Texas Roundup: Sketch city, Everfest, Neosensory, & holiday Poetry
(With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore.)
‘Twas three days prior to Christmas, and throughout Xconomy Texas,
The builders were coding, desires filled with exits.
via instrument and apps, innovation is born,
All towards the intention of that billion-greenback unicorn.
And with that, let’s compensate for the newest news from Xconomy Texas:
—Houston has a brand new dwelling for civic entrepreneurs known as Sketch city. The workforce will host hackathons with subject matters: transportation, media, and public well being.
—There are gala’s for nearly the whole thing under the sun nowadays—track, film, meals, and beer—and final 12 months Everfest was once based to lend a hand attendees search in the course of the offerings in addition to navigate the events they attend. We caught up with co-founder and co-CEO Jay Manickam to find out how issues are going thus far.
—Dallas’s nGame was once sold with the aid of FullContact, based in Denver. nGame makes marketing software, in an effort to be built-in into FullContact’s contact administration tool.
—In every other Dallas acquisition, ShopSavvy used to be picked up by way of digital publisher Purch, which is based in Ogden, UT, and new york. ShopSavvy had additionally opened a hub in San Francisco.
—Co-working house begin Houston has fashioned a partnership with San Francisco’s Gigster to supply freelance developer assist to native entrepreneurs.
—Neosensory’s vest is a tool that would lend a hand the deaf “hear” through vibrations. The Houston startup is co-based via Baylor college of drugs scientist David Eagleman. We interviewed Eagleman to find out more.
—Deluged via flash sales and different advertising and marketing e-mails touting the best offers on wine? Austin, TX’s Pure Vino has developed an app with the intention to best ship you those you want.
—Travis Oliphant, CEO of Austin’s Continuum Analytics, says the 4-year-previous company is on the verge of breaking even in 2016. The startup final week received $ 10 million in debt financing to build out its analytics instruments and beef up its advertising and marketing efforts.
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