Without any fanfare or publicity, San Antonio’s MX Challenge closed in July without awarding its $500,000 prize. Jesus Salas, the program manager, posted a message to the site: “Hey innovator, Thanks for the interest that you showed for the MxChallenge. After evaluating the low demand on the competing participants we decided to shut down the […]
San Antonio-based Infocyte Lands $500,000 in Funding
November 13, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Infocyte Inc. just landed $500,000 in seed stage funding led by Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners. The San Antonio-based startup plans to use the funds to further develops Pulse, its cyber security assessment platform. This is LiveOak’s first investment in San Antonio. “The Infocyte team has a storied […]
San Antonio-based Storific Wins People’s Choice Award at M2M Conference
September 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Storific, the startup that relocated recently from Paris to San Antonio, won the People’s Choice Award last month at the Machine 2 Machine Evolution Conference and Expo in Las Vegas. Storific has created a free mobile phone app that lets people order and pay for food and skip the lines at a restaurant. The M2M […]
Showcasing New Programmers at CodeUp’s Demo Day
August 1, 2014 by 1 Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Michael Jaime sold his car and bought a bike so he could pay his tuition and participate in CodeUp, a 12-week bootcamp that teaches non-programmers how to code. Each day Jaime would bike three miles to Geekdom at the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio to learn […]
SAPitch Provides an Informal Setting for San Antonio Startups to Pitch to Investors
July 24, 2014 by 3 Comments
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News One of the big problems in growing San Antonio’s technology startup industry has been lack of access to capital for entrepreneurs. The Geekdom Fund has provided $25,000 to a handful of tech startups in the earliest stages of their companies, but the real need comes with follow […]
The Techstars Cloud Program Returns to San Antonio in 2015
July 23, 2014 by 12 Comments
I am very excited to have the opportunity to restart and lead the Techstars Cloud program: http://t.co/jMnKZomSuq cc @techstars — Blake Yeager (@blake_yeager) July 23, 2014 The Techstars Cloud program launched in San Antonio in 2012 with 11 companies and the next year another 11 startups participated in the 2013 program. But the program, launched […]
3 Day Startup at Geekdom Nurtures New Entrepreneurs
July 14, 2014 by 1 Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Stephanie King attended a 3 Day Startup program at Geekdom in San Antonio last weekend with an idea for a company. “I quickly realized I needed more focus,” she said. Instead of pitching her idea, King joined Spotduct, a startup focused on creating short videos for brands […]
Storific Relocates from Paris to San Antonio and Launches its App
July 12, 2014 by 3 Comments
This weekend in San Antonio, people will be able to skip lines for select cafes and eateries thanks to Storific’s mobile-ordering app. The company, originally founded in Paris in 2009, has relocated to San Antonio and is based at Geekdom, the downtown collaborative coworking space and technology incubator. The company’s app, which is available for […]
Brewing New Tech Startups at UTSA
July 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A can ban on the Comal River in New Braunfels prompted a University of Texas at San Antonio engineering team to create a solution. They created the PalmKeg, a mini-keg sized insulated beer cooler to make transporting beer on the river easy. “It’s the perfect eco-friendly beer container,” said Amber Ernst, senior at UTSA majoring […]
San Antonio Ranks Third on Forbes List of the Nation’s Tech Hot Spots
May 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Forbes names San Antonio-New Braunfels as one of America’s technology hot spots. The greater San Antonio area earned the number three spot on the list behind number one, Washington, D.C. and number two, Riverside, Calif. Forbes reported that San Antonio-New Braunfels gained 18.3 percent in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math jobs between 2011 and 2012. […]
