Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #252 2020 Week 26 Jun 21 — Jun 28

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Austin Startup ScaleFactor is Shutting Down — Link

- Austin Inno’s Brett Wistrom

• ScaleFactor is shutting down after coronavirus craters sales — Link
  - Austin Business Journal
• COVID-19 claims another business: ScaleFactor — Link
  - Austin American-Statesman
• Austin’s ScaleFactor Shuts Down After Raising $103 Million — Link
  - Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek
• Fintech Startup That Raised $100 Million From Investors Bessemer And Coatue Is Abruptly Shutting Down — Link
  - Forbes’ David Jeans

“ScaleFactor told its employees the company has laid off half of its roughly 100 employees, with the team later dwindling to about 10 as it closes down in August. In a blog post later, Rathmann said ScaleFactor is suspending a majority of its operations on Aug. 28.

“Despite the positive traction we’ve shown in the last several months, we can no longer reliably forecast the time it would take to complete restructuring,” he wrote. “We simply don’t know how long current market conditions will last or what the small business landscape will look like when the market finally recovers. As a result, we have made the very difficult decision to suspend the majority of our operations effective today.”

Rathmann founded ScaleFactor in 2014 to help small- and medium-sized businesses automate back office bookkeeping, among other things. The startup went on to join the 2017 class at Techstars Austin. In the following years, it raised a total of about $100 million in venture funding from firms including Coatue Management, Canaan Partners, Broadhaven Ventures, Citi Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Flyover Capital and Firebrand Ventures.” — Brent Wistrom

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• Fundraising: Don’t Waste Time Convincing Skeptics — Link
  - Austin Startups
• Returning to Work in a COVID-19 World — Link
  - NextCoast Ventures
• 6 Questions for Peter Teneriello — Link
  - The Labyrinth’s Jake Chapman
• Swivel Adds Octane to Digital Leasing — Link
• Austin company’s COVID-19 antibody test gets emergency authorization — Link
  - Culture Map Austin
• Urbānitūs co-founder Bryan Jones hosts a discussion on the future of free speech on the Internet — Link
• ‘We did not choose to live in an interesting time… it chose us’ — Link
  - Urbānitūs
• GoDaddy Closes Austin Offices and Lays Off 331 Local Employees — Link
• Austin’s OJO Labs Raises $62.5 Million and Buys Movoto — Link
• Tesla Officials Provide More Details on $1 Billion Cybertruck Plant Proposed for Austin Area — Link
• Austin’s ScaleFactor Shuts Down After Raising $103 Million — Link
• Australian Graphic Design Platform Canva to Open an Austin Office — Link
• As COVID-19 Cases Spike in Texas, Governor Abbott Urges People to Take Precautions to Prevent the Spread and Keep the Economy Open — Link
• Austin Launches the “City of US” Campaign to Encourage Everyone to Wear Face Masks to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 — Link
  - Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek
• Travis County considers 80% tax break to coax Tesla — Link
• Travis County’s small business grant program sees $2.5M in requests in three days — Link
  - Austin Monitor
• Five reasons why Elon Musk and Grimes should choose ​Austin over Tulsa for the new Tesla factory — and HQ — Link
• Austin-based Babson Diagnostics gets FDA emergency-use OK for COVID-19 antibody tests — Link
• CDC: University of Texas Cabo cluster provides model for how to respond to COVID-19 outbreaks — Link
• GoDaddy to close both Austin offices and lay off hundreds of workers, citing COVID-19 — Link
• Why contact tracing isn’t working in Austin — Link
• Tesla to Travis County: Austin is at the top of our list, but we need a 20-year tax rebate deal — Link
• University of Texas at Austin makes SAT and ACT scores optional for next application cycle — Link
• Elon Musk seeks fast-track approval of $1.1 billion Tesla plant — Link
• Will an under-fire Joe Rogan move his $100 million podcast to Austin? — Link
• Tesla seeks fast-track approval of $1.1 billion plant from Austin boards overwhelmed by crises — Link
  - Austonia
• New Sensor May Soon Test for Coronavirus and Flu Simultaneously — Link
• MD Anderson and UT Austin Create Unique Data-Driven Collaboration to Eliminate Cancer Using Novel Mathematical and Computational Approaches — Link
• UT Austin Will Temporarily Change Standardized Test Score Requirement — Link
• UT doctoral student creates viral hashtag uncovering stories of discrimination in higher-ed institutions — Link
• UT professors must rethink participation in the classroom — Link
• Contact tracing helped control outbreak for UT students on Cabo spring break trip, CDC report finds — Link
• The eyes of the world are upon us, Texas — Link
• UT removes SAT and ACT requirement for fall 2021 undergraduate admissions — Link
• 3,500 classes to move online this fall — Link
• Permanent University Fund’s assets under UTIMCO management lose 5% in market value since January due to COVID-19 — Link
  - University of Texas
• Q&A with John Eitel: Why Canva picked Austin for its U.S. office — Link
• Innovators, NASA wants your help in building a toilet for the moon — Link
• Code2College is raising $1.5M to help Black and Hispanic women in STEM careers — Link
• GoDaddy is closing its Austin office, laying off 331 people — Link
• Y Combinator-backed Hoss launches API solution with $1.6M in seed funding — Link
• Australian design unicorn Canva opens office in Austin — Link
  - Austin Inno’s Brett Wistrom — Subscribe Here
• Looting is the cherry top of 2020s bad news cake to small businesses — Link
• Can Twitter ever secure data privacy, like even once? — Link
• Live captioning via AI is now available for Zoom, if a little limited — Link
• I was laid off, but then my position was filled, what can I do? — Link
• Managing bipolar disorder and what I wish my employers understood — Link
• Facebook’s Forecast wants ‘qualified’ predictions, but no one’s asking why — Link
• Well established Pinterest has a new competitor, Google Keen — Link
• Practicum: Boot camp and career coaching that won’t break your bank — Link
• 100% electric by 2030: Lyft swears to make the jump — Link
• Will brands erasing potentially offensive legacy names hurt or help sales? — Link
• Big Tuna is being dismantled and one CEO is going to prison — Link
• How well-meaning diversity and inclusion hiring practices could backfire — Link
• Data Dividend Project wants you paid for companies to use of your data — Link
• Apple doesn’t push product placement. What can you learn from them? — Link
• No longer a gimmick, VR enters the recruiting space — Link
• The White House pushes for $450 per week return to work bonus — Link
• Can small businesses keep up as more big box brands offer $15/hr pay? — Link
• Twitter to introduce voice-recording feature, be ready for even hotter takes — Link
  - American Genius
• Newly Remote? This Tech Leader Has 7 Tips to Support a Productive Team — Link
• OJO Labs Raises $62.5M to Buy Movoto and Build Out Human-In–The Loop AI — Link
• Tesla Just Presented Its Plan for an Austin Gigafactory — Link
• Weekly Refresh: Tesla Rumors Grow, Tech Council’s Diversity Panel, and More — Link
  - BuiltinAustin
• Texas rushes to open up liquor laws as state closes up again — Link
• Code2College raising $1.5M to help Black and Hispanic women get into STEM careers — Link
• Microsoft won’t reopen most retail stores, including in Austin — Link
• How Austin’s Best Places to Work plan to stay that way — Link
• Tesla addresses criticism at school board meeting — Link
• Austin’s Best Places to Work ranked for 2020 — Link
• Tesla would fuel housing development in far East Austin, experts say — Link
• Housing, stores, nonprofit space could replace old Home Depot at St. Johns & I-35 — Link
• Health-tech company Vilua now calls Austin its global HQ — Link
• Gourdough’s files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — Link
• BigCommerce could IPO, Bloomberg reports — Link
• Joah Spearman: Making Juneteenth a company holiday is great — here’s what should happen next — Link
• Bank of America’s top Austin exec talks PPP, Covid & more — Link
• Vonlane resuming more luxury bus routes in Texas — Link
• OJO Labs is latest Austin startup to score big funding in turbulent times — Link
• GoDaddy to lay off hundreds, close Austin offices — Link
• Confusion and shortages: A look at the hard life for restaurants today — Link
• Tesla breaks silence: Execs explain interest in East Austin for factory, what carrots they’re offering community — Link
• Viewpoint: Tesla tax breaks a good deal for taxpayers, economy — Link
• A deeper look at Chapter 313 incentives as Tesla eyes massive Austin factory — Link
• Another tech company jumps from Silicon Valley to ATX — Link
• Site selector: After factory, Austin could land Tesla HQ — Link
• Why Austin’s new $1B public tech company avoided an IPO — Link
• In the money June 22: $130M raised by startups — Link
  - Austin Business Journal
• Proposed tax breaks for Tesla “gigafactory” draw mixed reaction — Link
• Chuck E. Cheese parent company to close 34 locations permanently: Is your location on the store closings list? — Link
• Costco brings back free samples at some clubs after suspending sampling due to COVID-19, but pulls sheet cakes — Link
• Del Valle school board hears from Tesla, public on possible tax breaks for planned factory — Link
• Austin software company Mitratech adds products with acquisition — Link
• ‘WE CAN ALL DO BETTER:’ Austin tech firms, leaders say they’ll take action to address industry’s lack of diversity — Link
• Dell Technologies weighs future of VMware stake — Link
• Web hosting company GoDaddy is closing Austin offices, laying off 300 workers — Link
• Tech companies warn of talent loss after Trump’s visa suspension — Link
• Austin real estate tech startup Ojo Labs raises $62M, snaps up California firm — Link
• Austin tech companies concerned after Trump suspends visa program — Link
• Austin-based wellness chain lands $8M for expansion — Link
• Tesla could get $50M in tax breaks to choose Travis County site — Link
• FileTrail moves HQ to Austin — Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

SAN ANTONIO

• In This Together San Antonio — Link
• Michael Girdley’s Four for Friday Podcast — Link
• SecurityGate.io Series A Funding To Fuel Growth of Its Cyber Risk Assessment Platform — Link
  - Startups San Antonio’s Iris Gonzalez
• Pandemic Offers Chance to Move Manufacturing Jobs Closer to Home — Link
• Port SA Partners with City, CPS to Create Multi-Agency Cybersecurity Hub — Link
• Survey: San Antonio’s Digital Divide Follows City Council District Lines — Link
  - Rivard Report
• Exclusive: H. E. Butt Foundation building office, program space in San Antonio — Link
• 8th Wonder Brewery embraces technology as bars and restaurants begin to reopen — Link
• Local energy industry-focused drone tech company acquired — Link
• SA company using Covid downtime to expand sports content tech — Link
• Executive Q&A: How CPS Energy, city benefit from big investment in cybersecurity — Link
• SABJ taking nominations for new Resilience in Business Awards — Link
• Survey confirms vast citywide digital divide — Link
• Business booming for cleaning companies during Covid-19 pandemic — Link
• Local hotel industry plots long and tough road to recovery — Link
• City funds massive effort to protect Alamo City, smaller cities from cyberattacks — Link
• Expert Column: 3 questions small business owners must answer to succeed post-Covid — Link
• STEER leader looks to bridge gap between industry, struggling oil towns — Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• Let’s Grow North Texas Business — Link
• Apply to Health Wildcatters Accelerator 2020 — F6S — Link
• Mad Scientist Laboratory Podcast: The Convergence: Innovating Innovation with Molly Cain — Link
• Frisco-based Trivie banks $5 million to grow its workplace training trivia app — Link
  - The Dallas Morning News
• Denison Development Alliance grant accelerates small business E-commerce — Link
• North Texas student entrepreneurs take regional prizes at pitch challenge — Link
• Office Envy: Go inside WorkSuites’ new Allen coworking space — Link
• Innovators, NASA wants your help in building a toilet for the moon — Link
• OneDay launches crowdsourcing video service to help families grieve during the pandemic — Link
• Frisco-based Trivie lands $5M Series A to help get employees back to work — Link
• Bottle Rocket engineers create winning Android Developer Challenge app — Link
• Animal Cloud uses military tech to help law enforcement animals — Link
• Student startups: SMU launches bootcamp for teen entrepreneurs — Link
  - North Texas Inno’s Kevin Cumming
• Acre Distilling goes solar — Link
• TTI adds Drabik as vice president — Link
• Mouser Electronics win communication award — Link
• Virus pummels commercial real estate, could end long boom — Link
• 2020 Forty Under Forty Honored — Link
• Initial public offerings scheduled to debut this week include Albertsons — Link
  - Fort Worth Business Press
• SMU grads launch innovative Dallas startup to battle plastic straws — Link
• Texas could be home to 4 of country’s 10 largest cities in 2021 — Link
  - Culture Map Dallas
• Is Nextdoor an Open Forum for Snitch Culture and Covert Racism? — Link
  - Dallas Observer
• Ghost Kitchens are Gaining Traction in North Texas — Link
• Mark Cuban Joins Heal America Tour in Dallas — Link
• Will COVID-19 Accelerate Supply Chain Trends in North Texas? — Link
• Dallas Economic Recovery Task Force Launches Initiative to Assist Struggling Businesses — Link
• Will Dallas Become a Major Hyperscale Data Market? — Link
• Conversation With: Bank of Texas’ Mandy Austin — Link
• Executive Perspectives: Charlie Morrison — Link
• Blue Cross Launches New Platform with Epic — Link
  - D Magazine
• Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2020 Winners of $2K in Artist Grants — Link
• DI People: Mohr Partners, UTD, Stream Realty Partners, Bank of Texas Make Moves — Link
• Report: New JLL Snapshot Study Examines How South Dallas Evolved Into a Food Desert — Link
• Managing Madness with a Mentor: Meet MadLove Agency’s Mary Dee — Link
• ‘Future of Healthcare’: Dallas’ Catapult Health Launches a New Program That Brings Virtual Checkups Home — Link
• Now Streaming: Dallas-Based AfroLandTV is the New ‘Netflix for the Global Pan African Diaspora’ — Link
• A New Dallas Nonprofit Amplifies Black-Owned Tutoring Companies — Link
• The ‘Un-Agency’: Why a Third-Generation Dallas Business Owner Built a Company to Connect ‘Gig’ Talent — Link
• Facility Planning Expert: Disinfectant Tech Is Going Mainstream to Limit Spread of Infectious Disease — Link
• Dallas City Council Approves Construction on Downtown Park Renovation — Link
• Dallas’ OneDay Launches First-of-its-Kind Video Storytelling Tech for the Funeral Home Industry — Link
• How Effective is UV Light Technology in Killing COVID-19? Dallas’ Air Pros USA Weighs In — Link
• Frisco-Based Trivie Closes $5M Series A to Expand its Workforce Knowledge Retention Platform — Link
• Building the Future with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 — Link
• Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of June 9 — Link
• Here’s a Roundup of COVID-19 Funding Options for DFW Small Biz. But Key Deadlines Are Approaching — Link
• Two Local Entrepreneurs Developed a Community Video App to Assist Those in Stressful Encounters With Police — Link
• Local Economic Recovery Task Force Launches Dallas Forward Initiative to Help Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses — Link
• How Cooling Shoes Insoles From UTSW Scientists Could Heal Diabetic’s Heels — Link
• Purpose to Play: Dallas-based BALANCED Closes a $3.5M Seed Round for Crowdsourced AI Gaming Tech — Link
• Black in Business: North Texas Entrepreneurs Give Advice, Share Perspective, and Open Dialogue — Link
• A Major Milestone: Tyler Technologies Joins the Coveted S&P 500 — Link
• Dallas Native’s Sanitizing Wipe Startup Experiences Exponential Growth Amidst Pandemic — Link
  - Dallas Innovates
• The Fed is firing up its $600B small business lending program. These DFW banks are participating. — Link
• Remote work + homeschooling — child care — summer camps = lunacy — Link
• Startup that manages discrimination, harassment claims gets $4M from Dallas investor — Link
• This CEO had to shift quickly as a brick-and-mortar approach was suddenly not workable — Link
• Pass the guac? Fast-growing DFW company opens local facility as sales accelerate — Link
• How Joseph Akintolayo built an app that connected local black businesses with CARES Act funding — Link
• Moving to DFW: Three local counties among 10 fastest-growing in the U.S. — Link
• CEC Entertainment, parent of Chuck E. Cheese, latest company to file for bankruptcy protection under coronavirus’ strain — Link
• Meet our 2020 Women in Business honorees (Part 3) — Link
• Frisco tech company assisting real estate is roughly doubling its size with new acquisition — Link
• Roundup of deals and dollars: Clearlake Capital acquires majority stake in Dallas investment management firm — Link
• Sabre sees ‘modest indications of recovery’ in travel industry — Link
• Meet our 2020 Women in Business honorees (Part 2) — Link
• Communications pro offers up some lessons learned to bring a brand to the next level — Link
• Head of local PE firm discusses investment thesis, what’s ahead — Link
• After ‘pause button was pressed’ for startup’s funding, future now looks brighter — Link
• Be aggressive? After raising $185M, DFW firm says bring it on — Link
• This Dallas company is eyeing 20 acquisitions by year’s end — Link
• Frisco startup lands $5M round as COVID-19 shows its tech assists remote workers — Link
• Meet our 2020 Women in Business honorees (Part 1) — Link
• Vonlane restarting more routes out of Dallas, Fort Worth next month — Link
• Salesforce provides funding to Addison tech company for expansion — Link
• $120B federal relief package for independent restaurants could help North Texas restaurateurs left behind by PPP — Link
• Texas Instruments’ key chip business strengthens hold on №1 ranking — even as sales drop — Link
• The state of fundraising in North Texas: Local private equity leaders break down the challenges — and opportunities — Link
• This tech company is joining an elite Dallas club — Link
• After push from mom to relocate to America, she’s now president of major Dallas company — Link
• California western apparel maker eyes distribution hub in Fort Worth — Link
  - Dallas Business Journal

• Hiring: Capital Factory Venture Associate, Houston — Link
• BBL Ventures Energy & Industrial Tech Challenge — Apply by July 18th — Link
• Reflecting on 5 years of WorkLodge — Link
  - WorkLodge’s Mike Thakur
• SecurityGate | Ted Gutierrez on Oil and Gas Startups — Link
  - Digital Wildcatters Collin McLelland
• Quidnet Energy’s $10M Series B Paves Way For Commercial Expansion — Link
  - Crunchbase News’ Christine Hall
• BT Implements Onit Workflow Platform Apptitude to Power Corporate Legal Innovation — Link
• Nonprofit rises to create resources and networking for Houston’s LGBTQ+ community — Link
• Renowned Houston children’s hospital now admitting adult patients due to COVID-19 — Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
• Startup closes series A, Houston hospital taps into new tech, and more local innovation news — Link
• Houstonians can help their community amid COVID-19 on a virtual ‘day of action’ — Link
• Houston founder: COVID-19 return-to-work plans failing to consider breastfeeding moms — Link
• Houston investment firm leads Texas startup’s $5M series A round — Link
• Houston tech startup offers free survey app to help companies manage COVID-19 response — Link
• Houston entrepreneur on why social impact innovation is important — now more than ever — Link
• New-to-Houston startup incubator CEO on why there’s ‘no better place’ to expand — Link
• Tracking customer satisfaction is essential to business success, Rice University research finds — Link
• Houston renewable energy company closes $10M series B — Link
• Houston esports company to provide software for a first-of-its-kind collegiate tournament — Link
• Houston rent prices rise as COVID-19 impacts local housing market — Link
• 3 Houston innovators to know this week — Link
  - InnovationMap’s Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
• Rice shares grant for AI-driven COVID-19 research — Link
• New COVID-19 business grading system could help economy reopen more safely — Link
• Purifying water with a partly coated gold nanoparticle — Link
• Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst — Link
• Georgia State U.’s Aurign wins 2020 Rice Business Plan Competition — Link
• Rice receives NSF grant to probe COVID-19 evolution — Link
  - Rice University
• College of Medicine to host diverse inaugural class — Link
• Hilton College prepares to host virtual hospitality competition — Link
  - University of Houston
• Texas rushes to open up liquor laws as state closes up again — Link
• 3 local Microsoft stores won’t reopen as tech giant moves away from brick-and-mortar retail — Link
• Rice researchers propose grading system for restaurants, others amid Covid-19 — Link
• Recovery of Houston’s hotels may take years, CBRE report says — Link
• BBVA USA enrolls in $600B Fed lending program, launches revamped banking app — Link
• Schlumberger faces $100M class action lawsuit alleging discrimination against women — Link
• VCs less likely to invest in startups with fully remote workforce, survey says — Link
• Clean energy storage firm nabs $10M Series B, hiring — Link
• $120B federal relief package for independent restaurants could help those left behind by PPP — Link
• Apartment community to rise in Houston private school’s 47-acre village — Link
• New medical office building rising near TMC as part of larger campus expansion — Link
• Houston-based frac sand, tech co. gets court approval for bankruptcy plan — Link
• Despite Google lease, inner-Loop mixed-use project not moving forward on phase 2 yet — Link
• Six sister accounting firms join forces to launch a new advisory arm — Link
• HEB CEO contributes to Houston’s Covid-19 recovery fund — Link
  - Houston Business Journal
• Microsoft permanently closing most retail stores, including in Houston — Link
• 3 area students win $40,000 tech scholarships from Amazon — Link
• US Cybercom virtual war game girds against increased threats — Link
• Apple closing Houston stores due to COVID-19 — Link
• Pandemic drives funeral industry to adopt technology — Link
• NASA ‘lunar loo’ challenge seeks toilet designs — Link
• NASA Space Station head to retire — Link
• Launch of Mars rover slips 2 days, now targeting late July — Link
• Monitoring COVID-19 from satellites — Link
• NASA astronauts prepare for spacewalk — Link
• NASA names HQs after first African American female engineer — Link
• Milky Way calculated to have 36 intelligent civilizations — Link
• NASA to fly astronauts on commercially built suborbital vehicles — Link
• NASA’s Space Center partner to get private astronauts into space — Link
  - The Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Lienfelder / Techburger Blog’s Dwight Silverman
• $1.5 Million in Grant Money for 2nd Round of Funding for McAllen Small Businesses — Link
  - McAllen Chamber of Commerce

• Blockchain: Its Evolutions Within the Energy Sector — Kirk Coburn — Link
• Dell Technologies High Performance Computing Customers Drive Breakthroughs for Global Impact — Link
• Using TaskRabbit and Venmo, a Silicon Valley investor and his business partner had workers repackage nonmedical KN95 masks so he could sell them to Texas emergency workers. — Texas Tribune’s J. David McSwane — Link
• Bread and Butter Ventures brings together MN startup veterans | Cryosa Raises $8.25M — Link
• Post-pandemic funding solutions for struggling social entrepreneurs — Link
• The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 | Greenbiz — Link
• gener8tor selects six startups for Madison accelerator — BizTimes — Link
• Scoop: Alexis Ohanian leaves VC firm Initialized — Axios — Link
• Why 7-Eleven Is Betting On Voice Commerce To Keep Customers Loyal — pymnts.com -
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• Chris Sacca returns to venture capital with clean energy firm — Axios — Link
• Why San Francisco shouldn’t worry about a tech-xodus — Financial Times — Link
• Apple AirPods are a Bigger Deal than You Think — Bigger Than The GDP of Entire Countries — Backtracks.fm — Link
• Simon Sinek on Why You Can’t Lead Over Email — Inc. — Link
• 4 Key Tips To Help Your Nonprofit Best Navigate The New Normal — Aleda Gagarin — Link
• Lessons from a Working Mom on “Doing It All” — Harvard Business Review’s Francesca Gino — Link
• State of Product Marketing 2020 — Link
• Brand Impact within Interior Architecture and Design — PDR’s Chris Ardoin — Link
• The Major Risks We Might Face In The Next 18 Months Because Of COVID-19, Visualized — Link
• 5 Consumer Technology Trends To Look Out For In 2020 — Link
• Chamath Palihapitiya wants to be the Warren Buffett of tech investing — Fortune’s Lucinda Shen- Link
• Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital — Techcrunch’s Natasha Mascarenhas — Link

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