Can Ford’s Self-Driving Car Business Improve Austin’s Traffic Woes?

Austin — There are so many great things about working from home. Spending all day with your pets is up there, but not having to commute is probably the best.

It’s... Read more »

CyberFortress Adds $3M Seed Round for Cybersecurity Insurance Tech

San Antonio—[Updated 12:22 p.m. See below.] CyberFortress, a cybersecurity company focused on the insurance industry, closed a $3 million seed funding round co-led by New York venture firm... Read more »

Cloudflare’s $525M IPO Emboldens Already-Confident Internet Booster

[Updated 9/13/19, 11:40 am ET. See below.] Cloudflare has had its share of controversy, and is in a market with a wide range of more established competitors, from Amazon... Read more »

Robocalls Crowd Out Real Business Calls. This Startup Has an Answer.

The ways in which robocallers try to dupe us are becoming almost as plentiful as the frequency of the calls.

An unknown phone number was once all scammers needed to... Read more »

ProsperOps Seeks Spot in the Growing Cloud as Amazon Still Dominates

Austin—[Updated 1:28 p.m. See below.] Cloud computing is big business, and Amazon Web Services is the biggest. A new Texas startup is carving its own space in this... Read more »

VMWare Plans to Acquire Bitfusion for Application-Enhancing Software

Austin—VMWare announced Thursday it intends to acquire Bitfusion, a startup with offices in Austin, TX and Silicon Valley that makes software aimed at optimizing the way hardware such as... Read more »

San Antonio to Honor Regenerative Medicine Pioneer Stephen Badylak

San Antonio — Ah, to be able to regrow a missing limb like a slimy salamander—a trick long dreamed of by youngsters and scientists alike.

Research into such regenerative abilities has... Read more »

Grocer H-E-B Explores Autonomous Delivery With SF-Area Startup Udelv

San Antonio — Pretty soon, the milkman may be making a comeback—at least, a robotic version.

San Antonio-based grocery chain H-E-B is beginning a pilot program later this year to test... Read more »

Ross Perot Dies: Tech Pioneer Sold Two Firms For Billions to Dell, GM

Dallas—Ross Perot, the Texan billionaire businessman who twice ran for president in the 1990s, died Tuesday, five months after being diagnosed with leukemia, according to news reports. He was... Read more »

Honeywell Spinout Resideo Adds to Smart Home Cache, Opens Austin HQ

Austin—[Corrected 11:14 a.m. See below.] Doorbells, thermostats, refrigerators, and more—everything in the modern home is becoming a smart, connected device. (You can even monitor your kitty’s litter box... Read more »

Talk of Broadcom Buyout of Symantec Puts Broader IT Focus Into View

Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec.... Read more »

What’s Worth $34B? IBM Gets OK in Europe for Acquisition of Red Hat

IBM’s acquisition of open-source software maker Red Hat cleared the hurdle of approval from European regulators Thursday because it raised no concerns about competition, according to the European Commission.

The $34... Read more »

Big Business Has Your Data, and Osano Is Rating How They Handle It

Austin—Anyone who has an Evite account may be a bit wary right now: The company confirmed this month that personal data of some of its users, including names, dates of... Read more »

VidMob Adds $25M Led by Austin-Based BuildGroup for Adtech Software

You’ve probably seen a VidMob advertisement, or at least an ad the company had some influence on, and not known it.

The New York-based startup has helped make or optimize digital... Read more »

InGeneron Adds $23M to Test Stem Cell Therapy for Rotator Cuff Tears

Houston — Stem-cell technology developer InGeneron has added another $23 million to a Series D financing it announced in 2017, bringing the total of the funding round to $43 million.

Based... Read more »

Insurance Tech Startup CyberFortress Starts Risk Assessment Service

San Antonio—CyberFortress, an insurance tech startup founded late last year, is graduating from the Plug and Play accelerator and launching a new service that gauges how vulnerable ecommerce businesses are... Read more »

From Farm to (Financial) Table: Holt Ventures Partner Meg Paulus

San Antonio—Meg Paulus gets a sense of comfort when she walks around the campus of her work at Holt Cat, a San Antonio-based heavy equipment and engine dealer focused on... Read more »

CrowdStrike IPO: Cybersecurity Firms Defend Themselves, and You

Of the many risks facing a cybersecurity company that’s trying to raise money through an initial public offering, here’s one that might surprise some investors: cyber attacks.

Cybersecurity is important for... Read more »

Upland Software Acquires Marketing Software Business Kapost for $45M

Austin—Upland Software is paying $45 million to acquire Kapost, a Boulder, CO-based company with software for managing marketing content.

Upland (NASDAQ: UPLD) sells business applications, including some for communicating... Read more »

Scaleworks Acquires SearchSpring for First Deal From Second Fund

San Antonio—Scaleworks is acquiring SearchSpring, a Denver, CO-based business that makes search and navigation systems for online stores and ecommerce businesses.

The acquisition is the first for Scaleworks’ $80 million... Read more »