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Austin's Watermark, a higher-ed software mainstay, changes hands
StartupsMara Whitfield · Sep 16

Austin's Watermark, a higher-ed software mainstay, changes hands

European software investor Main Capital Partners is buying the Austin company from TCV, betting on the unglamorous business of measuring whether colleges work.

Aalo Atomics plans a $25M reactor factory in Georgetown
StartupsMara Whitfield · Sep 12

Aalo Atomics plans a $25M reactor factory in Georgetown

The Austin nuclear startup wants to mass-produce small reactors for AI data centers, and it's eyeing a Georgetown warehouse to do it.

UT Austin slips to No. 10 on PitchBook's list of top founder schools
PeopleSloane Reyes · Sep 9

UT Austin slips to No. 10 on PitchBook's list of top founder schools

The university still anchors the city's startup pipeline, with nearly 1,000 alumni founders, even as it edges down the global ranking.

VVater draws a strategic check from Kyocera as data centers get thirsty
StartupsMara Whitfield · Sep 7

VVater draws a strategic check from Kyocera as data centers get thirsty

The Austin water-treatment company picked up a strategic investment aimed at cooling AI data centers, high-purity manufacturing and home purification.

Light raises $46M to let brands sell their own electricity plans
FundingMara Whitfield · Sep 1

Light raises $46M to let brands sell their own electricity plans

The Austin startup builds the plumbing for embedded, branded power plans, and Matrix led a Series A to expand it.

Barracuda buys Austin's Evo Security to shore up identity defense
StartupsMara Whitfield · Jul 7

Barracuda buys Austin's Evo Security to shore up identity defense

The deal folds an Austin access-management startup built for IT service providers into Barracuda's platform. Terms were not disclosed.

AIDev Okonkwo · Jul 6

Maitly AI takes its restaurant call-answering bot to the Texas Restaurant Show

The Austin startup, now an official Texas Restaurant Association partner, is pitching operators on a voice agent that answers the phone and books tables around the clock.

Contract-review startup Librari raises $1.75M pre-seed in Austin
StartupsMara Whitfield · Jul 2

Contract-review startup Librari raises $1.75M pre-seed in Austin

A syndicate of finance and legal operators backed the company's early bet on software that reads and organizes business contracts.

Base Power and Austin Energy strike deal for 40 MW of home batteries on the grid
StartupsDev Okonkwo · Jun 27

Base Power and Austin Energy strike deal for 40 MW of home batteries on the grid

The Austin-based startup will install whole-home backup batteries that the utility can dispatch during peak demand, expanding a homegrown experiment in distributed storage.

Data centers keep coming: Prime breaks ground this month on two campuses near Austin
StartupsDev Okonkwo · Jun 26

Data centers keep coming: Prime breaks ground this month on two campuses near Austin

A $400 million, 760,000-square-foot project in Maxwell adds to the wave of compute infrastructure ringing the metro as AI demand surges.

StartupsMara Whitfield · Jun 24

Traysar surfaces from stealth with $25M to take defense tech underground

The Austin startup, led by former SpaceX and Boring Company engineers, is building autonomous machines to breach and map tunnels for the U.S. and its allies.

SXSW Pitch opens applications as South by Southwest sets up a reshaped 2027
PeopleSloane Reyes · Jun 23

SXSW Pitch opens applications as South by Southwest sets up a reshaped 2027

Founders can now apply to compete on the festival's startup stage, even as a Convention Center overhaul pushes the event to sprawl deeper into downtown Austin.

Return Valets raises $2.44M for vehicle-return logistics
StartupsMara Whitfield · Jun 23

Return Valets raises $2.44M for vehicle-return logistics

The Austin startup picked up seed funding for a service focused on valet and vehicle-return operations.

Zellerfeld raises $30M and scales up 3D-printed shoes in Austin
StartupsMara Whitfield · Jun 21

Zellerfeld raises $30M and scales up 3D-printed shoes in Austin

The footwear startup, which prints shoes without traditional factories, added Series A capital as it deployed its faster next-generation printer locally.

Cameron County clears $211M tax break to lure Saronic's $3.2B 'Port Alpha' shipyard south
StartupsMara Whitfield · Jun 18

Cameron County clears $211M tax break to lure Saronic's $3.2B 'Port Alpha' shipyard south

The Austin defense-tech company's autonomous-warship buildout would land in Brownsville under a 19-year abatement, drawing both cheers and pushback.

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