San Antonio—Six months after the launch of San Antonio’s first angel network, the city is playing host to a statewide summit on angel investing Friday to help members of the network gain insight from other angel investors across Texas. Read more on Xconomy >
When Chris Burney graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 2002 and went off to college at Duke University, to jobs in New York, and to business school, he didn’t look back. But a homegrown tech company – Rackspace – caught his eye in 2012, and four years later, he’s embarking on a new role to help grow other San Antonio and South Texas startups.
San Antonio—[Updated 9/16/16, 11:36 p.m.] South Texas now has its own angel network, and the network officially has its own executive director. The San Antonio Angel Network announced this morning that it has hired Chris Burney, a former finance manager and analyst at Rackspace, for the position. Read more on Xconomy >
About two months after a group of local investors posted a job opening for an executive to match high-growth technology startups with people who want to help fund them, the organization called the San Antonio Angel Network has found its leader. Read more on San Antonio Business Journal >