By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Among the presenters at the Incubation Station Showcase Tuesday night were a women’s apparel company that employs African women to make beautiful necklaces out of melted bullet casings, a cider company that sells the fastest growing drink in the U.S., a company that imbues peas with the [...]

Austin-based startup LDRK Media makes fun and engaging online videos. Its clients include Badgeville, Best Western, Realty Austin, National Renters Association and many more. Now it’s focusing more on doing whiteboard explainer videos for startups in which it takes complex subjects and break them down into a series of white board illustration. The videos are [...]

TVA Medical announced Tuesday that is has received $9.5 million in Series B financing in a round led by S3 Ventures along with TriStar Technology Ventures and Sante Ventures. The Austin-based medical device company says the funding will be used to complete clinical trails and validate its endovascular technology. The company is developing a minimally [...]

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Three teams put their heads together to tackle the question of using technology for social good in Austin Monday night at the G-everyone meetup sponsored by Mashable and the Social Good Summit. The gathering at Capital Factory included about 20 people. It was recorded and would be [...]

Ernst & Young honors eight Austin and San Antonio entrepreneurs as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 Award winners in Central Texas. The winners were honored at a gala at the Hilton Downtown on June 5. They include: Veronica Edwards, CEO of InGensis in San Antonio for business services; Rony Kahan and Paul [...]

Solar Winds, founded in 1999 and based in Austin, ranks 11th on Forbes’ List of the Top 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies. Rackspace Hosting, founded in 1998 and based in San Antonio, snagged the 19th spot on the list. Solar Winds, which makes information technology management tools, has 628 employees and $282 million in revenue, [...]

AdBm Technologies, which created a noise abatement system to protect marine life from underwater oil and gas drilling operations, is a finalist in the Founder.org Big Ideas Competition. AdBm is one of 10 finalists in the competition, which received more than 500 submissions. The competition’s mission is “to inspire students to chase big ideas and [...]

The White House has honored 11 immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs as “Champions of Change,” including a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. The immigrants are “the best and brightest from around the world who are helping create American jobs, grow our economy, and make our nation more competitive.” Amar Sawhney, medical device inventor [...]

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News In the offices of Main Street Hub, dozens of employees stare at computer screens, scanning for social media posts relevant to their customers. Somewhere in Austin, somebody hashtags “birthday” on a Twitter feed and the employee in charge of the bakery client tweets a birthday greeting and [...]