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- TechCrunch’s Mary Ann Azevedo
- ICON Raises $207 Million in Funding to Build Houses on Earth and in Space — Link
- Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek - Icon scores $207M for 3D-printed homes — Link
- Austin Business Journal - Austin 3D-printing company Icon lands $207 million to continue rapid growth — Link
- Austin American-Statesman - ICON’s Concrete 3D Printing Tech Receives $207M in Funding — Link
- 3D Print
“Norwest Venture Partners led the startup’s Series B round, which also included participation from 8VC, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), BOND, Citi Crosstimbers, Ensemble, Fifth Wall, LENx, Moderne Ventures and Oakhouse Partners. The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million. The company declined to reveal its valuation.
ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S. That 350-square-foot house took about 48 hours (at 25% speed) to print. ICON purposely chose concrete as a material because, as co-founder and CEO Jason Ballard put it, “It’s one of the most resilient materials on Earth.” — TechCrunch’s Mary Ann Azevedo
The City of Austin Civilian Conservation Corps (ACCC) and the Austin-based Accelerator, TarmacTX have teamed up with Blue Sky Partners and DivInc to launch the Green Workforce Accelerator: a program to support organizations focused on building an environmentally friendly, economically thriving, equity-driven Austin.
- Firebrand Ventures closes $40M seed fund for ‘authentic’ founders in emerging communities — Link [Congrats to Claire Hansen on the new Principal role and reopening the Austin office and of course your recent engagement]
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- Next Coast Ventures - City to expand federal aid for musicians, venues impacted by Covid-19 — Link
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- Joe Rogan’s influence wanes in Spotify era of $100M podcast — Link
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- UTEP, UT Austin, UT System Join U.S. Space Force Partnership — Link
- University of Texas - The LaunchPad | TEXAS Undergraduate Studies — Link
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- Hyliion’s New COO, ClosedLoop.ai Raised $34M, and More Austin Tech News — Link
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- Digital transformation and cybersecurity: Safeguarding your organization — Link
- Judge rules Texas smokeable hemp ban unconstitutional in big win for producers, sellers — Link
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- 2021 Profiles in Power: Bre Cruickshank leads the Radical Girl Gang — Link
- 2021 Profiles in Power: Sheila Fata nurses our region to health, prosperity — Link
- 2021 Profiles in Power: Business-savvy stylist Chelle Neff — Link
- 2021 Profiles in Power: Gutsy entrepreneur Darbie Angell — Link
- 2021 Profiles in Power: VR visionary Amber Allen — Link
- Austin labor market on fire — here is who’s hiring — Link
- Apple buys Austin office building on Capital of Texas Hwy. — Link
- Coding company SonarSource expanding its Austin HQ2 — Link
- Knife maker to put HQ, big factory in Leander — Link
- Hines to develop large timber office building in E. Austin — Link
- UT researchers: 15% of total PPP loans potentially fraudulent — Link
- Samsung could pour more money into Central Texas as it plans $205B global investment — Link
- Robot-powered laundry facility could employ 100-plus in San Marcos — Link
- $8.1B sale of Grande Communications parent company completed — Link
- Facebook could lease space in 6 X Guadalupe skyscraper, sources say — Link
- Icon scores $207M for 3D-printed homes — Link
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- In the money Aug. 23: ClosedLoop’s series B leads week with $48M in deals — Link
- Austin Business Journal & Austin Inno’s Brent Wistrom - Dell Technologies sees growth boom in spite of pandemic, chip shortage — Link
- Elon Musk proposes tunnel in South Texas — Link
- Austin’s jobless rate fell to 4.2% in July, lowest since COVID struck — Link
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- Austin American-Statesman
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