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1839 Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalWe invest in early and growth‐stage companies who may scale effectively, are apt to dominate a given market, and display an exit potential.
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2M Companies is the family office for the Morton H. Meyerson family. Broadly speaking, we source and manage investments across a variety of industries, incubate startup business ventures, and engage in philanthropic activities through The David Nathan Meyerson Foundation.
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7-Ventures LLC is the 7-Eleven® corporate venturing arm focused on discovering, partnering and investing in startups that complement 7‑Eleven’s core value proposition of providing customers with convenience in their everyday lives. We are looking for equity and business partnerships that help reinvent retail, and we are willing to use our stores as a laboratory and instant feedback loop. 7-Ventures invests in early-stage food and beverage businesses as well as convenient services that help maintain the brand’s relevance with the ever-changing consumer.
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8VC
Seed-Venture CapitalWe seek to partner with top founders and entrepreneurs to build lasting technology platforms and create long-term economic and societal value. We are a dynamic team of entrepreneurs, engineers, investors and philosophers. We value operating experience and action, but also new ideas and creative theories. Our unique blend of strengths and worldviews enables us to model investment opportunities using multiple frameworks and help companies succeed in unparalleled ways.
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Acacia Partners
Private EquityAcacia Partners is a Texas-based private investment firm that invests primarily in family-owned and owner-operated companies seeking equity capital ranging from $15 million to $50 million. Acacia’s capital is sourced primarily from family offices and long-term oriented institutions that allow Acacia to have a different time horizon than traditional private equity.
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Access Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalAccess Capital invests in emerging consumer-facing brands in high-growth categories. We embrace visionary founders and superior management teams to support them on their journey. We are stage-agnostic and invest across the capital structure. Access currently has 14 portfolio companies with $10 million to $200 million in annual revenue across the food & beverage, health & wellness, technology, and apparel industries.
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Active Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalWe are founders and operators investing in today's entrepreneurs. We've designed Active Capital to lead seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies. We are based in Texas but will invest in founders across the U.S. We prefer companies that can get to market with very little capital and we believe we can best help founders once they start to grow.
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Advantage Capital Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalAt Advantage Capital, we’re looking for businesses that are ready for growth. We’re also looking for managers and owners who are passionate and have vision for their businesses. If you’re a leader with a desire for success, we want to help you. Businesses often struggle to grow because of “how things have always been done." That's why we're changing the financing models that have prevailed for decades. Through a combination of public-private partnerships, we provide access to flexible capital to facilitate growth for your business.
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Aggie Angel Network
Angel GroupThe Aggie Angel Network (AAN) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing quality early-stage investment opportunities for accredited angel investors, and to assisting early-stage high-growth potential technology companies with fundraising and advisory services.
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Alamo Angels
Angel GroupThe Alamo Angels are an exclusive group of business leaders and corporate sponsors who promote local business growth. Alamo Angels members identify and grow promising startup companies by providing financial investment, educational resources, and business services to entrepreneurs.
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Headquartered in Cleveland and Dallas, Align Capital Partners is a $325 million, growth-oriented private equity firm that partners with business owners and management teams to create shared success. We bring experience and resources to help companies accelerate their growth, to the benefit of management, employees, and our investors. Align makes control investments in growth oriented, lower middle market specialty manufacturing, distribution, and business services companies. We have deep experience with these types of businesses, having completed more than 80 investments representing more than $5 billion of enterprise value since 2000.
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AngelList - Where the world meets startups
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Aptive Capital is a platform that provides capital, coaching and community for social impact-driven startups and entrepreneurs. The future Unicorns depends on those who can see beyond profit but providing solutions that have lasting societal impacts.
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ARCH Venture Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalOver 30 years, ARCH has backed disruptive science with as little as $50K and as much as $150M, per company. We are not interested in following the crowd. We are contrarian, bold, and imaginative risk takers. We follow the science to found companies based on revolutionary technologies that can impact people’s lives.
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Arena Growth
Seed-Venture CapitalArena Growth Partners is passionate about leadership. We partner with the leaders of early-stage growth businesses to help them successfully scale their enterprises and break through the growth ceiling.
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A Venture Capital Firm focusing on highly-capital-efficient technology companies in Texas. Aristos Ventures invests in highly-capital-efficient technology companies in Texas that need critical early capital in order to produce a product and generate revenue. The managers of the funds are seeking to build a diversified portfolio of companies, each capable of achieving a meaningful exit.
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AT&T has committed to investing up to $200 million in a venture capital fund as part of its ongoing effort to develop solutions to the toughest technology challenges. AT&T will work with Coral’s Communications Industry Platform (CIP) team to identify and invest in startup companies focused on connected services and platforms.
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Athena Health
AcceleratorMDP Labs gives healthcare and technology entrepreneurs unrivaled exposure to athenahealth’s R&D teams, senior leadership, and a curated network of mentors. Join us to build the next game-changing innovation in health IT—and accelerate your path to an athenahealth partnership or investment.
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ATP Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalATP Fund – early-stage venture in transformative technologies. We recognize that seeing early signs of greatness is hard, and nobody’s cracked how to do it reliably. That said, there are a few things we do look for: certain qualities of a founding team, an early product, and the right moment in a company’s life. We also focus on investing in areas where we think we can be helpful.
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ATX Venture Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in Texas. Our investment focus is software, IoT, e-commerce and mobile applications. We are sourced and managed by a network of successful operators and proven executives.
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Bala Ventures
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Bandgap Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalBandgap Ventures (“Bandgap”) is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage science and engineering companies within verticals such as advanced materials, chemicals, energy technologies (renewable/non-renewable), advanced manufacturing, sensors, and instrumentation. Bandgap specifically targets companies with tangible patented technologies based on ground breaking innovations in the fundamental “hard sciences”.
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Need more than capital? Bayless Capital’s personal approach sets us apart. With a focus on people and communities, we grow relationships as well as businesses. Go beyond venture capital investment. Start a lasting, collaborative business relationship.
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The Baylor Angel Network (BAN) is an investor network providing early stage capital to strong entrepreneurial teams with developed products or services and early customer traction. We are constantly screening deals and seeking to add engaged members to our organization. BAN is part of Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business and operates at the discretion of Dr. Terry Maness, dean of The Hankamer School of Business.
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BBL Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalWe're a venture capital fund designed to address the unique needs of early-stage startups in the energy industry. We provide support and deep industry expertise across the product development, strategy, business model, and financing stages.
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BCL of Texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit economic development organization providing lending, homeownership, entrepreneurship, and community development programs to fulfill our mission of Building Strong Communities across Texas.
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BEAM Angel Network
Seed-Venture CapitalBeam is the newest program of Women@Austin, a 501(c)3 organization. The Beam Angel Network invests in high potential and exceptionally led companies that happen to be founded by women.
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Bios Partners Is A Venture Capital Firm Based In Dallas-Fort Worth Focused On Investment In Innovative early-stage and growth-stage biotech and medical device companies.
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Blossom Street Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on companies with monthly revenue of $100,000+ and year-over-year growth of 50 percent+. We'll invest anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, especially in markets most VC overlook, like the Midwest, Southeast, and Southwest. We prefer leading Series A/B rounds, but can also help fill out or oversubscribe a larger round. We'll look at traditional priced rounds, inside rounds, restructurings, secondaries, and down rounds.
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Blue Sage Capital
Private EquityAt Blue Sage, we seek to invest in growing, profitable middle-market companies with $3 million to $12 million in EBITDA and $20 million to $100 million in revenue.
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Boerne Kendall County Angel Network
Seed-Venture CapitalBoerne Kendall County Angel Network exists to highlight our region on a global stage. Our citizens are the region's greatest asset, impacting diverse Fortune 500 companies, creating the latest Biomed and healthcare solutions, and redefining agriculture in today's digital world. While creating an environment to create exciting and long-term employment solutions for future generations.
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Bonanza pursues significant alpha opportunities by exploiting inefficiencies in the smallest and most illiquid companies.
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Bootstrap Ventures is a boutique, private equity firm with office locations in Irvine, California and Dallas, Texas. As a firm, Bootstrap Ventures is diversified in virtually all industries, however they specialize in energy and mineral rights. Their philosophy surrounds investing in hard assets that are known to withstand the test of time, providing investors with secure returns.
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Braemont Capital is a relationship-driven investment firm focused on partnering with entrepreneurs, families, and ownership-minded management teams to invest in exceptional companies at growth inflection points. Our firm is differentiated by the combination of an experienced team, extensive industry partner network, and a flexible, long-term capital base. We are growth-oriented and seek to generate superior outcomes through entrepreneurial business-building initiatives. Our capital base enables us to be flexible in structuring and holding investments to execute these initiatives and create enduring value.
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Brand Foundry
Seed-Venture CapitalBrand Foundry is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to accelerating the growth of emerging, innovative consumer-focused brands.
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Breyer Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalBreyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China.
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Build Sec Foundry
AcceleratorAn incubator launching and scaling early-stage security product startups in San Antonio, TX.
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BuildGroup
Seed-Venture CapitalBuildGroup is an operator-led company that invests in high-growth technology firms. BuildGroup was founded by an experienced group of entrepreneurs who want to help build emerging technology companies into category leaders.
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Founded in 2018, we focus on early stage investments for companies needing growth capital. With offices in Austin and Dallas, we take pride in providing resources and advisory to new business ventures in Texas. As a family-office structure, we make investment decisions with autonomy and flexibility with transaction structures.
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Bumble Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalBumble Fund will focus on early-stage investments, primarily in businesses founded and led by women of color and those from underrepresented groups.
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Through local chapters across the U.S., Bunker Labs provides educational programming, access to resources, and a thriving local network to help military veterans and their spouses start and grow businesses. We work to Inspire, Educate, and Connect veterans with the right resources and people locally to be successful, while also providing national tools and resources like: Launch Lab Online or our Community Mobile App to support aspiring entrepreneurs where ever they may currently live or be stationed.
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We know you need more than wifi and hot coffee to grow your startup, and we’re here to help. Become a member to connect to our community of like-minded entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, and corporates. Our startup ecosystem provides you with the support and resources you need to grow and run a successful company in Texas. The Capital Factory Accelerator is a six-month program that focuses on helping startups raise funding and increase customer growth. We provide these startups with coworking space, hosting credits, a startup evangelist to advocate for your startup, and access to a mentor network of the top investors and entrepreneurs in Texas.
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We know you need more than wifi and hot coffee to grow your startup, and we’re here to help. Become a member to connect to our community of like-minded entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, and corporates. Our startup ecosystem provides you with the support and resources you need to grow and run a successful company in Texas. The Capital Factory Accelerator is a six-month program that focuses on helping startups raise funding and increase customer growth. We provide these startups with coworking space, hosting credits, a startup evangelist to advocate for your startup, and access to a mentor network of the top investors and entrepreneurs in Texas.
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Capital Southwest (NASDAQ: CSWC), is an internally-managed, credit-focused BDC that is an active capital provider to middle market companies across the capital structure.
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Capstar Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalCapstar Partners, LLC is an Austin, Texas-based private investment firm that invests in early-stage private companies across a variety of industries. The firm was founded by radio executive, R. Steven Hicks in 2000.
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Carnite Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalCarnrite Ventures is a venture capital firm in Houston, TX, however, our location does not limit the opportunities we are willing to consider. As seasoned investors with a track record of success, we are actively seeking investment opportunities. If you are a business with growth potential or one that requires operational and financial performance improvements to maximize value, we would love to hear from you.
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Catalyze Dallas is a venture development firm specializing in capitalization and commercialization of promising innovations sourced from some the world’s most respected defense and industrial companies. Creating value through the spin-out of intellectual property (including assets, manufacturing technology, and patents), Catalyze Dallas forms new companies purpose-built to target those assets into broad commercial markets.
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CAVU
Seed-Venture CapitalA consumer-focused investment firm founded by operations to partner with operate, CAVU Venture Partners invests in passionate entrepreneurs with big ideas that change the cpg marketplace for the better.
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CenterGate Capital
Private EquityCenterGate Capital is a private equity firm focused on improving and growing lower middle market companies. In order to realize their potential, these companies need flexible capital, strategic guidance, and strong management teams. We bring together a balance of transactional and operational experience along with a network of advisers and strategic relationships, which provide our portfolio companies with exceptional resources.
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CenterPoint Ventures is one of the largest early-stage venture capital firms based in the Southwest. Founded in 1996, we have helped scores of entrepreneurs build successful, enduring companies that deliver long-term value to investors, founders, employees and customers alike.
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Central Texas Angel Network
Angel GroupCentral Texas Angel Network (CTAN) is the largest angel investing group in Texas, and the No. 1 most-active single-chapter group in the nation (2016 & 2015).
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Chevron Technology Ventures
Corporate VentureChevron Technology Ventures (CTV) was launched in 1999 to identify and integrate externally developed technologies and new business solutions with the potential to enhance the way Chevron produces and delivers affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy now and into the future.
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CIC Partners has invested in more than 40 companies with revenues of $10 million to $1 billion in industries including energy exploration, food, health care services, restaurants, and retail.
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Climate Impact Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalClimate Impact Capital invests in technologies and business models that can mitigate green house gas growth significantly in the next 20 years and allow humanity to adapt to the long-term impacts of climate change.
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Clubhouse Investment Club
Seed-Venture CapitalClubhouse Investment Group creates value by aggregating diverse audiences through leveraging the social footprint of select celebrities who have invested in opportunities. Its competitive advantage derives from its diversified mix of influencers in sports, entertainment and the arts.
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CMI Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on the Education Technology (EdTech) market. CMI was created by Cam Chalmers and Dave Muzzo, the founders of Archipelago Learning. CMI is looking to partner with those entrepreneurs who have a passion for education and a product that is ready to scale.
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We are a startup studio that creates new companies based on our own ideas as well as we partner with founders (domain-experts) of early-stage ventures. We use proven methodologies and roll up our sleeves, coach, mentor, and use years of our business and technical expertise to launch successful new companies.
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Colt Ventures was established as a family office to invest the personal capital of Darren Blanton. The firm reviews over 250 deals per year and invests in the following areas: private and public companies in biotechnology, oil and gas, technology, financial services, real estate, consumer/retail, and special situations,hedge funds, private equity/venture capital funds, equine assets
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Congress Avenue Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalThe smartest, simplest way for UTexas alums to add venture capital to their portfolio. We are a full-time alumni investment team, an investment committee with over 250 years of investing experience,Fast growing community of 5k alumni followers, the only fund of its kind for UTexas alumni,private, for-profit, and not officially sanctioned by the university.
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Corsa Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalCorsa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, exploring opportunities in Texas and the U.S. Our team members have deep operational experience, extensive access to global networks, and strong ties to regional and national venture capital eco-systems. Our investment interest extends from technology companies leveraging software, social networks, and cloud data services to consumer companies developing brand-based products and services.
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Based in Fort Worth, Cowtown Angels is an angel network that connects entrepreneurs seeking early-stage funding with local investors in an environment that accelerates growth and rewards strategic risk-taking. Cowtown Angels is a program of TECH Fort Worth (TechFW), a nonprofit organization created to encourage the development of the local business community by helping regional entrepreneurs commercialize innovative technology, and is a member of the Angel Capital Association and the Alliance of Texas Angel Networks.
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At Crescenta Capital Group, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs and innovative companies to develop and bring to market life-enhancing technologies. We are a Venture Capital firm focusing our investments in two key areas: early-stage and seed round funding within the new mobility ecosystem; and growth-stage investments in alternative energy technologies.
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Crosstimbers makes direct investments in scalable, entrepreneur-owned companies and other compelling opportunities.
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Crux Capital’s core mission is to invest in and grow small, profitable companies. We focus on buying a select number of high quality businesses and partnering with management teams to build value over the long term. The firm’s limited partners are comprised of successful entrepreneurs, family offices and the principals of Crux Capital. Importantly, as a privately funded enterprise, we are not constrained by traditional private equity limitations pertaining to deal structures or artificial holding periods. Instead, we implement strategies to build and unlock value over time in partnership with company management.
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Curative Ventures is a capital and talent partner to category-defining biotech companies that are developing new therapies to dramatically improve patient outcomes.
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Cypress Growth Capital is the largest and most experienced royalty-based growth capital investor in the United States. Since our formation in 2010, we have completed dozens of multimillion-dollar royalty investments in software and technology-enabled services companies. With more than $100,000,000 of capital under management, Cypress has an established track record of funding emerging companies and helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals.
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DalFort Capital Partners is a sector-focused private equity firm based in Dallas, specializing in partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams in the lower middle market.
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The Dallas Angel Network links angel investors in Texas with great entrepreneurs. Our angels consist of Dallas-based investors as well as investors in Houston and Austin. We target startups and high growth companies in need of early stage private equity or venture capital.
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Founded by an engineer, entrepreneur, mentor, and investor Dayakar Puskoor, DVP is a team of passionate entrepreneurs on a mission to disrupt the VC-entrepreneur relationship for better. The deep technology expertise, industry knowledge, and market understanding of our team helps companies overcome the most difficult stages of the entrepreneurial journey and stay focused on what matters most – scaling your business. Our typical investment stage is post-product market fit, where our first check size is between $2-5 million. We do follow-on investing in our portfolio, up to a total of $10 million and occasionally will invest prior to the product-market fit stage.
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Daylight Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalDaylight Partners is a unique venture capital firm which seeks out entrepreneurs who value our operational experience and functional expertise as much as our capital commitment to their venture. Eleven former executives with expertise in marketing, operations, manufacturing, finance, information technology, technological innovation, accounting, real estate, oil and gas, as well as overall corporate management, are driven to have Daylight Partners take an active role in helping mid-stage companies turbo-charge their growth initiatives. While having made investments nationally, Daylight Partners has a particular affinity for Texas-based companies.
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Dell Technologies Capital
Corporate VentureAt Dell Technologies Capital, we lead investments in disruptive, early-stage startups in enterprise and cloud infrastructure. World-class entrepreneurs have chosen to partner with us for our deep domain expertise and unique access to the Dell Technologies ecosystem.
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Delta-v Capital was founded in 2009 by Rand Lewis and Dave Schaller. The founders envisioned a new kind of private technology investment firm that focused on providing secondary liquidity to management teams, founders, and early investors. While initially a novel concept, secondary liquidity has become widely accepted and common place throughout the technology ecosystem as companies continue to take longer to exit or go public.
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Dos Rios Partners
Private EquityOur core values, our capital and our team have enabled us to produce win-win results for companies, managers, value-added deal sources, investors, and ourselves.
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Ecliptic Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalWe use a resourceful blend of machine learning, automation, and human judgement to select for the most transformative companies in which to pursue. Our fund deploys capital initially in the $50k-$250k pre-seed range, then again by leading priced rounds in the $250k-$5M range, and then lastly by orchestrating investor-led rounds in the $10-50M range.
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Elsewhere Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalAfter nearly three decades of investing in emerging software companies, we realized that the needs of “Big VC” weren’t aligning with the needs of the most interesting companies. So we decided to start from scratch to serve a burgeoning movement we call Elsewhere Nation. Elsewhere Partners backs The Outliers: companies who have achieved a lot with a little and are located outside major venture capital hubs.
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Emergent Technologies
Seed-Venture CapitalWhat sets Emergent Technologies apart is our method and mindset. We strip away preconceptions while exploring the many possibilities of each technology platform. In the tradition of Bell Labs, our multidisciplinary team uses a variety of methods and tools to discover and deploy real-world applications.
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We believe wholeheartedly in the cannabis industry. We believe in the benefits for human health and development, and we believe in the resulting job creation and economic growth. We believe that the lifeblood of companies is capital, we seek to provide that lifeblood to our companies while creating an environment that is instrumental to their success.
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Escalate Capital
Private EquityEscalate Capital is a leading mezzanine firm focused on investing in high-growth later-stage technology companies including SaaS, tech-enabled services, internet, and health care. With over $800 million in cumulative capital commitments, we seek to enable growth while minimizing dilution.
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Launched in 2005, Evolve Capital is a private equity firm focused exclusively on leveraged recapitalizations of entrepreneurial businesses. Evolve’s principals have partnered with entrepreneurs to take their businesses to the next level since 1993. We provide entrepreneurs with liquidity up front and also upon exit through their retained equity stake. In between, we provide professional management and a strong partnership, which increases shareholder value and attracts more potential buyers. Our entrepreneur and management team partners focus on positioning companies to maximize value upon exit.
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Falkon Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalFalkon Ventures is an innovative venture capital fund designed to catalyze innovation in the new entrepreneurial landscape for companies that have the mission to change industry and the world. Our ventures create technologies that are providing systemic solutions to big global and industrial challenges. Falkon Ventures offers a new solution in the current venture funding landscape that provides entrepreneurs with support networks and strategic funding that is founder-friendly, while creating alignment with all stakeholders involved.
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Far West Capital
Private EquityFar West Capital is in the business of funding the goals of high-growth small business owners. Since 2007, our highly experienced entrepreneurial leadership team has helped over 350 businesses grow and thrive – many of whom don’t fit in a traditional bank’s “box.”
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Firebrand Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalFirebrand Ventures is a new kind of Midwest venture fund, with an Austin office. We combine a vast network and deep experience with startup hustle to invest in exceptional seed stage software startups.
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First Rate Ventures is a Corporate Venture Capital Fund that is focused on WealthTech, InvestTech, RegTech and MortgageTech based in Dallas/Fort Worth. We are focused on start-ups in seed stage with a proven early traction.
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Early stage venture fund focused on tech and CPG investments. Owner and operator of Cat Empire venture fund.
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Founder Equity makes early investments in promising digital businesses. Our model is based on value investing, very active participation in growing our portfolio companies, and quick paths to liquidity.
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Fountainhead Investors
Seed-Venture CapitalFountainhead Investment Partners is a capital investment firm that funds privately held companies in sustainable industries, including medical, manufacturing, telecom, environmental, and industrial. Initially founded as an angel fund by a group of successful medical entrepreneurs, Fountainhead’s focus on partnering with the business owner to take companies to the next level is in our DNA. As the firm has expanded into venture capital and private equity funding models and across industries, this commitment to partnership has only grown stronger.
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Fraser McCombs Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalWe pursue companies that possess disruptive technologies that fundamentally change the automotive business. Our entrepreneurs have successfully discovered a unique way of solving a specific problem. We seek entrepreneurs that demonstrate a proven track-record in growth-stage technology companies, are insightful, determined, and possess deep automotive-industry knowledge.
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gBETA
AcceleratorgBETA is a program of nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor. gBETA is a free, seven-week accelerator for early-stage companies with local roots. Each program is capped at five teams, and requires no fees and no equity.
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Geekdom Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalAfter investing in a team, we strive to be the most helpful investors on the cap table. This means we build close, lasting relationships with our teams. We’re there to help through the good times and the bad.
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Genesis Park
Seed-Venture CapitalFour Houston-based finance leaders created a $275 million fund, GP Capital Partners, LP (“GP Capital Partners” or the “Fund”). The Fund is structured as a Small Business Investment Company (“SBIC”) and will provide flexible capital solutions to fund growth and recapitalizations for privately-held, lower middle market businesses. The Fund received its SBIC license from the U.S. Small Business Administration in September 2021, and will extend the Genesis Park private investment platform.
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Global Ascent Partners
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Goldcrest® is a venture capital fund that invests in private technology companies.
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Golden Section Venture Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalWe partner with start-up and growth-stage SaaS companies to accelerate software development and scale—dependably.
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Golden Seeds is one of the nation's most active early-stage investment firms. Golden Seeds is focused on bringing vibrant opportunities to women-led businesses.
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Goose Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalGOOSE is an exclusive group of Fortune 500 executives, successful entrepreneurs, industry titans, and global super-connectors investing in deep tech and tough tech startups.
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Gore Range Capital is focused on investments in early-stage skin health businesses. Our approach is simple: we invest in what we know. Over the course of our respective careers the Gore Range team has built domain expertise and extensive networks across multiple areas of healthcare. Through Gore Range Capital we are channeling our capabilities to focus on our largest organ and the most visible manifestation of who we are - the skin.
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We invest in the early stage ventures of entrepreneurs who are building transformative companies in healthcare. Our duty as investors is to help you win.
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Green Park & Golf, built on over 50 years of operational and financial experience, seeks investment opportunities that offer above-market returns for its investors. Led by Clay Heighten, M.D., and Carl Soderstrom, the firm delivers strategic solutions, financial backing, and a reliable network to its portfolio companies. The Dallas-based firm is currently looking for investment opportunities in medical-related startups.
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GrowCo Capital works closely with entrepreneurs and startup businesses, providing capital and management solutions. We invest in early stage entrepreneurial ventures, participating in Seed to Series B Rounds. To date, we have primarily invested in health care, service companies, technology, and real estate opportunities.
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GSTVC
Seed-Venture CapitalGSTVC comes alongside our brilliant entrepreneur partners with decades of experience in scaling B2B software companies. Not only do we offer partnership and guidance, but we also provide capital in order to break through cashflow barriers to fuel your revenue generation and promote your innovation.
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Harvest Returns is an equity crowdfunding platform focused on the agriculture finance sector
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Health Wildcatters is a mentor-driven seed accelerator focused on improving health care by supporting entrepreneurs and companies that are developing solutions for the industry. The 12-week program offers health-focused startups in the early stages of funding an initial seed investment, as well as access to mentors, advisers, office space, and strategic resources needed to help the startups grow.
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Retail investors have always been limited to the conventional vehicles of the public market. There is a pervasive belief that investment vehicles like hedge funds, and private equity are only for the wealthy and elite. It's time to change that. I firmly believe that qualified investors should have access to these 'exclusive' vessels. At High Circle, we aim to break these barriers and make closed off investment vehicles accessible to everyone. We level the playing field and give investors' portfolios a powerful advantage by reducing market exposure and generating long-term value.
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Hill Country Angels
Angel GroupHill Country Angel Network is a group of investors that have found financial success in various professional fields and are now looking to fund promising fledgling companies with identified high-growth potential. We look for opportunities in high tech, low tech, life science, biopharmaceutical, medical device, education, oil and gas, industrial, clean energy, consumer product, media, sports, gaming, and entertainment sectors.
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HOLT Ventures
Corporate VentureHolt Ventures is more than just a capital partner. We carefully select startup businesses, bring them into our daily operations and provide real world mentorship and guidance to accelerate growth and commercialize ideas as quickly as possible.
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Houston Angel Network
Angel GroupThe Houston Angel Network (HAN) is the oldest angel network in Texas and most active angel network in the USA. Its members have invested more than $73 million in more than 235 deals since its inception in 2001.
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Houston Health Ventures
AcceleratorJoin NextHIT Accelerator's class of companies for a $30,000 investment + $30,000 of additional services and more.
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Houston Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalThe Energy Industry is being eaten by complexity. Environments are developing in which all components must integrate and communicate. At Houston Ventures, we understand the inefficiencies of supply chains in the oil and gas industry.
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Hughes Ventures is an early stage Energy, Technology and Life Science Investor.
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Hunt BioVentures makes investments in young private and public companies with a focus on pharmaceuticals, medical devices and agricultural biotech opportunities. Since 2001, Hunt has continually pursued companies with clinical efficacy data or strong human proxy data, which has typically meant companies with products in various stages of clinical trials. Although this later-stage approach will always be core to Hunt's investment strategy, Hunt will occasionally pursue preclinical opportunities, especially those with exceptional management teams. Another important component of the strategy is to invest alongside other experienced life science investors in either a co-lead or follower manner.
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Hunt Energy Enterprises looks to leverage its operations and knowledge to invest in and create new energy companies and partnerships with entrepreneurs in both the conventional petroleum business and cleantech power.
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Hurt Family Investments
Seed-Venture CapitalHurt Family Investments (HFI) are involved in 55 startups and counting. HFI has made 44 startup investments, 21 of which are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies.also has joined the Advisory Board of 11 additional companies, nine of which are SaaS. Out of the 55 startups HFI are involved in, 38 are headquartered in Austin and 28 are SaaS.
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HX Venture Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalHX Venture Fund is a venture capital fund of funds that creates a multiplier effect by linking the transformational power of world-class corporations, technology innovation, and high-growth startups with proven venture investment talent, company-building expertise, and capital.The venture capital funds in HX Venture Fund’s portfolio bring their significant experience and, at their full discretion, risk capital to Houston’s best high-growth companies across all industry sectors.
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Incube Labs
Seed-Venture CapitalWe have expertise across a range of disciplines: pharmacology and physiology, protein and polymer chemistry, tissue engineering, mechanical engineering and material science, electronics and software, industrial design, clinical development and manufacturing. Our leadership team also has deep experience in company building and commercializing innovations.
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Invest in a wave of meaningful breakthroughs by supporting new-age craftsmanship in under-appreciated innovation ecosystems. What do those buzzwords mean? “Meaningful breakthroughs:” We believe in entrepreneurship in all shapes and forms, our aim is to support founders who are working to solve society’s most important challenges. “New-age craftsmanship:” The virtuosity required for entrepreneurs to execute the common uncommonly well on their mission to transform industries. “Under-appreciated innovation ecosystems:” Silicon Valley has long been the cornerstone of American innovation. Yet, the democratization of technology combined with macro-economic factors like cost of living and wages make Dallas, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Raleigh-Durham, Nashville and Atlanta attractive places for startups to thrive.
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As implied by our name, we believe in the dynamic collaboration of people, ideas and resources with a shared vision of building great businesses. We are interested in early stage (Series A) technology companies committed to solving significant business problems. There is a compelling opportunity to drive transformational change in the legacy enterprise technology stack fueled by artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud platforms and other innovative solutions.
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International Accelerator
AcceleratorWe are more than an accelerator program; IA is a trusted co-founder for your stateside venture. We are dedicated to helping foreign born entrepreneurs set up their U.S. company, give it an “American look and feel,” and lay a sturdy foundation to build a global business.
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Ironspring
Seed-Venture CapitalThe Ironspring Network is comprised of leading operators and dealers in the heavy machinery industry. Our relationships span across all built world sectors, and we are dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in their quest to bring innovation and technology into our markets. Our flagship vehicle includes a venture capital fund to invest in early stage companies in our space.
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JF2 Capital Partners is a family office venture capital firm based in Dallas. Founded in 2017, JF2 Capital is interested in investing in early stage companies spanning a diverse array of industries. JF2 Capital works with dynamic management teams to build sustainable value in businesses leveraging extensive operational experience in growing and scaling organizations. With more than 20 years of proven success in starting, growing, and monetizing companies we have an extensive track record of accelerating growth in early stage companies.
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Karlani Capital has one main objective: to enable the growth and success of ideas that are original, interesting, and potentially useful to people. At the core, Karlani is an operating fund led by a group of master operators with the expertise to help grow companies from one to 1,000+ employees, as well as from $1 to over a billion dollars in valuation, and even assist you into taking your company into the public markets
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KdT Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalKdT is the standard for early-stage science venture investing. We help founders and their companies re-architect the world at a molecular level.
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Kitano Capital is a venture capital firm which is involved in early and later stage investment and other investment management services. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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For more than 21 years, LiftFund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has helped individuals achieve the American Dream by providing small business loans to those who do not have access to capital from typical lending sources, such as traditional banks. Along with vital small business loans, LiftFund provides educational services at no cost to borrowers, which are essential to foster self-sufficiency.
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Live Oak Venture Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalWe are early stage, lead investors. We invest in Texas because of the entrepreneurial drive to innovate. We have more than 15 years of experience taking companies from zero to $50 million+ in revenue, and know what it takes to get to a successful multi-hundred million dollar exit.
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Livwell
Seed-Venture CapitalWe are a family office venture firm championing health, performance and wellness. We invest in a spectrum of visionary better-for-you brands across consumables and technology. We partner with passionate entrepreneurs who live their brands, fueling business with our unique advantage, experience and insight to help people Live Well.
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Longhorn Startup
AcceleratorTen lucky student startups at UT Austin will get to participate in the prestigious Longhorn Startup Lab student startup accelerator this spring which includes a $1,000 cash grant, $5,000 in AWS startups hosting credits and mentorship from some of Austin's most successful entrepreneurs.
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Lubbock Angel Network
Angel GroupAs the first formal angel group in Lubbock, the Lubbock Angel Network (LAN) was formed in January 2015 as a means to provide seed and support capital for innovative startups in West Texas and beyond. In its founding, LAN partnered with Texas Tech University and the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance (LEDA) to forge a strategic partnership to spur local economic growth. LAN seeks high-quality deals and healthy returns on investment.
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Lydia Partners is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage investments in the consumer technology, healthcare and biomedical industries. Lydia’s investment model is an operating venture model. We partner with creative entrepreneurs and founders who seek to revolutionize their industries through innovative technology and create solutions to improve the quality of life and health of our consumers. We find by working directly with our seed operations, we can create meaningful impact and the strategic direction to bring our founders' vision to life.
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March Capital Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalMarch Capital Partners is a technology investment firm that backs bold entrepreneurs in pursuit of big outcomes. Investing globally, March looks for high-growth potential at the early stage and provides growth capital to breakout companies defining their industries as they scale. At March we are hands-on, value-add investors – with an Austin office.
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Mark Cuban Companies is a venture capital firm specializing in angel investing. Their portfolio of companies span a spectrum of industries and investment sizes.
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mark vc
Seed-Venture CapitalWe are often considered by our portfolio companies as one of the most value-added investors on the cap table, and always look for ways to leave our mark.
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MassChallenge
AcceleratorThrough an Austin-based accelerator and statewide programming, MassChallenge Texas will accelerate up to 100 high-impact, high-potential companies, which will compete for up to $500,000 in equity-free cash awards.
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Mercury Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalMercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm. With over $200 million under management, Mercury focuses on entrepreneurs and technology innovation originating in the U.S. mid-continent. Our investment themes target SaaS, cloud, and data science/AI platforms that make the industrial ecosystems of Middle America more competitive and efficient.
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MGV Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalWe are a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments. We are entrepreneurs and strategists partnering with exceptional founders applying computer science to solve some of the world’s most complex problems at scale. Our purpose is to help founders develop profitable and self-sustaining businesses to attract strategic buyers or growth financing.
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MicroVentures
Seed-Venture CapitalMicroVentures is an equity crowdfunding investment platform, combining the best of venture capital with equity crowdfunding. MicroVenture Marketplace is a FINRA registered broker-dealer, offering both primary and secondary investment opportunities through special purpose vehicles or directly into issuers.
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The Minority Entrepreneurship Institute is a seed-stage impact investing fund that hosts annual pitch competitions for Black, LatinX, and Female Founders.
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Mithril Capital Management
Seed-Venture CapitalMithril is a global investment firm that provides capital to leading growth companies. We partner with teams who use technology to build valuable and lasting businesses, often in industries long overdue for change. Each of these businesses is unique, but all face common challenges to unlocking long-term growth. We help navigate these critical inflection points, and we invest in size and with conviction.
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Mobility Ventures is a venture capital firm that is a new generation of venture investors: Venturepreneurs™ – entrepreneurs and venture investors who have been leaders in wireless, internet and emerging technologies and builders of industry leading companies. We are a selective hands-on firm focusing on emerging companies across the Wireless Ecosystem: mobile internet, AI data sciences, media, health, commerce, software, location-based services, applications and services. We invest in category defining companies. We aim to make a difference and help build enduring, significant institutions, working with entrepreneurs to transform ideas into successful companies.
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We are a true seed-stage fund focused on getting entrepreneurs in DFW initial funds to help validate their concepts. We want to be the “first money” after your friends and family round, getting you a check within weeks of first contact. We’ve got the knowledge and network to help you move from Seed to Series A and beyond.
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Moneta
Seed-Venture CapitalWith an office in Austin, Moneta is investing in early stage companies in the enterprise technology, healthcare, and internet/consumer application sectors. Plans to deploy 70% of the Fund in companies headquartered in Sacramento and Northern California. The remainder of the Fund will be concentrated in Austin, as well as other Texas markets.
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Montrose Lane
Seed-Venture CapitalMontrose Lane, formerly known as Cottonwood Venture Partners, is an investment firm partnering with leading software companies that help to make energy affordable, safe, and environmentally friendly. We invest in companies that have achieved early customer adoption and require capital to accelerate growth. We leverage our collective expertise and relationships in energy and technology across Montrose Lane and our portfolio to help drive growth at the companies in which we invest.
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Moonshots Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalMoonshots Capital makes seed stage investments in technology startups led by exceptional founders who are building products that “re-imagine” work and personal life in large and growing markets. We bring a disciplined approach to the investment process to identify companies with “moon shot” potential.
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Multicoin Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalVenture-style funds that invest in liquid cryptoassets.
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Murphree Venture Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalMurphree Venture Partners is a leading venture capital and growth equity firm that invests in entrepreneurial enterprises with high-growth potential. For more than 30 years, the partners have worked side by side with talented entrepreneurs to build profitable companies, primarily in the southern region of the United States.
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Newchip Accelerator
AcceleratorProviding founders with all of the tools and skills necessary to fund, build, and scale.
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Next Coast Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalAt Next Coast, we focus on supporting the best entrepreneurs in the world as they build their businesses. We love the passion our entrepreneurs bring to solving big problems. Market size is important because life is too short to focus on the small stuff. We focus on bigger technology themes and how these themes can lead to disruption and innovation. We look for entrepreneurs focused on tackling a big theme and turning it into a massive business.
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Next Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalNEXT VENTŪRES is a new venture capital firm designed to maximize growth opportunities in the exploding sports, fitness, nutrition and wellness markets. With established expertise and deep connections in these markets as well as proven financial track records, the NEXT VENTŪRES team is well positioned to create significant value for their investors and their portfolio companies.
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NextGen Venture Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalWe back exceptional entrepreneurs through the collective power of the nation’s top founders and innovation executives. We invest in founders we can throw the power of our network behind. Our portfolio includes bold, early-stage companies with category defining missions.
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Our Mission is to identify, invest in, and grow innovative and disruptive food technologies resulting in unique solutions that are more productive, affordable, sustainable and healthier for the global food value chain.
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The North Texas Angel Network is looking for early stage companies with great products and bright futures. We can provide the investment funds you need to grow your company and achieve all the success you deserve. Our group includes more than 60 successful entrepreneurs and business professionals who love to invest in innovative products, as well as offer their considerable experience and expertise to growing companies.
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Notley Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalNotley was founded in 2015 by Dan Graham, founder of BuildASign.com, and his wife, Lisa, as a way to leverage their own business and investing success. Named for the abbey in Oxford, England where they were married, Notley’s mission is to fund and support businesses, nonprofits, and programs making positive change and social impact in the world. Notley serves as a hub for social innovation companies so that they can connect, share services, and find the resources to grow.
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NTT DOCOMO Ventures is the gateway for the startup and venture community in NTT Group. We are rapidly enhancing our innovation of various services, technology, and processes. We also bring together people of diverse interests in order to create new infrastructure.
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We partner with exceptional people. We back great ideas. We support companies at every stage of their business.
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Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator
AcceleratorEach startup is unique, and this program is tailor-made to get you up and running in a short period of time. Program elements include: Free credits on Oracle Cloud, World-class mentoring and advising, State-of-the-art technology, Coworking space, Access to Oracle customers and partners, Access to investors
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For leading technology companies, growth is critical—and capital is essential. Our Growth Capital team provides highly customized equity and debt solutions to help take your company to the next level. Our flexibility, relationship approach, sector expertise, deep pockets and long-term focus make us an ideal partner for high-growth companies. Since 2001, we’ve committed nearly $1.4 billion to over 125 companies, learning each business from the inside out and crafting deals with the financing levels, terms and timing to fund strategic progress.
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OwlSpark
AcceleratorThe OwlSpark accelerator is an intense, immersive 12-week summer program that provides startup teams with firsthand experience launching a tech startup. The accelerator culminates with the Bayou Startup Showcase, a celebration of entrepreneurship, the Houston startup community, and the university accelerator programs that support them.
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Peak Rock Capital
Private EquityWe make equity and debt investments in companies in North America and Europe. Peak Rock focuses on investing in opportunities where we can support senior management in driving rapid growth and profit improvement through operational and strategic change. Our team has deep expertise in complex situations and cross border transactions.
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PeopleFund provides small business loans as well as business assistance and education to people with otherwise limited access to such resources. Since being founded in east Austin in 1994 as Austin Community Development Corp., PeopleFund’s financial and educational assistance has helped create thousands of jobs and empowered an even greater number of Texans on a path to financial stability and independence. PeopleFund is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and operates as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) serving all of Texas.
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PeopleFund is launching access to a capital-oriented cohorts for BIPOC-owned businesses in underserved areas around Texas. The goal of this program is to accelerate early-stage entrepreneurs with capital, education, and ongoing technical assistance in order to support healthy small business growth in communities that need it most.
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Perot Jain, LP is a Dallas-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments. Our firm was founded by long-term business partners, Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain, in 2014. They not only set out to understand how technology would shape the business landscape over the next 20 years, but they also wanted to take an active role in building these industry transforming companies. Our mission is to provide timely capital and resources while delivering the highest quality strategic advice to assist our portfolio companies in achieving their maximum potential. Our unique ability to leverage our affiliated operating entities differentiates us from our peers and helps drive early customer traction and accelerated growth for our partners.
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Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Since Pipeline Angels launched April 2011, over 200 members have graduated from our angel investing bootcamp and have invested more than US$4M in 40+ companies via our pitch summit process.
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PlumTree Partners is a private family office that focuses on growth opportunities in technology-enabled businesses. When we look at the future, we see three investable trends: the adoption of cloud computing technologies, increased automation of business processes, and mobile technologies that enable productive and creative engagement.
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Responsible and strategic investing in blockchain technology. Plutus21 Capital is a multistrategy investment firm focused on blockchain infrastructure investments. We believe that by tracking adoption and targetting market inefficiencies, we can maximize risk-adjusted returns.
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PTV Healthcare Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalPTV Healthcare Capital is an Austin, Texas based late-stage venture and expansion capital firm committed to enabling healthcare innovation. We are a highly collaborative team, acting with integrity and adding value in all that we do. We provide access to capital, expertise, and critical business expansion resources. We believe we make a difference through our role as investors, partners, and leaders in bringing disruptive medical technologies to markets worldwide.
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Quake Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalQuake Capital is a seed and early stage venture capital fund and accelerator program. Our investments are about more than just money-- through our accelerator program, teams receive world-class coaching, personalized mentorship targeted at each company's specific needs, and access to our extensive network of investors and strategic partners.
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RealCo Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalRealCo is the No. 1 seed fund program for B2B startups 84 percent funded startups fail to reach Series A. We help founders beat those odds using a unique 15-month program.
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RED Labs
AcceleratorThe RED Labs accelerator is an intensive full-time, 12-week program designed to launch and scale your startup as quickly as possible. RED Labs is operated in close collaboration with Rice University's startup accelerator, OwlSpark.
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RedBird seeks to invest transformational growth equity capital in partnership with entrepreneurs and owners who have a proven history of success and an appreciation for long-term capital.
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Early stage and growth venture capital.
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Renovo Capital is a special situations private equity fund, investing out of Renovo Capital Fund II LP, a $132 million committed capital fund. Renovo is focused on partnering with business owners, entrepreneurs, and management teams to invest in businesses undergoing varying degrees of operational, financial or market-driven change. Renovo’s principals and extensive network of operating professionals have decades of experience delivering unique capital solutions and operational and strategic leadership to help solve complex situations and drive long term business value creation. Renovo Capital has offices in Dallas, Denver and New York.
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Republic Cities, a program that selects high growth, up-and-coming cities working hard to level the playing field for entrepreneurs. From breweries to virtual reality, Republic Cities drive investment in companies built by their own communities and backed by committed stakeholders: diverse, inclusive institutions including powerhouse universities, community spaces, funders, and local media. If you’re ready to grow your business, it’s time to raise on Republic.
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REVTECH is a seed fund and venture accelerator in Dallas with a focus on technologies for the retail industry.
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S3 Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalS3 Ventures is an early, expansion, and growth stage venture firm with $400 million under management. We are focused on information technology solutions that solve large business problems. We also invest in medical devices that improve the human condition.
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San Antonio Military Medical Innovation (SAMMI) Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalThe purpose of the SAMMI Fund is to promote local economic development by providing financial assistance to early-stage local companies engaged in the development of products and technologies that support military medical requirements, as well as having the potential for broader civilian markets.
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Sante Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalExperience has taught us that new ventures are challenging and risky endeavors, and that the best people can often make the crucial difference between success and failure. With that in mind, we focus on developing lasting, well-aligned partnerships with exceptional entrepreneurs and executives to build valuable companies. In addition to capital, we provide deep health care domain expertise and an extensive network of industry contacts and resources.
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Sapphire Ventures
seed-Venture CapitalPartnering with Visionary Teams to Build Companies of Consequence Congratulations to our investments that are moving on to the next chapter in their growth. We’re proud to have helped these companies on their journey, and wish them continued success. Read more about how Sapphire helped these companies scale.
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We invest equity capital in growing private companies that are achieving annual EBITDA of $5 million to $25 million, and where there is an opportunity for accelerated growth through a partnership with Satori. We provide liquidity to current owners and/or expansion capital to support future growth.
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Scaleworks Venture Finance Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalWe Invest In & Operate B2B SaaS Companies
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Scientific Health Development (SHD) is a boutique investment company in Dallas. SHD invests in early-stage, innovative health care-related technologies and products.
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Our game plan? Create, co-build and invest. It’s what we do. Strategically headquartered in Sports City USA: Frisco, TX, we specialize in creating, building and investing in early stage sports, eSports, technology and digital content companies.
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Sentiero has created a community of investors to provide capital and support to startups deploying AI-enabled SaaS to help companies make money, save money, or improve customer experiences.
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Scientific Health Development ("SHD") is a boutique investment company located in Dallas, TX. SHD invests in early-stage, innovative healthcare-related technologies and products.
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Sid R. Bass Associates is a venture capital and value added investor, providing capital and access to resources and industry contacts to high growth early-stage and late-stage companies. With $300 million in committed capital, the firm focuses its investments in the software, communications, wireless, security, storage, network infrastructure, media and consumer and business services sectors. With a long term horizon, the firm partners with seasoned entrepreneurs to grow successful growth businesses through all phases of a company's development.
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At Silver Creek Ventures, we study, identify and invest in technologies and markets on the leading-edge of disruption. In this way we build our companies to catch the wave when market forces create outstanding growth and exit opportunities.We focus on early-stage information technology companies across government, enterprise, communications and consumer markets with differentiation ranging from components to services. Our investment decisions pivot on the opportunity to build a fast-growing company in a large market opportunity.
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Silverton Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalWe believe the early stage is the most exciting time to get involved in a company as an active investor and so we focus on Seed-Series A rounds of financing. We like to write the first institutional check into a company with a typical initial investment of $500,000 to $4 million. We maintain reserves for each company and our expectation is that this commitment will increase over time.
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SKU
AcceleratorCompanies selected into the SKU accelerator participate in a one-of-a-kind 14-week program that serves an MBA and all-star network platform for your business. During the course of the program, founders and your leadership teams attend organized classes, in-depth, breakout and problem-solving sessions, meeting face-to-face with SKU mentors every Tuesday for 12 weeks.
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SocialStarts
Seed-Venture CapitalSocial Starts is a $60 million+ venture capital partnership that invests in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds of companies that leverage social and mobile technologies.
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Socratic Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalWe build great education enterprises for lasting impact
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Softeq Venture Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalBut before you can change the world, you need to slay the dragons of product and market risk and do it faster than ever. And if your business involves hardware or connected devices, you simply can’t afford the learning curve. We’re here to help. Several times a year we gather a diverse group of driven dent-makers and work with them over 3 months to propel their companies to the next level. We invest early, and are often the first investor in a company.
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As the first female-led millennial venture capital firm, SoGal Ventures represents how far our generation has come, and how deep our impact on the world can be. We believe in the power of diversity, borderless business, and human-centric design. We invest in seed stage diverse founding teams in the U.S. and Asia, and aim to be the first institutional investor for our portfolio companies. Our investments paint the future picture of how we live, work, and stay healthy.
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Source Spring
Seed-Venture CapitalSource Spring is a boutique firm with an affliction for startups. We invest in micro businesses because we believe they are essential to our economy. We invest in real estate because it is fun and fills the financial coffers. We are involved in politics because it is where the unfolding of the future can most effectively be influenced. And, data is the next big game changer for them all.
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South Coast Angel Network
Angel GroupSouth Coast Angel Network (SCAN) is a forum for the introduction of entrepreneurs to potential investors through presentations and other mechanisms. Members of the SCAN are individual angel investors interested in financing privately held companies or ventures typically in an early stage of development.
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Spindletop Capital Management
Private EquitySpindletop Capital partners with exceptional leaders to build transformational health care companies.
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Springdale Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalWe are partnering with resolute founders, who are pursuing their passions, and helping them create meaningful, sustainable brands. Like the founders we work with, our world-class team is dedicated to achieving results through teamwork. We leverage our team of entrepreneurs, operators and investors’ expertise and expansive networks to source the most transformational founders and enhance the value of our portfolio brands.
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Sputnik.ATX
AcceleratorSputnik-1 changed everything. It inspired humankind to look to the stars. Like Sputnik-1, Sputnik ATX is here to help makers lift off. We are an Austin-based accelerator that funds maker-founders who go out and change the world. We combine capital with training and experience so you can reach your full potential. Sputnik means "partner" in Russian. We want to be your partner for takeoff.
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Stage One Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalStage One Capital is an early stage and seed investment group, focused on investments in internet, mobile apps, social media, cloud-based software, and new technology sectors. At Stage One we look for entrepreneurs with a novel idea to impact a market using innovative technology to address customers in that market. The companies or ideas that we look for should be dynamic and bold, fundamentally shifting the playing field.
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Startup Evo manages a venture capital seed fund and provides advisement and management consulting to private and public companies. Our accelerator program develops entrepreneurs and startup companies and helps them achieve growth and success. We typically invest at the pre-seed, seed, and series A.
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StartupRunner Capital
Seed-Venture CapitalStartupRunner provides an entrepreneur development platform for millennials to build a profitable business that positively impacts their community.
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Steelhead Capital Management (SCM) is a private equity firm based in Fort Worth. SCM invests in early seed opportunities as well as later stage growth companies, with a primary focus on technology, energy, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods.
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Stonehenge Capital is a nationally recognized specialty finance company with expertise in structured tax credit finance, community development and private equity. We have the ability to tailor financing to suit a wide range of business and project needs. Our alternatives include traditional debt and equity financing and non-traditional tax credit finance and structured finance solutions that are produced and managed by our 50 employees working across 10 office locations nationwide. Since 1999, Stonehenge has operated at the nexus of finance and community development offering financial solutions through the firm’s three core business lines.
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Strattam Capital
Private EquityStrattam Capital is a modern private equity firm that takes an innovative and focused approach to investing in established, high-potential companies within the business IT market.
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Summit Peak Investments leverages the extensive knowledge, experience and processes developed as institutional investors and focuses on investing in niche private investments including Early Stage Venture Capital Funds and Co-Investments.
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SWAN Impact Network
Angel GroupThe Southwest Angel Network is now the SWAN Impact Network. The angels at the SWAN Impact Network are bound together by a passion for making the world a better place. We support dynamic startups that are striving to address serious challenges that our society faces. And we expect those companies to deliver measurable social or environmental impact, and to have solid plans for financial success.
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Targeted Technology Funds
Seed-Venture CapitalThe Targeted Technology Funds are focused on early stage investments in companies that we believe can advance ground breaking or disruptive technologies to significantly improve the practice of medicine and patient outcomes.
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Tarmac TX
Angel GroupTarmac TX equips social entrepreneurs with the necessary skill set and connections and helps them access funding to reach their intended impact. Going through Tarmac TX, social entrepreneurs refine their product, test their solution in the marketplace, cultivate relationships with the right partners, mentors, and investors to grow their venture and thus maximize their social and/or environmental impact.
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Teakwood Capital was founded in 2005 on the premise of bringing equity capital, strategic advice and marketing expertise to micro-cap, undercapitalized companies, thus launching them to higher growth and profitability. The performance of our portfolio companies continues to validate both our initial thesis and our efforts. Teakwood Capital invests equity capital primarily in profitable businesses with revenues under $25 million.
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The Acceleration Program at TECH Fort Worth is designed for early stage companies that are commercializing new and unique technologies.
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Tech Ranch
AcceleratorTech Ranch® equips entrepreneurs and ecosystems with insights, proven techniques, tools and processes that develop both the community and the entrepreneur. Tech Ranch® has been recognized as a 2015 Top 3 Social Impact Incubator by UBI Global and 2015 & 2016 Top 20 US/Canada Accelerators by Gust’s Global Report. From our offices in Austin, Texas, our programs have influenced more than 6,500 entrepreneurs in 42+ countries with over 750 solutions deployed.
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TechWildcatters is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator. Their 12-week accelerator "boot-camp" has been rated as a Top 10 Accelerator/Incubator by Forbes.
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Techstars Austin
AcceleratorRecently ranked the No. 14 fastest-growing startup ecosystem in the world among many other top rankings (places to live, fitness, education), Austin has exploded onto the startup scene. With a strong tech community and a burgeoning investor network, Austin is attracting the best and brightest from all over the globe.
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Techstars Impact
AcceleratorTechstars Impact backs for-profit, mission-driven founders building tech to solve social & environmental problems. The program is based in Austin, an emerging leader in bridging tech & social innovation. The fund is backed by notable LPs Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s AIP Private Markets Team & Impact America Fund. We invest $120k into startups from around the world who believe solving pressing social & environmental problems can sit hand-in-hand with building a successful company.
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Tectonic Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalWe find and partner with those independent thinkers who have what it takes to realize their vision. We join teams from the first spark of a new idea and nurture them through world-class execution. We invest time and energy as trusted advisers, starting even before a company is founded. We not only provide capital, experience, and an expansive network, we bring the mindset of an entrepreneur — we know the fear, the adrenaline, the hard work, the rough times, and the triumph.
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TEN Capital Group
Seed-Venture CapitalTEN Capital Group is committed to igniting innovation and long-term success in your business by helping you raise the capital for growth. We have a network of venture capital, family office, and high-net worth individuals as well as a number of angel syndicates that can invest in your business. We facilitate the connections that really matter by utilizing data analytics, one-on-one matching events, online funding portals, and more. We help companies and investors optimize their time and efforts by putting the right deals in front of the right people.
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Texas Halo Fund
Angel GroupThe Texas HALO Fund I is a Texas Angel sidecar fund powered by the Houston Angel Network. The fund is open to accredited Texas investors. The fund is interested in early-stage companies, with principal operations in Texas. A company must be organized as a corporation, and must raise at least $150,000 in committed capital from angels from an organized group, in order to be eligible for consideration by the fund.
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Texas Intrepid Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalTexas Intrepid Ventures (TIV) is a business creation activity which will leverage the profound opportunity afforded by the military medicine and commercial trauma sectors being concentrated in San Antonio.
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Texas Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm with expertise in structured finance, capital markets, and technology. We provide guidance, insight and capital to assist entrepreneurs and managers who have the desire, talent and determination to build world-class companies and opportunities.
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Through the Texas Women Ventures family of funds, TWV Capital has more than $25 million under management dedicated to investing in women-owned and women-led companies located in Texas and the Greater Southwest. TWV Capital invests in growing companies with revenues between $10 million and $100 million, seeking both capital and a team of trusted advisors.
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Texo Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalThe enemy of innovation is the absence of effective collaboration. At TEXO, we do not believe in passive investing. We get proactively and continuously involved to ensure that our entrepreneurs are properly resourced and supported to act on their vision … and change the world. We seek to invest in exceptional entrepreneurs who address persistent pain within the health care industry by leveraging advances in technology and business models to decrease utilization, increase access, improve quality and reduce the cost of care.
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Texoma Angels
Angel GroupThe mission of Texoma Angels is to provide a forum in which its members can exchange information about investment opportunities in early-stage and emerging growth companies in our area. We add not only money but also experience. This experience can help startups be more successful. We provide early-stage capital in the range of $100,000 - $750,000, an investment range not generally served by venture capital funds. We are also willing to syndicate with other angel groups to diversify our portfolio and support companies requiring larger investments.
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The Artemis Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalThe Artemis Fund is an early stage venture capital fund that backs women-led companies. We capitalize on the proven value of gender diversity.
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TI Strategic Relationships & Ventures collaborates with startups, early stage companies, and entrepreneurs. We strive to connect the dots between your technology and TI’s strategic direction, then act as the interface between you and relevant TI business units, streamlining access to technology teams where appropriate. Occasionally, TI will make strategic equity investments that are typically accompanied by a commercial agreement or relationship with a TI business.
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TMC Venture Fund
Seed-Venture CapitalIn keeping with the TMC’s mission of serving the health, education, and research needs of Texas and the world, The TMC Venture Fund invests in early-stage technologies and companies in the healthcare and life sciences space.
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Based in Silicon Valley, Toyota AI Ventures is a venture capital subsidiary of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). We invest in entrepreneurs from around the world who share TRI’s commitment to improving the quality of human life through artificial intelligence, with a focus on autonomous mobility, robotics, data, and cloud.
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Incubated in a family office, started and headquartered in Fort Worth and San Francisco, TPG now has more than $73 billion under management with investment and operational teams in 16 offices around the world.
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As a venture fund, we require the potential for exceptional returns on every investment. To generate these returns, we must hunt for extraordinary leaders — individuals whose clear-headed vision is matched by their capacity to execute under any circumstance.
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Trammell
Seed-Venture CapitalTrammell Ventures is a boutique business incubation, professional services, and venture capital investment firm based in Austin. Our core competencies are in information and cybersecurity, Bitcoin and blockchain technologies, data analytics-based business models, gamification, and incubating innovative tech startups. We invest in strong teams with great ideas and a clear ability to execute.
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Trellis Partners
Seed-Venture CapitalTrellis Partners serves a select group of entrepreneurs by providing the venture capital and broad, team-based support they need to build great companies.
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Trend Micro Inc. (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, launched a corporate venture fund to explore emerging technology markets. With an initial investment of $100 million, this venture fund will allow Trend Micro to nurture a portfolio of startups that are developing ideas and living at the epicenter of hyper growth markets, such as the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Trilantic Capital Partners
Private EquityTrilantic North America and Trilantic Europe are two separate and independent private equity investment advisors, each focused on control and significant minority investments in their respective geographies.
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Tritium Partners
Private EquityTritium Partners, launched in 2013, is a leading private equity firm whose principals have been partnering with talented founders and executives for over a decade to build market-leading companies.
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Triton Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalTriton Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in spinout and startup technology companies whose products give them a defensible position in large and growing markets
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We are focused on collaboratively partnering with exceptional management teams of strategically viable middle-market companies to drive transformational upside through operational improvement. We partner with talented management teams to identify transformational opportunities and deploy best business practices. Since 1998, Trive's team members have successfully sourced, executed and managed more than 50 transactions across a range of industries, representing over $5 billion in aggregate revenue. We currently manage over $1 billion in capital.
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True Wealth Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalWe see value in the impact of women. True Wealth Ventures invests in smart female entrepreneurs, from consumer health innovators to sustainable product pioneers. Women-led companies have proven they deliver higher returns. It’s time to invest in new perspectives.
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Trust Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalTrust Ventures helps startups change the world by challenging the status quo. We work alongside pioneering new companies to break down public policy barriers, accelerate business innovation, and improve consumers' lives. Working with the Koch Companies Public Sector government affairs team, Trust Ventures provides portfolio companies with knowledge and expertise that will help them compete in some of today's most entrenched or incumbent-heavy industries.
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Tusk is a private investment firm focused on supporting top-tier management teams to invest in, acquire and scale businesses to their next level of growth.
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Based in Dallas with an office in Austin, TXV stands as a millennial-focused firm investing in consumer-facing products, innovative platforms, fin-tech, and blockchain. We look to invest in companies in their earlier stages and be an asset to them throughout the life of the company. Let’s be a part of the next great American growth story together.
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Tyler Angel Network
Angel GroupTTAN is a Texas nonprofit corporation that seeks quality deals for angel investors to consider. We are a part of a statewide network of angel groups that cooperate on deals across Texas. Our members identify and screen these applicant companies. We educate and coach early stage companies in East Texas for the purpose of raising money, assisting in their growth and improving the local economy. Entrepreneurs from any industry are encouraged to apply.
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Unorthodox Ventures
Seed-Venture CapitalAny investor will give you money, and we get it — money is tough to turn down when you’re running a business. But if you want to build a company and not just an exit plan, you need expertise. Unorthodox Ventures brings both to the table. Led by contrarian entrepreneur and Big Ass Fans Founder Carey Smith, our team of engineers, product managers and marketers have decades of experience launching extraordinary products and building enduring, adored brands.
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Urban Capital Network
Seed-Venture CapitalWe are proud to invest a percentage of our resources in underserved entrepreneurs. By providing vital capital, we’re able to help educate and elevate underfunded entrepreneurs and increase their levels of success. We also contribute to nonprofits that provide early-stage development and support for underestimated entrepreneurs.
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USAA Venture Fund
Corporate VentureOur vision is to facilitate the financial security of the military and their families by partnering with innovative, disruptive businesses through a full suite of products and services
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CometX, formerly known as Comet Accelerator, is a seven-week, experiential program that pulls student entrepreneurs into an environment that incubates ideas and engages prospective customers in preparation for the launch of a new business concept. On the final day of class, teams will give a final 5-minute pitch to a panel of guest judges. The first place team will win $1,500 and the second place team will win $500 to go towards their venture.
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Venn Ventures is an early and growth stage venture firm. We invest in founders and their teams.
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Venture Fuel Partners is a community driven VC firm. We provide superior returns to our investors by identifying and supporting the most promising early stage companies. We develop a strong network of founders, investors, and advisors to spark ingenuity, nurture successful investments, and deliver financial benefit to everyone involved.
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Vista Equity Partners
Private EquityWith more than $30 billion in cumulative capital commitments, Vista Equity Partners currently invests in software, data, and technology companies led by world-class management teams with a long-term perspective. We are a value-added investor, contributing professional expertise and multi-level support to help companies realize their full potential.
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West Texas Angel Network
Angel GroupWest Texas Angel Network is an organization that introduces entrepreneurs to qualified investors in the Amarillo area.
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Focused on radically changing the human experience by helping amazing founders build solutions for our mental and emotional well-being
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Wild Basin Investments
Private EquityWild Basin Investments, LLC is a closely held investment firm located in Austin, Texas with a strong portfolio emphasis in early stage equity. Wild Basin was formed in November 2007 and is the most recent investment vehicle for a group of individuals who have participated in venture and angel investing since 1987.
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Work America
Seed-Venture CapitalHouston-based Venture Firm. We are looking for more than just capital—we are looking for investors who will enjoy mentoring and coaching talented young executives and sharing their wisdom and relationships to enable success.