Austin Ventures has grown by building long-term relationships with talented entrepreneurs & operating executives. We have partnered with more than 150 companies by investing people and resources through our venture capital and growth equity practices. Working closely with the management team, we’ve rolled-up our sleeves to help more than 75 of these companies grow to public offerings or successful acquisitions. Some of our prominent investments include:

Venture Capital

Growth Equity

Active Power
NASDAQ: ACPW
Agere
Acquired by Lucent NYSE: ADR
Benchmarq
Acquired by Unitrode NYSE: TXN
BuildForge
Acquired by IBM NYSE: IBM
Crossroads Systems
NASDAQ: CRDS
Crystal Semiconductor
Acquired by Cirrus Logic Nasdaq: CRUS
Cygnal
Acquired by Silicon Laboratories NASDAQ: SLAB
DAZEL
Acquired by Hewlett Packard NYSE: HPQ
Jigsaw Data Corporation
Acquired by Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM)
LifeSize Communications
Acquired by Logitech NASDAQ: LOGI
Lombardi Software
Acquired by IBM NYSE: IBM
McData
NASDAQ: MCDT
Metasolv
Acquired by Oracle NASDAQ: ORCL
Mission Critical
Acquired by NetIQ
Motive
NASDAQ: MOTV
Pentasafe
Acquired by NetIQ
Permeo Technologies
Acquired by Blue Coat NASDAQ: BCSI
Pluck
Acquired by Demand Media
Silicon Laboratories
NASDAQ: SLAB
SolarWinds
NYSE: SWI
Spatial Wireless
Acquired by Alcatel NYSE: ADR
Synoptics
Acquired by Nortel NYSE: NT
Tivoli
Acquired by IBM NYSE:IBM
Vignette
NASDAQ: VIGN
VitalSigns
Acquired by Lucent NYSE: ADR
Waveset
Acquired by Sun Microsystems NASDAQ: JAVA
Boca
Acquired by Kraft NYSE: KFT
CompUSA
NYSE: CPU
Entorian Technologies
OTC: ENTN.PK
HomeAway
Vacation rental travel services NASDAQ: AWAY
Intelliquest
Acquired by Millward Brown, a division of WPP Group
Naviant
Acquired by Equifax NYSE: EFX
Orion Marine Group
NASD: OMGI
Re:Trans
Acquired by Tailwind Capital
Southern Star Concrete
Acquired by Compania de Cementos Argos SA CLB: MINEROS
Summit Global
Acquired by USI