Tech Roundup: Metropia launches in Austin, ATI companies raise $100M and more

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Pivot3 boosts sales efforts

Austin-based software provider Pivot3 has appointed three new executives to help improve sales efforts. It has named Daniel Keelan as its Executive Vice President, Jason Ford as a new Area Vice President of Sales for the West Coast, and Brad Ross, also Area Vice President of Sales, to focus on large companies. [Pivot3 Adds Executives: Texas TechPulse]

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Bitfusion raises $1.45M

Bitfusion, a new company delivering powerful hardware acceleration technologies to boost application performance, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist in TechCrunch Disrupt 2015’s prestigious Startup Battlefield, and has closed its seed round of financing worth $1.45 million. Investors include Data Collective VC, Resonant VC, and the Geekdom Fund. Bitfusion also recently graduated from Techstars Cloud, part of the Techstars global ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs to bring new technologies to market wherever they choose to build their business. [Bitfusion blog]

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RealSavvy Enhances a Social Way to Home Search

RealSavvy unveiled this week the first social home search platform that allows agents and their clients to collaborate via shareable, Pinterest-style Home Boards. RealSavvy has joined the Austin Board of Realtors (ABoR) in their effort to protect data integrity and improve the quality of listings in the Austin area market by licensing their data platform. In addition, they’re licensing data from the largest national syndicated listings provider, ListHub, to provide users across the U.S. a truly unique and accurate home search experience. Further, they’ve just released their first iOS mobile app to simplify searching nearby properties for sale while still allowing users to seamlessly share homes on social media or privately with friends, family and their real estate agent.

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Metropia launches in Austin

Arizona-based Metropia has launched in Austin. The startup develops mobile apps which help users find less congested commute routes to work. [Startup Aims App At Austin Traffic Woes: Texas TechPulse]

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ATI announces record funding

The Austin Technology Incubator said this week its current and alumni companies have raised a total of $100 million during the first three months of this year, a record quarterly tally since the organization’s founding in 1989. [Funds Raised By ATI Startups Point to Growing Austin Biotech Scene: Xconomy]

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