The company is backed by investors such as Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.

Thornton is a general partner at Austin Ventures, the most powerful venture capital firm in town.

Austin Ventures proactively seeks to buy and build companies in markets where their CEO partners have experience.

Austin Ventures to buy financial publication publisher.

Austin Ventures (company website)

The company's seed round investors were Austin Ventures and Sigma Partners.

Asset International was acquired in January 2009, by venture capital firm, Austin Ventures.

In that same year, Troux raised initial funding from Austin Ventures and became a stand alone venture from Question Technologies.

Dell is currently a Venture Partner at Austin Ventures.

It was funded with an initial round of $5M from Austin Ventures.