LanternCRM Raises $250,000 from Local Angels

A graduate of the Longhorn Startup class for undergraduates at the University of Texas, LanternCRM just landed $250,000 in angel funding. The Austin-based startup received funds from angel investors Jason Cohen of WP Engine, Rob Taylor or Black Locus, Mikey Trafton of BlueFish, Bill Boebel of Pingboard, Pat Matthews, formerly of Rackspace, and Joshua Baer […]

Burpy Expands to San Antonio and Houston

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Last Longhorn Startup class, Aseem Ali and a team of undergraduate students pitched Burpy, a grocery delivery service. Now he’s running a quickly growing startup and finishing up his degree as a senior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Texas. Burpy, which expanded into the San […]

Billionaire Mark Cuban likes to “Party Like a Rock Star” and Invest in Startups

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Since selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999, Billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in 80 startups. But his entrepreneurial ventures began as a kid growing up in Pittsburgh. “As long as I can remember I was an entrepreneur,” Cuban said. At the age of nine […]

Grocery Delivery Service Burpy Featured on a Slice of Silicon Hills

By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Ever wish you could call someone to go grocery shopping for you? Not bring you frozen food in a truck, but actually go to H-E-B or Walmart and pick up what you want as if you were going yourself. Well, if you live in Austin, you can […]