Joshua Baer, the founder and chief executive officer of the venture capital firm Capital Factory, died Tuesday in a plane crash in South Texas, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

Joshua Baer, founder of Austin's Capital Factory, died in a fiery plane crash in Laredo Tuesday night. The plane was on its way back to Austin from Mexico.

Capital Factory confirmed that cofounder and CEO Joshua Baer died in the crash on Loop 20 near the Texas-Mexico border.

Capital Factory founder and Austin tech leader Joshua Baer was identified as the victim of a business jet crash along the Loop 20 highway in Laredo, Texas.

Austin tech leader Joshua Baer, founder of Capital Factory, was identified as the passenger who died in a plane crash late Tuesday night.  A business jet en route to Austin from San José del Cabo in ...