Michael Ramirez is the founder and CEO of Austin-based evisio, a search engine optimization software company. Evisio helps agencies, marketers, SEO consultants, and businesses of all sizes improve organic search results, no matter their level of SEO knowledge. It takes the guesswork out of SEO by giving users strategic insights and actionable tasks that can […]

Austin had a record-breaking year with startup activity overall on the rise. In 2021, companies in the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area raised $4.9 billion in venture capital in 387 deals, more than double the $2.3 billion raised in 2020, according to Pitchbook-National Venture Capital Association Venture Monitor data. A few trends Silicon Hills News has […]

In Austin, 97 companies made the Inc 5000 2022 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Overall, the Austin companies on the list had a 244 percent median growth rate, $5.3 billion in total revenue, and added 16,792 jobs. The list includes 28 newly founded companies and 69 repeat honorees. AdOutreach, which helps companies with […]

Galvanize Austin sent an email to its members on August 17th to inform them it is closing its coworking operations on August 31st. “I’m reaching out to inform you that Galvanize has made an immensely tough decision to sunset our coworking operations in Austin,” Lindsey Rohde, senior director of campus operations, wrote in an email […]

Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it has started the de-extinction process of the thylacine, a beloved Australian marsupial, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. The company first announced plans to bring the woolly mammoth back to life last September. It is using breakthrough gene-editing technologies to recreate the woolly mammoth and thylacine. The thylacine is […]

At 23 years old, Camilo Nova started Axiacore, a software development firm in the South American country of Colombia. But Nova taught himself to program in python at the early age of 14. He was lucky to have Internet access and a computer in a country where those resources were not readily available, he said. […]

The Austin Chamber of Commerce in partnership with South by Southwest honored its A-List Award winners last Wednesday night at a ceremony at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. It’s the 11th annual awards ceremony that shines a spotlight on homegrown startups. This year was the first time the chamber recognized local investors. The […]

There’s an urgency in Congress to pass legislation before Congress recesses for the month of August.And chief among the bills under consideration is the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Fund. The CHIPS-Plus legislation includes incentives for domestic semiconductor manufacturing and investments in U.S. chip research and in total, the bill includes […]

Startups and small businesses are so busy in the early stages that human resources isn’t always a priority. But it should be, said Megan Duncan, Founder, and CEO of Cambara Duncan Consulting Firm LLC, based in Austin. “As soon as a business has 15 employees, they need H.R.,” she said. But ideally, they should be […]

Last November, Samsung Electronics announced plans to build a new semiconductor manufacturing plant in Taylor and invest $17 billion. But that may be just the beginning. Last week, Samsung filed papers with the Texas Comptroller’s office outlining plans for “up to ten separate fabrication facilities” if the project were located in Williamson County. Fab 1 […]