Homebound

Why this founder feels confident facing the economic downturn

Welcome to another episode of Found, the podcast where you get the stories behind the startups. This week we’re joined by Nikki Pechet who started Homebound to make home-building easier and more

Ghost Financial whips up new capital into finance tools for ghost kitchens

After operating his own ghost kitchen, Keto Kitchen, in Austin for the past year, serial entrepreneur John Meyer saw that fintech resources for the industry were lacking. When Keto Kitchen had good sa

New York’s Thrive Capital closes its eighth fund with a whopping $3 billion

Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded in 2009 by a then 25-year-old Joshua Kushner, says it has closed its eighth fund with approximately $3 billion in capital commitments, $500 million of which it

This startup wants to use technology to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

The sheer volume of people migrating to Austin from all over the country, but particularly from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been making headlines for a while now. One result of this continued migr