equity founded 1979 1 founders joe aragona ken deangelis bill wood headquarters austin texas united states products venture capital growth capital total assets 3.9 billion number of employees 60 website www.austinventures.com austin ventures av is a private equity firm focused on venture capital and growth equity investments in business services and supply chain financial services new media internet and information services companies nationally with a focus on texas . the firm which is based in austin texas was founded in 1984 . 1 av has raised approximately 3.9 billion since inception across ten private equity funds . in september 2008 the firm announced the closing of austin ventures x with 900 million of investor commitments which will be used to fund start up capital for emerging companies and growth capital for expansion rounds and recapitalizations . portfolio edit the portfolio includes homeaway bazaarvoice whaleshark media now retailmenot dachis group and spiceworks . references edit a b findventure.com austin we have a problem . new york times august 20 2000 shareholder makes a competing bid for hoover s. new york times february 8 2003 marathon and austin withdraw bid for hoover s. new york times february 14 2003 austin ventures to buy financial publication publisher . austin business journal december 22 2008 number of us venture capital funds raising capital significantly down in q3 . altassets october 14 2008 external links edit austin ventures company website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title austin ventures & oldid 701938300 categories venture capital firms of the united statescompanies established in 1979private equity firms of the united statescompanies based in austin texasunited states private equity firm stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 january 2016 at 13 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view