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BMC buys DFJMercury Funded Phurnace

While it’s neither of the two companies involved are actually ‘Houston Startups’, BMC is far from its startup days and Phurnace is based in Austin -  it was funded by DFJ Mercury – making it the Houston-based early stage Venture Capitalists first exit. It nice to see a win for the hometown team and this [...]

DFJMercury Funds Electronic Health Records Startup

Houston’s favorite venture capitalists are at it again, funding an Austin/Houston startup company in the very hot bio-informatics industry that marries software and healthcare.

Cgate Health creates software to provide simple, flexible and cost effective Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions. Unlike the current landscape of complex, incomplete and expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, [...]

Austin Ventures Office Hours - December 15th @CoffeeGroundz

Dan Doman the Director of Business Development at Austin Ventures is bringing his team down from Austin to hold the first ‘AV Entrepreneur Hours‘ in Houston on December 15th. He’s setting up shop at the Houston Startup scene’s favorite meeting place:

CoffeeGroundz 2503 Bagby Houston, Texas 77006 in Mid Town.

Dan is a very accessible guy [...]

Managers, not Engineers is what Houston needs

Aziz Gilani, a local VC writes on his personal blog http://texvc.com/2009/08/02/what-houston-really-needs/about what he thinks Houston needs to compete and the main conclusion he comes up with is that we are suffering from a relative lack of engineering research at our universities. I consider Aziz a personal friend, and I helped plan the party that got [...]

A Taxonomy of Exits

This beauty comes our way courtesy of Hall Martin, former executive director of the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) and current director of the Austin Entrepreneur Network. In this piece, Hall summarizes an interview with John Huston, who is the current president of the Angel Capital Association, in which he outlines the ten possible outcomes [...]

Venture Capital in Houston

Purva Patel, one of the journalists at the Houston Chronicle who ‘get it’ about emerging businesses recently wrote up an interview she had with Dennis Murhpree of Murphree Venture Partners: http://www.chron.com/disp/discuss.mpl/business/6489409.html#

Mr. Murphree is stalwart advocate of the VC community in Houston and has taught investment management at the University of St. Thomas [...]

SparkStart & Houston Startup Happy Hour

There is just one week left until the Microsoft BizSpark sponsored SparkStart event in Dallas, register here: http://sparkstart.eventbrite.com/

Christian Thilmany, (@uxarchitect) the User Experience Architect for Microsoft, is hosting the event and several Houston folks, including your favorite Network Partner (email mnathan – @- houstontech.org for details) will be panelists.

SparkStart is a full day of [...]

Facebook gets the Nut

NutshellMail receives funding and incubation services from Facebook

Not All Angels Are Created Equal

An entrepreneur’s worst funding nightmare is to take money from someone who is an inexperienced angel investor.

Capital Factory launches to help Startups

Capital Factory (http://www.capitalfactory.com) is a collection of successful high-tech entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts who are banding together to provide cash, services and most importantly, mentorship to qualified startup companies.