OutboundEngine has closed a $1.6 million Series A investment round. Floodgate, Austin Ventures, Silverton Partners and Capital Factory participated in this round of funding. OutboundEngine provides a hands-free marketing platform that puts marketing on autopilot.

North Bridge Venture Partners and Floodgate have invested $5 million in Sharethrough, a provider of video advertising services. The San Francisco-based company raised a $5 million Series A round from the same two venture firms two years ago.

Ten years ago, Austin led Los Angeles on the deal-making front and barely trailed New York. But investment in Austin has dropped off noticeably.

Xamarin said it raised $12 million in a Series A financing from Charles River Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Floodgate. The development tools company will use the funds for product expansion and to build a sales and marketing team. PRESS RELEASE Xamarin Raises $12M to Help Businesses Address Mobile Developer Shortage  Company’s platform already enables 150,000 [...]

Floodgate’s Maples claims financial innovation could have a democratizing effect on the business in the next five years, but says details are hard to anticipate. “I just wish I knew what it was right now.”

Austin, Texas-based Mass Relevance has appointed Matt Corey as chief marketing officer. The venture-backed company enables entertainment, media, retail, and manufacturing brands to drive real-time engagement through social curation. Its investors include Austin Ventures, Floodgate and select angel investors. PRESS RELEASE Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced the appointment [...]

Dasient has been acquired by Twitter! Dasient is focused on solving web-scale security problems involving malware and other types of online abuse. Investors in the company include Google Ventures, Radar Partners, Floodgate, and Benhamou Global Ventures. PRESS RELEASE The Dasient team is excited to announce that we have been acquired by Twitter! Effective immediately, we [...]

On Monday, more than 500 outlets reported that Facebook is acquiring the location-based startup Gowalla, which will shutter in January. Gowalla’s team will now work on Facebook’s new Timeline feature. The acquisition was unexpected for several reasons, including that Austin-based Gowalla has been eating Foursquare’s dust for some time. There were also niggling questions over [...]

NewsCred has raised a $4M Series A led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Lerer Ventures, AOL Ventures and Advancit Capital. This is the website’s second institutional round. Last September, it raised a $750K seed round from FLOODGATE, IA Ventures and Naval Ravikant. All existing investors participated in the Series A financing. PRESS RELEASE Later [...]

NewsCred said it raised a $4 million Series A round of funding led by FirstMark Capital and joined by Lerer Ventures, AOL Ventures and Advancit Capital. The company said the funding closed last month. It also said that last September it raised a $750,000 seed round from FLOODGATE, IA Ventures and Naval Ravikant, all of [...]