Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Austin.
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
Founded 3 internet companies. All successful. Last company @leadclick-media took no investment and sold for $200mm. Currently, running a Hedge Fund & Angel Fund.
Principal at Green Park & Golf Ventures (GPG). undergrad at Notre Dame, MBA at SMU. Time at FedEX, Bold Ventures, Lone Star.
UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, @stanford-university, @3com, InfoWorld.
Investor in @bazaarvoice, @convio, @mindjolt, @jigsaw, @whaleshark-media, @nileguide, @workstreamer, @boundless-network, @gazzang, @foodonthetable-com, @newcomlink...
Director @galvanize-ventures-1 and Angel Investor. Ex - @foundry-group Special Projects, @techstars Associate & @BoulderBeta Producer.
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.
Director at @mercury-fund
http://texvc.com
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
Diggin' big ideas, start-ups, and entrepreneurs. Dir of Corp Dev at a Texas startup. Wife of a Texas entrepreneur.
Founder & Partner at @e-merge a Brussels based investment company with 30+ early-stage investments up to date, mainly as lead investor
B.A. Dartmouth, retired Partner from Goldman Sachs
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/
Principal at Sentient Capital
Founder @woodgen-1 • Investor @dreamit-ventures, @brideside
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
General Partner at @corsa-ventures
Partner at @austin-ventures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dell
Worked at @union-square-ventures, @cisco • Investor @union-square-ventures • Studied at @princeton-university
http://blog.garychou.com
Investor at General Catalyst. Co-founder at @RoughDraft.vc. Founding team of @getaround and @summer-workation. Invested in @kayak, @hubspot, @bigcommerce, @locu
Founder & Partner, @coyote-ridge-ventures & @the-hatchery-1. Former 3x Entrepreneur with 3 successful exits.
Founder of @tivoli-systems. Investor in @waveset, @sailpoint, @venafi, @intact-medical. Advisor to @swimtopia.
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
President at Gladiator Energy Services LLC
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
@viral-industries • @pawnmystartup • Worked at @yodle, @innography • Studied at @university-of-north-texas, @southeastern-oklahoma-state-university
Trailblazer Capital Managing Partner.
Micro VC focused in Texas. Startup founder of Metreos, sold to Cisco. Early stage entrepreneur and investor.
Investor in @mindjolt, @crimereports, @whaleshark-media, @dachis-group, @bbs-technologies, @powered, @famecast.
CCO @microventures-1, @charles-schwab-and-company • Studied at @michigan-state-university, @saint-edward-s-university
Senior Associate at @austin-ventures
12+ years of venture capital investing experience at Limestone and Gefinor Ventures. Focus on early stage investing in software & tech-enabled services.
@capitalfactory , Previously @UTHorizonFund
Co-founded and served as CEO of @art-com, Inc., and currently serves on its Board of Directors.
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 @blue-track-media, @plugged-inc • Managing Partner at @karlani-capital
http://shahzil.com
Internet Entrepreneur at Matrix2012 Ventures, Inc.
Seasoned, strategic tech entrepreneur and investor; strong experience working with startups to multibillion $ market cap companies. @princeton, @oxford.
Sr. Associate S3 Ventures. McCombs MBA. Frmly Harbert PE. Cancer survivor advocate.
Interested in early -stage startups (seed to pre-series A)
Investor in @phurnace-software, @digby, @sipera-systems, @libredigital, @invodo, @callvine. Team member of @s3-ventures.
Co-Founder: MPOWER Ventures, NetSpend (NTSP), REV Worldwide.
Advisor, CGAP.
Chairman, MPOWER Foundation.
Co-Founder, Empowerment Lab @ Harvard.
CGI Member.
Founder @icanmakeitbetter, @sentient-services • Investor @greenling, @csidentity • Angel investing - tech, CPG, restaurants. Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1
Associate in the Venture Capital practice at Austin Ventures ("AV") focused on Enterprise IT and Internet / Digital Media.