SiliconHills

JULY 30, 2014

Medical technology startup Bluegrass Vascular Technologies has closed on $4.5 Targeted Technology Fund II, a San Antonio-based venture capital fund that invests in early stage life sciences companies, led the Series A investment. As part of the deal, Bluegrass Vascular will move its headquarters to San Antonio.

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SiliconHills

JULY 12, 2014

This weekend in San Antonio, people will be to skip lines for select cafes and eateries thanks to Storific’s mobile-ordering app. The company, originally founded in Paris in 2009, has relocated to San Antonio and is based at Geekdom, the downtown collaborative coworking space and technology incubator.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 22, 2016

San Antonio had a roller coaster year in tech in 2016 with the sale of one of its largest technology companies, Rackspace, to Apollo Global for $4.3 It also increased the funding available to entrepreneurs through the founding of the San Antonio Angel Network.

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SiliconHills

MAY 19, 2021

Together, they focused on the technology behind […]. The husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Yvette Boatwright have developed the company into the number one independent brokerage in Central Texas. In the beginning, Jonathan worked at Microsoft at the time Yvette was starting her real estate business.

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SiliconHills

JULY 14, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Stephanie King attended a 3 Day Startup program at Geekdom in San Antonio last weekend with an idea for a startup. “I San Antonio 3 Day Startup 80/20 Foundation Geekdom startups technology' San Antonio 3 Day Startup 80/20 Foundation Geekdom startups technology'

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SiliconHills

APRIL 18, 2013

San Antonio Technology Drifty.co San Antonio TechStars TechStars Cloud Techstars Cloud Demo Day' Max Lynch and Ben Sperry have created two products: Codiqa for mobile sites and websites and Jetstrap for developers. Sperry said he expects up [.] The post TechStars Cloud’s Drifty.co

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 11, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Entrepreneurs in the life sciences industry in San Antonio for years complained about the lack of venture capital.

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SiliconHills

MAY 17, 2014

Forbes names San Antonio-New Braunfels as one of America’s technology hot spots. The greater San Antonio area earned the number three spot on the list behind number one, Washington, D.C. Forbes reported that San Antonio-New Braunfels gained 18.3 and number two, Riverside, Calif.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 2, 2019

The post VIA’s Steve Young Named San Antonio CIO of the Year appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Think of this group as super heroes for the city of San Antonio. They’re a brigade of citizens seeking to solve the city’s problems through technology with an empathetic twist. San Antonio City of San Antonio Code for America CodeAcross Rackspace'

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SiliconHills

JULY 1, 2014

And WP Engine has just opened a San Antonio office at Geekdom, a technology incubator and coworking […] The post WP Engine Opens an Office at Geekdom in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. San Antonio Austin Wordpress hosting WP Engine'

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 16, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News For three months Josee Farmer drove daily from North Austin to San Antonio to learn how to become a web developer at Codeup. “It San Antonio' It was totally worth it,” Farmer said.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 18, 2014

The San Antonio MX Challenge has officially kicked off. Silicon Hills News broke the story about the first local X-Prize challenge late last year when some members of the HeroX organization briefed the technology community about the contest at Geekdom. San Antonio Geekdom Graham Weston HeroX San Antonio MC Prize'

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SiliconHills

MAY 20, 2015

Tom Cuthbert founded Click Forensics in San Antonio a decade ago but he moved the startup to Austin because he couldn’t find funding and technology talent locally. That company evolved into Adometry, an ad tracking and fraud detection firm, which Google acquired last May.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 8, 2016

Accenture Federal Services plans to hire 300 new employees in San Antonio this year for its Technology and Innovation Center. Accenture already has 1,100 employees in San Antonio. The center, which opened in 2015, provides technology services to federal clients nationwide.

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2014

I am very excited to have the opportunity to restart and lead the Techstars Cloud program: [link] cc @techstars — Blake Yeager (@blake_yeager) July 23, 2014 The Techstars Cloud program launched in San Antonio in 2012 with 11 companies and the next year another 11 startups participated in the 2013 program.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 19, 2018

Geekdom, the tech co-working space at the heart of San Antonio’s technology district, announced recently that it has teamed up with Alamo Angels to launch a pre-accelerator program designed to nurture new startups. The applications for the program opened […]. The applications for the program opened […].

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Up to a year ago, there was no such event geared towards young programmers […] The post San Antonio Youth Code Jam Gets Kids Into Coding appeared first on SiliconHills. San Antonio Code Jam Debi Pfitzenmaier Geekdom Kids coding San Antonio Youth Code Jam technology'

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

About 80 people turned out for the inaugural San Antonio New Tech Meetup at Geekdom Tuesday night. That got the room talking technology. The post Talking Technology at San Antonio New Tech appeared first on SiliconHills. “I want people to meet new people,” said Cole Wollak, its organizer.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

About 80 people turned out for the inaugural San Antonio New Tech Meetup at Geekdom Tuesday night. That got the room talking technology. The post Talking Technology at San Antonio New Tech appeared first on SiliconHills. “I want people to meet new people,” said Cole Wollak, its organizer.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 2, 2014

Three new startups in San Antonio have received $25,000 cash investments each from the Geekdom Fund. In February, the Geekdom Fund made investments in Nebula Technologies and Lightphile. All of […] The post Geekdom Fund Invests in Three San Antonio Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This Tuesday we’ve chartered a Von Lane bus and are coming to San Antonio with 24 investors, mentors and entrepreneurs to announce $100,000 just for San Antonio! Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in Texas have banded together to give one startup from San Antonio a $100,000 investment to try and change the world.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 23, 2016

The cybersecurity industry in San Antonio just got a major boost with the announcement Thursday of a new incubator, Build Sec Foundry.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 24, 2014

Part of the event involved a Zero G flight in which the passengers […] The post San Antonio MX Challenge Seeks to Solve Problems and Realize Dreams appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 7, 2015

The 7th Annual Emerging Medical Technology Symposium kicks off Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. Afternoon […] The post The 7th Annual Emerging Medical Technology Symposium in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. San Antonio' at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In a big win for San Antonio’s technology industry, a Swedish company is buying Pathwire, an email delivery platform spun off from Rackspace, for $1.9

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This is the not-so-humble sales pitch of Codeup – a for-profit code education startup founded by San Antonio entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Girdley. San Antonio Codeup coding Geekdom MakerSquare Michael Girdley Open Cloud Academy technology TrueAbility'

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SiliconHills

APRIL 17, 2013

Soloshot took home first place at the Innotech San Antonio Beta Summit on Wednesday afternoon. The post Soloshot Wins the Innotech San Antonio 2013 Beta Summit appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology'

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SiliconHills

JUNE 14, 2018

A technology company from the United Kingdom is considering San Antonio for its U.S. The Hut Group, based in Manchester, United Kingdom, first considered San Antonio for a new U.S. based sales center but has since decided to put an even bigger office in San Antonio, pending the approval […].

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SiliconHills

MARCH 30, 2014

Gonzalez Convention Center, will showcase some of the best and brightest new technology startups in San Antonio. Each team will have five […] The post Seven San Antonio Startups to Pitch at the InnoTech Beta Summit appeared first on SiliconHills. The event, which takes place at 3 p.m. at the Henry B.

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SiliconHills

JULY 24, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News One of the big problems in growing San Antonio’s technology startup industry has been lack of access to capital for entrepreneurs. San Antonio Cafe Commerce Cole Wollak Geekdom Geekdom Fund HighNoon Lightphile Michael Girdley San Antonio Startups SAPitch Storific Walkingspree'

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SiliconHills

MARCH 5, 2017

San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the country and is home to giant companies like Rackspace, USAA, HEB, Valero and the Argo Group. But three years ago, San Antonio didn’t even have a booth at the trade show at South by Southwest Interactive, the largest technology show in Texas.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 13, 2013

One of the latest chapters is Startup Grind San Antonio. The post Startup Grind San Antonio Launches Featuring Interview with Jason Seats appeared first on SiliconHills. The values of Startup Grind are important ones to foster an entrepreneurial environment. “We [.]

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SiliconHills

JULY 22, 2012

A team of four former Rackspace employees claimed the top prize at San Antonio Startup Weekend. True Ability, a service that lets companies test the technical aptitude of job candidates, won the panel of judges over. “TrueAbility helps companies hire great techs,” Frederick Mendler, CEO, said during his pitch.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 9, 2017

Geekdom is still the center of technology entrepreneurial activity in San Antonio as evidenced by the number of events taking place this week. But this week, San Antonio is also the center of activity for tech leaders from all over Texas.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

But even as a little kid […] The post Techstars Austin’s Jason Seats on Startup Grind San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin San Antonio Jason Seats Rackspace Slicehost technology TechStars Austin TechStars Cloud' At the age of eight, he thought he wanted to be an archaeologist.

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