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—ScaleFactor is adding a $30 million round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners to make new hires and add more features to its software that automates accounting and provides... Read more »
Austin—An incubator for startups that are developing a media product is in its final week of accepting applications.
Called Collective, the incubator is focused on startups that are working on... Read more »
San Antonio—Sridhar Kamma is the kind of car enthusiast who would meet up with other devotees a couple times a month to talk about the merits of a BMW M3... Read more »
San Antonio—An Ohio investment firm that recently announced it would acquire an investment management arm of San Antonio-based USAA is now planning to move its headquarters to the Alamo City.... Read more »
Fort Worth—Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) is acquiring a Texas company that sells law enforcement offices and private businesses data it collects about license plates—which can reveal where a car... Read more »
San Antonio — Entrepreneurship wasn’t something that Steven Venticinque expected to pursue in his life. Like many tinkerers and inventors, Venticinque took to entrepreneurship in order to fix a problem.
Intubation—the... Read more »
Austin—Waldo Photos, a startup with facial recognition software that helps its users find photos of themselves and family members, has raised $4 million in a new round of financing led... Read more »
San Antonio — San Antonio has a new “action plan” for bringing more life sciences businesses and professionals to the city, as well as for retaining those it already has.
Economic... Read more »
San Antonio—Rectify, a business developing software to automate the process of removing private or sensitive information from documents when they’re shared, has had a busy start to the winter.
The... Read more »
Austin — [Updated 3:10 p.m. See below.] Apple expects to make thousands of new hires around the country from Seattle to New York, the company announced Thursday, with its... Read more »
Austin—Dell Technologies is on its way to becoming a public company again. Shareholders of a stock that’s linked to Dell subsidiary VMware approved a plan for Dell to buy out... Read more »
San Antonio — When it comes to medical technology, what’s good for the military isn’t always good for the private sector.
It’s often difficult for military researchers to find investors who... Read more »
[Corrected 12/11/18, 11:20 p.m. See below.]
Why do unicorns get all the attention?
Brian de Haaff wonders this sometimes, especially as compared to his own tech business, Aha. It’s... Read more »
Austin—Online training service Aceable landed the perhaps the biggest Austin startup headline of the week: The company announced a $47 million Series B funding round, one of the largest financings... Read more »
Austin—A new telehealth-focused startup, Enzyme Health, has raised a $1.7 million seed funding round to build out its marketplace for doctors and nurse practitioners looking for new online gigs.
Enzyme... Read more »
Self-driving car business Cruise has a new leader: Dan Ammann, the General Motors president who led the company’s acquisition of Cruise in 2016, is now being named CEO of the... Read more »
San Antonio — One portfolio company of investment firm Targeted Technology is acquiring another.
San Antonio-based CytoBioscience, through its parent company, is buying BioDtech, a Birmingham, AL-based maker of technology for... Read more »
San Antonio — Vida Medical Devices, a startup led by a Brazilian inventor and a longtime San Antonio life sciences executive, is preparing to hit the market with a test version... Read more »
San Antonio—Toyota opened a large-scale manufacturing plant in San Antonio, TX, in 2006, where both humans and computer-controlled Yaskawa robots began to build Tundra and Tacoma trucks.
Erik Nieves moved... Read more »
San Antonio—Flightpath Finance, a startup that works with customers’ accounting software, has taken a $515,000 round of funding that was led by Active Capital and other San Antonio investors.
Flightpath... Read more »
