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25 Austin-Based Startups to Watch in 2022 - Link

Austin had a record-breaking year with startup activity overall on the rise.

In 2021, companies in the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area raised $4.9 billion in venture capital in 387 deals, more than double the $2.3 billion raised in 2020, according to Pitchbook-National Venture Capital Association Venture Monitor data.

A few trends Silicon Hills News has detected in Austin in recent years include a rise in real estate tech companies, a cluster of insure tech companies, new space startups, and more female-founded startups and BIPOC-founded startups. And the trend of companies relocating to Austin from other cities continues.

The city is also a hotbed of activity in consumer packaged goods, medical technolgy, fintech, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, blockchain and big data.

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• Exploring Austin's Draper Startup House, a Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - Link
  - Austin Next Podcast
   
• Austin-based evisio Helps Small to Medium-Sized Businesses with SEO - Link
  - Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek
   
• Ep #5 | Rizse | Colby Harvey - Why We Strive Podcast - Link
  - Why We Strive Podcast
   
• City of Austin announces winner of Circular Austin Showcase, a pitch event spotlighting local, circular businesses - Link
   
• OneSeventeen Media Recognized as a 2022 Best For The World™ B Corp™ for Exceptional Impact on its Customers - Link
   
• Public workers are being priced out of the city. Affordable housing can’t help many of them. - Link
• Austin-Travis County EMS, city OK new raises, contract for medical first responders - Link
• Council opposes book banning, adopts Freedom to Read resolution - Link
• Council to debate controversial rate increase for Austin Energy customers this fall - Link
• Two more Texas towns are considering leaving Capital Metro - Link
• Arguments continue over parkland dedication fees - Link
• Black Fund organizers unveil plans for grants with first $1M raised - Link
  - The Austin Monitor
   
• Hop into a self-driving Lyft, starting soon in Austin - Link
• NASA sets new launch launch date for historic return to the moon - Link
• New Austin-based app MindBar makes mental health care more accessible - Link
• SXSW unveils first round of featured speakers and sessions for 2023 - Link
  - Culture Map Austin
   
• Amy Webb, Allyson Felix, Cecile Richards, Guy Moot & More Featured Speakers Join SXSW 2023 - Link
   - SXSW
   
• Will Austin office workers pick the suburbs over downtown spaces? - Link
  - Austonia
   
• Zeno Technologies Helps Oil Companies Make Smarter Decisions - Link
• Ooni Pizza Ovens Expands U.S. Headquarters in Austin - Link
• Prime Time to Expand — 4 Austin Companies Hiring Now - Link
• A conversation with FinancialForce - Link
• How Validere Engineered a Culture of Ownership - Link
• Cottage Gives Junior Engineers a Chance to Build Their Portfolios - Link
• New Data Highlights Real Estate Career Opportunities Created as a Result of the Pandemic - Link
• Happy Health's New Tech, ConverseNow Got $10M, and More Austin Tech News - Link
  - Built in Austin
   
• White House finally bans paywalls on tax-payer-funded research - Link
• Inflation effects: Over 20 million US households are behind on bills - Link
• National Labor Relations Board rules Tesla’s dress code is unlawful - Link
• Anytrack is the new way to track data across all of your channels - Link
• Negative Glassdoor review leads to lawsuit to uncover the poster - Link
• Snap lays off 20% of workforce, cancels original programming - Link
• Wendy’s debuts gray-haired logo for ageism, or is it woke washing? - Link
• Marketers, custom-designed trackable Dynamic QR codes are here - Link
• 16 productivity hacks and tools for entrepreneurs and freelancers - Link
• Trello, popular project management platform, adds use of forms - Link
• Unify brings fully immersive virtual reality shopping to the masses - Link
• Twitter teases new and improved settings for Professional Accounts - Link
• 3 ways to win over a male audience in your marketing messages - Link
• Buffer lets you regularly post to your Google Business Profile - Link
• Does YouTube’s new channel store mean the official end of cable? - Link
• YouTube finally launches a dedicated podcasts homepage - Link
• Instagram users under 16 now have stricter settings, is it enough? - Link
• Amazon denies hot work conditions in employee deaths, adds fans - Link
• YouTube Shorts get watermarks, Google combats recycled content - Link
• Gamma, the newest presentation software, has us geeking out - Link
• Get sneak peeks at upcoming tech with Google’s AI Test Kitchen - Link
  - The American Genius
   
• Alienware Longhorn Esports Lounge Launches in UT-Dell Partnership - Link
• Grants Will Support Young People of Color During Transition to Adulthood - Link
• Sharing on Social Media Makes Us Overconfident in Our Knowledge - Link
• Going Back to School Should Not Just Be for Kids Any More - Link
  - University of Texas
   
• 2 Austinites to help PNC Bank steer $88B to worthy causes - Link
• Applied Materials pulls application for Ch. 313 incentives in Hutto — but city says talks continue for facility - Link
• M&A wrap: Cybersecurity consulting firm CynergisTek bought for nearly $18M; ESO, PayrHealth open wallets - Link
• ABJ editor: Let's cut labor unions off at the pass, Texans - Link
• Who will fill Austin metro's 100K-plus job openings? What low unemployment means for hiring - Link
• Why unions are on the rise in Austin restaurants, stores - Link
• Hiring roundup: 23 people to know in Austin tech, startups - Link
• SpaceX files to build 520K-square-foot facility in Bastrop County - Link
• As it considers Central Texas for chip factory, Micron reveals $15B plan in Idaho - Link
• Tito's Vodka now has a farm — and plans to open community gardens around US - Link
• Journal Profile: Kevin Brackmeyer helps prep next generation of Austin manufacturers - Link
• Samsung nominated for additional state incentives through Texas Enterprise Zone Program - Link
• Steph Curry's VC firm and Mark Cuban are among investors in this local NFT startup - Link
• M&A wrap: Hyliion dropping $37M on GE tech; 360training grows with buy - Link
• Work starts on solar factory that could employ 300-plus - Link
• St. Louis health care firm acquires Austin therapy company ONR - Link
• From disability inclusion to reskilling, metaverse is forging paths to diverse careers at Accenture - Link
• Volcon to stop making off-road electric vehicles in Round Rock - Link
• Funding wrap: 'Netflix of games' scores nearly $19M in VC; Shake Shack co-founder's fund invests in ConverseNow - Link
• In Nashville, Larry Ellison is personally vetting plans for new Oracle campus, sources say - Link
  - Austin Business Journal & Austin Inno's Brent Wistrom
   
• Every candidate 'has two or three offers' as Austin job market thrives - Link
• Applied Materials pulls bid for tax breaks for possible Austin-area facility - Link
• Another big industrial park starts work in Austin area - Link
• Texas economy is slowing down - Link
• Hutto, Pflugerville projects add to Austin area's data center boom - Link
• Tesla sues to sell directly to consumers in Louisiana; is Texas next? - Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

• San Antonio Game Company Carves Out Niche in Ed Tech - Link
  - GovTech
   
• Bexar County’s top PPP recipients raked in over $10M in loan forgiveness - Link
• LiftFund founder Janie Barrera joins San Antonio Report board of directors - Link
  - San Antonio Report
   
• San Antonio among the best U.S. cities for Gen Zers, according to study - Link
• Texans work longer hours but earn less than people in other parts of the United States - Link
• For the first time, more U.S. adults are smoking weed than tobacco, poll shows - Link
• U.S. Secretary of Labor praises San Antonio's new job-training initiative on visit - Link
• U.S. Border Patrol looking for gear to test difference between outlawed marijuana and legal hemp - Link
• San Antonio-tied couple trot the globe for their travel-centric print publication The Jungle Journal - Link
  - San Antonio Current
   
• Geekdom co-founder: SA startup sector needs more urgency - Link
• San Antonio’s Tech Port Center+Arena to host global cyber summit - Link
• Q&A: Cybersecurity expert Tiffany Tremont gives tips on entrepreneurship - Link
• Tightening the spigot: Business community wrestles with drought and conservation - Link
• The top 10 San Antonio water users from 2012 and 2021 - Link
• Watershed moment: Ensuring SA region’s economic prospects don’t dry up - Link
• The top 10 commercial San Antonio water users - Link
• Toyota to add jobs, double spending on North Carolina battery plant - Link
• Tex-Mex eatery El Arroyo planning statewide expansion, beginning in New Braunfels - Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• #10: From scrappy software entrepreneur to savvy SaaS CEO – Thomas Brown - Link
  - Practical Founders Podcast's Greg Head
   
• Episode 71: Quentin Crawford - Link
  - Innovate Fort Worth Podcast
   
• Growth Of DFW's Life Sciences Industry Could Bring Innovations 'From Bench To Bedside' - Link
  - Biznow
   
• MyndVR Partners with HTC VIVE to Bring Next-Generation Immersive Glasses to Long-term Care, American Senior Communities First to Deploy in the US - Link
   
• This Texas region could rival DFW as next great metroplex, mayor says - Link
• 9 DFW companies among best large employers in Texas, says Forbes - Link
• Dallas-Fort Worth is first in the U.S. to test Walmart's new Canoos - Link
  - Culture Map Dallas
   
• Richard Connor: What’s missing on Labor Day 2022? Workers, sad to say - Link
• FWBP accepting nominations for Top 100 Awards - Link
• Some businesses stalled under weight of pandemic. Agency Habitat emerged with new brand, new purpose - Link
  - Fort Worth Business Press
   
• Conversation With: Salad and Go CEO Charlie Morrison - Link
• We Made You a Deep-Fried Matchmaker - Link
• The Need for Speed is Fueling Record Data Center Demand - Link
• What is ESG and Why is it Important? - Link
• Using Money for Good - Link
• DFW Healthcare Brief: PCCI’s New Chief Diversity Officer and a Local Therapy Acquisition - Link
• Meet the Dallas 500: Ben Lamm - Link
• Dallas Design Week Schedule Announced - Link
• Approaching Difficult Conversations in the Workplace - Link
• This Dallas Company Is Making Breastfeeding in Public Easier - Link
• Conversation With: Texas Oncology CEO Dr. Steven Paulson on Cancer Costs, Precision Treatment, and the Labor Shortage - Link
  - D Magazine
   
• The Last Word: Tech Titans’ Amy Wheelus on the Innovation Collider Grand Challenge - Link
• North Texas Commission Announces Regional Leadership Award Recipients - Link
• Dallas Startup Immerss Looks to Build Relationships Between Brands, Customers with its Video E-Commerce Platform - Link
• Wealth Management Tech Startup VRGL Raises $15M to Help Firms Acquire Clients, Manage Proposals - Link
• China’s NetDragon Has a New Robot CEO—and North Texas Ties - Link
• The Last Word: Fort Worth City Manager David Cooke on Hiring a New Chief of Strategy and Innovation - Link
• Dallas Startup Von Perry Looks to Raise $2M to Build More 3D\2011Printed Homes Across Texas - Link
• Dallas-Based DataBank Sells 35% Stake for $1.5 Billion - Link
• Gatik Is Partnering with Pitney Bowes for Daily Self-Driving Deliveries in Dallas - Link
• Dallas Invents: 155 Patents Granted for Week of August 16 - Link
• The Last Word: RetroGame Start’s Jay McDonald on the Allure of Old‑School Video Games - Link
• The Dallas Foundation Awards $2.5M+ in Racial Equity Funding to 25 Organizations - Link
• Frisco Startup DoTells Wants to Help You Find Your Lost Valuables - Link
• Telecommunications Company ExteNet Systems Is Moving its HQ to Frisco - Link
• $100K Black Girl Magic Pitch Competition Winners Announced, Including Two Dallas Startups - Link
• The Last Word: Mesquite’s Kim Buttram on the City’s Manufacturing Day - Link
• Follow the Money: P10 Acquires California Investment Firm, SmartMoving Lands $41.5M, Highline Technologies Raises $13M for Bill-Pay Platform, and More - Link
• UT Southwestern Opens Its Largest Regional Medical Center at RedBird in Southern Dallas - Link
• Artful Industrial: How M2G Ventures Is ‘Turning Locations Into Landmarks’ - Link
  - Dallas Innovates
   
• Dallas-based Builders FirstSource acquires Houston manufacturer Trussway - Link
• This Topgolf-like soccer hangout is coming to Dallas in 2023 - Link
• Dallas-based Tailwater Capital appoints new head of R&D - Link
• Here are the best large and extra large companies to work for in North Texas - Link
• Here are the best medium companies to work for in North Texas - Link
• Here are the best small companies to work for in North Texas - Link
• Here are the best tiny companies to work for in North Texas - Link
• Dallas-based wealth management tech firm VRGL announces $15M Series A financing - Link
• How the head of Fort Worth Development Services keeps up with the city's growth - Link
• Behind the deal: Corning, AT&T see new Arizona plant as gateway to the West - Link
• Gallagher Benefits & HR Consulting CEO shares insights on how to succeed during a workforce shortage (video) - Link
• Comerica names company veteran as EVP and Chief Legal Officer - Link
• Fidelity VP Joshua Samuel on fearless cold calling and getting deals through the door - Link
• 55 DFW logistics workers are laid off because of 'unexpected' Amazon warehouse closure - Link
• Toyota to add jobs, double spending on North Carolina battery plant - Link
• Salad and Go continues to expand throughout North Texas with seven new locations - Link
• Dallas' soon-to-be acquired BenefitMall snaps up Iowa insurance distributor - Link
• Get to know our Women in Business Awards Class of 2022 - Link
• Dallas-based Le Rouge Cuisine wins top prize in Capital One's Black Girl Magic competition - Link
• Corning to partner with AT&T to establish 250-job manufacturing plant in Arizona - Link
• Bank of America launches two programs to strengthen homeownership, small-business opportunities for minorities - Link
• Dallas-based Comerica appoints Kelly Gage as new Director of Investor Relations - Link
• Frisco snags headquarters for telecommunications service provider - Link
• Polsinelli and Rowan TELS partner to advance patent software - Link
• ‘The need seems to be increasing’: DFW-based agencies collaborate on a behavioral health initiative - Link
• State Fair announces winners of 2022 Big Tex Choice Awards - Link
• UNT Dallas’ first chief of staff is invested in the growth of Oak Cliff - Link
  - Dallas Business Journal & NXT Inno

• HealthTech Companies Improving Women’s Maternal Health Through Successful Patient Engagement - Link
  - Texas Medical Center
   
• Clever Houston sneakerheads raise $8.9M to develop digital marketplace - Link
• UH chips in with upcoming moon mission with special Coog-crafted cargo - Link
• Houston sports tech startup is enhancing performance metrics for runners and athletes - Link
• University of Houston moves in on industrial metaverse with new partnership - Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week - Link
• Houston startup expands nationally, teams win DOE prize, and more local innovation news - Link
• Aerospace company opens new $30M Houston Spaceport location, plans to move in - Link
• Houston readies for historic return to moon with new NASA launch date - Link
• 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for September - Link
• Iconic Houston-area landmark rockets to No. 1 in new list of best employers in Texas - Link
• Why this Houston innovator dropped everything to move the needle on lung cancer diagnostics - Link
• City of Houston announces partnership college on 5th anniversary of Hurricane Harvey - Link
• Rice University scores No. 6 rank among best colleges in the U.S. and No. 1 in Texas - Link
• Houston expert: How to navigate Gen Z's quiet quitting movement at your company - Link
• New venture brings next-generation additive manufacturing to Houston - Link
• 3 Houston innovators to know this week - Link
  - InnovationMap's Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
   
• Janis Burke on Houston as a Sports Capital | Pok-A-Talk Ep. 22 - Link
  - Pokatok Podcast
   
• Rice ranked by Niche as one of nation’s top 10 universities - Link
• Future of energy tech industry to be showcased at 19th annual Energy Tech Venture Forum - Link
• Lilie event aims to inspire student entrepreneurship across campus - Link
• Stem cell research, misinformation to be examined at Baker Institute event - Link
• ROBE Array could let small companies access popular form of AI - Link
• Wearables take ‘logical’ step toward onboard control - Link
  - Rice University
   
• The University of Houston Is Eyeing the Industrial Metaverse in Collaboration with Nvidia - Link
• Unique, interesting courses available to take - Link
• How sitting and waiting worked wonders for UH’s Jack Freeman - Link
• Misogyny, hate have no place on social media platforms - Link
• Speech First lawsuit creates discrimination debates - Link
  - University of Houston
   
• Intellectual property lawsuit clouds San Antonio-based DeLorean startup's plans - Link
• Toys 'R' Us sues Houston toy store for allegedly copying logo - Link
• Texas ports see boost as retailers avoid West Coast gridlock - Link
• South Korea objects to World Bank's order to pay Texas company - Link
• With Abbott's border crackdown, New Mexico looks to take TX trade - Link
  - Houston Chronicle
   
• UH’s Renu Khator is highest-paid leader of a public university in Texas, report finds - Link
• Meet the honorees of HBJ's 2022 Most Admired CEO Awards - Link
• Shell CEO to retire, according to several reports - Link
• SpaceX files to build 520K-SF facility in Bastrop County, Texas - Link
• What to consider when keeping the business in the family - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: John Allen, Gil Baumgarten, Leslie Beyer, Chris Boleman, Meg Booth - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Soma Somasundaram, Craig Taylor, Cristina Vetrano, Daniel Wong, Kelly Young - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Rita Santamaria, Brandon Schwertner, Simon Seaton, Danny Signorelli, William Sims - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Ting Qiao, Linda Rhodes, Raymond Romero, Clifton Rutledge, Arneisha Sadler - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Charles Njuguna, Shaun Noorian, David O'Reilly, Anne Pearson, PJ Popovic - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Barry Mandel, Christopher Masters, Ryan McGrath, Alexander Melgar, Feras Moussa - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Craig Koopersmith, Stacy Kwon, Jerry Lasco, Steven Lufburrow, Michel Maksoud - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Matthew Goldsby, Russell Hillenburg, Isaac Johnson, John Johnson, Melanie Johnson - Link
• Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2022 Most Admired CEOs: Albert Bothe Jr., John Cangelosi, Jason Delgado, Sandhya Ganapathy, Claudia Gee Vassar - Link
• Axiom Space, NASA sign mission order for second private-astronaut mission to International Space Station - Link
• Meet Sue Burnett, Lifetime Achievement recipient for HBJ's 2022 Most Admired CEO Awards - Link
• Collins Aerospace opens its doors at Houston Spaceport - Link
• Merit Medical Systems to cut 117 jobs in Pearland, plans future expansion - Link
• Energy-focused tech co. Quorum Software names new CEO - Link
• Why providers are evolving toward end-to-end secure SD networks - Link
• Business owners: Know what you need to net to retire - Link
• Does your business need a prenup? - Link
• When the “highest bidder” is your legacy - Link
• How to keep a business in the family — and keep your relatives - Link
• Jet setting industry climbing to previous highs - Link
• Houston Business Journal names new economic development, education, DEI reporter - Link
• MD Anderson spinout Codiak Biosciences cuts 37% of workforce, pauses 2 programs - Link
• Rice University ranks in top 10 of Niche's 2023 Best Colleges in America list - Link
• University of Houston is key player in Texas bid for federal hydrogen hub funding - Link
• Houston PE firm Quantum Energy Partners co-leads Carbon Direct's $60M round - Link
• Nominations for Houston Inno's 2022 Under 25 Awards open through Oct. 7 - Link
  - Houston Business Journal

• Startups: Fueling Economic Growth and Recovery – Media.Tech Ventures - Link
• MediaTech Ventures’ Community Spotlight Ep.05 - Phoebe Mroczek - MediaTech Ventures - Link
• Marketing Roundup: YouTube Reaches Gen-Z and Gen Alpha – 3rd & Lamar - Link
• An End to the “Girlboss” Era? - Link
• Zócalo Health Selected to Participate in AWS Healthcare Accelerator for Health Equity - Link
• VC fund lures Texas startup Zil Money to Grand Rapids - Link
• Was the Wing worth saving? The controversial women’s coworking chain shuts down for good - Link
• New venture capital firm targets OU startups - Link
• Washington, D.C. Ranked As the Nation’s Best City For Black Entrepreneurs - Link
• What's next for Amazon's healthcare strategy? - Link
• 'I Would Never Date a Crypto Guy Again.' What Women Say About Dating in Crypto - Link
• Light Street Capital's Kacher: Proposal to sell Zendesk to private equity is not profitable for investors - Link
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• Transforming Data Infrastructure with Real-Time Analytics: Why We’re Excited to Back StarTree | Sapphire Ventures - Link
• Leading Seattle VC firm Madrona Venture Group expands to Palo Alto | The Seattle Times - Link
• 7th Annual Intro to the UT/Austin Startup Ecosystem Tradeshow Tickets, Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 4:30 PM | Eventbrite - Link
• 6 ways to make sure your startup is using the right GTM model | TechCrunch - Link