Austin Ventures

Civitas Learning Gets $60 Million Commitment From Warburg Pincus

Looking to roll up more technologies into its portfolio, higher education software provider Civitas Learning, has gotten a commitment of up to $60 million to consolidate its position in the field of h

Software Development Toolkit Integration Service Nets TaskTop $11 Million

TaskTop has raised $11 million to expand sales and marketing for its software development toolkit integration technology. The company, with offices in Vancouver, B.C. and Austin, was bootstrapped for

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

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/limos.png" class="shot2" /> Founded by former employees of travel booking site <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/hotwire">Hotwire.co

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

<img src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0011/6092/116092v2-max-250x250.png" class="shot2"></img> Today, an <a href="http://sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001

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

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/cdixon-patnet-troll-tweet.jpg"> You can always count on Hunch founder Chris Dixon for interesting Tweets.  He just sent out this <a href="ht

Social Media Management Startup Spredfast Raises $1.6 Million

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/spredfast.png" class="shot2" /><a href="http://spredfast.com/">Spredfast</a>, recently a finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXS

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

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ichartshot.png" /> The third quarter saw the number of U.S. venture funds raising new cash decline by 29 percent to 55 funds, according to da