By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News During the last seven years, Dell spent $14 billion to acquire more than 30 companies to reinvent itself into an “end to end solutions company.” “We have developed this real muscle around taking in companies, integrating companies and incubating companies,” said Steve Price, Dell’s senior vice president […]
Austin-based PenPal Schools Wins the Dell World 2014 Pitch Slam Competition
November 6, 2014 by 1 Comment
Seven startups pitched before Michael Dell and a panel of judges at Dell World and Austin-based PenPal Schools won the Pitch Days 2014 competition. “We were incredibly impressed,” with all of the startups, Dell said. “Ultimately we liked PenPal Schools as the winner.” PenPal Schools, a Capital Factory incubator company which moved to Austin three […]
Dell Performs Well as a Private Company
November 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News A year ago, Dell went private, the largest company ever to do so. And Michael Dell, its founder and CEO, couldn’t be happier. “I believe one of the advantages of being private is that we can direct 100 percent of our energy toward the success of our […]
How to Get Dell Ventures to Invest in Your Startup
December 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dell Ventures, the investment arm of Dell, has announced a new $300 million Strategic Innovation Venture Fund. The goal of the venture fund is to find the next Michael Dell, said Jim Lussier, managing director of Dell Ventures. The fund will invest in early-to-growth stage companies, particularly targeting storage, cloud computing, big data, next generation […]
Guavas, Neverware and Fantoo Win Dell’s Pitch Slam
December 14, 2013 by 2 Comments
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Guavus, Neverware and Fantoo won the votes of the judges at the first Pitch Slam event at Dell World. Michael Dell cast his vote for Guavus, based in San Mateo, which has raised $48 million in three series of funding since 2006. The company has created analytics […]
Seven Companies to Pitch to Michael Dell at DellWorld
December 12, 2013 by 1 Comment
Dell’s first Pitch Slam takes place Thursday afternoon at Dell World in downtown Austin. Dell chose six companies from regional pitch events and a final company via an online pitch contest to pitch their businesses to Michael Dell, Shark Tank’s Daymond John and the UN Foundation’s Resident Entrepreneur Elizabeth Gore. The event is being livestreamed […]
The New Dell is More Entrepreneurial and Innovative
December 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News At Dell World, Michael Dell unveiled his new, private innovative and entrepreneurial technology company. The Round Rock-based company, which employs about 14,000 people in Central Texas, no longer has to adhere to the demands of the public stock market. As a result, Dell said the company can […]
Dell Partners to offer Dropbox for Business on Dell’s Cloud
December 12, 2013 by 3 Comments
Wonder why Dropbox expanded to Austin and opened an office here earlier this year? One big reason could be Dell. Dell and Dropbox announced a partnership Thursday at Dell World to create Dropbox for Business using the Cloud. Dell, which went public earlier this year, is hosting Dell World at the Austin Convention Center through […]
Dell provides solutions to law enforcement officials
October 13, 2011 by 1 Comment
During his keynote address at Dell World Thursday, Michael Dell proclaimed that Dell is no longer just a PC company. It is a global solutions provider. In fact, Dell employs 40,000 people worldwide in the solutions area. And Dell displayed many of its areas of solution expertise on the expo floor Thursday with Dell employees […]
