David Holley
David is the national correspondent at Xconomy. He has spent most of his career covering business of every kind, from breweries in Oregon to investment banks in New York. A native of the Pacific Northwest, David started his career reporting at weekly and daily newspapers, covering murder trials, city council meetings, the expanding startup tech industry in the region, and everything between. He left the West Coast to pursue business journalism in New York, first writing about biotech and then private equity at The Deal. After a stint at Bloomberg News writing about high-yield bonds and leveraged loans, David relocated from New York to Austin, TX.
He graduated from Portland State University.
Recent posts
Austin—[Updated 10:10 a.m. See below.] Magnitude Software is selling a $179 million stake in the company to London-based private equity firm 3i Group.
Chris Ney, the founder, chairman,... Read more »
San Antonio—Ben Kuhn has been promoted to become the CEO of Keen, a San Antonio startup that helps software developers with custom application programming interfaces for data collection and analytics.... Read more »
Austin—If you’re a startup talking up your artificial intelligence chops in your venture capital pitch, you’re not alone.
For Cisco Investments, the venture arm of tech giant Cisco, artificial intelligence... Read more »
San Antonio—EPIcenter, a think tank that promotes the “new energy” sector and operates a startup incubator and other programs for businesses, is planning a half-day event highlighting electricity-focused tech companies.... Read more »
San Antonio—[Updated 3/8/19, 2:27 p.m. See below.] A San Antonio startup, Cityflag, is joining a new Techstars program in Amsterdam for businesses that focus on changing how “we live,... Read more »
Even as the executive order President Trump issued last month on artificial intelligence furthered the conversation about a developing national strategy for the sector, it was met with certain criticism. A... Read more »
Austin — Two angel networks in Texas have been the most active investors in the state since 2010.
The Houston Angel Network leads the list with 145 investments during the past... Read more »
Austin—Datical, which sells software that automates the laborious process of manually updating a database during a software or application release, has added a $10 million Series C round of financing... Read more »
Austin—ATX Seed Ventures has closed a $32 million investment fund, the firm’s second. ATX invests in early-stage software, Internet of Things, e-commerce, and mobile application startups.
Founded in 2014, ATX... Read more »
San Antonio — Rapamycin Holdings, a life sciences business working to commercialize a new formulation of an immunosuppressant as a prostate cancer drug, has changed its name to Emtora Biosciences and... Read more »
San Antonio—As one business development group begins work on a new “innovation center” for life science and tech startups near downtown San Antonio, TX, another Alamo City organization has said... Read more »
San Antonio—[Updated 12:32 p.m. See below.] Scaleworks has raised $80 million to acquire more startups, three years after Lew Moorman and Ed Byrne founded the business as a... Read more »
Austin—DivInc, a nonprofit business accelerator for women and people of color, has received a philanthropic investment from Notley Ventures to expand its accelerator program.
DivInc also announced a partnership with... Read more »
San Antonio—GenCure, a subsidiary of life sciences nonprofit BioBridge Global, expects to open a biomanufacturing laboratory this year at a new “innovation center” that’s being developed by VelocityTX in San... Read more »
San Antonio — [Updated 2/19/19, 2:30 p.m. See below.] VelocityTX is getting a $750,000 grant and another tax incentive from the City of San Antonio for its redevelopment of... Read more »
[Updated, 02/15/19, 8:50 CT] After a whirlwind courtship and brief engagement, Amazon has broken off its plans to establish another headquarters in New York’s Long Island City neighborhood.
Amazon... Read more »
San Antonio—Acelity, a decades-old San Antonio life sciences company known for its wound-healing technologies and tissue-repair products, plans to lay off 200 employees at its San Antonio headquarters and another... Read more »
San Antonio—The CEO of InventaBioTech, a life sciences business formerly known as CytoBioScience, is stepping down and being replaced by an interim leader.
Jim Garvin, who has been the CEO... Read more »
San Antonio—[Updated and corrected 2/15/19, 10:53 a.m. CT. See below.] Scraffic, a small startup that helps retailers count foot traffic in their stores, has gone international.
The San... Read more »
San Antonio—[Updated 3:02 p.m. See below.] LGS Innovations, a Virginia-based tech company focused on cybersecurity and communications, still expects to open a cybersecurity operations hub in San Antonio,... Read more »
