Austin Ventures
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Private equity |
Founded | 1979[1] |
Founders | Joe Aragona, Ken DeAngelis, Bill Wood |
Headquarters | Austin, Texas, United States |
Products | Venture capital, Growth capital |
Total assets | $3.9 billion |
Number of employees | 60+ |
Website | www.austinventures.com |
Austin Ventures (AV) is a private equity firm focused on venture capital and growth equity investments in business services and supply chain, financial services, new media, Internet, and information services companies nationally with a focus on Texas.[2] The firm, which is based in Austin, Texas, was founded in 1984.[1] AV has raised approximately $3.9 billion since inception across ten private equity funds.
In September 2008, the firm announced the closing of Austin Ventures X with $900 million of investor commitments which will be used to fund start-up capital for emerging companies and growth capital for expansion rounds and recapitalizations.
In 2003, Austin Ventures, had offered to buy Hoover's Inc. for about $131 million in cash.[3] Which was later withdrawn after a week as per Hoover's.[4]
Its investments include Bloomfire,[5] Donuts,[6] MIQ Logistics,[7] Spiceworks,[8] Spredfast[9] and Worksoft.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b findventure.com Archived September 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thorpe, Helen (2000-08-20). "Austin, We Have a Problem". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
- ^ News, Bloomberg (2003-02-08). "Company News; Shareholder Makes a Competing Bid for Hoover's". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
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has generic name (help) - ^ News, Bloomberg (2003-02-14). "Company News; Marathon and Austin Withdraw Bid for Hoover's". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
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has generic name (help) - ^ "Bloomfire > Investors". crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Kolodny, Lora (2012-06-05). "Donuts Raises $100M-Plus To Deliver 'Dot-Anything-You-Want' Domain Names". WSJ. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
- ^ Twiddy, David. "Austin Ventures schließt Kauf über 38,7 Mio. USD ab". bizjournals. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Spiceworks". crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Social Marketing Software Specialist Scores $50 Million". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
- ^ "Worksoft > Investors". crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
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- Austin, We Have a Problem. The New York Times, August 20, 2000
- SHAREHOLDER MAKES A COMPETING BID FOR HOOVER'S. The New York Times, February 8, 2003
- MARATHON AND AUSTIN WITHDRAW BID FOR HOOVER'S. The New York Times, February 14, 2003
- Austin Ventures to buy financial publication publisher. Austin Business Journal, December 22, 2008
- Number of US venture capital funds raising capital significantly down in Q3. AltAssets, October 14, 2008
External links
- Austin Ventures (company website)