David Holley
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Austin, TX, United States
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Xconomy: Can Ford's Self-Driving Car Business Improve Austin's Traffic Woes?
Austin --- There are so many great things about working from home. Spending all day with your pets is up there, but not having to commute is probably the → Read More
Xconomy: CyberFortress Adds $3M Seed Round for Cybersecurity Insurance Tech
San Antonio--- CyberFortress, a cybersecurity company focused on the insurance industry, closed a $3 million seed funding round co-led by New York venture → Read More
Xconomy: Cloudflare’s $525M IPO Emboldens Already-Confident Internet Booster
Cloudflare has had its share of controversy, and is in a market with a wide range of more established competitors, from Amazon Web Services and Google → Read More
Xconomy: Robocalls Crowd Out Real Business Calls. This Startup Has an Answer.
The ways in which robocallers try to dupe us are becoming almost as plentiful as the frequency of the calls. An unknown phone number was once all scammers → Read More
Xconomy: ProsperOps Seeks Spot in the Growing Cloud as Amazon Still Dominates
Austin---Cloud computing is big business, and Amazon Web Services is the biggest. A new Texas startup is carving its own space in this growing sector, but → Read More
Xconomy: VMWare Plans to Acquire Bitfusion for Application-Enhancing Software
Austin---VMWare announced Thursday it intends to acquire Bitfusion, a startup with offices in Austin, TX and Silicon Valley that makes software aimed at → Read More
Xconomy: San Antonio to Honor Regenerative Medicine Pioneer Stephen Badylak
San Antonio --- Ah, to be able to regrow a missing limb like a slimy salamander---a trick long dreamed of by youngsters and scientists alike. Research → Read More
Xconomy: Grocer H-E-B Explores Autonomous Delivery With SF-Area Startup Udelv
San Antonio --- Pretty soon, the milkman may be making a comeback---at least, a robotic version. San Antonio-based grocery chain H-E-B is beginning a → Read More
Xconomy: Ross Perot Dies: Tech Pioneer Sold Two Firms For Billions to Dell, GM
Dallas---Ross Perot, the Texan billionaire businessman who twice ran for president in the 1990s, died Tuesday, five months after being diagnosed with → Read More
Xconomy: Honeywell Spinout Resideo Adds to Smart Home Cache, Opens Austin HQ
Austin--- Doorbells, thermostats, refrigerators, and more---everything in the modern home is becoming a smart, connected device. (You can even monitor → Read More
Xconomy: Talk of Broadcom Buyout of Symantec Puts Broader IT Focus Into View
Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to → Read More
Xconomy: What's Worth $34B? IBM Gets OK in Europe for Acquisition of Red Hat
IBM’s acquisition of open-source software maker Red Hat cleared the hurdle of approval from European regulators Thursday because it raised no concerns → Read More
Xconomy: Big Business Has Your Data, and Osano Is Rating How They Handle It
Austin---Anyone who has an Evite account may be a bit wary right now: The company confirmed this month that personal data of some of its users, including → Read More
Xconomy: VidMob Adds $25M Led by Austin-Based BuildGroup for Adtech Software
You’ve probably seen a VidMob advertisement, or at least an ad the company had some influence on, and not known it. The New York-based startup has helped → Read More
Xconomy: InGeneron Adds $23M to Test Stem Cell Therapy for Rotator Cuff Tears
Houston --- Stem-cell technology developer InGeneron has added another $23 million to a Series D financing it announced in 2017, bringing the total of the → Read More
Xconomy: Insurance Tech Startup CyberFortress Starts Risk Assessment Service
San Antonio---CyberFortress, an insurance tech startup founded late last year, is graduating from the Plug and Play accelerator and launching a new → Read More
Xconomy: From Farm to (Financial) Table: Holt Ventures Partner Meg Paulus
San Antonio---Meg Paulus gets a sense of comfort when she walks around the campus of her work at Holt Cat, a San Antonio-based heavy equipment and engine → Read More
Xconomy: CrowdStrike IPO: Cybersecurity Firms Defend Themselves, and You
Of the many risks facing a cybersecurity company that’s trying to raise money through an initial public offering, here’s one that might surprise some → Read More
Xconomy: Upland Software Acquires Marketing Software Business Kapost for $45M
Austin---Upland Software is paying $45 million to acquire Kapost, a Boulder, CO-based company with software for managing marketing content. Upland → Read More
Xconomy: Scaleworks Acquires SearchSpring for First Deal From Second Fund
San Antonio---Scaleworks is acquiring SearchSpring, a Denver, CO-based business that makes search and navigation systems for online stores and ecommerce → Read More