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—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 »
Apptio is being taken private by investment firm Vista Equity Partners in a $1.94 billion acquisition.
Founded in Bellevue, WA, in 2007, Apptio (NASDAQ: APTI) helps corporate leaders track and... Read more »
Dallas — A foundation started by a Texas billionaire announced Tuesday it will offer millions of dollars in awards to scientists who research neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and progressive supranuclear... Read more »
Amazon is reportedly choosing two cities, not one, for its second headquarters, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)... Read more »
Broadcom is selling application security testing business Veracode for $950 million to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Broadcom gained Veracode as a part of its blockbuster acquisition of CA Technologies.
Broadcom... Read more »
San Antonio — A Texas billionaire is funding a new competition that will give $4 million to seven individuals who present promising ideas about the cause of Alzheimer’s disease and say... Read more »
San Antonio—Scaleworks business Assembla has sold for an undisclosed price to Houston-based Idera, a company that owns various business-to-business, developer-focused software companies.
San Antonio-based Assembla sells a service that helps... Read more »
San Antonio — Researchers, advocates, and residents in San Antonio have been seeking out ways to handle the growing problem of diabetes in San Antonio and the surrounding Bexar County, which... Read more »
San Antonio — Phoenix Biotechnology, which has been developing an experimental plant-based drug for cancer for more than a decade, has added about $1 million in new funding, according to a... Read more »
San Antonio—A San Antonio tech startup that sells Internet-connected tags and other tools to monitor the health and whereabouts of herds of animals has raised $5 million in a new... Read more »
Cancer testing laboratory Genoptix is being acquired by NeoGenomics, another cancer-focused genetic testing business, for $125 million in cash and 1 million NeoGenomics shares.
The buyout comes almost two years after... Read more »
