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Austin Ventures

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Austin Ventures (“AV”) has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for over 25 years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas and one of the most established in the nation. With an investment focus on business services and supply chain, financial services, new media, Internet, and information services, AV invests at all stages of company development, from $100,000 in “planned experiments” in early-stage ideas to $100+ million investments in expansion rounds and recapitalizations. AV’s strategy is to partner with talented executives and entrepreneurs through its CEO-in-Residence and Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs. Visit austinventures.com for more information.

Recent Milestones

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  Austin Ventures invested in Omni Water Solutions. (4/22/13)
  Posted 4/23/13 at 5:05am via finsmes.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Dachis Group. (3/20/13)
  Posted 3/25/13 at 10:59pm via finsmes.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Handshakez. (3/6/13)
  Posted 3/6/13 at 4:35pm via allthingsd.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Bloomfire. (3/6/13)
  Posted 3/6/13 at 5:17am via techcrunch.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Spredfast. (2/5/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 7:28pm via finsmes.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Adometry. (1/21/13)
  Posted 5/14/13 at 6:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in OutboundEngine. (11/14/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 11:28pm via marketwire.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Spinal Restoration. (10/23/12)
  Posted 10/23/12 at 2:15am via yahoo.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Silvercar. (10/10/12)
  Posted 10/11/12 at 2:05am via pandodaily.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Calxeda. (10/9/12)
  Posted 10/8/12 at 8:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Flash Valet. (9/19/12)
  Posted 9/19/12 at 8:51pm via finsmes.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Noesis Energy. (9/5/12)
  Posted 9/5/12 at 5:43am via finsmes.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Draker . (8/22/12)
  Posted 8/22/12 at 8:23pm via drakerenergy.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in Datical. (7/18/12)
  Posted 7/20/12 at 6:15am via sec.gov
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  Austin Ventures invested in ESO Solutions. (6/19/12)
  Posted 6/19/12 at 7:42pm via dowjones.com
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  Austin Ventures invested in MapMyFitness. (6/5/12)
  Posted 6/5/12 at 8:58am via techcrunch.com

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Austin Ventures Acquires Asset International (pehub.com) [edit]
Austin Ventures Puts $50M Behind Life Insurance Platform (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
12. Omni Water Solutions Secures $4M in Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
13. Dachis Group Completes $7.5M Series C Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
14. Handshakez, Measuring Customer Engagement, Lands $3.6M Series A (allthingsd.com) [edit]
15. Bloomfire Raises $8M From Austin, Redpoint To Bring Better Knowledge Sharing & Social Tools To The Enterprise (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Spredfast Raises $18M in Venture Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
17. Ad Analytics Firm Adometry Raises $8M Series D, Led By Shasta Ventures, To Beef Up Its Cross-Channel Marketing Tools, Reach (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. OutboundEngine Launches, Secures $1.6 M in Series A Funding (marketwire.com) [edit]
19. Spinal Restoration, Inc. Closes $5 Million Equity and Debt Financing Round (in.finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
20. Silvercar snags $11.5M to disrupt airport car rentals (pandodaily.com) [edit]
21. Calxeda Raises $55 Million For ARM-Based, Low-Powered Server Chips (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Flash Valet Raises $1.25M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
23. Noesis Energy Closes $8M Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
24. Draker and Solar Power Technologies Merge; Raise $8 Million Led by Austin Ventures (drakerenergy.com) [edit]
25. SEC Form D (sec.gov) [edit]
26. ESO Solutions Calls Up $4M for Emergency Medical Software (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
27. MapMyFitness Works Out $9M From Austin, Milestone Ventures For Better Fitness Tracking (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Big Data For Higher Ed: With $4.1M From First Round, Floodgate, Former Kaplan Exec Launches Civitas Learning (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Social Syndication Startup Mass Relevance Raises $3.3M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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31. Bloomfire Raises $10M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
32. Omni Water Solutions Raises $7.9M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
33. Black Sand Technologies Closes $10M Series C Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
34. Game-like restaurant app MOGL raises $10M for a mixed bag of loyalty & charity (venturebeat.com) [edit]
35. Onit Raises $4.1M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
36. .Choice: With $100M+ Raised, Donuts Launches A Registry For New Top-Level Domain Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Noesis Energy Raises $6.5 Million (smartenergynews.net) [edit]
38. Spredfast Secures $12 Million in Venture Capital (freshnews.com) [edit]
39. NewComLink Raises $10M in Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
40. Mavenir Systems Raises $40 Million in Series E Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
41. Austin Ventures part of $11.5 million investment in health care data firm (statesman.com) [edit]
42. Spiceworks Raises $25 Million To Be The Facebook For IT Managers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Limos.com Scores $10 Million For Online Limo And Car Services Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. Boundless Network closes $4M round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
45. Mobestream Media Closes $1.75M Series A (pehub.com) [edit]
46. Emerus Hospital Partners Receives $30M Equity Investment from Austin Ventures (finsmes.com) [edit]
47. Lincoln Renewable Energy Closes $14M Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
48. Dachis Group Completes $30M Series B Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
49. Edgar (sec.gov) [edit]
50. Mass Relevance Raises $1.7 Million For Brand-Focused Social Syndication Service (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
51. Gazzang Secures $3.5M to Make Cloud Computing "Enterprise Ready". (gazzang.com) [edit]
52. WhaleShark Media Closes A Whale Of A Financing, Buys RetailMeNot (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. Silverback Acquisitions Raises $11.5M From Austin Ventures (finsmes.com) [edit]
54. MapMyFitness Works Out $5 Million In Series A Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Workstreamer Raises $3.5 Million Series A Round (workstreamer.com) [edit]
56. Zilliant Inc. raises $13.1M (bizjournals.com) [edit]
57. Click Forensics Secures $6 Million in Funding to Expand Online Display Advertising Solutions (press release) (clickforensics.com) [edit]
58. Mavenir raises $13.6M for mobile operator services (venturebeat.com) [edit]
59. Sipera Raises $10M (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
60. Vovici Secures $6.3 Million in Series C Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
61. Austin's Spredfast raises $1.6 million (statesman.com) [edit]
62. FameCast closes acquisition, gets funding (abjentrepreneur.com) [edit]
63. Chris DeWolfe Makes His Move – Raises Big Round, Acquires Gaming Platform MindJolt, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. Texas TechPulse (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
65. Virtual Bridges Gets New Funding (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
66. Spiceworks Gets $16M More (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
67. Austin Ventures Invests In Online High School Firm (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
68. AustinStartup (austinstartup.com) [edit]
69. SEC (sec.gov) [edit]
70. Troux Secures $10 Million to Extend Growth in New Geographies and Channels (troux.com) [edit]
71. Black Sand Technologies Raises $10M Series B (austinstartup.com) [edit]
72. CrimeReports.com Raises $7.2 Million from Austin Ventures, vSpring (freshnews.com) [edit]
73. E-payment startup Paymetric raises $8M in venture capital (localtechwire.com) [edit]
74. Austin-Backed B2B Platform Asset International Buys 2 Cos (assetinternational.com) [edit]
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76. Radio Player Slacker Raises $10 Million In Fourth Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
77. Pyxis Raises $3 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
78. COPAN Systems Announces an Additional $18.5m in Funding-Investment Positions Company to Extend Leadership Position in Persistent Data Storage Market and Increase Customer ROI (infostor.com) [edit]
79. Digital Music Service Slacker Gets $5 Million Bridge Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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81. Paymetric Sells XiBuy App (pehub.com) [edit]
82. Mavenir Systems Raises $17.5 Million in Series C Funding (redorbit.com) [edit]
83. Capital Report Index [edit]
84. SailPoint Secures $6.5 Million from Existing Investors (sailpoint.com) [edit]
85. DRAKER LABORATORIES SECURES CAPITAL AND PARTNERS FOR UPCOMING PRODUCT LAUNCH (free-press-release.com) [edit]
86. Innography(R) Lands $6.5 Million in Series A Funding Led by Austin Ventures with Hunt Ventures (marketwatch.com) [edit]
87. Zeno Corporation (myzeno.com) [edit]
88. AV: $50 Million For Sherman Atkinson’s ATCOR Holdings; Will Roll Up Digital Media (paidcontent.org) [edit]
89. Bazaarvoice raises $7.1 million to provide brands with consumer-generated content options (venturebeat.com) [edit]
90. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
91. Prenova Closes on New Round of Equity Funding From Existing Company Shareholders; Increased Funding from Frontenac, River Cities Capital Funds and Austin Ventures Demonstrates Continued Confidence in Prenova's Strategy and Solutions (findarticles.com) [edit]
92. Vovici Closes Series B Financing (vovici.com) [edit]
93. Click Forensics Raises $10 Million B Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
94. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
95. EDGAR [edit]
96. EDGAR [edit]
97. LabNow (labnow.com) [edit]
98. Zilliant raises $4M to expand further (en.newspeg.com) [edit]
99. Press release (breakingpointsystems.com) [edit]
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101. FiveRuns raises $6.2M as Rails development spreads (venturebeat.com) [edit]
102. Sipera secures $10 million (sipera.com) [edit]
103. Authoria Secures $22.5 Million in Funding; Grows Bookings by 40 Percent (authoria.com) [edit]
104. COPAN SYSTEMS ANNOUNCED $32.4 MILLION SERIES D FUNDING LED BY BATTERY VENTURES (copansystems.com) [edit]
105. Azul Systems Closes $40 Million Financing (azulsystems.com) [edit]
106. Nascentric Closes $7.2M Investment Round with Intel Capital and Austin Ventures (www10.edacafe.com) [edit]
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109. Spiceworks Press Release (spiceworks.com) [edit]
110. Black Sand Closes $8.2 Million Series A Financing (blacksand.com) [edit]
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113. EDGAR [edit]
114. On Heels Of Acquisition, Convio Gets Fresh Financing (eldorado.com) [edit]
115. EDGAR [edit]
116. Alloy Ventures leads Mavenir $20.5m funding (indusbusinessjournal.com) [edit]
117. EDGAR [edit]
118. SailPoint Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding. (sailpoint.com) [edit]
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122. Pintail Technologies nabs $3M in VC funds (dallas.bizjournals.com) [edit]
123. LifeSize® Secures $25 Million in Funding - Investment Led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners (lifesize.com) [edit]
124. NetEffect Inc. takes in $25M (austin.bizjournals.com) [edit]
125. Surgient to surge with $20M investment (austin.bizjournals.com) [edit]
126. VERISILICON COMPLETES SERIES-C FUNDING ROUND WITH AUSTIN VENTURES AND SIERRA VENTURES (verisilicon.com) [edit]
127. Mavenir Converges on $13M (lightreading.com) [edit]
128. Santa Clara's Pyxis Technology raises $9.2M (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
129. PulseWave RF Secures $30 Million in Series C Funding (pulsewaverf.com) [edit]
130. Stream Processors, Inc. Receives $26 Million In Equity Funding (streamprocessors.com) [edit]
131. EDGAR [edit]
132. Spiceworks Press Release (spiceworks.com) [edit]
133. EDGAR [edit]
134. Bazaarvoice Launches With Nearly $4 Million in Series A Funding from Austin Ventures (bazaarvoice.com) [edit]
135. EDGAR [edit]
136. Powered Inc. Secures $6.2 Million in Funding (encyclopedia.com) [edit]
137. Sipera Secures $13.2 Million From Sequoia Capital, Austin Ventures And Star Ventures (sipera.com) [edit]
138. EDGAR [edit]
139. LifeSize Grows $17.5M (redherring.com) [edit]
140. Paragon Wireless Secures $7 Million in Series B Funding; Investors Include Austin Ventures and CID Group (findarticles.com) [edit]
141. Alereon Announces Series B Funding (alereon.com) [edit]
142. Britestream Secures $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
143. PropheSi Technologies Picks Up $8 Million in Series B Funding (pulsewaverf.com) [edit]
144. EDGAR [edit]
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146. BuildForge gets $6M in funding (austin.bizjournals.com) [edit]
147. FiveRuns ~ Austin Startup Profile (texasstartupblog.com) [edit]
148. ePartners Closes $25 Million Equity Financing (epartnersolutions.com) [edit]
149. Augmentix heads to Austin on high note (houston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
150. VC: Wireless Networks and Mobile Content (m.fiercewireless.com) [edit]
151. Innovative Silicon Secures $16M in Series B Funding (findarticles.com) [edit]
152. Worksoft raises $12M in funding round (dallas.bizjournals.com) [edit]
153. Nexcom Signs Global OEM Agreement With RLX to Resell RLX Control Tower to Customer Base (compactpci-systems.com) [edit]
154. Pintail Technologies Secures $7M Funding Semiconductor Test Innovator Closes Series B (pintail.com) [edit]
155. Pintail Technologies Secures $7M Funding Semiconductor Test Innovator Closes Series B (pintail.com) [edit]
156. Sipera Systems Secures $6.3 Million in Venture Funding (sipera.com) [edit]
157. Paymetric Announces $7 Million Funding From Austin Ventures; John Thornton and Mike Rovner of Austin Ventures Named to Board of Directors (telecommunications.tmcnet.com) [edit]
158. Zilliant lands $12M in funding (austin.bizjournals.com) [edit]
159. AlterPoint Raises Additional $12 Million; Expands To European and Asia Pacific Markets (alterpoint.com) [edit]
160. Troux Technologiesâ„¢ Solidifies IT Governance Leadership Through Acquisition of Computas Technology and Award-Winning Metis Products (troux.com) [edit]
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162. EDGAR [edit]
163. Pluck Closes $8.5 Million in Series B Funding; Mayfield Leads Investment in Growing Web Companion Application Company (findarticles.com) [edit]
164. LabNow (labnow.com) [edit]
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167. Pluck - DEMO (demo.com) [edit]
168. activenetworks.com (activenetwork.com) [edit]
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