Tuesday, 31st of August 2010 at 09:44:08 AMBryan Jowers, the CEO of Houston-based startup Giftiki has (reluctantly) started a blog at bryan.giftiki.com about his experiences in the new Seed Accelerator Brandery in Cincinnati, which is supported by Houston VC firm, DFJMercury. Follow him and his business partner Justin Stanislaw to gain some insight into the process and be ready to welcome [...]
|
||||||
|
August 31st, 2010 | Category: Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
 Leave a comment Houston-bred startup founders Mark Schmulen and David Lyman sold their web-based aggregation tool, NutshellMail to email giant Constant Contact: Press Release I’ve spoken with Mark and he named a few Houston-based advisors and investors, specifically Phil Fraher, a seasoned CEO and now a special advisor to the Houston Technology Center, Andrew Clark also an Executive-in-Residence [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] December 30th, 2009 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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 [...] November 16th, 2009 | Tags: vc events | Category: Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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 [...] August 2nd, 2009 | Category: Conversations, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
11 comments 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] June 4th, 2009 | Category: Events, Houston Startup Happy Hour, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment NutshellMail receives funding and incubation services from Facebook |
 30 Boxes //
StartupHouston Entrepreneur Calendar
|
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Startup Houston - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
Recent Comments