Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
A new startup, Heyride is creating quite a shake up in the Austin transportation industry. The company, founded in 2012, draws its inspiration from “the success of collaborative consumption companies such as Airbnb and car2 go.” Heyride has established an alternative marketplace to cabs in Austin. It’s a place where people can give and receive rides [...]
CopperEgg has raised $2.1 million to complete its first round funding. The Austin-based cloud monitoring and analytics company also hired Bob Quillin as its new CEO. Silverton Partners led the investment along with Webb Investment Network and several private investors including Kenny Van Zant of Asana. To date, CopperEgg has raised $4.1 million. “Cloud computing [...]
Famigo announced today that it has closed on $1 million in a seed round of financing led by Silverton Partners, with participation from Zilker Ventures, Liahona Ventures and CapitalFactory. Founded in 2009, Famigo has created a mobile phone application that lets families find kid-friendly content and restrict access to other mobile phone features on Apple [...]
