MacroFab raises $15M Series B to scale electronics manufacturing capabilities - Link

• MacroFab Announces a $15M Series B round led by Edison Partners, Including Strategic Investment from Altium to Ignite Growth of Manufacturing-as-a-Service for Electronics - Link
• Houston-based MacroFab raises $15 million for its digital platform service - Link
  - Houston Chronicle

The Houston-based electronics manufacturer announced raising a $15 million Series B round on May 25. The round was led by New Jersey-based Edison Partners and saw participation from returning investor Austin-based ATX Venture Partners. San Diego-based Altium Limited, a provider of electronics design software, also joined the Series B as a strategic investor." - Houston Business Journal's Chris Matthews

OpenCoffee Club Austin

• 10 Best Accelerators in Austin, Ranked 2021 - Link
  - Benzinga
   
• SKU and Naturally Austin Select 10 Startups led by Diverse Founders for new SKU M/O Track - Link
  - Silicon Hills News' Laura Lorek
   
• IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2) - Link
  - Austin Startups
   
• Virtuix Raises $19M For Consumer Omni One VR Treadmill - Link
   
• BP3 Blog — 14 Years! - Link
  - BP3's Scott Francis
   
• Could Your Startup Change the Future of Energy? - Link
  - SXSW
   
• California company plugs into Austin’s gaming sector with new studio - Link
• West Coast tech company revs up Austin workforce with 130 new jobs - Link
• New Texas-based golf app links up players, sets tee times, and more - Link
• High-profile DJs spin major investment into Austin tech startup - Link
  - CultureMap Austin
   
• Austin’s music and arts community to receive windfall from American Rescue Plan - Link
• Council members worry water conservation efforts could make development more expensive - Link
  - Austin Monitor
   
• Job seekers, just say no to one-way video interviews - Link
• What to do if you think you have been wrongfully terminated - Link
  - The America Genius
   
• 'A short-term inconvenience for long-term freedom:' Matthew McConaughey talks masking, running for Texas governor - Link
• Austin leads Heartland metros in foreign-born population growth - Link
• New openings, new collections: 5 things to know in Austin retail - Link
• Austin is a 'utopia': Mayor Steve Adler talks homelessness and city growth on Joe Rogan Podcast - Link
• Alright, alright, alright? Austinites sound off on McConaughey’s rumored bid for governor - Link
• Now open: Exclusive club Soho House comes to Austin with rooftop pool and more to come - Link
• Boomtown Austin: The 5 hottest neighborhoods for renters - Link
  - Austonia
   
• Schools Must Invest in Relationships Crucial to Education - Link
• Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Has a Glowing New Weapon - Link
• UT Austin Ranks Highly Among U.S. Public Universities in Latest Global Ranking - Link
• UT Austin Launches the Texas Podcast Network - Link
• Robert A. Iger Delivers Commencement Address at the University of Texas at Austin - Link
  - University of Texas
   
• What Does It Mean To Truly Put the Customer First? - Link
• Homeward Raises $371M to Help People Buy a Home With Cash - Link
• Why Innovation Is a Key Focus for This Identity Security Company - Link
• Cognite Got $150M, Hypergiant's New CEO, and More Austin Tech News - Link
• Innovation in Austin: 2 Companies to Watch Right Now - Link
• The DevOps Sages Weigh In: How to Build the Best Toolchains - Link
• Virtuix Raises $19M From Mark Cuban, Others to Launch At-Home VR Treadmill - Link
• Proactivity is Key to Improved Client Relations - Link
• SparkCognition Opens First Building at 50-Acre HyperWerx Campus - Link
• Voice-to-Text Service Rev.com Hiring 130, Expanding Austin Office - Link
• Outdoorsy Partners With Backcountry Ahead of Anticipated Busy Summer - Link
  - Built in Austin
   
• Beam names Leigh Christie CEO to build on mission to help women founders - Link
• Pandemic caused Tresl to hire 100 already this year, with up to another 40 to be hired by the end of December - Link
• Chicago tries to woo tech workers in Austin, elsewhere - Link
• Rocket maker Firefly to add hundreds of jobs in Cedar Park - Link
• PeopleFund helped hundreds of Texas small businesses survive pandemic with dollars, education - Link
• Austin ranks among US cities where housing affordability is falling fastest - Link
• True Wealth Ventures to raise $30M second fund - Link
• Austin awards $5M to live music venues while industry waits for more funding - Link
• Texas Bankers Association moving ahead with HQ tower - Link
• Why contrarian VC Carey Smith has built a C-suite at Unorthodox Ventures - Link
• Cash homebuying startup Homeward pockets $371M more for expansion - Link
• Journal Profile: From learning ASL to moving to ATX, Sherri Turpin has found true passion in her executive role - Link
• Plans for Tesla electric vehicle charging stations pop up across Austin metro - Link
• Santikos taking over old Alamo Drafthouse in New Braunfels - Link
• Georgetown Chamber of Commerce in need of new leader as Jim Johnson departs - Link
• Still Austin Whiskey names first COO amid growth spurt - Link
• Startup accelerator FedTech opens Austin office to work with Army Futures Command - Link
• Why Pioneer Bank agreed to sale that'll create regional power with $7B-plus in assets - Link
• Crane Watch: Lots rising in Central Texas, from housing to robotic farm - Link
• Vrbo parent Expedia hires executives from Apple, Verizon - Link
• Douglas Elliman Real Estate is growing fast across Texas under Jacob Sudhoff - Link
• Nonstop flights to Amsterdam will take off in 2022 from Austin airport - Link
• Rev.com plans Austin expansion, 130 new jobs this year - Link
• Infinitum Electric to double workforce after $40M funding - Link
• 'Blank check' mergers have lost their sparkle for startup leaders - Link
• Investigators uncover 'Super Bowl for fraudsters' - Link
• In the money May 24: Data.World, others raise fresh cash; Investor has new $500M fund - Link
  - Austin Business Journal & Austin Inno's Brent Wistrom
   
• Firefly Aerospace plans to add 680 jobs in Cedar Park - Link
• Texas waives sales tax on efficient appliances this weekend - Link
• Thousands of investors pump $19M into Austin's Virtuix - Link
• Texas Senate waters down medical marijuana expansion - Link
• Round Rock's Infinitum Electric raises $40 million to continue growth, add jobs - Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

• Alamo Angels matches local investors with start-up companies | Commerce Street - Link
  - KENS5.com
   
• Port San Antonio Robotics Company XYREC Wins Innovation Award - Link
• 7 Startups Join VelocityTX Inaugural Bioscience Accelerator Cohort - Link
• Dura Software Acquires Workforce Optimization Software Company DVSAnalytics, Inc. - Link
  - Startups San Antonio’s Iris Gonzalez
   
• Tech Bloc ‘Reboot Rally’ draws hundreds to downtown park - Link
• Community Labs ends Saturday COVID-19 testing at public sites as it sees shift in demand - Link
• The end of federal jobless benefits could shake up local labor market - Link
• Preserving tiny homes improves housing affordability but can come with mighty costs - Link
• SAISD’s Pedro Martinez: No ‘going back to normal’ technology usage after pandemic - Link
• Frost Bank gifts $1M to UTSA School of Data Science to further research - Link
• Actionable sustainability critical for San Antonio’s future - Link
• IDEA Public Schools’ CEO, COO out at charter network after financial audit - Link
• CPS Energy CEO Gold-Williams: Rate increase – ‘an inevitability’ – could come this fall - Link
  - San Antonio Report
   
• Downtown Tech Bloc event draws crowd - Link
• Ex-employee admits stealing from SA law firm - Link
• Just days until PNC completes BBVA USA buy, both banks branch out in Texas - Link
• Port SA company to build industry-changing robot that strips paint off planes - Link
• USAA officially expanding to Charlotte, plans to add hundreds of jobs - Link
• Ex-Tesoro CEO invests in SA accounting startup - Link
• SABJ's 2021 Family-Owned Business Awards winners announced - Link
• Local banking major commits $1M to UTSA School of Data Science - Link
• Santikos heading into New Braunfels after Alamo Drafthouse bankruptcy - Link
• Rapidly growing SA manufacturer buys competitor for $30M - Link
• NC biotech planning large manufacturing facility on East Side - Link
• Vote on the 2021 SABJ Fiesta Medal Contest finalists — Nonprofits - Link
• National used-car dealership opens first San Antonio store - Link
• IDEA Public Schools fires executives amid investigation - Link
• Scottsdale software company moving HQ to SA after acquisition - Link
• One of nation's largest banks hires Frost Bank's top legal officer - Link
• 4 ways cyber insurance can help combat fraud - Link
• Supply and demand: A closer examination of the global chip shortage - Link
• Here's how SA's record home value growth stacks up with other cities - Link
• Bill to stop Big Tech companies from censoring users to be heard by Texas House - Link
• Chapter 313 corporate incentives likely to be extended in Texas but not expanded - Link
• Regardless of updated guidance, one industry-focused Fiesta event will still be online - Link
• Effort to legalize Texas casinos fails despite hard Vegas push - Link
• Local VC’s portfolio company raises $5M - Link
• Why a build-to-rent company planted a flag in the Alamo City - Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• Lucy Funded by Dallas Venture Capital to Support Growth of Best-in-Breed, AI-Powered Insights and Knowledge Management Solution - Link
   
• Cyberattack Are You Ready? - Link
• ZIPZONE exands to Everman, adds Crowley, south Fort Worth areas - Link
• Bank CEOs return to testify in front of divided Congress - Link
• Texas Capital Bank makes leadership appointments - Link
• Colonial Pipeline forked over $4.4M to end cyberattack – but is paying a ransom ever the ethical thing to do? - Link
• Supersonic aircraft company with Fort Worth backing to cease operation - Link
• Dallas-Fort Worth cold storage development - Link
• Warm welcome for oat milk maker Oatly in Wall Street debut as company readies Fort Worth plant - Link
• North Texas Community Foundation launches racial equality fund - Link
   - Fort Worth Business Press
   
• DFW moms deliver pandemic success story with learning tubs for kids - Link
  - Culture Map Dallas
   
• Best Casual Dating Sites and Apps of 2021 - Link
• The False Narrative About The Future of Retail - Link
• It’s Time to Make Life Sweeter – Again! - Link
• How Dallas Paved Its Way to Inequality - Link
• Three Convicted of Healthcare Fraud in $40 Million Novus Hospice Case - Link
• Six Steps to Better Decisions When Considering New Technology Solutions - Link
• There’s Been a Shift From Selling Office Space to Selling Experiences - Link
• The Sale of This Massive Warehouse Adds to Hugely Impressive First Quarter - Link
• The Design Studio Behind Some of Dallas’ Most Iconic Restaurants is At It Again - Link
• Dallas Workers and the Purported Labor Shortage in the Restaurant Industry - Link
• Personnel Moves: Encompass Health Names New CEO - Link
• The Future of the Workplace with Saadia Sheikh and Stephen D. Clarke - Link
• Medical City Plano and Frisco Have a New CEO - Link
• Finalists Announced: D CEO’s Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards 2021 - Link
  - D Magazine
   
• AI Startup Aiotics Opens Its Headquarters With a Grant From the McKinney EDC - Link
• Accelerate Real Asset Management Launches Renewable Energy Infrastructure Venture With $500M in Capital - Link
• 1091 Pictures Acquires “No Ordinary Love” by Fort Worth Filmmaker Chyna Robinson, sets June 15th release date - Link
• Recuro Health’s At-Home COVID Test Featured at Census Bureau and HHS’s TOPx Solutions Showcase - Link
• New Dimensions: UT Dallas’ $750M Fundraising Campaign Will Go to Students, Research, and Cultural Dialogue - Link
• VIRA Insight Unveils Brand Refresh, New Manufacturing Center and Headquarters in Lewisville Amid Business Boom - Link
• Dallas-Based Fintech Apex to Speed Equity Trade Settlements with No Two-Day Wait - Link
• Dallas-Based Fund Night Ventures Is Making Moves in the Creator Economy - Link
• Dallas-based American Heart Association Announces Alliance With Hitachi Vantara and Its Precision Medicine Platform - Link
• Dallas-Based Bestow Named To 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 - Link
• Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of May 11 - Link
• Frisco PropTech Elm Street Technology Expands With New Senior Leadership, Aggressive Acquisition Strategy - Link
• Plano-Based Auto Crypto Company Carnomaly Partners With National Motor Vehicle Title Information System - Link
• Spurred by Texas Growth, Local Consulting Firm Slalom Adds 200+ Jobs - Link
• American Heart Association’s Precision Medicine Platform and Hitachi Vantara Announce New Alliance - Link
• Dallas-Based Snipitz Wants to Let You Choose Your Own Live Broadcast POV - Link
• Arlan Hamilton: ‘Be Yourself So That the People Looking For You Can Find You’ - Link
• Mickelson Wins Historic Golf Major at 50: It’s Gotta Be the Shirt! - Link
• Dallas-based AR Startup ARKH Signs 50/50 Joint Venture with UK-based Litho - Link
  - Dallas Innovates
   
• AI start-up putting headquarters in McKinney, plans for job growth - Link
• Amid the pandemic, some Dallas-area CEOs saw compensation slide – but not all - Link
• 'Adapt and change': Inside two medical device brands' paths to exponential growth - Link
• Oregon investor makes first acquisition in Texas, contemplates move to Dallas - Link
• Form D Friday: Local coffee shop looks to raise $1.2 million - Link
• Mental wellness in the workplace: A local perspective - Link
• RSM Industry Insights: Manufacturing - Link
• Comerica makes play for Raleigh, Southeast market with hire from Wells Fargo - Link
• Grant funding helps The DEC Network launch new entrepreneurial training program for under-represented founders - Link
• Self-driving trucking company expanding in Dallas area as it ramps up commercial efforts - Link
• Kimberly-Clark’s Shonn Brown: ‘Using the Same System, Same Practices Yields the Same Results’ - Link
• Texas Capital Bank names 3 new executives to leadership team - Link
• One year later: How two North Texas banks are doing after $5.5B merger fell through - Link
• Esports education startup moves HQ as it continues pivot to tech platform - Link
• Logistics firm opens site, may add 70 workers as DFW one of the ‘busiest freight markets in the country’ - Link
• Buyers offer $300,000 over asking price to get the home in red-hot North Texas real estate market - Link
• Deep Ellum's newest office tower announces first tenant (Photos) - Link
• Dallas area sees surge in foreign-born residents, easily ranking higher than NY, LA - Link
• Dallas-Fort Worth ranks among top entrepreneurship environments in U.S., study says - Link
• Match’s Jared Sine – ‘Not your Everyday $30B Reverse Spin-off’ - Link
• Nearly 3M-SF of warehouse space coming to Denton County - Link
• At Home's largest shareholder double down on opposition to deal - Link
• Tuesday Morning to relist on the Nasdaq starting this week - Link
• Investment bank brings on new Dallas-based managing director - Link
• Investment bank grows footprint with downtown Dallas headquarters move - Link
• As employees return, Weitzman shows off newly renovated headquarters (Photos) - Link
• Mark Cuban makes a deal with robotic dinosaur maker on Shark Tank - Link
• Furniture rental startup eyes Texas expansion as its closes in on new funding - Link
• Blaze of glory: Send in your nominations for NTX Inno's 2021 Fire Awards - Link
  - Dallas Business Journal & NXT Inno's Kevin Cumming

• Shokworks Powers State of the Art Platforms to Transform Metrospaces to a Prop-Tech Company - Link
  - Galveston County Daily News
   
• Softeq Deep Fake Event at Tech Rodeo - Link
  - Trish Badger Photography
   
• Daily Inspiration: Meet Brenda Rios Brombacher - Link
  - Voyage Houston Magazine
   
• Andy Roddick nets famous investors for launch of new Texas bourbon - Link
• Rice University crafts pivotal new Houston flood tracking system - Link
• Newly announced Houston Spaceport project to include a startup incubator - Link
• Foreign investors bank on Houston as a hot commercial real estate market - Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week - Link
• Deloitte turns global marketing survey into 7 points of action for brands - Link
• How 5G and smart cities technology are transforming the city of Houston - Link
• Prolific Rice University president announces end to storied tenure - Link
• Photos: Downtown Houston innovation hub in renovated office building opens to the public - Link
• Rice University debuts new flood alert system for Houston - Link
• Houston innovation leader assumes permanent role at the helm of The Ion ahead of opening - Link
• Houston fintech startup snags Capital Factory's $50,000 pitch investment prize - Link
• Houston expert: Why tech companies can benefit from building an ambassador ecosystem - Link
• Houston-based electronics manufacturing biz raises $15M in new funding - Link
• Overheard: Houston experts weigh in on the future of tech in real estate - Link
• New Houston-based golf app links up players, sets tee times, and more - Link
• 3 Houston innovators to know this week - Link
  - InnovationMap's Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
   
• Molecular jiggling has implications for carbon nanotube fibers - Link
• Moshe Vardi earns top computer science honor - Link
• Biologists construct a ‘periodic table’ for cell nuclei - Link
• Executives wildly overestimate financial benefits of strategy planning, research finds - Link
• Bacteria have sensors to shut toxin down - Link
• Leebron to step down from Rice presidency in June 2022 - Link
• Letter from Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Ladd on President Leebron - Link
• Bioengineering department adds single-cell expert via CPRIT grant - Link
• Odd angles make for strong spin-spin coupling - Link
• World’s largest database on history of slave trade now housed at Rice - Link
• Pristine quantum criticality found - Link
• Rice builds FIRST flood-alert system for City of Houston - Link
  - Rice University
   
• 2020 graduates to have commencement ceremony in August - Link
• May’s gas shortages were ‘nothing more than an inconvenience,” says UH energy economist - Link
• Bill Gates has always been problematic - Link
• Free items you can receive with your vaccination card - Link
  - University of Houston
   
• Man’s baseball card collection morphs into virtual warehouse - Link
• NASA flight director John Hodge remembered for dodging disaster in Gemini 8 mission - Link
• Mark Geyer steps down as head of Johnson Space Center - Link
• NASA record holder returning to space with Houston's Axiom Space - Link
• NASA is developing new missions to help fight climate change - Link
  - Houston Chronicle
   
• Houston VC Curate Capital leads $1.5M seed round for fintech firm - Link
• Why Cimarex and Cabot reached its 'surprise' merger - Link
• How will Elon Musk use all this Austin-area land he's acquired? - Link
• Photos: 'Darth Vader House' in West University Place listed for $4.3M - Link
• Meet Kathryn Boatman, a 40 Under 40 honoree who puts big emphasis on pro bono work - Link
• Meet LaMonica Love, a 40 Under 40 honoree who launched a law firm, a startup and more - Link
• United Airlines CEO already sees business travel ramping up - Link
• Kore Power names Texas as one of three finalists for new lithium-ion battery factory - Link
• These were Houston's top trade partner countries in 2020 - Link
• Food truck owner's expansion plans include The Ion-owned space - Link
• NASA's Johnson Space Center has new acting director - Link
• Meet Maggie Malek, a 40 Under 40 honoree who faced pandemic shortly after becoming CEO of MMI Agency - Link
• Just days until PNC completes BBVA USA buy, both banks branch out in Texas - Link
• Meet Matthew Berg, a 40 Under 40 honoree who has used his love of science to brief lawmakers - Link
• GHP: Houston exports, international trade hampered by pandemic, oil demand shock - Link
• Houston Methodist awards inaugural grants from $25M Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Grant Program - Link
• Oil States International appoints Texas Medical Center CFO to board - Link
• Rice University President David Leebron to step down next year - Link
• Meet Tarush Anand, a 40 Under 40 honoree who became the youngest partner ever at his law firm - Link
• Exclusive: Aegis Hedging Solutions acquires InstaNext - Link
• Meet Candelario Cervantez, a 40 Under 40 honoree who advocates for others through Teach For America - Link
• Idea Public Schools fires executives amid investigation - Link
• Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce president calls on CEOs to increase board and leadership diversity - Link
• Analyst: Merger of Cabot Oil & Gas and Cimarex Energy features surprising twist - Link
• Biotech firm Asylia Therapeutics raises $14.5M, names founding CEO - Link
• Effort to legalize Texas casinos fails despite hard Vegas push - Link
• Meet Tania Daniel, a 40 Under 40 honoree who helped revive a longtime Junior Achievement program - Link
  - Houston Business Journal

• An Internet Bill of Rights - SEO'Brien Paul O’Brien - Link
• Why SPACs Are Risky — The Dangers of SPACs for Investors - Kirk Coburn - Link
• Draper Hero Institute Announces Best & Worst States To Start a Business - Link
• Startup STOW IT is offering Texans monthly parking at TX Major Airports - Link
• FedTech expands into Texas with Deep Tech Venture Building Capabilities. - Link
• New Coworking Spaces Launches in Arlington, Texas - Link
• VC not only survived, but thrived in 2020 - Axios - Link
• Proptech hits puberty: Insights from Camber Creek’s Casey Berman - Link
• The List: Austin's active incubators and accelerators - Austin Business Journal - Link
• The List: Austin area active venture capital and private equity firms - Austin Business Journal - Link
• DonateStock Wins Capital Factory's Houston Investment Challenge, Part of Houston Tech Rodeo - Link
• Texans May Have to Pay $200–$400 Fee for Driving Electric Vehicles - Link
• How to Find Tomorrow's Silicon Valleys - Link
• SUCCESS Enterprises, Parent Of Success Magazine, Launches Success Space – A New Type Of Coworking Solution - Link
• Ty Haney, Cami Téllez And Rachel Carlson On Reframing The Female Founder Narrative - Forbes - Link
• Pregnant CEO Rules for Financing: Investors Who Doubt Her Ability Will Be Reduced - Link
• Los Angeles to Tokyo in an hour - a Texas startup is building a Mach 12 hypersonic plane that could dramatical - Link
• What Amazing Bosses Do Differently - Link
• You can't have too many angels - Startup Real Talk - Link
• How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech moonshot  — Celine Halioua - Link
• The media's lab leak fiasco - Slow Boring - Link
• Starting a Company in a Space You’re Not an Expert in — This Founder Shares 6 Lessons | First Round Review - Link
• Meeting New Demand with Software - Link
• The Transition: Refusing to Take No For An Answer with Anthony J. Gantt Jr., Founder & CEO of At Ease Rentals on Apple Podcasts - Link
• SparkCognition Opens HyperWerx Autonomy Facility in Greater Austin Area - Link
• Oracle for Startups: DigiFarm breaks new ground in tech-enhanced farming - Link
• When Getting Back to 'Normal' Doesn't Make Sense | Inc.com - Link
• Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast • A podcast on Anchor - Link
• 4 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From John Paul DeJoria's Rags-to-Riches Story - Link