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The Austin Technology Incubator’s Influence Continues to Permeate the Austin Startup Scene

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

For the last 3 years, Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm, has wrote about the up and coming Austin startups to watch for during SXSW and the Austin Startup Crawl. Of the list of 30 companies compiled in 2010, 2011 and 2012, 8 companies, notably more than 25 percent, are currently or have been connected in some way to the Austin Technology Incubator, a not-for-profit unit of the IC2 Institute of The University of Texas at Austin that harnesses business, government and academic resources to provide strategic counsel, operational guidance and infrastructure support to its member companies to help them transition from early stage ventures to successful technology businesses. Since its founding in 1989, ATI has worked with hundreds of companies, helping raise close to $1 Billion in investor capital.    

Here is the list of the ones to watch, a little background information and their connections to ATI:

Calxeda, a.k.a. Smooth-Stone, a successful ATI alumni company, offers a processor platform for hyperscale servers that will allow data centers to slash IT costs and energy consumption by as much as a factor of 10.  Calxeda, with its industry-disrupting ultra-low power processors powering servers and data centers, closed an impressive $48 million funding August 2010, and launch its first product with global impact via a partnership with Hewlett Packard November 2011.

GameSalad, a.k.a. Gendai Games, and successful alum of ATI, is an online community that empowers everyone to express and share their ideas through games. GameSalad provides a platform used by creators to rapidly design, publish and distribute original games that have been played by millions of people worldwide. It is currently the number one platform for iOS development and boasts 300,000 developers. 30,000 games have been built with the GameSalad Creator since its 2007 founding. Now at 60 employees and growing, all this was accomplished with just a little over $7 million funding since inception.

Ordoro participated in the SEAL program as UT Austin business students before joining ATI in 2010. Ordoro is a Web-based order and inventory manager. With just a login and a password, online retailers can use Ordoro to process orders, print shipping labels, drop-ship orders and track their real-time inventory at all times. Ordoro helps small and medium online retailers grow their business by spending less time processing orders, tracking inventory and dealing with confusing IT systems.

Ravel, an ATI member company, provides the tools to rapidly discover and integrate knowledge from disconnected data. Ravel’s KnowledgeStream and GoldenOrb products are used by company consultants and clients to acquire, transform, integrate, and utilize large data sets from enterprise databases and web sources.

Wheel InnovationZ, founded by serial entrepreneur Srini Gurrapu, CEO, and a new member of the Austin Technology Incubator, Wheel InnovationZ is privately funded, and still in stealth mode, with its 1.0 product in the hands of early adopter customers by summer 2012.  Wheel is building a Unified Application Store that helps enterprise manage the demands – and needs – of users accessing a variety of applications on a variety of devices.  Wheel will truly enable the ‘any app on any device’ vision with both local and cloud based access with a Unified Application Store enterprise management platform that reduces TCO, and improves security and productivity.

Hurricane Party, free mobile app that helps friends find, share, and create spontaneous parties; moving online experiences offline to make social networking more social, participated in ATI’s 3 Day Startup in 2010.

Macheen is a leading enabler of “Internet Included,” connected devices. Its multi-tenant cloud-based platform makes it easy to sell and market pre-connected devices that sustain profitable relationships with the consumers who buy them. Macheen enables new business models for device makers, retailers and network operators alike. Macheen CEO, Richard Schwartz, is on the Wireless Advisory Board formed in 2011, and was a featured speaker at ATI’s 2011 Texas Wireless Summit (TWS).

ATX Innovation, the company behind the TabbedOut app, participated in the ATI’s 2009 Wireless Seed Stage Forum (WSSF). The TabbedOut app is a secure and easy-to-use mobile payment solution that allows patrons to open, view and pay their tab with a smart phone, eliminating time waiting in line to close your tab and the need to even take your credit card out of your wallet, let alone give it to a stranger. TabbedOut is securely integrated directly into the merchant’s point of sale (POS) system.

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Austin Technology Incubator Graduates Six IT Companies Including Agile Planet, Calxeda, itzbig, Notice Technologies, Qcue and Spredfast

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Tonight, at a special graduation and alumni event, the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit part of the IC2 Institute of The University of Texas at Austin (UT), will graduate 21 companies.  Of those 21, six companies were part of ATI’s Information Technology portfolio, including Agile Planet, Calxeda, itzbig, Notice Technologies, Qcue and Spredfast.  These companies have collectively achieved impressive business successes over their years, as varied as $48 million in funding to closing customers such as AARP and the San Francisco Giants to acquisition by its industry’s leader.

Over 20+ years, ATI has developed and refined industry specific capabilities, currently organized into Information Technology (IT), Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience. In each industry sector, ATI brings its portfolio companies deep domain expertise and market- and technology-specific networks of advisors and investors. Tonight’s graduation event showcases successes in all four sectors, including six remarkable companies in IT, ATI’s broadest category, and the core of what the incubator has focused on since inception in 1989.  The graduating, and current, ATI IT companies are proving that Austin’s legacy in semiconductors, hardware and enterprise software is evolving and keeping relevant in this Web- and social-oriented world. The six IT graduates include:

Agile Planet, a developer of intelligent robotics software for industrial automation, has launched its products in partnership with the world’s leading automation vendors, Yaskawa and Rockwell Automation, and has commercialized robotic technology developed at University of Texas.

Calxeda, with its industry-disrupting ultra-low power processors powering servers and data centers, closed an impressive $48 million funding August 2010, and launch its first product with global impact via a partnership with Hewlett Packard November 2011.

Itzbig took a 180 degree shift to the Monster.com era of job searching with its approach to job matching – recruiting tools for job boards and major employers – ultimately getting acquired by JobTarget, the largest third-party operator of niche job boards in the world.

Notice Technologies is tackling the new wild west of social media, helping its customers analyze and create value from tools like Facebook and Twitter, and its new social data mining technologies are currently being introduced.

Qcue’s dynamic pricing software helps sports teams, venues and promoters set better prices up-front and adjust based on real-time shifts in the market.  Qcue clients represent 85 percent of all dynamically priced tickets and include teams such as the Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Timberwolves, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants and the Utah Jazz.

Spredfast built a social media management system for brands and agencies such as AARP, Bayer, HomeAway and Nokia.  Its social business software is gaining such traction that the company closed a $12 million round of funding just a few months ago.

“The companies graduating from our IT portfolio are mind-blowingly impressive, all in different ways,” said Robert Reeves, director, ATI IT Portfolio.  “These companies are particularly special to me because I was where they are tonight at ATI’s last graduation with Phurnace Software.  The entire ATI process – from selection to cultivation to graduation – is a rare experience only a few companies share, and we welcome tonight’s IT graduates to our alumni network.”

Contact:

Laura Beck for ATI

laurabeckcahoon@gmail.com

512-786-1098

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Austin Technology Incubator Holds Graduation For 21 Companies, Celebrates Beginning 23rd Year of Incubating Central Texas Companies

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

One week from today, the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit unit of the IC2 Institute of The University of Texas at Austin (UT), will host a graduation and alumni event to celebrate more than two decades of incubating Central Texas technology companies.  On January 26, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at The University of Texas at Austin, ATI will recognize the “graduation” of 21 companies who have moved on from ATI over the past few years.

ATI will also announce the winner of the Laura J Kilcrease Civic Entrepreneurship Award. And, for the first time in many years, ATI will bring
together over 300 of the hundreds of technology influencers who have been part of the ATI family as executives of portfolio companies, advisors, investors, business partners, UT student interns, and ATI staff.  This alumni gathering will celebrate the community that ATI has created and hundreds of amazing business successes ATI has had a hand in.

The 21 companies to be honored as ATI graduates on January 26 include businesses focused on information technology, wireless, clean energy, and biosciences technology.  They are:

  • Agile Planet
  • Atonometrics
  • Axelo
  • Calxeda
  • Dorsan Biofuels
  • Famigo
  • Firefly LED Lighting
  • GameSalad
  • Ideal Power Converters
  • itzbig
  • Nitero
  • Notice Technologies
  • OpenAlgae
  • Qcue
  • RFMicron
  • RRE Solar
  • Savara Pharmaceuticals
  • Spredfast
  • Terapio
  • Unwired Nation
  • WiMax.com

View the full press release at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9120155.htm.

Press interested in attending the January 26th event and/or speaking with executives from ATI or the graduating companies can contact Laura Beck at 512-786-1098 or laurabeckcahoon@gmail.com.

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Calxeda Launches the EnergyCore™ Processor

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Calxeda Launches the EnergyCore™ Processor; Delivers 10 Times the Performance for the Same Power

Calxeda’s Technology to Power HP’s First Extreme Low-Energy Server Development Platform

Austin, TX, November 1, 2011 – Calxeda today unveiled its ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip, which consumes as little as 1.5 watts, the industry’s first server processor to achieve this milestone.  Following HP’s announcement to incorporate Calxeda technology in its first-generation of extreme low energy server development platforms, Calxeda is launching EnergyCore at simultaneous events in Palo Alto, CA and Austin, TX.  The news and product details, as well as Calxeda partner reaction and perspective, and replays of today’s webcast, can be found at www.calxeda.com.

Calxeda is Re-defining the Server

Calxeda’s EnergyCore architecture is based on a new model for scale-out computing that is:

  • Efficient– Delivers a 10x increase in performance density to maximize ROI on limited space and power.
  • Scalable – Integrated fabric switch on every chip lowers cost of interconnecting thousands of servers.
  • Smart – An Embedded Management Engine delivers zero-touch, always-optimized power management that eliminates manual intervention and guesswork.

View the full press release HERE.

Media Contact:

Laura Beck

512-786-1098

press@calxeda.com

About Calxeda

Founded in January 2008, Calxeda brings new performance density to the data center on a very attractive power foot print by leveraging ultra-low power processors as used on mobile phones as a foundation for its revolutionary technology.  Calxeda will make it possible for data center managers to increase the density of their computer resources while significantly reducing the need for power, space and cooling.  Calxeda is funded by a unique syndicate comprising industry leading venture capital firms and semiconductor innovators, including ARM, Advanced Technology Investment Company, Battery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners and Highland Capital Partners.  See www.calxeda.com for more information.

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Austin Technology Council Hosts Top Talent Roadshow in San Francisco and Sunnyvale, Over 30 Austin CEOs Representing Live on September 13 and 14

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Austin Technology Council, along with Austin’s technology leaders, made a commitment at a May 2011 CEO summit, to take the best of our city live to the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas to recruit top technology talent. Today, the Austin Technology Council proudly announces two Top Talent events in San Francisco and Sunnyvale, the evenings of September 13 and 14. Over 30 Austin area technology CEOs will represent their companies live, talk with candidates, and ideally fill some of the many technology jobs currently open.

Event details and registration links for candidate attendees:
·Tuesday, September 13, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m., The Mighty, San Francisco: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1908395061

·Wednesday, September 14, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m., Plug & Play, Sunnyvale: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2025094111

Texas overall, and Austin specifically, are among few geographies currently adding jobs, and Austin’s technology industry particularly has many job opportunities for programmers, developers, coders and engineers. The Austin technology community continues to thrive with new startups and fast growing mid-stage companies. The city attracts entrepreneurs and business leaders who want to start and grow their businesses in Austin. But there are not enough technical resources to build out the solutions these companies envision and commercialize products.

Austin currently has several dozen technology companies hiring 40 or more new programmers each. Of over 30 CEOs representing their companies at the Top Talent Roadshow, current job openings include roles like: Data Engineer, Front End Software Engineer, Information Architect, UX Designer.

At present, companies confirmed for the events include: Affinegy, Bancvue, Bazaarvoice, CacheIQ, Catapult, Calxeda, Collider Media, Creditcards.com, Gazzang, Gowalla, Homeaway, Ihiji, Less Networks, Mutual Mobile, Phunware, Ravel, SailPoint, Spredfast, Vast and Whaleshark.

Note: Affinegy, Calxeda and Spredfast are ATI alumni companies and Ravel and ihiji are current ATI member companies. The presence of these companies at the conference is one of many examples of ATI companies creating demand for jobs in Austin. “The conference complements other great work that the local startup community is doing, such as Startup Austin Live, the increased visibility of Austin tech via SXSWi, and the renewed focus on commercialization and entrepreneurship support at UT Austin,” said ATI Director Isaac Barchas, who is on the board and executive committee of Austin Technology Council.

“In Austin, we’ve fallen into a trap of fighting over existing talent, especially in engineering, programming and software development roles,” said Rod Favaron, serial Austin entrepreneur, and presently CEO of Spredfast, a white-hot social CRM company. This leadership role follows Favaron taking his previous company, Lombardi, through successful acquisition by IBM. “We will not realize Austin’s fullest technology innovation potential until we infuse new talent into this city,” added Favaron.  

“The zero-sum-game hurts the overall tech community. So we’ve decided to come together to seek out new additions to Austin to help us all grow. Fortunately, it doesn’t require a lot of convincing. But we do think it requires the technology leaders of Austin representing the city, its value, and our businesses directly to draw in the next generation.”

Austin Technology Council welcomes press to attend either or both events, and is happy to speak further or set up conversations with participating Austin CEOs, before or during the events. Advance registration is required for attendees who are encouraged to sign up at the Eventbrite links above.  For Twitter engagement before and during, please use #ATXgrow.

About the Austin Technology Council:

With more than 5,000 members and friends, serving more than 850 C-level executive members, and supporting 200-plus member companies, the Austin Technology Council (ATC) has been focused on the growth and success of the Austin tech community since 1994.  Members reap the benefits of premier professional development, insight and feedback from peers, the best in industry data to help grow businesses, and opportunities to give back to the Austin community through charitable initiatives.  Current ATC board members are leaders at companies or organizations like Austin Technology Incubator, CacheIQ, Gazzang, IBM, PeopleAdmin, Samsung, Silicon Labs, Spinal Restoration, Tokyo Electron America and Vinson & Elkins.  More on ATC can be found at: www.austintechnologycouncil.org or @ATCouncil on Twitter.

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Austin Technology Incubator Alum Calxeda Competitive at GigaOM Structure 2011 Conference

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

GigaOM writer, Ryan Lawler, wrote a blog post featuring Austin Technology Incubator alum Calxeda on June 23. Calxeda Co-founder and CEO Barry Evans participated in panel discussion at GigaOM’s Structure 2011 conference, June 22 and 23 at San Francisco’s Mission Bay Conference Center.

During a panel discussion, hardware executives from Calxeda, SeaMicro, AMD and Tilera debated the hardware infrastructure of the future. The debate boiled down to the need for highly efficient hardware, in terms of both space and energy use, as well as the trade-offs in not sacrificing processing power.

The panel discussion also included a show and tell session. CEO Barry Evans showed off Calxeda’s first-generation product, a wafer-thin board which he said contains the performance of a server but uses only 20w of power.

According to their Web site, Calxeda is creating a silicon and software server platform based on the same energy-efficient ARM® processor architecture that powers cellular handsets today. Calxeda’s technology scales to thousands of nodes, all connected by an integrated high-bandwidth fabric.

Read the full post here for how Calxeda competes with AMD and others and to view a video of the panel discussion:

http://gigaom.com/cloud/efficiency-vs-performance-whatll-win-for-the-hardware-of-the-future/

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Calxeda Announces Trailblazer Initiative; Ecosystem Dedicated to the Promise of Hyper-Efficient Servers

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Calxeda, the company solving the datacenter energy crisis with hyper-efficient processors, today launched its Trailblazer Initiative, with founding members who focus on cloud computing and “Big Data” scalable analytic solutions.   Trailblazer is a program that will open up the Calxeda technology to industry players, hardware companies, systems integrators, datacenter end users, and ISV (software) partners, some of whom are announced today. 

At Trailblazer launch, Calxeda is pleased to announce Autonomic Resources, Canonical, Caringo, Couchbase, Datastax, Eucalyptus Systems, Gluster,  Momentum SI, Opscode, and Pervasive as inaugural members of the program.  See other releases also issued today on additional initial Calxeda Trailblazer members, with further announcements following over time.

Trailblazer partners will work with Calxeda to accelerate characterization and adoption of hyper-efficient servers, creating an ecosystem that will benefit end users by delivering complete solutions faster.  Since its August 2010 funding and launch, Calxeda has created significant industry interest in its ARM-based servers.  With Trailblazer, Calxeda is reacting to demand from customers and partners to get its chips into servers and datacenters, the first step being access to early silicon for Proof of Concept testing.

“We see Trailblazer as a critical step in the evolution of this marketplace, and are thrilled by the support we are receiving from the community to help it materialize,” said Barry Evans, Calxeda’s CEO.  “The datacenter energy crisis is real, and the faster we can help our system vendors and partners get complete solutions in our customers’ hands, the faster we can help them save money, and reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint.”

Calxeda will provide Trailblazer partners and end users with early access to hardware, operating system software, tools, applications and joint sales and marketing.  Software partner and end user Trailblazers will also benefit from Calxeda technical expertise, and get updates on valuable benchmarking and technical information as the technology matures. 

For the full press release view:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/6/prweb8569540.htm

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Austin’s Emerging Big Data Cluster

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

The following is a post by Bart Bohn, Director of ATI’s IT & Wireless Incubators.

GigaOm hosted their Structure Big Data Conference in New York City on March 23rd and it was a great event.  They put on some of the best focused, content rich conferences I attend.  What surprised many folks at the conference was the large Austin contingent.  Big Data has long been thought of a a Wall Street issue (hedge funds tracking in real time every tick of every stock for as far back as possible) and more recently the consumer web giants – Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, etc. (think of a database the scale of FB or an entry for every server log entry associated with FB, that is internet big data).  None of those are associated with Austin, yet we have a rapidly growing leadership position in the space.

At the conference were:

  • Pervasive - a global data innovation leader delivering software to manage, integrate, and analyze data in the cloud or on-premises throughout the entire data life cycle.
  • MomentumSI - provides application development and systems implementations that incorporate disruptive technologies. We are at the forefront of Cloud Computing, DevOps, BPM and SOA.
  • DataStax (formerly Riptano) - commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™ that is leveraging this next-generation data platform that evolved from work at Google, Amazon and Facebook to make it easy for customers to build, deploy and operate elastically scalable and cloud-optimized applications and data services.
  • Calxeda – a processor platform for hyperscale servers that will allow data centers to slash IT costs and energy consumption by as much as a factor of 10.  Calxeda is a very successful ATI alumni company.
  • InfoChimps – a place to find, sell and share data with others through data sets or data APIs.
  • Ravel – provides the tools to rapidly discover and integrate knowledge from disconnected data. Their KnowledgeStream and GoldenOrb products are used by company consultants and clients to acquire, transform, integrate, and utilize large data sets from enterprise databases and web sources.  Ravel recently became a member of ATI’s Wireless & IT incubator.
  • Spiceworks - IT pros use Spiceworks to do their jobs and learn about the products and services they need to make IT happen

The Austin community has developed in this area based on the work done by several folks, with a few notables: Lynn Bender (Geek Austin), Steve Watt (Hadoop Austin who is now with HP after leading IBM Big Sheets), and Juan Sequeda (Semantic Web Austin).  If you want to learn more about big data, check out and engage with these organizations.  Austin’s contingent was core to the current conversation of Hadoop, but was also leading the conversation on the emerging technologies of Cassandra, which emerged from Facebook (DataStax), and Pregal, which emerged from Google (Ravel).  InfoChimps had stage time to talk about the commercial value of data via its marketplace and Calxeda got a reference from none other than Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.  Andy also drove home the need for new data storage solutions and basically described Eonsil, a current ATI member company.

Look for more national leadership in this space from Austin and thank you to all of those who have worked so hard to push our community to this point.

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ATI-Grad Calxeda Named One of the Top 50 Innovative Companies

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

MIT’s Technology Review named ATI-Grad Calxeda as one of the top 50 most innovative companies of 2011. Calxeda uses cell phone chip technology with ARM processors to help data centers run servers, gather and store information in a more energy-efficient way.

See www.technologyreview.com/tr50 for the list of 2011’s most innovative companies that are leaders in their markets from computing to energy, biomedicine and the Web and digital media.

Technology Review and the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City will honor this year’s companies at the New York Academy of Sciences on March 15, 2011. The event is open to the public and will include networking and discussion opportunities with select company leaders.

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ATI-Grad Calxeda Plans to Sprout in 2011 with New Seed Money

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Community Impact Newspaper writer Amy Deis featured ATI graduate Calxeda in Friday’s edition. Co-founder and CEO Barry Evans started Calxeda with the idea to use chip technology that run cell phones and tablets for data centers that utilize servers to gather and store information.

ATI helped Calxeda raise $48 million in investment capital with their 20 plus years of industry knowledge and contacts. ATI has helped over 200 companies raise almost three-quarters of a billion dollars to date.

In 2011, Calxeda plans to continue to grow their capital and start chip production. No doubt ATI will continue to play a leading role in technology entrepreneurship, especially with its clean energy and bioscience divisions, and help spur further economic development for Austin at such a crucial time.

For the full article and to find out how the Austin Technology Incubator works visit:

http://impactnews.com/northwest-austin/239-local-news/11312-austin-incubator-aims-to-grow-influence-new-technology?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4d46e0c21f82d517,0

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