Austin Inno

3 weeks ago | bizjournals.com | Brent Wistrom |Austin Inno

An Austin-based travel tech company has renewed life after being acquired by a group of investors that includes its founder. This story explores the transaction and how the company will move forward. It also details the company's complicated background, which includes a public offering, several acquisitions and a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Included at the end of this report is ABJ's latest list of public companies with Austin-area headquarters.

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Brent Wistrom |Austin Inno

Austin has a ton of high-flying tech leaders who helped put the city on the map. In this story, we look at a program designed to honor the people who have been most influential in Austin's rise as a prominent tech and startup hub. We explore ways to nominate local leaders, as well as look back at folks who were honored when the program was revived last year.

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Brent Wistrom |Austin Inno

This is an example of ABJ's free The Beat newsletter, which is emailed to tens of thousands of subscribers daily. It includes startup funding news, executive hires, local tech trends and more. This is an example of ABJ's free The Beat newsletter, which is emailed to tens of thousands of subscribers daily and focuses on Austin's startup and innovation scene. Sign up for it here. I hope your SXSW (or lack thereof) is going well.

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Brent Wistrom |Austin Inno

Meet the wooly mouse. While they're super cute, the work is largely a demonstration of how the company plans to develop full-sized woolly mammoths in the years ahead. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences Inc. has developed mice that have woolly mammoth-like traits. The Colossal Woolly Mouse, as they're calling it, is the result of gene editing that integrates some of the mammoth's cold weather features, such as its thicker coat, into mice.