Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Austin.
General Partner at @corsa-ventures
Founded G51 Capital 25+ Investments, Acq by SAP, ADP, Cisco, Prudential & others, National network of G51 Venture Scholars w/10+ leading MBA prgms & 150+ Alumni
Principal at Sentient Capital
Investor at General Catalyst. Co-founder at @RoughDraft.vc. Founding team of @getaround and @summer-workation. Invested in @kayak, @hubspot, @bigcommerce, @locu
UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, @stanford-university, @3com, InfoWorld.
B.A. Dartmouth, retired Partner from Goldman Sachs
Director at @mercury-fund
http://texvc.com
Founder of @tivoli-systems. Investor in @waveset, @sailpoint, @venafi, @intact-medical. Advisor to @swimtopia.
Entrepreneur / Angel Investor. Partner, Chaotic Moon. CEO, Team Chaos. Founder, Challenge Games (Acq by @zynga), Co-Founder, Pluck (Acq by @demand-media)
http://www.andrewbusey.com
Investor in @bazaarvoice, @convio, @mindjolt, @jigsaw, @whaleshark-media, @nileguide, @workstreamer, @boundless-network, @gazzang, @foodonthetable-com, @newcomlink...
Craig is the CFO for Wild Basin Investments, LLC (“WBI”). He has held this position at WBI and its predecessor entities since 2001. WBI is a closely held venture investment company with a focus on direct early stage and “angel” investing. He has 20+ yea
Director @galvanize-ventures-1 and Angel Investor. Ex - @foundry-group Special Projects, @techstars Associate & @BoulderBeta Producer.
Partner at @austin-ventures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dell
Principal at Green Park & Golf Ventures (GPG). undergrad at Notre Dame, MBA at SMU. Time at FedEX, Bold Ventures, Lone Star.
Worked at @union-square-ventures, @cisco • Investor @union-square-ventures • Studied at @princeton-university
http://blog.garychou.com
Chief Ventures Officer @thinktiv; 15-year CMO/advisor to 50+ cos: RNOW (IPO); @firepond CMO (IPO); @trilogy 93-97; Bear Stearns 90-92; @stanford-university 90.
Founder/Managing Partner @scout-ventures; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, @mit-sloan-school-of-management '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Diggin' big ideas, start-ups, and entrepreneurs. Dir of Corp Dev at a Texas startup. Wife of a Texas entrepreneur.
Founder @woodgen-1 • Investor @dreamit-ventures, @brideside
Founded 3 internet companies. All successful. Last company @leadclick-media took no investment and sold for $200mm. Currently, running a Hedge Fund & Angel Fund.
Founder & Partner at @e-merge a Brussels based investment company with 30+ early-stage investments up to date, mainly as lead investor
Founder & Partner, @coyote-ridge-ventures & @the-hatchery-1. Former 3x Entrepreneur with 3 successful exits.
Startup Advisor / investor; Analytics @dell; Editor @yourstory-in; Worked @yahoo (5 years), OCA Ventures (Investor), Strong business & Tech skills, Kellogg MBA
http://yourstory.com/author/ashish-aggarwal/
12+ years of venture capital investing experience at Limestone and Gefinor Ventures. Focus on early stage investing in software & tech-enabled services.
Trailblazer Capital Managing Partner.
Micro VC focused in Texas. Startup founder of Metreos, sold to Cisco. Early stage entrepreneur and investor.
Sr. Associate S3 Ventures. McCombs MBA. Frmly Harbert PE. Cancer survivor advocate.
Joe is an experienced entrepreneur and investor. He is actively involved with start-ups in Oregon, New York and Texas and has been an angel investor since 2004
Founder @blue-track-media, @plugged-inc • Managing Partner at @karlani-capital
http://shahzil.com
Seasoned, strategic tech entrepreneur and investor; strong experience working with startups to multibillion $ market cap companies. @princeton, @oxford.
CCO @microventures-1, @charles-schwab-and-company • Studied at @michigan-state-university, @saint-edward-s-university
Co-Founder: MPOWER Ventures, NetSpend (NTSP), REV Worldwide.
Advisor, CGAP.
Chairman, MPOWER Foundation.
Co-Founder, Empowerment Lab @ Harvard.
CGI Member.
Senior Associate at @austin-ventures
Associate in the Venture Capital practice at Austin Ventures ("AV") focused on Enterprise IT and Internet / Digital Media.
Internet Entrepreneur at Matrix2012 Ventures, Inc.
Investor in @phurnace-software, @digby, @sipera-systems, @libredigital, @invodo, @callvine. Team member of @s3-ventures.
@viral-industries • @pawnmystartup • Worked at @yodle, @innography • Studied at @university-of-north-texas, @southeastern-oklahoma-state-university
Managing Partner Bridge 37, tech VC Firm. Before B37, VC team Gerbera Capital. Invested in Alandra Medical, ID90t and KiwiLimon. Kauffman Fellow Class 17
Founder @icanmakeitbetter, @sentient-services • Investor @greenling, @csidentity • Angel investing - tech, CPG, restaurants. Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1
President at Gladiator Energy Services LLC
Co-founded and served as CEO of @art-com, Inc., and currently serves on its Board of Directors.
Interested in early -stage startups (seed to pre-series A)
@capitalfactory , Previously @UTHorizonFund
Investor in @mindjolt, @crimereports, @whaleshark-media, @dachis-group, @bbs-technologies, @powered, @famecast.