A handful of Austin tech startups pulled in funding last week to further their products, and Tesla is bringing new jobs to the city’s tech scene. Read more on the latest. This is the Built In Austin weekly refresh.
The number of local employees at Austin’s 100 largest digital tech companies grew to nearly 60,000 in 2017. That’s an 11 percent bump over 2016’s figures.
As anyone in the construction biz will tell you, materials aren’t cheap. Billd, a fintech startup headquartered in Austin, just raised a $60 million Series A to provide construction companies with working capital for materials.
On its mission to revolutionize digital customer engagement, Khoros received new funding and acquired Topbox’s CX software to help make its vision a reality.
