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  • Karmaback Announces Social Coupons Karmaback Announces Social Coupons

    Today, Karmaback, the only online engagement and sweepstakes platform that rewards the community’s engagement and evangelism, announced Social Coupons, a new feature targeted at enabling companies to grow their online community while in turn rewarding the community’s engagem...

  • Workstreamer Banks $3.5M Series A Workstreamer Banks $3.5M Series A

    I think it’s safe to say that early stage funding is going strong in Austin in 2010. It seems that not a week goes by without a notable seed round or A round invested in Austin companies. Back in April we wrote about Workstreamer, a business listening platform, launching their public beta. At the ...

  • Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G? Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

    Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price. But ev...

  • 1TeamWeb Taps Out the Competition 1TeamWeb Taps Out the Competition

    My next door neighbor is Dave Thomas. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.) Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits...

  • uShip Moving Downtown uShip Moving Downtown

    Austin-based uShip has been on a solid growth trend lately, typified by today’s announcement that they’re moving downtown. The startup is currently fitting 65 people into it’s 4,500 square foot office space on S. Congress. Their new digs in the McGarragh Jessee building on 2nd and Brazos are g...

  • uControl Adds $3.9M Plus Executives uControl Adds $3.9M Plus Executives

    uControl, which launched 5 years ago at DEMO, announced the addition of two new vice presidents and the final $3.9M of a $9M investment round, with none of that money coming from venture or institutional investors. The company exemplifies what startups and entrepreneurship are really all about. They...

  • Cam.ly Sends Video to the Cloud Cam.ly Sends Video to the Cloud

    Home video security can be kind of expensive. There’s lots of wires, cameras, mounting, VCR’s, changing tapes, and other hassles. The people from Austin-based cam.ly hope to change all that by bringing simplicity to the video camera experience. Cam.ly will sell you a web-enabled camera for $1...

  • Gendai Games Adds $1M in Funding Gendai Games Adds $1M in Funding

    Austin-based Gendai Games added $1M in funding from a variety of sources, including DFJ Mercury. The company makes an interesting cross-platform game development tool named Game Salad, and the iTunes app store contains many games built with their tool. Gendai has been around for a while, launching t...

  • Socialware Partners with LiveOffice Socialware Partners with LiveOffice

    LiveOffice, the number-one provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions and Socialware, the leader in helping companies manage, embrace and leverage public social networks, today announced a partnership. Together the companies will provid...

  • Sailpoint Adds Tesco Bank to Client List Sailpoint Adds Tesco Bank to Client List

    SailPoint announced today that Tesco Bank, the UK’s most successful supermarket bank, has selected SailPoint IdentityIQ™ as its identity governance solution to support information security and compliance programs within the bank. The selection forms part of Tesco Bank’s migration programme...

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