March 29th, 2011

Limos.com Scores $10 Million For Online Limo And Car Services Marketplace

Founded by former employees of travel booking site Hotwire.com, Limos.com, an online marketplace for limo and car services, this morning announced that they’ve secured $10 million in financing from Austin Ventures. The new Austin Ventures investment adds to the company’s original funding of $5 million from Canal Partners.

Coinciding with the funding announcement, the company has released a new… → Read More

January 3rd, 2011

Solar Power Technologies Raises $6.08 Million To Optimize Commercial Solar Arrays, Wirelessly

Today, an SEC filing revealed that Solar Power Technologies raised $6.08 million for technology that helps wirelessly measure, manage and optimize the performance of large, solar photovoltaic power systems. Investors included Austin Ventures and Oxantium Ventures, the filing said.

The company’s website claims its core technology — the Clarity optimization and monitoring system — enables… → Read More

July 28th, 2010

Patent Trolling Doesn't Pay: Intellectual Ventures Shows A Negative 73 Percent Return

You can always count on Hunch founder Chris Dixon for interesting Tweets.  He just sent out this one:

turns out patent trolling might not pay. Intellectual Ventures has negative 78% return.http://bit.ly/bSfamC

The link is a PDf download of a document from the University of Texas Management Company listing all of its private investments in venture funds and private equity funds, along with their… → Read More

April 15th, 2010

Social Media Management Startup Spredfast Raises $1.6 Million

Spredfast, recently a finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, has raised $1.6 million in funding from Austin Ventures. This marks the first financing secured by the startup, which markets a social media management platform for businesses. → Read More

October 13th, 2008

Only 55 VC Funds Raised Money In The Third Quarter (Down 29 Percent).

The third quarter saw the number of U.S. venture funds raising new cash decline by 29 percent to 55 funds, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters. That compares to 78 new funds a year ago and 76 new funds in the second quarter of 2008. And 45 of that 55 were follow-on funds rather than new funds.

Each of those funds, though, raised a lot more money… → Read More