Madhu Basu, the founder of Unnanu, wants to scale his startup to a billion-dollar contextual search company in the next ten years in Austin. Already, he’s been issued a U.S. patent on selecting media using weighted keywords and he has another patent pending. He’s focused initially on applying the technology to match job seekers with […]
Unnanu Founder Aims to Build a Billion-Dollar Contextual Search Company in Austin
February 18, 2023 by
Josh Wilson Leads SciPlay to New Heights as CEO
January 28, 2023 by
After moving to Austin recently, SciPlay’s CEO Josh Wilson has plans to expand operations and move into new areas including building SciPlay’s own gaming platform. In this episode of Ideas to Invoices, Wilson talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mobile gaming company’s operations. It led to a boom a business as people looked […]
Founder’s Motivation to Create Decent Healthcare Insurance Came From his Experience as a Patient
November 12, 2022 by
More than a decade ago, Nick Soman was learning to walk again after being fully paralyzed by an illness called GBS. His motivation to start Decent. which provides affordable health insurance, came from that experience. “When I had Guillain-Barre Syndrome or GBS, I went from a fully functional 30-year-old adult human to not being able […]
VC Firm Antler is Accepting Applications for its First Austin Cohort to Kick off in March
February 13, 2022 by
Austin has a new venture capital firm, Antler, that is accepting applications for its first cohort, which is expected to kick off next month. Tyler Norwood is a managing partner for Antler in the U.S. where he oversees the firm’s U.S. operations. “Our plan was always to start in New York and then to launch […]
The Metaverse Offers Opportunities for Immersive Storytelling
February 10, 2022 by
The Metaverse is already here, says Erin Reilly, founding director of the Texas Immersive Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. It was first mentioned in the 1992 book Snow Crash, a science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. Today, the Metaverse is the latest iteration of Cyberspace, a blend of virtual and real-life applications, […]
Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher Created The Manager’s Playbook and Training Program to Help Businesses Thrive
February 1, 2022 by
Managing employees is one of the hardest tasks within a business. Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher know how to do it well. Trammell, a successful tech entrepreneur, CEO, and investor, and Thrasher, a successful executive who has led programs for eBay/PayPal, Google, and Anheuser-Busch, teamed up to create a management system. Together, they co-founded Austin-based […]
Austin-based ROI Swift Helps Consumer Brands Scale
December 9, 2021 by
In 2015, Carolyn Lowe founded Austin-based ROI Swift, which helps market emerging consumer brands. So far, ROI Swift has helped nearly 200 companies including Tiff’s Treats, Tecovas, Austin Eastciders, and Esker Beauty. Her team grew an apparel and footwear company from $0 to $12 million in sales in 18 months. Her goal is to help […]
Uplevyl, a Women’s Empowerment and Networking Platform, Launches in Austin
November 20, 2021 by
Uplevyl, an Austin-based tech company that makes an app and digital platform geared to professional women, launched last Tuesday. Shubhi Bhonsle-Rao, Uplevyl’s founder and CEO, is a former senior executive with Alphabet, Tesco, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ford Motor Company, among others. She also sits on the board of directors of Open Lending, Center for Global Development, […]
REE Automotive Sees Austin as a Tech Hub for Electric Vehicles
October 29, 2021 by
REE Automotive recently announced plans to open a North American headquarters and assembly site in Austin with 150 new jobs. “Austin came out winning this with flying colors,” said Daniel Barel, the company’s CEO and Co-Founder. It chose Austin because of the city’s booming technology industry, its culture of innovation and openness, and the weather […]
Matt Wursta Talks About his Company’s Challenges and Growth on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast
October 22, 2021 by
Wursta landed in the top 500 of the Inc5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in the country for two years in a row. This year, Austin-based Wursta was listed as No. 440 on the Inc5000. Matt Wursta, CEO, founded his eponymous company in 2014 in the basement of his parent’s house in Allentown, Pennsylvania after […]
