Austin—From a company developing rockets that can blast satellites into space to a business that decodes your dog’s genome, twelve local companies were honored this week as A-List startups by the Austin Chamber of Commerce and South by Southwest Interactive.
The twelve companies were broken down into three categories: emerging, growth, and scale. A Rising Star Entrepreneur award was also given to a young fashion designer, 15-year-old Isabella Rose Taylor. The winners from last year’s ceremony can be found here.
Author: David Holley
David is the national correspondent at Xconomy. He has spent most of his career covering business of every kind, from breweries in Oregon to investment banks in New York. A native of the Pacific Northwest, David started his career reporting at weekly and daily newspapers, covering murder trials, city council meetings, the expanding startup tech industry in the region, and everything between. He left the West Coast to pursue business journalism in New York, first writing about biotech and then private equity at The Deal. After a stint at Bloomberg News writing about high-yield bonds and leveraged loans, David relocated from New York to Austin, TX.
He graduated from Portland State University.
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