatment of chronic pain, has raised $2.7M in funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not disclosed. According to the fi...

Austin-based OtherInBox, the developer of an email filtering service run by Joshua Baer, has raised $1.5M in a new funding round, according to reports. The funding came from Kenny Van Zant of SolarWinds, Dave McClure, Naval Ravikant, and Wi...

Austin-based Infochimps, a provider of aggregated web data sets, has raised $340,000 as part of an ongoing, $500,000 funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, the round is in the form of deb...

Venture capital firm Austin Ventures has saw an exit in its portfolio today in WAY Systems, a Boston-based developer of mobile, point-of-sale (POS) software for merchants, as VeriFone said today that it has acquired WAY. However, it looks t...

Austin-based Uplogix, a developer of remote management products for administering computer networks, has raised $5.0M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing, the firm has raised $5.0M, out of an ...

MapMyFitness, a developer of online and mobile fitness websites and applications, said today that it has raised $5.0M from Austin Ventures, and moved its headquarters to Austin. The firm operates MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, ...

Austin Ventures said this morning that it has formed a new, life insurance distribution company with Bob Carter, the co-founder of National Financial Partners. As part of the new firm, Austin Venture said it has invested $5M in the new comp...

Fort Worth-based ZS Pharma, a firm which is developing treatments for patients with liver or kidney disease, has raised $2M in funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, according to the ETF Monday. ZS Pharma, which was originally bas...

Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor said over the weekend that it has linked up with Chinese firm Foton Motor, to create an Automotive Joint Lab, focused on automotive electronics. According to Freescale, the join lab will co-develop silic...

Austin-based Bazaarvoice, the developer of ecommerce ratings and reviews software-as-a-service, said Wednesday that it has added well known investor Tom Meredith to its board of directors. Meredith is currently co-founder and general partne...

Austin-based StoredIQ, a developer of electronic discovery software, has raised $2.7M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The funding is part of an ongoing, $3.0M funding. No details of the funding have been announced ...

Austin-based Smooth-Stone, a developer of semiconductors targeted at the data center and server market, announced today that it has raised $48M in a funding round. The funding came from ARM, Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), Ba...

The director of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, Alan Kirchoff, has resigned, according to reports. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund is the state's effort to fund technology startups. No reason for the departure was given. Kirchoff had...

San Antonio-based Airstrip Technologies, a developer of mobile medical software, said Wednesday that it has closed a round of financing, from Sequoia Capital. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Airstrip, which is headed by Dr. ...

Houston-based venture capital firm DFJ Mercury is the lead investor in a developer of molecular biology reagents. According to Michigan-based Swift Biosciences, DFJ led the firm's $3M, Series A funding. A number of individual, Michigan inve...

Austin-based KLD Energy, a developer of drive systems for electric vehicles, announced Wednesday that it has raised $6M in a Series B funding. The firm said the funding will go towards commercialization of its high-performance electric driv...

Austin-based Sneaky Games, a developer of Facebook games, has raised $325,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the firm is in the midst of a $500,000 fundraising effort. No details of th...

Austin-based Callvine, a firm developing group calling and texting applications for the iPhone, said Monday that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The round came from S3 Ventures, and is headed by former eFAX founder Rudy Prince. Callvi...

Austin-based FireFly LED Lighting, one of the firms in the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), has raised $300,000 in a Series A funding, according to the ATI. The funding came from the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) and Concho Valley An...

Austin-based venture capital firm Sante Ventures is the lead investor on a Series B financing for Ohio-based Explorys, a developer of cloud computing products aimed at healthcare data management. According to Explorys, it raised $2.55M in a...

Houston-based Quorum Business Solutions, a provider of software and systems to the oil, gas, and renewable energy industry, said Thursday that it has received a "significant" capital investment from private equity firms The Carlyle Group an...

Austin-based Digby, a developer of mobile e-commerce software, has raised $2.0M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, the funding is part of an ongoing $3.0M funding effort b...

Performance numbers from the University of Texas Investment Management Co., which manages investments for the University of Texas, were released this week showing the IRR for a number of Texas-based venture capital and private equity firms ...

Kyle, Texas-based Xtreme Power, a developer of energy storage technology for the utility scale power market, said today that it has raised $29.5M in a financing round. The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, The Dow Chemical Comp...

Austin-based Workstreamer, which operates an online service to track news, blogs, social networking sites, and other information sources for information about customers, cometitors, and others, said today that it has raised $3.5M in a Serie...

Houston-based Kior, a biofuels firm developing catalytic processes for converting biomass to high quality bio-crude, has upped its venture funding to $110M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. Details on the...

Austin-based Caringo, a developer of object-based storage software for the data storage industry, announced this morning that it has received $5M in a new series of funding. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Caringo said the inve...

Austin-based Zilliant, a developer of software used to optimize pricing for B2B manufacturers, distributors, and industrial service firms, announced Friday morning that it has raised an additional $13M in funding. According to Zilliant, the...

Austin-based uControl, a developer of products for the home security and automation market, is announcing today that it has added $3.9M to its latest funding round, bringing its total raised in the current round to $9.0M. The firm said the ...

Austin-based venture capital firm Sante Ventures has backed a St. Louis medical device company, EndoStim. According to EndoStim, it raised $6M in a Series B funding which was led by Sante Ventures. Along with the funding, Doug French of San...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) have released their quarterly venture capital numbers for Q2, reporting that venture deals in Texas totaled $188.7M for the quarter. The numbers were up significantl...

Austin-based Gendai Games, the iPhone game creation software firm headed by Michael Agustin, said today that it has raised a round of funding somewhere north of $1M. The funding was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included Steamboat Ventures, ...

Austin-based FreightWatch International, a provider of logistics security, said today that it has raised $10M in a growth equity investment. The round was led by Bridge Investments LLC, a private equity firm based in Chicago. FreightWatch h...

In a report today, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Thomson Reuters said that fundraising dropped for venture capital firms, to the slowest quarter since the third quarter of 2003. According to a report released today, thirty...

Irving-based Reata Pharmaceuticals, which is developing anti-inflammatory drugs, said today that it has raised $78M in a new funding round. The round was led by CPMG and Novo AS. According to Reata, the new funding brings the company's tota...

An analysis of venture capital deals and investment activity in Texas, tallies up around $400.5M in investments in the state in Q2. The analysis was based on tracking of venture capital, angel, and private equity deals by Texastechpulse.com...

Houston-based C$ cMoney, which says it is developing mobile payment technology, said Thursday that it has raised $100M. The funding came from AGS Capital Group, LLC. The firm said it will use the funding to expand the firm and launch its se...

Austin-based HeatGenie, a developer of self-heating food packaging technology, has raised $400,000, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not disclosed. HeatGenie had said in May that it is receiving...

Dallas-based Codekko Software, a developer of software which optimizes the source code of web applications, has raised $1.76M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Source of the new funding was not announ...

Stafford, Texas-based Theatrics.com, a stealth mode firm, has raised $1.385M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing today. The filing indicates the funding is part of a $1.4M round, and came from nine investors. No details on ...

Austin-based HelioVolt, a developer of thin film, photovoltaic coatings, has raised $31.5M as part of a $32.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The funding appears to be part of a round kicked off in Februa...

Austin-based Click Forensics, a provider of services for online advertisers to validate their online audiences and detect click fraud, said today that it has raised $6M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Austin Ventures, and ...

Richardson-based Mavenir Systems, a developer of products used by mobile operators to deliver video and other services, said Tuesday that it has raised $13.6M in a Series D funding round. The round came from North Bridge Venture Partners, A...

Austin-based Charity Dynamics said today that its online fundraising application, Boundless Fundraising, has now raised more than $30M for the nonprofits using its product. The product allows nonprofits to solicit donations from Facebook, m...

Kyle-based Xtreme Power, a developer of smart grid power management products, has raised $18.0M as part of an ongoing $28.7M venture funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Source of the new funding was not disc...

Kingwood, Texas-based Envirogen Technologies, a developer of wastewater and environmental treatment projects, said last week that it has secured $50M in financing from an un-named "international provider of alternative investment capital." ...

Houston-based venture capital firm DFJ Mercury has closed funding on its second fund, DFJ Mercury Fund II, at $70M, the fund said today. The firm, which invests in see and early stage information technology, advanced materials, and bioscien...

Austin-based Sneaky Games said this afternoon that it has raised a first round of venture funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The round was led by Liahona Ventures, which is also based in Austin. Sneaky Games is working on soc...

Dallas-based eGistics, a provider of hosted document management services, has raised $1.25M as part of an ongoing $1.49M debt funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the funding has not been announced. eGistic...

Austin-based Sparefoot, an online service which helps people find self-storage facilities, has announced it has raised $2M in a Series B funding, via investor Bryan Menell. According to Menell, the firm raised $2M from Silverton Partners, F...

Richardson-based Mavenir Systems, which manufactures telecom equipment, has raised another $13.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Source of the new funding has not been announced. Mavenir is ventu...

Houston-based venture capital firm DFJ Mercury has taken a book from a popular trend sweeping Silicon Valley venture capital firms, and launched an "office hours" event, telling its contacts this week that it is holding its first DFJ Mercur...

Dallas-based data center provider Clearview reports this morning that it scored a second round of funding, plus gained a $1M line of credit. The financing round came from Rock Financial Partners. Size of the investment round was not disclos...

Austin-based Sparefoot, an online site which helps people find storage units on the web, has raised $2.0M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by...

Austin-based Savara, a developer of inhalation-based drug delivery technology, said last week that it has received $1.(m in a commercialization award from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The firm said the funding will be used to advance...

Houston-based Ensysce Biosciences, a nanotechnology firm which is applying carbon nanotube technology to cancer treatment, said Thursday that it has raised $1.5M. The funding came from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Ensysce said the ne...

Austin-based Socialware, a developer of software used to manage social network policy for businesses, has now raised $4,166,688 in its most recent funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Details on the funding ha...

Austin-based Conformity, a developer of software-as-a-service applications to manage cloud applications, said today that it has raised another $3M in its Series A financing. The firm said the additional financing was led by Guggenheim Ventu...

Houston-based Leonardo Biosystems, a developer of drug delivery technology, has received $2.5M in a funding round from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The investment was announced by parent firm Arrowhead Research Corporation today. Leo...

Austin-based TechSkills, which operates education centers for information technology, health services, and other career training, has raised another $3.175M in funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. No details on the ...

Austin-basd ProspX, a developer of software used for managing commercial insurance processes, has raised $4.4M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the funding have not been announced by t...

Austin-based Inova Labs, a manufacturer of oxygen concentrators for the medical market, said today that it has raised $10.0M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Three Arch Partners. The company said the new funding will go towa...

Houston-based Waste Management has made a strategic investment in MicroGreen Polymers, a startup developing plastics technology, MicroGreen said Wednesday. MicroGreen, which is based in the Seattle area and develops technology to reduce the...

Austin-based LibreDigital, the electronic book publishing infrastructure provider headed by Russell P. Reeder, said today that it has raised $8.1M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by S3 Ventures, and also included Adams Capita...

Richardson-based Sipera Systems, a developer of security tools for the unified communications and VoIP market, announced today that it has raised $10M in a new funding round. The round was led by S3 Ventures, and also included Austin Ventur...

Richardson-based RipCode, a developer of video trancoding appliances, has raised $1.0M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, the round appears to b...

Chrysalis Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early stage and growth investments in the healthcare and technology sector, said today that it has hired on Alan Ying, M.D., to head up an office in Houston. Chrysalis--which is based in...

Austin-based Wintegra filed for an IPO late Friday, saying that it is looking to raise up to $115M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Global Market. The firm said it is hoping to trade as "WNTG", in an IPO underwritten by Barclays Capital and Deutsche...

Austin-based Austin Ventures has acquired a creative agency based in Los Angeles, Exopolis, the firms announced this week. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, Exopolis said that Matt Hovis, co-founder ...

San Antonio-based BiO2 Medical, a developer of products to prevent blood clots from reaching the lungs, has raised $6.7M in an ongoing, $7.5M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the new funding was not d...

Dallas-based T-System, a developer of clinical documentation software for hospital emergency departments, announced Thursday afternoon that it has received a "significant" capital investment from private equity firm Francisco Partners. Fina...

Houston-based Oxane Materials, a firm developing nanotechnology products focused on oil and gas recovery for the energy industry, has raised $11.4M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the f...

Austin-based Click Forensics has raised $6M in a venture funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Thursday. Details on the funding have not been announced by the firm. Click Forensics has previously raised funding from Au...

Austin-based Macheen, a stealth mode developer of cloud services, has reportedly raised $2.75M in a Series A funding. The round was led by DFJ Mercury, and included Tom Meredith and Mike Maples, Sr., according to reports. Macheen is headed ...

Spring, Texas-based Pivot3, a developer of virtual server and storage products, said today that it has received $4M in an investment, bringing its total Series D funding round to $29M. Pivot3 said the new investment came from Northleaf Capi...

The latest venture capital numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, shows that Texas received $130.0M in venture capital in Q1 of this year, in 21 venture c...

Austin-based Spredfat said today that the firm has scored $1.6M in a Series A funding today, from Austin Ventures. The firm, which develops social media marketing software, said the funding will go towards business development and to increa...

The South Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (STRCIC), which helps to administer the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, announced today that it has created a regional board which will help process applications for fundin...

Austin-based Microventures said this week that it has launched a new online marketplace which looks to connect investors and entrepreneurs. The site said it will allow qualified individual investors access to private placement offerings, an...

An analysis by Texastechpulse of the venture capital deals announced in the state during Q1 of 2010, finds that around $531.4M in venture capital was invested in the quarter. The analysis--which is based on information gleaned from funding ...

Austin-based Technical Sales International, a provider of software and services to the construction industry, has raised $16.3M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. No details on the funding have been an...

Dallas-based Syndiant has raised $4.4M in a new round of funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not been released by the company. According to the filing, the funding comes as part of an on...

A New Mexico-based venture capital firm, Flywheel Ventures appears to be eyeing investments in West Texas. The firm said today that one of its Venture Partners, Lawrence Chavez, is transitioning towards building an investment practice in We...

Houston-based C$ cMoney, a new startup focused on mobile payments, announced this morning that it has raised $15M in funding. The funding came from Kodiak Capital Group, LLC, and was arranged by Houston investment banking firm Pythagoras Gr...

Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies, a developer of microinverters for the photovoltaic power industry, said today that it has been awarded $1.5M from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF). SolarBridge said the new funding will go tow...

Dallas-based PEG Bandwidth, a provider of fiber-based backhaul networks for the telecom industry, said today that it has raised $15M in an equity fundraising. The funding came from Associated Partners LP. According to the firm, the transact...

Austin-based Iconixx Software said Friday that it has raised funding from private equity firm KBH Ventures, and acquired nGenera's total compensation software business unit. Financial terms of the investment and acquisition were not disclos...

Austin-based Spinal Restoration, a developer of medical devices aimed at relieving chronic low back pain, has raised $20M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the new funding was not disclose...

Austin-based venture capital firm MPOWER Ventures, said Monday that it has added Red McCombs as a lead investor in the firm's new fund, MPOWER Ventures II. Red McCombs is the billionaire co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, as well a...

Austin-based Javelin Semiconductor has raised another $6.2M in an equity funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company. Javelin, which is developing CMOS RF ICs...

Eureka Genomics, a bioinformatics firm with its operations in Houston, said today that it has raised $3.7M in a round of funding from angel investors and other individuals. The firm, which is headquartered in Hercules, California, said the...

Dallas-based Tech Wildcatters said Tuesday that it has launched a new, seed investment fund and startup accelerator, aimed at bolstering the North Texas technology start-up community. According to the accelerator, it is headed by Gabriella ...

Austin-based WhiteGlove House Call Health, a firm which operates a service which delivers health care to a person's home or work, said Monday that it has raised $7.7M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Hidden Lion Partners. W...

Spring, Texas-based Pivot3, a developer of data storage products, announced its $25M funding round today. The firm said the round was led by Focus Ventures, and also included prior investors InterWest Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ...

Spring, Texas-based Pivot3, a developer of data storage products based on the iSCSI protocol, has raised $25M as part of an ongoing, $30M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Thursday. No details on the funding have b...

Austin-based Texas Multicore Technology, a firm developing a high level language for optimizing multicore software development, has raised $600,000 in an equity funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the...

Austin-based Innography, a developer of software for managing intellectual property, said Monday that it has raised $3M in a second round of funding. The round came from existing investors Austin Ventures and Covera Ventures. The firm said ...

Austin-based MyEdu, an online service which helps students learn more about selecting the right college, said today that it has raised $5.5M in a round of funding. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures. MyEdu said the funding will go t...

Austin-based OneSpot, a developer of online marketing and social media software, has raised $682,151 in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the funding have not been announced by the comp...

Cedar Park-based Viryd Technologies, a developer of wind turbine technology, announced this morning that it has raised $5M in an investment round. The firm said the round came from Ningbo Shentong Auto Decorations Ltd., along with other exi...

Dallas-based Phytel, a developer of software used by physicians to track preventive and chronic disease care, said today that it has raised $14.2M in a new round of funding. The round came from Polaris Venture Partners, Caris, Ltd., and LAH...

Plano-based Layered Technologies, a provider of dedicated hosting and cloud computing services, said this morning that it has raised $20M in an equity round. The round was led by private equity firm Accel-KKR, and also included prior invest...

Austin-based ReachForce has raised $1.7M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. According to the filing, the $1.7M came as part of a $1.8M round. The firm had announced the funding last week, saying it raised a ...

Houston-based Trelligence, a developer of architectural programming and schematic design software, said this week that it has raised $2.25M in an investment round. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. According to Trelligence, it wi...

Austin-based ReachForce, a developer of sales management and lead generation software, announced yesterday that the firm has raised additional financing. Amount of the financing was not disclosed. The firm said the funding came from Greenhi...

Venture capital investments dropped to their lowest levels in a decade, according to a report released Friday by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. According to the report, which used data from Thompson Reu...

Austin-based Virtual Bridges, a developer of virtualization software, said this week that it has raised a new round of venture funding. Amount of the funding was not announced by the firm, however, VentureWire pegged the round at $4.0M. The...

Austin-based CreditCards.com, which operates an online comparison shopping site for credit cards, appears to have raised a new round of funding worth $58.8M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the funding hav...

Austin-based CSIdentity, a developer of identity theft and fraud protection services, has received a big, $35M funding round, according to investor Investcorp Technology Partners. Investcorp said this morning that it has agreed to acquire a...

Austin-based Spiceworks, a developer of IT management software, announced today that it has raised $16M in a venture round, led by Institutional Venture Partners. Prior investors Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures also participated in the ...

San Antonio-based GlobalSCAPE, a developer of FTP Server software, said today that it has invested $2.3M in Austin-based CoreTrace, a developer of enterprise whitelisting security software. The firm said it led the CoreTrace's Series B fund...

Austin-based TVA Medical, a developer of minimally invasive medical devices for treating End-Stage Renal Disease, has raised $2.6M in a Series A funding, according to venture capital firm Sante Ventures. Along with the deal, Sante Ventures ...

Houston-based CultureMap.com, an online site focusing on local cultural events, said Thursday that it has completed a first round of financing. Amount and source of the funding was not disclosed. CultureMap.com provides an online site cover...

Dallas-based Worksoft, a developer of test automation products for SAP, has raised $3.0M in an ongoing, $6.7M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The firm's products work with SAP's Business Suite software, ...

Austin-based Savara, a developer of drug delivery technology, said today that it has closed a second tranche of Series A financing. The firm said it exceeded the targeted total raise amount of $1.4M. Source of the new funding was not disclo...

Venture firm Austin Ventures latest investment is in an online high school, The American Academy, which offers online courses and high school degrees to students. According to The American Academy, Austin Ventures led its $5.9M, Series B fu...

Austin-based Gowalla, a developer of a location-based social networking service, said this morning that it has raised $8.4M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Greylock Partners, and also included Shasta Ventures, Maples Inves...

San Antonio-based GlobalSCAPE, a developer of FTP server software, announced Monday that it has entered into a term sheet with Austin-based CoreTrace, a developer of enterprise security tools. According to GlobalSCAPE, it will take an equit...

Austin-based Open Labs, which develops workstations for the professional music market, has raised $2.1M in a combination of equity and debt. The funding was revealed in a regulatory filing by the firm today. Details on the funding have not ...

Austin-based Whale Shark Media, a stealth mode firm, has raised $28.5M out of a $31.5M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The firm now lists Phil Siegel of Austin Ventures as a board member. G. Cotter Cunnin...

Plano-based GENBAND, a developer of soft switch technology for the telecom industry, has raised $17.2M in an equity fundraising, according to a filing by the firm Thursday. No details on the source of the funding have been announced. The fi...

Austin-based promotional products firm Boundless Network has raised another $5M in venture funding, the firm said Thursday. According to Boundless, the round came from existing investors Austin Ventures and Silverton Partners. The new round...

Dallas-based Lanyon, a developer of technology used for bid and spend management for the travel industry, said today that it has raised $10M in an expansion funding round. The funding came from private equity firm Frontier Capital. Lanyon s...

Richardson-based InnerWireless, a developer of indoor wireless systems, has raised $3.0M out of a $5.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. InnerWi...

Plano-based Horizon Data Center Solutions, a provider of colocation and data center services to government and enterprise customers, said yesterday that it has raised $7.5M in a new round of funding. The round was led by Ballast Point Ventu...

Austin-based Terapio Corporation, a biotechnology firm developing protein therapeutics, said today that it has raised $5M in an equity funding from Sante Ventures. According to Terapio, it is developing a pipeline of therapeutic application...

Grant Prairie-based Neos Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceuticals firm developing time release medications, has now raised $24.1M in a funding round targeted at $50.0M, according to a filing by the firm this week. Source of the funding was...

Houston, Texas-based Pivot3, a developer of storage products, has raised another $2.0M in venture funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Details on the funding have not been released, however, the firm has previously ...

Austin-based SemiSouth, a developer of silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors, has raised $4.0M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. According to the filing, the funding included equity, debt, and conversion o...

Plano-based NetSocket, a developer of software for managing quality of service in IP networks, has raised $5M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Details on the funding have not been released by...

Plano-based Prodea Systems, a developer of digital home systems for telecom carriers founded by the Ansari family, has raised its funding to $31.7M, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Prodea is headed by Anousheh Ansari, ...

Mark Cuban is one of the investors in a San Francisco-area firm, Superfeedr, the firm revealed Tuesday. Superfeedr said that Cuban and Betaworks have invested in the company, which makes feed fetching software based on XMPP. No financial de...

Bigfoot Networks, a maker of computer networking cards aimed at the computer gaming market, said Tuesday that it has raised $8M in a Series B. The firm, which recently moved its headquarters from Austin to Silicon Valley, said the funding c...

Kyle, Texas-based Xtreme Power, a developer of smart grid power management products, has raised $2.0M in a convertible debt round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The filing indicates the fundraising is part of a $5.0M f...

The venture team at Hunt Ventures said Friday evening that it has spun off from Hunt Consolidated, Inc., and is now operating as Covera Ventures. Steve Coffey, Jeff Williams, and Chris Eckman -- all previously Managing Directors or Director...

Ortho Kinematics, a developer of spine diagnostics equipment for the surgical market, said today that it has raised $3.5M in a funding round, and moved its headquarters to Austin. According to Ortho Kinematics, the round came from PTV Scien...

Austin-based ActaCell, a developer of lithium ion batteries, said today that it has scored $250,000 in an investment from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. According to ActaCell, the award gives it an opportunity to get up to $1M from the...

Houston-based Zeno Corp., a developer of a handheld device to treat acne, has raised $20M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. According to the filing, the firm received $6M in cash plus $14M for "servi...

Austin-based CoreTrace has raised $1.5M in debt as part of an ongoing funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the firm raised $1,502,250 out of a $3,004,500 funding effort. No details ...

Austin-based Equiphon, a stealth mode developer of semiconductors, has raised $1.2M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing, the fundraising is part of an ongoing, $4.2M fundraising e...

Austin-based OtherInBox, a service for automatically moving and organizing email messages, has raised $2.3M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The filing indicates the fundraising is part of a $4.2M, e...

Houston-based Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, which is developing treatment for cancer and other chronic, infection diseases, has raised $4.5M more in funding, the company reported today. Bellicum said the new, Series A and convertible Note fundi...

Three local companies have scored pre-seed commercialization funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, according to Governor Rick Perry late last week. The awards--worth $250,000 each--went to LaserGen, Qcue, and Shape Memory Therape...

Dallas-based Superior Global Solutions, a provider of technology and outsourced services to the medical documentation and coding industry, has raised $6M in a private equity funding. According to Tennessee-based Petra Capital Partners, it i...

Austin-based MPOWER Mobile, a developer of mobile payment technology, said Wednesday that it has received a strategic investment from Mike Maples, Jr. and Todd Smith, founder of Tivoli. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said...

A report released over the weekend shows that Texas is seriously bucking national venture capital investment trends, and raised $192M in 29 deals, an increase of 44 percent over Q3 of last year. The increase bucks the national trend, which ...

Austin-based Illumitex, a developer of solid state lighting products, has raised $4.3M as part of an ongoing, $10M venture funding raising effort, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. No details on the funding have been...

Is it goodbye for the Texas venture capital market? In a report today in the Wall Street Journal, the newspaper is highlighting a drop in the amount of venture capital raised in Texas, saying that no venture firm in Texas has completed rais...

Austin-based Troux Technologies, a developer of IT planning software, said this morning that it has raised $10M in a new funding round. The round came from Austin Ventures, Greylock Partners, and a consortium of Scandanavian investors. Acco...

Austin-based NetStreams has bumped its debt funding up to a total of $2.75M, according to a recent regulatory filing from the firm. According to the filing, the funding is part of a debt round from the beginning of the year, and also includ...

Liquid Environmental Solutions, a provider of non-hazardous liquid waste collection and treatment which is based in both Dallas and San Diego, California, has raised $20M in a funding round. The funding came from Craton Equity Partners, whi...

The amount of venture capital invested in Texas in Q3 totaled around $363.97M, according to an analysis by Texastechpulse of venture deals in our venture database. According to our analysis, investments were up from the $282M invested in Q2...

Austin-based Telisite, a stealth-mode telecommunications startup headed by Theodore Rappaport, has raised $550,000 in an investment round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm late last week. No details on the funding or company h...

Austin-based Pyxis Technology is reporting this morning that it has received the second tranche of its $3M funding round, which came from Austin Ventures, CMEA Ventures, Formative Ventures and KT Venture Group. The firm, which designs softw...

Houston-based ApoCell, a contract research organization focused on molecular diagnostics, announced today that it has received an investment from Summit Partners. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. According to ApoCell, the new fun...

San Antonio-based Azaya Therapeutics has raised $1.045M in an investment round, according to SATAI and the South Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization. According to the firms, the investment, through the Texas Emerging T...

Richardson-based AirWalk Communications, a developer of femtocell equipment for the cell phone industry, has raised $5.0M out of an ongoing, $6.5M funding round. The funding came to light through a regulatory filing by the firm. No details ...

Austin-based RenewData, a developer of electronic discovery and archiving software, has raised $6.1M in a funding round, according to regulatory filings by the firm this week. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. T...

Austin-based Inova Labs, a developer of portable oxygen concentrators for patients with need of supplemental oxygen, has raised $1.687M in a round of financing. The funding came to light through a regulatory filing. Source of the new fundin...

Frisco-based EmFinders, which develops a device and related subscription service for tracking people with Alzheimer's or other conditions, said today that it has received a strategic investment from TruePosition, which is a subsidiary of Li...

Richardson-based Sipera Systems has raised $6.74M in a venture funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last month. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. The firm has previously raised capital fr...

Houston-based Ingrain, a developer of rock physics analysis technology, used in the oil and gas industry, has received a round of funding from private equity firm TPH Partners, L.P., TPH said Monday afternoon. Amount of the funding was not ...

Austin-based Mind Bites, which operates a web site which allows users to create and post instructional videos, has raised $350,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Wednesday. The Austin Business Journal, qu...

Austin-based Black Sand Technologies confirmed this morning that the firm has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. According to Black Sand, the round was led by Northbridge Venture Partners, and also included Austin Ventures. The new ro...

Austin-based RF Code, a developer of RFID-based asset management systems, has now raised $6.0M as part of an ongoing, $12M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. The round, which first saw funding in March, h...

Austin-based Black Sand Technologies, a developer of semiconductors for the wireless space, has raised $10M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. No details on the funding have been confirmed by...

Houston-based Terrabon, a developer of technology to convert waste to gasoline, has scored an investment from Houston's Waste Management, the firms said today. Terrabon, whose technology is based on research developed at Texas A&M Universit...

Austin-based Surgient, a developer of virtual lab management software, has scored $3.0M in debt financing, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing, the firm has pulled in $3.0M out of a possible $4.3M in...

Dallas-based Syndiant, a developer of light modulating semiconductors used for portable projectors, has raised $10.7M in a Series B investment, the firm said today. The round came from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund and un-named, privat...

Austin-based venture capital firm Advantage Capital Partners said today that it has invested $3.15M in funds to a distributor of medical supplies, to help the firm move its headquarters to Austin. According to Advantage Capital Partners, th...

Austin-based Austin Ventures is the lead investor in a crime mapping site, CrimeReports.com, which raised $7.2M in a funding today. According to CrimeReports.com, the investment came alongside additional capital from an existing investor, v...

Austin-based Socialware, a stealth mode startup in the social networking area, has now raised $1.5M in an ongoing, $1.7M funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The firm is headed by former Bazaarvoice executives...

Austin-based Bandspeed, a manufacturer of managed wireless access points, has raised $4.5M out of a $9.5M fundraising round, the firm disclosed in a regulatory filing today. No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company. ...

Plano-based Nomee, a firm which develops social networking software which allows users to choose how they share information between networks, has raised $5M. The funding was disclosed by Paidcontent. According to reports, the funding came ...

Richardson-based Convey Computer confirmed today that it has closed on $24.15M in a Series B financing round, which was led by Braemer Energy Ventures. The funding, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing last week, also included prior i...

Austin-based LibreDigital, a developer of tools to help convert books, newspapers, and other content into digital format, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Triangle Peak PArtners, and also ...

Richardson-based Convey Computer, which is developing hybrid-core computing systems, focused on the high performance computing market, has raised $24.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. According to ...

Lubbock-based SiliconXpress, a fabless semiconductor design firm focused on digital and mixed signal circuits, said this morning that it has raised a Series A funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. According to SiliconXpres...

Austin-based Invodo, which develops a library of online, product videos for online retailers, said recently that it has raised $6M in a Series B funding. The round came from Sevin Rosen and S3 Ventures. The firm said the funding will go to ...

The Texas Emerging Technology Fund has made investments in five, San Antonio area companies, Gov. Rick Perry announced today, as part of the state's efforts to expand its technology sector. According to Gov. Perry's office, it has invested ...

San Antonio-based Vidacare, a developer of products for the hematology and oncology market, disclosed Tuesday that the firm has raised $7.6M in a Series D1 funding. The financing was led by Piper Jaffray, and also included Tullis Health Inv...

Austin-based UnboundID, a developer of identity management software, has scored around $1M in additional equity funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. According to the filing, the firm has added just under $1M to it...

Austin-based Netstreams, which develops networked, Internet protocol-enabled audio/visual equipment, has raised $0.25M in additional debt funding, according to a regulatory by the firm last week. No details on the funding have been released...

Venture Capital investment totals in Q2 of 2009 totaled around $282M, according to an analysis by Texastechpulse.com of venture deals which were reported this quarter. According to the analysis, the biggest investments during Q2 were an imp...

Plano-based Goodman Networks, a provider of engineering, deployment, integration, and maintenance services to the telecommunications industry, said Monday that it has raised $62M in a combination of equity and debt for the firm. The equity ...

Dallas- and Austin-based Sevin Rosen Funds has re-upped its investment in a software-as-a-service provider based in Denver. According to InfoNow, which provides software used by companies to manage their sales channels, Sevin Rosen has retu...

Texas was one of the few bright spots in the M&A and IPO exit market so far this year, according to a report released yesterday on the liquidity market for venture-backed firms. According to the report, released yesterday by Dow Jones Ventu...

Amalto Technologies, a developer of B2B information exchange software for the oil and gas industry, said today that the firm has scored an investment from Succes Europe, which will go towards its development of B2B software for the industry...

Austin-based venture capital firm Austin Ventures is the lead firm in an investment in a local business directory site, MojoPages. According to MojoPages, which is based in California, Austin Ventures led a $5M Series A funding round for th...

Austin-based LimeStone Ventures is leading a $1.5M, Series A funding in a Florida life sciences company, Sharklet Technologies. According to Sharklet, Limestone Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in Austin, is leading the r...

Dallas-based Texert reported today that the firm has acquired a license to technology from GE, focused on pattern identification. According to Texert, a provider of risk and compliance software, the license covers GE's Anomoly Detection Tec...

Austin-based UpLogix, which develops remote management products for managing branch offices and other remote sites, has raised $1.3M in deal involving debt and warrants, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. No details of the fund...

Austin-based Socialware, a stealth startup focused on social networking, has raised $300,000 out of a an ongoing, $1.6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. The firm has not released details of the fundin...

A study released this week by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation concludes that the U.S. venture capital industry needs to shrink, in order to resuscitate the industry. According to the study, "Right-Sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Indus...

Austin-based Savara Pharmaceuticals, which is developing drug inhalation delivery technology, said this week that it has raised a Series A funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The funding round came from biotechnology ind...

Austin-based Silicon Labs, a developer of mixed-signal, CMOS chips, has made a strategic investment in a California firm developing semiconductor timing ICs. According to Fremont, California-based Silicon Clocks,, Silicon Labs is funding th...

Austin-based NextIO, a developer of I/O virtualization products, said Monday that it has raised $15M in a Series D funding round. The firm said the funding came from existinv venture capital backers, strategic investors, an a new "strategic...

Houston-based Turbine Air Systems said this week that the firm has raised an undisclosed round of growth equity financing, for the firm's development of packaged cooling and energy systems. According to Turbine Air Systems, the funding was ...

Austin-based full-service physician group practice Hospitalists Now announced today that it has closed an initial round of venture financing worth $3.5 million. The startup credited life sciences-focused venture capital firm Sante Ventures ...

OnAsset Intelligence, an Irving-based developer of wireless asset-tracking devices and related software, announced today that it has secured an investment from entrepreneur Pete Wittmann, an Excel Communications investment partner. The spec...

Austin Ventures is committing $50M in funding to create a new software firm, which the company is calling Brazos Software Corporation. According to Austin Ventures, the new venture will concentrate on "acquiring and strategically expanding"...

Houston- based SpectraSensors, a developer of optical sensors for the industrial and environmental gas sensing market, said this week that it has raised $6M in new financing. The firm said that the new funding came from Blueprint Ventures,...

Texas-based alternative energy firm EEstor Inc. has received a $700,000 milestone payment from ZENN Motor Co. Inc., a Toronto-based manufacturer of zero-emission vehicles, ZENN announced Thursday. Headquartered in the Austin suburb of Cedar...

SVTC Technologies which has locations in both Austin and Silicon Valley, said today that it has raised $34M in a funding round. The funding came from Oak Hill Capital Partners and Tallwood Venture Capital, the firm's existing investors. SVT...

Austin-based nGenera reported Tuesday that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding for the firm's enterprise management software. According to nGenera, the round included Foundation Capital and Oak Investment Partners. nGenera said the fun...

Two reports on the venture capital industry were released over the weekend, both finding that venture capital dropped in the state for Q1. Dow Jones VentureSource tallied nearly $173 million in 23 deals, with PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA re...

Investment firm Austin Ventures announced Wednesday that one of its portfolio companies has acquired National Merchant Solutions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Austin Ventures, the transaction marks the fourth...

Investment firm Austin Ventures announced Wednesday that one of its portfolio companies has acquired National Merchant Solutions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Austin Ventures, the transaction marks the fourth...

Austin-based StoredIQ, a developer of e-discovery and information management software, announced Tuesday that the firm has raised $8M in funding. The new funds came from S3 Ventures and Techxas Ventures, existing investors in the firm. As p...

Round Rock-based Dell announced Monday that Jim Breyer, a partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, has joined the firm's board of directors. According to Dell, Breyer joins the board immediately and will stand for election on July 17...

Austin-based Nuventix, a developer of cooling technology for high-efficiency lighting, announced today that it has raised $8M in a new funding round. According to the firm, the funding included $3M in funding from Braemer Energy Ventures an...

Austin-based Molecular Templates, a biopharmaceuticals firm developing cancer therapeutics, announced this morning that the company has raised $2.5M in a Series A funding. The firm said the financing round came from Sante Ventures, and will...

Dallas-based J. Hilburn, which operates a custom luxury men's clothing business, has scored a funding round from venture capital firm Battery Ventures. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. According to J. Hilburn, the funding will go to...

Houston-based Glycos Biotechnologies, a developer of bacterial strains used for producing chemicals and biofuels, has raised $2.35M as part of a venture round worth $3.25M. The funding was disclosed in a regulatory filing today. Details on ...

An analysis of Texas venture capital activity by Texastechpulse.com finds that there was around $171.64M in venture investments in Q1, down significantly from both Q1 of last year, when $382.85M was invested in the area, and the prior quart...

Richardson-based Tango Networks disclosed Tuesday in a regulatory filing that it has raised $5.3M in a first tranche of a $10M funding round. Details of the funding were not disclosed. Tango Network is developing unified communications (UC)...

Dallas-based MicroTransponder, which is developing medical devices for dealing with chronic pain, said today that it has raised $2.2M in a Series A funding. According to the firm, the funding is going towards development of its wireless neu...

Austin-based UpSpring Baby, a developer of baby products for infants and toddlers, said Wednesday that the firm has raised $4M in a Series C funding round. The lead investor was Small Ventures, and also included members of the Central Texas...

Richardson-based GlobeRanger, a developer of RFID products, said this morning that it has raised $8.3M in a Series C funding round. According to GlobeRanger, the funding came from new investors, along with prior investors Sevin Rosen Funds ...

Houston-based FSV Payment Systems, which provides prepaid card processing and program management services for the stored-value and prepaid debit card industry, has raised $6M in a funding round, according to the firm. FSV said that the fund...

Plano-based GodTube.com, a faith-based video sharing site, has renamed itself tangle.com, saying this morning that it is now looking to appeal to audiences looking for family-friendly, safe social networking. Reason for the name change was ...

Dallas-based Syndiant, which is developing technology for enabling pico-projectors, said this morning that it has raised $3.5M in a funding round from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. According to Syndiant, the Technology Commercializati...

Alexander Muse, the founder of Dallas-based Big In Japan, said this week that the firm is looking to raise funding for ShopSavvy, a mobile phone application they are developing. According to a blog post by Muse on his Texas Startup Blog, th...

Austin-based Hyperformix is reporting this morning that the firm has raised another $3.8M, in a combination of equity and debt. The firm, which develops software for monitoring and predicting performance and capacity of virtualized IT appli...

Austin-based Hyper9 officially announced $8M in a Series B funding round Thursday, saying that Venrock, Matrix Partners, Silverton Partners and Maples Investments invested in the round. Mike Maples Sr. of Maples Investments joins the compan...

Dallas-based fixed-wireless broadband service provider Airband Communications announced Tuesday that it has secured $3 million in funding. However, the Dallas-based company declined to disclose the source of the funding. Airband did say it ...

Austin-based 7 Billion People Inc., a publisher of Web personalization software for e-commerce Web sites, announced Monday that it has closed a second round of venture financing worth $3 million. According to 7 Billion, hometown venture cap...

Austin-based OneSpot, a startup which aggregates, filters, and delivers content for web publishers, said this morning that it has raised $4.2M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Silver Creek Ventures. Silver Creek's John Adler join...

Dallas-based Viverae, a provider of corporate wellness programs, said this week that it has raised $6.5M in a round of expansion funding. The funding came from private equity firm Frontier Capital. According to Viverae, the funding will go ...

Austin-based RenewData Corp., a provider of electronic discovery software, announced Tuesday that it has received additional corporate financing from ATEL Ventures Inc. and Comerica Bank. RenewData declined to divulge the amount of the effo...

Austin-based Conformity, Inc. said this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A venture funding. The firm, which said it is developing a platform that allows organizations to manage software-as-a-service and cloud-based applications, s...

Austin Ventures has funded a New York-based software startup called Workstreamer. According to Workstreamer, Austin Ventures provided the firm with venture seed funding for a yet-to-be-launched software product focused on social media, stre...

Austin-based virtualization software publisher Hyper9 Inc. has closed a second round of venture financing worth $8 million, according to reports. According to the Austin Business Journal, the Series B funding came from first-time investor V...

Texas venture capital totals were up in Q4 of last year, according to the latest venture capital report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters. According to the re...

Dow Jones VentureSource reported Q4 2008 venture capital totals over the weekend, reporting that national venture capital investments dropped in Q4 by 8% for the year, to $28.8 billion, and were down for the quarter to $5.5B, a drop of 30%....

Austin-based UnboundID, which develops software for identity management, said today that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the funding was led by Silverton Partners. UnboundID said the funding will go towards prod...

Austin-based KLD Energy Technologies, which develops electric motor system technology, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $1M in a financing round. The round came from an undisclosed, private investment group. KLD said that its tec...

Fort Worth-based Teletouch Communications Inc. announced Monday that it has purchased an equity stake in Mobui Corp. of Redmond, Wash. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. As a result of the acquisition, Teletouch noted, i...

Austin- and Israeli-based N-trig, a developer of capacitive-sensing and pen input devices for the PC market, said this morning that it has raised $24M in a funding raising round from Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, Evergre...

Graphene Energy Inc. announced Monday that it has raised some $500,000 in seed capital from The Quercus Trust and 21Ventures LLC. Graphene Energy also said it has reached terms with The University of Texas at Austin and The College of Willi...

Dallas-based RipCode, which develops video transcoding hardware and products, announced today that it has raised more than $12.5M in a new funding round for the firm. According to RipCode, the new funding was led by Granite Ventures, in a d...

Austin-based Advanced Hydro, a new startup focused on the water filtration market, said Monday afternoon that it has raised $0.5M in a seed investment round from clean technology investors Quercus Trust and 21 Ventures. According to the fir...

Austin-based Motion Computing said late last week that it has raised $6M in a new funding round. The funding came from New Enterprise Associates, Institutional Venture Partners, G-51 Capital, and other investors. According to the firm, the ...

Austin Ventures said this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Asset International, a publisher of financial information, and appointed a new CEO for the firm. According to Austin Ventures, it has named Jim Casella a...

Austin Ventures said this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Asset International, a publisher of financial information, and appointed a new CEO for the firm. According to Austin Ventures, it has named Jim Casella a...

Austin-based ProspX, which develops applications for the commercial insurance industry, announced today that it has raised $6.5M in a Series A. According to the firm, the round was led by Adams Capital Management. ProspX develops a software...

Richardson-based Mavenir Systems, which develops mobile convergence products for the telecom industry, said today that it has raised $17.5M in a third round of funding. According to the company, the Series C round was led by a new, undisclo...

Houston-based Laurus Energy, a developer of coal gasification projects, said today that it has hired on Rebecca McDonald as CEO of the firm. The firm said that McDonald has more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry. The firm'...

Chicago-based venture capital firm ARCH Venture Partners has promoted Paul Thurk, in the firm's Austin offices, the firm said Monday. ARCH, which invests in early-stage companies in the life, physical, and information sciences areas, said t...

Dallas-based Worksoft, a developer of SAP applications, said late Monday that it has raised a equity round of funding from Crescendo Ventures and Austin Ventures. According to the firm, it will use the new funding to grow its business. Amou...

Austin-based BioStable Science & Engineering, which is developing cardiovascular implants, has scored $5.5M in a Series A funding, the firm said today. The round came from Sante Ventures. According to the company, it founded by former execu...

Austin-based SensorTran, a developer of temperature sensing products, said this morning that it has raised $3.5M in a venture capital financing. The round came from Advantage Capital Partners, Expansion Capital Partners, WHEB ventures, and ...

RiseSmart, an online jobs site focused on helping jobseekers find their next job, has left the Dallas area as a result of finding a Series A funding. RiseSmart said today that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding from Norwest Venture Par...

Pocket Communications Northeast, a provider of flat rate, unlimited wireless voice and data services, has scored $100M in an investment, the firm's venture backers said today. According to Battery Ventures, the lead investor in Pocket Commu...

Austin-based online vacation rental marketplace HomeAway Inc. announced Monday that it has raised a huge, $250M financing round. HomeAway claims that the funding represents the largest minority investment of a U.S. Internet company in the l...

Austin-based Digby, a develper of location based services for mobile shopping, has received $5.5M in an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund. The deal was announced late last week. The Blackberry Partners Fund is a venture capital f...

Venture capital and private equity firm Austin Ventures announced this morning that it has partnered with entrepreneur Ronald T. Sorrow to create AVRON Partners Inc., a supply chain services acquisition and strategic business development fi...

Corpus Christi, Texas-based CryoPen, which is developing cryosurgery technology for the removal of a variety of skin lesions, has scored $2M in a funding round from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. According to the South Texas Regional C...

Austin Ventures said today that it has acquired three companies and launched a new Houston-based firm, Port Logistics Group. According to Austin Ventures, the investment was made as part of a partnership with transportation logistics execut...

Texert Inc. announced Tuesday that it has closed its initial round of institutional funding after raising $3 million. The Dallas-based enterprise risk management software publisher credited the Series A effort to New Venture Partners LLC, a...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Assocation (NVCA) announced Q3 2008 venture capital totals over the weekend, reporting that Texas saw $275.5M in 38 venture capital deals for the quarter. Nationally, the report found ...

Austin-based Sabertec, a developer of technology for reducing emissions from gasoline and diesel engines, said Tuesday that it has raised a second round of funding from a number of investors. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Saberte...

Dallas-based e-Rewards, a provider of online market research and surveys, has scored $60M in an investment round from TA Associates, TA Associates said today. According to TA, a Boston-based private equity and buyout firm, it invested $60M ...

Houston-based Ingrain, which develops technology used in the oil and gas exploration industry, said Thursday that it has raised $15M in a second round of funding for the firm. According to Ingrain, it received the funding from Energy Ventur...

Texastechpulse has tallied up the announced venture deals for Q3 of 2008, and found that there were around $129.95M in venture deals in Texas for the period. According to an analysis of venture data, collected through our venture capital da...

Houston-based MarineCFO, a developer of software for managing marine fleet operations, said last week that it has raised a Series A funding round. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. The round was led by EmergingISV Capital Partners...

Dallas-based Telligent Systems, a developer of social networking software, has raised $20M in a funding round from Intel Capital, Intel announced Tuesday. According to Intel, Telligent will use the funding to expand its sales team and terri...

Austin-based Microstaq said Monday that it has closed on $12.5M in a Series B funding round, for the firm's flow control valves for the HVAC industry. According to the firm, the round was led by Good Energies, and included prior investors Y...

Austin-based Challenge Online Games said Thursday afternoon that the firm has secured $10M in a Series B funding. According to the firm, the round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and also included Series A investor Sequoia Capital. C...

Dallas-based Big in Japan, which develops mobile applications, has raised $700K in a seed financing round, the firm told Texastechpulse Wednesday. According to Big in Japan, the funding came from Architel LP. Big in Japan develops mobile ph...

Venture capital firm Austin Ventures said today that it has hired on Mike Dodd as a venture partner at the firm. According to Austin Ventures, Dodd joins the company from Omniture, where he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development...

Venture capital firm Austin Ventures said today that it has promoted Craig Milius to General Partner at the firm. Milius has been at Austin Ventures since 2000, when he joined as a Senior Associate; he was promoted to Partner in 2006. Accor...

Houston, Texas-based venture capital firm DFJ Mercury's Jay Gardner, a venture advisor at the investment firm, has joined the management team of one of the firm's portfolio companies, Fluensee. According to Fluensee, which is based in Denve...

Austin-based SailPoint said Tuesday that the firm has raised $6.5M in a Series C round of funding. The round came from the firm's existing investors, which include Austin Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Origin Partners and Silverton ...

Innography, a publisher of hosted intellectual property (IP) management software, announced Monday that it has raised a round of venture financing after securing some $6.5 million. Austin Ventures and Hunt Ventures led the effort, Innograph...

Sheeraz Haji, former President of Austin-based Convio, and CEO and co-founder of GetActive, which Convio acquired in 2007, has joined a venture capital firm. According to Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm El Dorado Ventures, Haji wi...

Austin-based venture capital firm Austin Ventures said Tuesday that it has acquired Delta Rigging & Tools. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Delta Rigging & Tools, which is based in Lake Jackson, provides lifting equipment, in...

Houston-based Simbol Mining, which is developing processes to product lithium for batteries, said this morning that it has raised $6.7M in a funding round. The round came from MDV Mohr Davidow Ventures and Firelake Capital. Simbol Miing was...

Austin-based SmarteSoft, a developer of software for testing automation, has raised $2M in funding, the firm's CEO, Gordon MacGregor told Texastechpulse.com Tuesday. According to MacGregor, the funding came from Daylight Partners and the Ce...

Austin-based Heatwave Interactive announced today that it has raised $7.5M in a Series A investment, for its interactive games technology. According to the firm, the round came from Syncom Venture Partners, and will fund development of the ...

ActaCell Inc., a developer of lithium-ion battery technology, announced today that it has raised $5.8M in its first round of venture financing. The Austin, Texas-based startup said it would use the money to hire technical talent and to furt...

Dallas-based Belo Corp., operator of some 20 television stations in major U.S. cities, announced Tuesday that it has made a minority equity investment in ResponseLogix Inc., publisher of an online marketing tool for automotive dealers. Thou...

Dallas-based Semantra said Tuesday that it has raised $3M in an equity funding round for the firm's analytics software. According to Semantra, the funding came from current investor CPMG, which has invested more than $9M in the firm. The fu...

San Antonio-based MyToons.com said today that it has completed a second round of funding, led by Syncom Venture Partners and Barshop Ventures. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. MyToons.com is an online community focused on animation....

Austin-based Phurnace Software has raised $3.7M more in its Series A venture funding round, the firm told Texastechpulse this morning. The financing was led by S3 Ventures, and also included prior investor DFJ Mercury. Phurnace said the fun...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released its quarterly venture capital survey over the weekend, reporting that Texas had $256.9M in 36 deals for the quarter. The monetary totals were a drop from Q1, when ...

Austin-based Nuventix has raised $14M in a Series C funding, in a round led by Advanced Technology Ventures. According to Nuventix, Braemer Energy Ventures and existing investors CenterPoint Ventures, InterWest Partners and RHO Ventures als...

Challenge Online Games, a publisher of Web-based entertainment software, announced Thursday that it has raised an initial round of venture financing worth $4.5 million from Sequoia Capital. Additionally, the Austin, Texas-based software dev...

MPOWER Ventures LP, an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm focusing on early stage businesses, announced Monday that its investment portfolio now includes Sapphire Mobile Systems of Philadelphia. The amount of MPOWER's investment was no...

Private equity firm Austin Ventures announced Monday that it has partnered with Internet executive Sherman Atkinson to form ATCOR Holdings Inc. Austin Ventures said the new company will focus on acquiring and operating high-growth businesse...

Private equity firm Austin Ventures announced Monday that it has partnered with Internet executive Sherman Atkinson to form ATCOR Holdings Inc. Austin Ventures said the new company will focus on acquiring and operating high-growth businesse...

Austin-based Bazaarvoice, a provider of e-commerce software, said Friday that it has raised $7.1M in a third round of venture capital funding. The round came from Austin Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital, and European Founders...

The Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) said Wednesday that it has made two new investments in the biotech area. According to the TETF, Abilene-based Receptor Logic received a $2M Commercialization Award for the firm's antibody technology...

Austin-based life sciences venture capital firm Emergent Technologies, said today that the firm has awarded $25,000 in a new "Texas Proof of Concept Award" to researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Texas Sout...

Austin-absed Freescale Semiconductor said today that it has spun out a new company, EverSpin Technologies, focused on MRAM (Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory) technology. The firm said that it has raised funding from New Venture Partner...

Dallas-based venture capital firm Hunt Ventures announced Wednesday that it has raised an initial venture fund worth some $140 million. Hunt said the fund, Hunt Ventures Fund I LP, includes a "significant" contribution from an unaffiliated ...

Molecular Imprints Inc., a developer of production equipment and technology used in the manufacture of semiconductors and hard disk drives, announced Monday that it has closed another round of venture financing. The Austin, Texas-based busi...

Dallas-based InnerWireless Inc., an installer of in-building converged wireless networks, has received a $9.5 million investment in the form of debt financing from the Silicon Valley Bank, that bank reported Wednesday. InnerWireless, the ba...

El Dorado Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm said Thursday that it has hired on a new general partner with a specific focus on Texas investments. El Dorado said that it has hired on Jeff Hinck as a General Partner, to specifica...

Dallas-based SensorLogic has raised $9M in a third round of funding, the company announced Thursday, from Boston Millenia Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, Hunt Ventures, STARTech Early Ventures, UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, and Star Ventures....

Venture capital firm Austin Ventures announced this morning that it has committed up to $50M in a new software-as-a-service firm headed by former Razorfish co-founder Jeffrey Dachis. According to Austin Ventures, the new company will focus ...

Houston-based medical device manufacturer IDev Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday that it has concluded its third round of venture financing after securing $25 million. IDev said the Series C effort consisted entirely of existing investors...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association reported over the weekend that venture capital totals in Texas totaled $361.4M, over 37 deals, as overall venture capital investments in the U.S. slipped to $7.1B for the q...

Austin-based Ignite! Learning, which provides curriculum to middle schools, said Wednesday that it has raised $2.75M in an investment round. Names of the investors were not disclosed. As part of the funding, the firm's founder, Neil Bush be...

Austin, Texas-based HelioVolt has scored $1M from the Texas Enterprise Fund, Texas Governor Rick Perry said Tuesday, as part of a deal to construct a 125,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Austin. The Texas Enterprise Fund was create...

Houston-based Hydro Green Energy, a hydrokinetic river power and tidal energy technology integrator and project developer, said Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $2.6M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Quercus Trust. Hydr...

Austin-based Alereon, a manufacturer of ultra wideband USB semiconductors, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a strategic investment from SK Telecom. According to the firm, SK Telecom invested in the firm because of the compan...

Senscient Inc., a manufacturer of gas detection equipment for industrial safety, environmental monitoring and process analysis applications, announced late Friday that it has concluded its second round of venture financing after raising som...

Dallas-based ePartners, a business and technology consulting firm, said Friday afternoon that it has raised a round of funding from Mobius Venture Capital. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. ePartners said the funding included cash to...

Austin-based Uplogix said today that it has raised $10M in additional funding from Citi, Adams Capital Management, and Fayez Sarofim & Co. The firm, which develops an appliance used for remote management of IT infrastructure, said it will u...

Austin-based Sweet Leaf Tea, which makes ready-to-drink iced teas, said this morning that it has raised $18M in a round of growth capital. The firm said the funding, which is its largest to date, came from private equity firm Catterton Part...

Dallas-based CoreXchange, a provider of Internet services and network infrastructure, said Tuesday that it has raised a round of funding in the form of a convertible note, and received a credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. Details of ...

Austin-based BSG Alliance said Tuesday night that it has raised more than $50M in additional private financing. The new funding round was led by Oak Investment Partners, and also included prior investors Foundation Capital and Hummer Winbla...

Small World Labs, a publisher of social media software, announced Wednesday that it has received a tranche of venture financing in excess of $1 million. Small World said the sum will be included in its Series A funding, which it expects to ...

Dallas-based SaveOnEnergy.com said Monday that it has raised $2.4M in a funding round. Investors in the firm were not disclosed, but the company said it included a group of oil and gas executives from San Antonio and El Paso. SaveOnEnergy.c...

Layered Technologies Inc., an on-demand provider of information technology services and related software, announced Tuesday that it has concluded an investment funding round after securing $11 million. Layered Technologies said private equi...

Click Forensics Inc., provider of a subscription-based service that helps online advertisers reduce fraud in their pay-per-click advertising, announced Wednesday that it has concluded its second round of venture financing after raising $10 ...

Houston-based Alert Logic said Tuesday that the firm has raised $8.25M in a Series C venture round. The company, which provides software for IT compliance and security, said the funding was led by Updata Partners, and also included Hunt Ven...

Hurst, Texas-based Handango said Monday that it has raised an additional $9.5M in its Series C round of funding. The funding came from Institutional Venture Partners, Advanced Technology Venture, Centerpoint, Neo Carta, Pharos Capital Group...

Venture capital firm Austin Ventures said this morning that it has promoted Thomas Ball and David Lack, both to Partner. Ball has been at Austin Ventures since June 2005; Lack has been at the company since September of 2002. Ball sites on t...

Austin-based NextIO said today that the firm has raised $18.8M in a Series C funding round, for the firm's I/O virtualization products for the enterprise computing market. The funding came from Adams Capital Management and Crescendo Venture...

N-trig, a company developing hardware for pen- and touch-based mobile computing, said this morning that it has raised $28M in a venture capital round. The funding came from Canaan Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners, and other investors. T...

Kyle, Texas-based Xtreme Power Solutions, a developer of remote power and uninterruptible power supplies, has quietly raised a round of venture funding from SAIL Venture Partners. Amount of the funding--which closed late last year--was not...

Austin-based Pyxis Technology, which develops electronic design automation (EDA) software for routing integrated circuit designs, said Tuesday it has raised an additional $5.25M in its Series B round. The funding came from KT Venture Group,...

Austin-based UpSpring, which develops products used for monitoring sleeping infants, said Tuesday that it has raised $2M in a Series B funding round. The round came from individuals Walter Foss and Sherman Wyman, along with unnamed venture ...

Austin-based network management software provider SolarWinds has upgraded the firm's software, saying Monday that it has shipped a new module for its Orion performance management product. The new Application Performance Monitor module allow...

Dallas, Texas-based Merlin Technologies, which is developing human resources and recruiting software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding. The round came from Updata Partners. As part of the funding, Ira Cohen and Barry...

Austin-based Caringo, which develops content storage software, said today that it has received a private equity funding from Vodafone Ventures and Austin Ventures. Caringo develops storage software used for archiving content on clustered st...

Austin-based Intrinsity said Monday morning that it has raised $31.5M in a Series E funding. The firm, which develops high-speed, low-power embedded processor cores for the semiconductor market, said that Adams Capital Management, Altitude ...

Pivot3 Inc., a manufacturer of RAID-based digital data storage systems, announced Monday that it has raised a Series C round of venture financing worth $24 million. Pivot3 credited new investor Mesirow Financial Capital Partners IX with lea...

Austin-based Ascension Orthopedics said Monday that the firm has raised $21M in a Series D funding round. The firm said the round was led by Frazier Healthcare Ventures. According to Ascension, the funding will be use to expand its current ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association announced their quarterly Moneytree venture capital survey results Saturday, finding that there was $426.6M in 45 venture capital deals in Texas for Q4 of 2007. The investm...

Austin-based NetStreams said Monday afternoon that it has raised $18.2M in a Series B round of funding. The round came from Austin Ventures. NetStreams develops networked entertainment systems that use the IP protocol. According to the firm...

ReachForce Inc., a publisher of on-demand software and data services for business-to-business marketing efforts, announced Monday that it has concluded its second round of venture financing after securing some $5 million in capital. ReachFo...

The Achilles Group, a Houston-based provider of outsourced human resources services, announced Thursday that it has concluded its initial traunch of venture financing after raising $2.5 million. Achilles said it will use the money to expand...

Altanta- and Dallas-based Astadia, a provider of management consulting and on-demand technology, said Monday that it has raised a Series A financing round from Kodiak Venture Partners. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. Astadia sai...

Austin-based SensorTran has raised $8.0 in a venture capital round, the firm said in late December, from Advantage Capital Partners, Expansion Capital Partners, WHEB ventures, and Stonehenge Capital Company. Advantage Capital Partners was a...

Dallas, Texas-based venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds has reportedly split apart the fund's team, according to VentureWire. Sevin Rosen is now listing the firm's Silicon Valley team as "Partners Emeriti," including Charles Phipps, Stev...

Newly formed investment firm Sante Ventures announced Monday that it has concluded its debut venture capital fund after generating some $130 million in committed capital. The Austin, Texas-based business noted the amount was the maximum per...

Sam Ryu, CEO of Houston-based computer reseller Computize, has seeded a Silicon Valley company providing online ordering for restaurants, GetQuik. According to GetQuik, Ryu was part of a $200,000 round of funding for GetQuik, which is devel...

Asuragen Inc., a manufacturer of health care diagnostics equipment, announced today that it has concluded its second round of venture financing after securing some $18.5 million. Asuragen said the Series B funds were obtained from new and p...

Allen, Texas-based Quickfilter Technologies, a company developing mixed signal semiconductors for the digital signal processing market, said this morning that it has raised $4.8M in a Series C round. The firm said that the funding came from...

Austin-based ON Networks said this morning in San Francisco that it has raised $12M in a Series B funding round. ON Networks said that it will deliver original, on-demand shows in high definition format. The company also disclosed it had re...

Austin-based Zilliant has raised $4M in a venture capital round, the firm disclosed this week. The round was a Series F, and came from SMH Capital Inc, according to Lori Piening, Director of Marketing for the firm. Other investors in the ro...

Austin-based BreakingPoint, a developer of network test equipment, has reportedly raised $15M in a Series C funding. According to PEHub, a publication tracking the private equity industry, BreakingPoint raised the funding from Austin Ventur...

Austin, Texas-based FiveRuns said today that it has raised $6.2M in a venture round from Austin Ventures. The firm, which develops software for monitoring Ruby on Rails and other open source and commercial software, said the funding will g...

Houston, Texas-based Q4B, Quantum Solutions For Business, a recruiting and consulting firm, said that it has raised a Series B round of funding. The firm said the funding will go towards marketing and business development activities. No fin...

Texas saw $386.2M in 39 venture capital deals in Q3 of 2007, according to a report released over the weekend by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association in their MoneyTree Report. The amount of venture capital was...

Austin, Texas-based HelioVolt Corp., a manufacturer of thin-film solar energy products, announced Monday that it has concluded its second round of venture financing after raising $101 million. HelioVolt said the round was led by Sequel Vent...

Intel Capital, the global investment arm of semiconductor manufacturer Intel Corp., announced Tuesday that it has invested $11 million in an Israeli firm with Austin operations. Intel said that it made the investment in Jordan Valley Semico...

Austin, Texas-basd Rules-Based Medicine said Monday that it has raised $25M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Equity Group Investments LLC, an investment fund founded by Sam Zell, and also included Cross Creek Capital, the ...

Four fledgling Houston-area companies recently received a total of $3.86 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, the agencies responsible for determining the awards announced Wednesday. The Houston Technology Center and the Gulf Co...

Houston, Texas-based Microseismic said Monday that it has received a $2M line of credit from Square 1 Bank. MicroSeismic is a developer of microseismic monitoring and passive seismic imaging technology, used for seismic exploration for the ...

Austin, Texas-based Spinal Restoration said this morning that it has closed on $16M in a series B funding round. The round included Sante Health Ventures and MB Venture Partners, along with prior investors Austin ventures and Path4 Ventures...

Dallas, Texas-based Cumbre Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drug manufacturer that develops anti-infective products for the treatment of bacterial infections, announced Tuesday that it recently received new venture financing from its existing invest...

Austin, Texas-based Apollo Endosurgery said today that it has raised $11.5M in a Series A financing. The funding came from PTV Sciences, H.I.G. Ventures, and individual investors. Apollo Endosurgery said that the funding will be used to com...

Richardson, Texas-based Sipera Systems said today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding. The new round of funding was led by Duchossois Technology Partners, and also included prior investors Austin Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and STA...

Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm Austin Ventures has named Phil Siegal as a General Partner at the company, the firm said Monday. Siegel has been at the firm since October of 1999, and served on the board of directors of All Star Di...

Austin, Texas-based Inovawave (www.inovawave.com) recently announced a Series B round of venture funding, worth $7.2M, to further develop the firm's software for managing virtual environments. Virtualization software has gotten lots of atte...

Black Sand Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for wireless applications, reported Monday that it has hired John Diehl as chief executive officer. Black Sand co-founder and ...

Austin, Texas-based Phurnace Software said earlier this month that it has raised a Series A investment from DFJ Mercury. DFJ Mercury is the Texas-based affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Financial terms of the investment were not disclos...

Houston, Texas-based ThromboVision, said this week that it has raised $4M in a Series A convertible preferred stock financing. The investment came from National Healthcare Services and other private investors. ThromboVision is developing bi...

Austin, Texas-based LDR, a developer of spinal implants for the medical devices market, said today that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Telegraph Hill Partners, and also included prior investors Austin V...

Austin, Texas-based Nascentric, a developer of electronic design automation (EDA) software, announced today that it has raised $7.2M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by new investor Intel Capital, and also included prior inves...

Austin, Texas-based Bazaarvoice said this morning that it has raised $8.8M in a second round of funding from Battery Ventures and Austin Ventures. The firm, which develops e-commerce applications that allow online retailers to show and soli...

Austin, Texas-based VizionWare is in the midst of raising a Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing filed by the firm. Private Equity Week is reporting that the firm has secured $8.2M out of a $14.2M Series B; VentureWire said th...

Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm Austin Ventures said this morning that it has added Joe Marengi as a Venture Partner at the firm. Marengi was most recently SVP and General Manager of Dell Americas, where he was in charge of all of ...

Austin, Texas-based Spiceworks, a developer of free, ad-supported IT management software, announced Tuesday that it has closed its second round of venture financing after raising $8 million. Spiceworks said Shasta Ventures led the effort wi...

Luminary Micro Inc., a manufacturer of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers, announced Wednesday that it has raised $25M in its Series C funding round. Luminary said new investor Adams Street Partners participated in the effort along with e...

Dallas, Texas-based RipCode, a firm developing video transcoding appliances, said Tuesday that it has raised $10.5M in a venture capital financing. The second round of funding for the firm will go towards sales, marketing, and development e...

Austin, Texas-based CreditCards.com, a provider of an online marketplace for connecting consumers with credit cards, said in a filing this morning with the SEC that it is looking to raise up to $115M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market. T...

Allen, Texas-based Xtera Communications said today that it has raised $52M in a round of funding. The round came from existing investors New Enterprise Associates and ARCH Venture Partners, along with new investor Wellcome Trust of London. ...

Paris, Texas-based T&K Machine, a manufacturer of precision-machined airframe components, said Monday that it has raised $5M in funding. The round came from Advantage Capital Partners and Stonehenge Capital. T&K said that the funding will g...

Houston, Texas-based COADE Inc., a developer of plant design and engineering software for the process industries, announced Monday that it has received a $42 million investment from Insight Partners, a New York City-based venture capital fi...

Texas high tech companies received $347.4M in venture capital investments in Q2 of this year, according to a report just released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The report, which tracks quarterly ven...

Houston, Texas-based GloriOil said today that it has closed $10M in financing, co-led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and GTI Group. GloriOil said the funding will be used to meet strong customer demand for its product. GloriOil is deve...

Houston, Texas-based Berggi, a startup developing mobile messaging services for cell phones, said today that it has raised $9M in funding from two companies. The funding round comes from Avanzit, along with current investor Adara Ventures. ...

Richardson, Texas-based Convey Computer has reportedly raised $16M in a Series A funding, according to Private Equity Week. Private Equity Week, pulling information from a regulatory filing, said that the funding came from CenterPoint Ventu...

Austin, Texas-based Monebo said this week that it has raised a Series B round of funding. The firm, which developing medical devices for heart monitoring, said that the funding will go to accelerating the commercialization of its products. ...

Ernst & Young and VentureOne have released their quarterly venture capital reports, finding that there was $233.15M in venture capital deals in Texas last quarter. The report tallied a total of $7.4 billion in deals nationwide, and 717 vent...

Houston, Texas-based GloriOil, a company that is developing biotechnology to increase production from mature oil wells, has quietly received funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. No details of the funding were released. GloriOil ...

Austin, Texas-based Bandspeed, a company developing Wi-Fi management products, has reportedly raised $8M in a $10M Series D funding round. Private Equity Week, citing a regulatory filing, said that the round includes JatoTech Ventures and C...

InovaWave, a developer of software for managing virtual environments, announced today that it has concluded its Series B round of financing after raising $7.2 million in funds. InovaWave said Matrix Partners led the effort, with previous in...

RF Code Inc., a manufacturer of RF components, said today that it has concluded a venture capital funding effort and relocated from Mesa, Ariz., to its new corporate headquarters inside the Waterford Centre Business Park in Austin, Texas. T...

Trion World Network, a California-based company which maintains its research and development operations in Austin, Texas, said today it has raised $30M in funding. Investors in the firm include Rustic Canyon Partners, Time Warner, GE/NBC U...

Austin, Texas-based startup AeonClad Coatings said today that it has licensed technology from the Unviersity of Texas at Arlington. The technology covers plasma coating technology for medical and industrial applications. Financial terms of ...

Houston, Texas-based DataCert said today that it has raised an additional $10M in funding, in a Series E investment from SSM Partners. DataCert, which provides software used for IP spend and matter management, said that the financing will g...

iTKO Inc., a provider of testing solutions for service-oriented architecture software, revealed Monday that it has raised $7.5 million in Series B funding. Vesbridge Partners led the effort, iTKO said, with existing investors CenterPoint Ve...

WiQuest Communications Inc., a fabless semiconductor manufacturer of wireless networking components, announced Monday that it has concluded its Series C funding round after generating $28 million in financing. WiQuest said the oversubscribe...

Austin, Texas-based Integral Wave Technologies has scored $6M in funding, as part of a Series A round, the firm said Friday. The funding was led by CenterPoint Ventures, and also included Hunt Ventures and Rho Ventures. Integral Wave Techno...

Austin, Texas-based StorSpeed has apparently raised $13M in a Series A funding, according to a report by PEHub, an online site that covers private equity and venture capital news. Citing a regulatory funding, the site said that the Series A...

Austin, Texas-based FameCast, an online competition focused on talent, has raised $4.5M in funding from Austin Ventures. FameCast operates an online site focused on discovering new stars in music, film, dance and comedy. FameCast is headed ...

Dallas, Texas-based Airband Communications has raised $12.5M in a Series C funding, the company said Tuesday. The round was led by M/C Venture Partners, a new investor in the firm. Also participating were existing investors Sevin Rosen Fund...

Wireless access equipment provider Navini Networks Inc. has garnered $50 million in Series F equity financing, one of the round's primary investors reported Tuesday. Arcapita Ventures, the venture capital arm of Arcapita Bank BSC, said it l...

Dallas, Texas-based SensorLogic has scored a strategic investment in the firm, the company said Tuesday, from UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. SensorLogic said that UPS joins its existing financial ...

Convio Inc., a software developer that specializes in helping non-profit corporations make use of the Internet, reported Wednesday that it has hired Gary Allison as its engineering vice president. He will report to Dave Hart, Convio's opera...

Nine Gulf Coast-area startups have received financial awards totaling $8.8 million from Texas' Emerging Technology Fund, the two agencies responsible for determining the awards announced Wednesday. The Houston Technology Center and the Gulf...

Austin, Texas-based BSG Alliance Corporation has raised $20M in a venture capital round, led by Foundation Capital and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, the firm said today. Powershift Ventures, L.P., also participated in the round. BSG Alli...

Emergent Technologies Inc. announced Monday that it has closed its Fund IV, raising some $27 million to commercialize as many as 30 technology applications within the University of Texas system. The company stated that Fund IV is comprised ...

Austin, Texas-based Bazaarvoice has added QVC to its lineup of customers, as the firm announced today that QVC will use its customer ratings and reviews service. Bazaarvoice said that QVC will use its services on QVC.com. Terms of the deal ...

Texas saw $227.6M in venture capital deals, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers / National Venture Capital Association Moneytree report, which was released Tuesday. The report, which tracks U.S. venture capital activity, found th...

Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne reported this morning that venture capital investments in Texas increased in the quarter to $280.8M in deals. The companies, which track the flow of venture capital activity in their quarterly reports,...

Mavenir Systems announced Monday that its second round of funding has raised $20.5 million. Alloy Ventures led the effort, with Series A investors Austin Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners also participating in the follow-up funding...

SecureInfo Corporation, a provider of security products for the Federal government, said Monday that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding. The company, which has offices in San Antonio, Texas, said that the round was led by Insight Ventu...

Sugar Land, Texas-based Applied Optoelectronics has scored $28M in a Series E round of funding, the firm said today, bringing the company's total raised since 1997 to $68.9M. Investors in the firm were not disclosed. Applied Optoelectronics...

An analysis of venture capital deals in Texas in Q1 of this year by Texas Techpulse has found that there was $197.9M in venture capital invested in the state this quarter. According to the analysis, the largest fundings for the quarter were...

Austin, Texas-based RenewData has raised $5M in a Series D funding, the firm announced this morning. The round came from its existing investors, which include ABS Capital Partners and CIBC Capital Partners. Renew Data provides electronic di...

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire is reporting this week in a study that angel investments increased in 2006 by 10.8 percent from 2005. The study said that angel investors spent $25.6B in investments in entr...

A follow-up round of funding for WhiteFence has generated $14 million, company executives announced Wednesday. New investor Adams Street Partners and first-round financier Internet Capital Group Inc. led the effort. Headquartered in Houston...

Slacker, an online radio startup backed by Sevin Rosen, Austin Ventures, and Mission Ventures, said at SXSW today that it has launched a beta of the firm's services. The company, which maintains operations in Austin, has developed a service...

Richardson, Texas-based Ceterus Networks said today that it has raised $20M in a funding round led by Intel Capital. Other firms in the round included Sevin Rosen, ComVentures, and new investor Aldus Equity. Ceterus Networks provides metrop...

Austin, Texas-based NanoCoolers has been chosen to receive a $3.0M project grant, to commercialize the firm's chip refrigeration technology. The grant came from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. NanoCoolers develops cooling systems based ...

The University of Texas, Austin announced Wednesday that Austin, Texas-based Mimetic Solutions has licensed drug delivery technology developed by a UT Austin team, and also received funding from the Emergent Technologies Fund IV. The new fi...

Houston, Texas-based Performix raised a round of Series A funding, the firm said last week. The funding came from DFJ Mercury and RPM Ventures. Performix develops software used for the manufacturing industry, in the area of manufacturing ex...

Richardson, Texas-based Sirific Wireless has raised $18.8M in a Series C funding, the firm announced today. Sirific, which is developing single-chip, multi-band CMOS RF transceivers, said that the funding came from Hunt Ventures, and curren...

San Antonio, Texas-based Click Forensics said today it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The firm, which provides an independent click fraud reporting service, said that the round was led by Austin Ventures and also included Shasta Vent...

Richardson, Texas-based Tango Networks, a provider of products that integrate mobile phones with corporate telephone networks, said today it has raised $25M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Motorola Ventures, Nortel, Signa...

Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds has raised $7.5M in a new round of funding from Austin Ventures, the firm said today. Austin Ventures joins Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners as an investor in the firm. SolarWinds develops network man...

Dallas, Texas-based Quickoffice has raised $7M in a new venture funding, the firm said Monday. The round was led by Mayfield Fund, and also include participation from Access Industries, Advantage Capital Partners, Shepherd Ventures and Shea...

A new, $100M venture capital fund has been formed focusing on nanotechnology in Texas. The new fund, Texas Nanotech Ventures, said that it will focus on the state of Texas and the global nanotechnology industry. The new fund is headed by Th...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association are reporting today that Texas saw $169.4M in venture capital deals for the quarter, in 30 investments. PwC and NVCA, which report venture investing numbers ever quarter, a...

Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne are reporting today that overall venture capital dealflow in Texas was down for the year, but that the state had a 17% increase in capital invested for the year. Ernst & Young and Dow Jones released 20...

Austin, Texas-based NewsStand has received an investment from HarperCollins Publishers, as part of a deal with HarperCollins and LibreDigital, a division of the firm. Financial terms were not disclosed. HarperCollins and LibreDigital are wo...

Venture capital investments in Texas totaled $315.6M for Q4 of 2006, according to an analysis of venture activity by TexasTechPulse. The company receiving the largest venture round for the quarter was Austin-based HomeAway, which raised $16...

Austin, Texas-based InovaWave has raised a round of funding from Silverton Partners, according to a regulatory filing filed December 6th. InovaWave is a developer of software for the server virtualization space, centered around disk storage...

Austin, Texas-based Alereon has raised $4M in a venture capital round, the firm announced this week. The round came from Samsung Ventures. Alereon is developing ultrawideband (UWB) semiconductors for the mobile and wireless USB space. Samsu...

Houston, Texas-based ThromboVision, a developer of biomedical diagnostics products, has raised $400K in the first tranche of a Series A financing. The firm said that the investment will be used to fund the firm's clinical trials, to build i...

San Diego, California-based Science Applications International Corporation said today that it has entered into a master marketing agreement with Austin, Texas-based Zebra Imaging, a developer of 3D display technologies. SAIC also said that ...

Dallas and Austin Texas-based RipCode said today that it has raised $7M in a first round of venture capital funding. The round was led by Hunt Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, and El Dorado Ventures, and also included participation by ATA Vent...

Global news provider Reuters said this week that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Austin, Texas-based Pluck to syndicate third party blog content for its news services. Reuters will also make an investment in the firm. Reuters ...

Austin, Texas-based AlterPoint said today that it has raised $7.5M in a Series C funding round. Funding came from Austin Ventures, JK&B Capital, and Palomar Ventures, all existing investors in the firm. The funding brings the company's tota...

Austin, Texas-based Austin Ventures has purchased Seattle-based All Star Directories, a publisher of online education directories. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Austin Ventures said that the acquisition would allow All Sta...

Dallas-based venture capital firm Sevin Rosen said last week that it has added a new venture partner to the firm. Dr. William D. Paiva will join the firm in the area of technology applications for life sciences. Paiva has previously managed...

Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm Austin Ventures said this week that it has promoted four of its members to the role of partner. Craig Milius, Michael Rovner, Phil Siegel, and Krishna Srinivasan were all promoted to Partners at the ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association has released its Money Tree venture capital results for Q3 of 2006, showing that there was $6.2 billion invested in 797 deals, down by 8 percent from Q2, but the best thir...

Austin, Texas-based Zebra Imaging has raised $5.9M in a Series C funding round. Zebra said that the funding came from Voyager Capital, and also included Nueve Private Equities and SAIC Venture Capital. The new funding wil lbe used for the f...

Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne are reporting today that there was $6.36B invested in 611 venture capital deals in the third quarter, with a slight increase in both the number of deals and amount of investment versus a year ago. The ...

Plano, Texas-based Enfora has raised $19M in a first round of VC funding for the firm. Funding came from Kodiak Venture Partners and Adam Street Partners. Enfora develops radio modules for the wireless data communications market, and has be...

Richardson, Texas-based AirWalk Communications has raised $15M in a Series B funding round. AirWalk said that the funding was led by Sevin Rosen Funds, and included investments from existing investor TL Ventures, and new investors Alta Berk...

Houston, Texas-based MedServe has raised $70M in funding, the firm reported today, from Avista Capital Partners and its existing ivnestors Chrysalis Ventures, Murphree Venture Partners, Cogene Biotech Ventures, and Erasmus Louisiana Growth ...

Austin, Texas-based HyPerformix has raised $5M in funding, the firm said last week. Funding came from Silicon Valley Bank and existing investors. Hyperormix develops predictive IT software. The firm also has appointed Peter Klante as Presid...

Austin, Texas-based LifeSize has raised $25M in funding, the firm said today. Funding came from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, and included prior investors Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Venture...

Hurst, Texas-based Handango has raised $60M in a venture capital round, the company reported today, saying that it will use the funding to extend its position in the smartphone content market. Funding came from Institutional Venture Partner...

Austin, Texas-based TechSkills, an operator of educational centers focused on IT, health services, and career training, said today it has acquired Boston University Corporate Education Center. The firm said it raised a combination of debt a...

Austin, Texas-based iTaggit has raised a new, Series A funding round worth $1.04M. The firm said Tuesday that the firm will soon provide web-based services and products for individuals to manage their personal assets. Investors in the firm ...