Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
TechStars, a Boulder, Co.-based technology accelerator, is expanding to Austin with a new program that will start in August. “Forbes and Bloomberg have been calling Austin the No. 1 Boomtown and the best place for your startup for years now, and Google recently chose it as the second city to receive the fastest Internet on [...]
Ziptask seeks to make managing outsourced projects simpler. The Anaheim, Calif.-based company launched its fully managed outsourcing platform on Wednesday. The company provides a layer on top of services like Freelancer.com, Elance, 99Designs and others that makes managing outsourced projects easier. Ziptask is a member of the TechStars Cloud Class of 2013. Its team will [...]
In the first TechStars class held at the Geekdom earlier this year, Cloudability already had a head start on some of the other companies. The Portland-based startup had already participated in the Portland Incubator Experiment. When the team landed in San Antonio, they had already raised $1.1 million, according to VentureBeat. Now Mat Ellis, Cloudability’s [...]
To find out about high-tech startups in San Antonio, talk to Jason Seats. He’s not only the managing director of the TechStars Cloud program at Geekdom, a collaboration and coworking space downtown, but he’s been there done that and has plenty of T-shirts to prove it. In 2006, Seats, cofounded Slicehost with his college friend [...]
Nicole Glaros showing off her TechStars Cloud belt buckle in San Antonio The only woman in the TechStars Cloud program, Nicole Glaros relocated from Boulder, Colorado to San Antonio with her husband, two-year-old daughter and one month old baby boy. “It’s not a hard sell for me,” Glaros said. “To pick up and move for [...]
Three months ago, a group of entrepreneurs moved into Geekdom in downtown San Antonio. Since then, the inaugural TechStars Cloud participants have been toiling away and working to create blockbuster cloud businesses that will change the world. Some have iterated, pivoted and overhauled their operations countless times. Names have changed. Teams have mixed it up. [...]
At the Geekdom, twice a week, entrepreneurs behind the 11 TechStars Cloud companies gather to pitch their ventures. Jason Seats and Nicole Glaros, TechStars Cloud managing directors, critique those pitches along with a handful of others, ranging from interested bystanders to serious angel and venture investors and other TechStar members. “Jokes are only good if [...]
In January, entrepreneurs from all over the country arrived in San Antonio for the first ever TechStars Cloud. Nicole Glaros, one of the program’s directors, moved to San Antonio with her family for the three month program. Jason Seats, the other director, says the program is coming to a conclusion with TechStars Cloud Demo Day [...]
The first TechStars Cloud program kicked off in San Antonio on Jan. 19 with 11 companies that all moved to the city from outside the state. Jason Seats and Nicole Glaros, managing directors, run the TechStars Cloud program at the Geekdom, a collaborative workplace in downtown San Antonio on the 11th floor of the Weston [...]
Jason Seats, managing director of the TechStars Cloud, says hundreds of companies applied to the program. In the end, TechStars choose 11 companies. All of them are from outside of San Antonio. Seats is not revealing the company names until April 6th at TechStars Cloud Demo Day. Nicole Glaros, one of the founders of TechStars [...]
