TechStars expands into Austin with new incubator branch

The latest city that incubator program TechStars will expand into is bustling tech city Austin, Texas, the organization announced today.

Placester locks up $2.5M so real estate agents can do business online

Placester announced $2.5 million in funding today for its suite of software solutions that help real estate agents, brokers, and home owners effectively run their business online.

With its first acquisition, TechStars New York has more to offer than reality TV

TechStars' New York greatest success story to date? ThinkNear, a hyper-local mobile ad service that was acquired today by Telenav for a whopping $22.5 million.

TechStars Boulder Demo Day: from cloud hosting to ‘co-working on steroids’

Today was graduation time for TechStars' latest class of startups in Boulder, Colo.

Google Ventures funds Wantworthy, a “save for later” tool for online shopping

In an online shopping frenzy, do you wish you could save all your favorite items into one handy shopping list? Wantworthy, an e-commerce tool to organize, and get feedback on products, launches today with $1 million in backing from Google …

Kinect-based medical startup Jintronix wins International Startup Festival’s top prize

Founder of new startup gives physical therapy a technological boost after watching his father struggle with recovering from a stroke.

TechStars alum Cloudability snags $8.7M from Foundry to track your cloud costs

Cloud-cost tracking startup and TechStars Cloud alum Cloudability has raised $8.7 million in its first round of funding, the company announced Thursday morning.

Clouability offers cloud-based software that ties into various IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services and tells you how …

NOLAbound opens applications to lure entrepreneurs to New Orleans

The city of New Orleans today is rolling out the social media red carpet for aspiring entrepreneurs, as applications open for NOLABound, with the hopes of spurring a startup scene in the Crescent City. Think of it as a mini-dose …

Roundup: Bombs, don't do Delaware, MySQL IPO & more

The latest Silicon Valley round-up:

Correlation between bomb building and entrepreneurship? — Former PayPal chief executive Peter Thiel reportedly says four of six founders of the online payment service built bombs while in high school. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley venture capitalist …