Austin Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Austin.

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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Young Potential Development LLC - YPD - digital media education high schools

Young Potential Development LLC - YPD

We turn "yestbutters" into "whynotters" changing the world through education.
Are we really preparing our children for the future? Are we offering them the tools they need to face a rapidly changing world? It’s all about THEM!!! It’s all about helping our children discover their talents and develop their potential. It’s about offering ...

TEKVOX - education hospitality governments corporate it

TEKVOX

Enterprise IT for A/V
TEKVOX is fundamentally changing the Total Cost of acquiring, operating and supporting the large constellations of complex audio/visual equipment essential to modern teaching, meeting and collaboration spaces. TEKVOX unites Internet-of-Things technology with ...

MakerSquare - education

MakerSquare

Software Engineering School
MakerSquare is a 3 month full-time career accelerator for software engineering. By teaching solid computer science fundamentals and modern technologies, MakerSquare crafts students ready to join the most prestigious of engineering teams. Graduates of MakerSquare ...

TeacherGraph - education k 12 education

TeacherGraph

MailChimp for Schools
TeacherGraph is a cloud-based web app that simplifies parent/teacher communication by organizing important information and interactions into one, easy-to-use tool. http://facebook.com/TeacherGraph

Academiacs - education marketplaces tutoring university students

Academiacs

Making Studies Social
Academiacs provides the social learning dimension to distance learning. It is an open online knowledge exchange and marketplace that brings students, tutors, information, and study tools together, for improving the educational experience of the distance learner. ...

Upswing - education knowledge management Higher Education

Upswing

Improving Student Retention in Colleges
Forget what you know about online tutoring. Upswing is on a mission to end attrition. Upswing is redefining what it means to support student success. We partner with colleges to provide an easy-to-use virtual learning center for students, and real-time comprehensive ...

Digital Proctor - education fraud detection mobile security

Digital Proctor

Finanial Aid Fraud Detection
We save colleges and taxpayers millions of dollars by stopping financial aid fraud.

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Skillow - internet education marketplaces startups

Skillow

Community Marketplace of Knowledge and Skills
Skillow is the best resource for entrepreneurs. Collect helpful videos, articles, and images on your personal board, and share them with others. We will soon be providing our community with access to the best mentors available and online classes.

Aceable - mobile education mobile games technical continuing education

Aceable

Required education made mobile and fun (e.g. Drivers Ed/Cont Education/Training)
Aceable is changing required education by making it fun, convenient, and effective. Required education are all the courses you have to take for one reason or another (defensive driving, continuing education, pre-license education, corporate training, etc). The ...

Enzoology Education - digital media education edutainment k 12 education

Enzoology Education

Unique digital instruction product delivered as Saas
See website: http://www.ExplorationNation.com The company develops and distributes digital science instruction programming to educators featuring real kids doing authentic scientific research; from discovering mammoth remains in New Mexico to exploring the jungle ...

PeerLearn - education k 12 education

PeerLearn

Remote Tutor Friends & Siblings
Create a room with a virtual blackboard (like Khan Academy) usable on the web and on tablets (e.g. Kindle Fire and the iPad) within five seconds and share the link with peers to join you in peerlearning. Text the room you created to a friend with the PeerLearn ...

Stoodify - mobile education social media platforms college recruiting

Stoodify

Find, connect and share with your classmates
Stoodify helps students find their classmates, connect with them without using their personal social networks or contact info, and then share messages, links, pictures, videos, etc.

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

SchooX - education knowledge management curated web

SchooX

The Social Academy for life-long learning and higher education
An Academy where self-learners can earn badges and certificates online and build a strong portfolio of qualifications and experts teach online and monetize their knowledge.

Hoot.Me - education marketplaces social commerce collaboration

Hoot.Me

Switching Facebook into study mode
Hoot.Me is an educational Q&A platform designed to integrate with Facebook and LMS providers like Canvas. Students can get their questions answered from fellow classmates, so teachers can crowdsource help in big classes without losing control of the discussion. ...

VeritasU - education k 12 education corporate training Higher Education

VeritasU

MOOC hosting & tech support - WPEngine for OpenEdX.
VeritasU serves educators by supporting hosted platforms for online and blended learning. We provide hosting, customizations, and course development and IT support for MOOCs and online courses. We leverage and support open-EdX, the leading open source online learning ...

Civitas Learning - education big data colleges predictive analytics

Civitas Learning

SaaS start-up setting out to transform higher education industry using big data analytics
Civitas Learning is a well-funded SaaS start-up based in Austin. We are setting out to transform higher education by using big data analytics to radically improve the learning experience and transform academic and financial outcomes. We are partnering with leading ...

SubjectMatter, Inc. - education all students Higher Education edtech

SubjectMatter, Inc.

Modernizing student engagement; enhancing student outcomes
SubjectMatter. is an innovative collaboration platform that enables students to find, schedule and engage live with critical resources throughout the student lifecycle, within a networked learning environment. From admissions to graduation; it’s all about leveraging ...

VChain Solutions - education supply chain management software Education Technology

VChain Solutions

Supply Chain Simulation Software
Designed to provide a range of training scenarios VChain ProActive™ can be configured for both beginning students, new to the basic concepts of supply chain management, or for existing supply chain employees and teams. We use complex, challenging scenarios that ...

Prepify - education analytics Test Prep

Prepify

Free, adaptive SAT prep for any student, anywhere.
Prepify is making high-end, adaptive, online SAT prep free for students anywhere by charging universities recruiters for personal introductions to top admissions candidates on the platform. Thousands of SAT-takers each year can't afford test prep. Millions write ...

Chef 52 - education food and beverages communities cooking

Chef 52

AirBnB for personal chefs
Chef 52 is an online community marketplace where people who love to eat can connect with local chefs (professional and hobbyist) that love to cook. It's like AirBnB for foodies and chefs. Chefs get free marketing, exposure and payment solutions to build and sustain ...

ESPEROS - education fashion social commerce

ESPEROS

With every bag we sell, we help send a child in the developing world to school for a year.
One Bag. One Child. One Year. ESPEROS is a one-for-one retailer dedicated to providing impoverished children in developing countries with access to an education. Our business model is fairly simple: with every product we sell, we help send a child in need to school ...

Querium - mobile video education training

Querium

Rosetta Stone for math and science
Smart, mobile, personalized learning solution will help 24M students master math and science to achieve their career goals. Our patent-pending A.I. technology tutors using just-in-time lessons aligned to students planned careers, available 24x7 on smartphones. ...

CoachTube - video education sports marketplaces

CoachTube

The marketplace for Sports Education
CoachTube give's every athlete in the world access to the instructions, knowledge, and motivation they need to grow and progress as athletes. We do this by providing access to online training from the world’s best coaches. These lessons are available on-demand, ...

CourseStreet - social media education

CourseStreet

CourseStreet is the easiest way to establish higher education courses on the Web.
CourseStreet makes it effortless to manage courses online and enables interaction outside of the classroom using a social networking platform. CourseStreet is typically used as a supplement to the traditional classroom course and can also be used as a full online ...

Meritful - enterprise software education recruiting college recruiting

Meritful

College Recruiting Management
Meritful makes campus recruiting efficient for companies and students. Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013, Meritful is used by a range of companies (some have left comments below). 3 million students enter the work-force every year. Yet, finding talented graduates ...

Interplay Learning - enterprise software education

Interplay Learning

3-D Simulation Training and Testing
Interplay Learning develops online digital learning and testing products for students and professionals to build career skills and technical aptitude. Interplay's specialty is 3-D interactive life-like simulation which allows a learner to accelerate practical understanding ...

SwitchUp - education reviews and recommendations technical continuing education

SwitchUp

Marketplace For Continuing Education
Switch is the Marketplace for Continuing Education. After a successful pilot in the digital skills segment, we have established a first-mover advantage and are on track to become profitable by the end of 2015. Student alumni can write verified reviews for educational ...

Ziqqu - education venture capital incubators Entrepreneurs

Ziqqu

A faster way to think through your startup and get feedback.
Ziqqu Forge is an online platform where founders can organize, share, and validate the key assertions of their startup. The high-level overview of a startup can be captured in about 10 minutes (similar to a business model canvas), yet the assertions of the business ...

The Yoga Recipe - education fitness marketplaces health and wellness

The Yoga Recipe

Marketplace for yoga teachers -share content, make money (i.e. Teachers Pay Teachers).
The Yoga Recipe is a worldwide marketplace specifically for yoga teachers. Teachers create a shop for free, upload original content (sequences, playlists, themes, workshop/training collateral) using our custom Creation Tool, price it themselves, and sell it for ...

tutor. - mobile education tutoring university students

tutor.

Digital education network
Finding a tutor who suits your needs is now easier than ever. Help us punctuate overpriced education by leveraging a network for education. Sign up as a student to get on-demand, face-to-face tutoring or Sign-up as a Tutor and let your education pay you back. Either ...

Pync - social media education social commerce social media platforms

Pync

Mobile App for Parent Networking
A web/mobile app for YOUNG CHILDREN'S (Pre-K - 5th grade) EDUCATION (more specifically, after-school education) that; - provides program information and reviews about after school activities (e.g. restaurant & travel reviews) - enables parents to share and discuss ...

EdTech Austin - education technology k 12 education

EdTech Austin

We are a community of educators and entrepreneurs solving challenges in education.
EdTech Austin helps connect educators and entrepreneurs to build solutions to challenges in education.

Fifteen Five Corporation - education insurance home & garden

Fifteen Five Corporation

Berkshire inspired holding company
Fifteen Five is a holding company that currently owns and operates two separate companies, Vandelay Education and Poopking. Vandelay Education is a rapidly growing company that trains Medical Assistant & Dental Assistants in 8 states. Poopking is a dog waste ...

EduSync, Inc. - mobile education startups k 12 education

EduSync, Inc.

Education Sychronized

Vandelay Education - education

Vandelay Education

Practical Career Education
Vandelay education owns and operates dental and medical assisting schools that offer hands on training in Doctor offices.

digitaltalentinc - education sales and marketing fashion small and medium businesses

digitaltalentinc

technology sales force training
Our application socializes the sales force training and customer acquisition process for start-ups and existing companies.It provides remote training and retraining while on the road. Giving the sales force the latest information, motivation and coaching needed ...

Tech Tutor Bartley - education

Tech Tutor Bartley

1-on-1 technology training

Pancake Canoe - e-commerce education peer-to-peer social commerce

Pancake Canoe

Etsy for one-of-a-kind lessons
Pancake Canoe is a place for instructors to teach unique lessons locally. We are a people powered economy with an open source of lessons being sold peer-to-peer.

Quericity - education

Quericity

Github for educational assessments

SproutBeat - education music education

SproutBeat

Making music theory fun and easy
SproutBeat is an iPad application that allows music teachers to be more effective and students to learn faster. We do this by providing the teacher with fun, engaging and effective music theory supplemental materials that they can assign to their students. The ...

finservMarketing - financial services education investment management

finservMarketing

Digital Marketing Education for Financial Professionals
finservMarketing provides online education for financial professionals. Our mission is to help financial advisors, insurance agents, and asset management wholesalers grow profitable and sustainable businesses via digital marketing. We produce video tutorials, ...

AccessiTec - education small and medium businesses training k 12 education

AccessiTec

Training for visually impaired students on touchscreen technology
With mainstream mobile & handheld technology adopting touch screen platforms, the challenges for visually impaired individuals to utilize mainstream technologies has mounted significantly. Teachers of visually impaired students have received no training on accessibility ...

Mijingo - education web design web development

Mijingo

Continuing education for web professionals.
Web design and development technology move fast. I’ve been building websites for more than a decade so I know the challenge. It takes a lot of work to keep up. Using carefully crafted video courses, Mijingo helps you learn new tools and stay on top of your craft. ...

Broca Worldswide - education virtual worlds technology virtual reality

Broca Worldswide

Virtual reality learning tools
We are developing educational virtual reality environments for use on consumer-level virtual reality hardware. While our vision for Broca is as the preeminent provider of all things virtual reality education, the initial products we are creating are focused in ...

Science Delights - education k 12 education

Science Delights

STEM for early elementary students
Science Delights produces hands-on, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum for preschool and early elementary age students. Our customers are days cares, preschools, and elementary schools. STEM is not a focus until the middle and ...

Radical Science News - digital media education publishing big data

Radical Science News

A multi-platform science news bureau
WHO WE ARE: Radical Science News is a open-source science news and learning platform and publication. A multi-platform news bureau that will be the heart of the next generations information exchange, seamlessly integrating the private citizens input with a global ...

Nuvola Networks - digital media e-commerce education corporate training

Nuvola Networks

Simplify Training | Educate Everybody
Our portfolio consists of two primary products. 1.) An eLearning Platform to connect teachers with learners. This is a consumer facing e-commerce site designed to empower both content creators and learners alike 2.) We have also created a highly customizable ...

Math Monsters - education k 12 education educational games edtech

Math Monsters

Math. But more fun.
Math Monsters is an online game/curriculum that is the most fun way to level up in math. We use psychological tools perfected by the games industry to keep kids engaged and wanting more. By offering instant feedback, steady progression, and just-challenging-enough ...

The Tutoring Center - education k 12 education tutoring

The Tutoring Center

Affordable One-to-One Rotational Tutoring
The Tutoring Center specializes in helping children master academic skills that enable students to be college ready, get better grades, achieve higher standardized test scores, and gain the confidence, motivation, and concentration necessary to succeed. After ...

Mavenr - education sales and marketing consulting semantic search

Mavenr

Microconsulting for the masses
Mavenr provides a simple, intelligent platform for finding and buying time with tutors and micro-consultants.

TeacherSherpa - education k 12 education teachers

TeacherSherpa

A platform for teachers to create education material
TeacherSherpa is a collaborative platform for teachers and students to create and share educational materials.

Ruckus Makers - education colleges university students Entrepreneurs

Ruckus Makers

We build fun new companies.
We are a team of mischief makers wrestling crazy ideas into new products and companies that deliver unique customer experiences. Mostly, we work on our own ideas (we're selfish), but sometimes we work on your ideas too.

CollegeSocial - social media education social commerce social media marketing

CollegeSocial

College Social Network
College social network will provide high quality social network services to college and university students. College Social network will be a partnership service with the university. Services: School Organization; Events; Selling and buying of events; Alumni; Class ...

Business Building Academy - education entrepreneur

Business Building Academy

Education for Entrepreneurs
Business Building Academy was created with a main concept in mind. To connect people and educated them by helping each other about real estate and entrepreneurship, its opportunities, and of course its challenges. For many years, we’ve been successfully investing ...

Lessons.com - education edtech

Lessons.com

Marketplace for Lessons: Music, Sports, Arts and Academics
For teachers, Lessons.com provides more than just local exposure to new students, including accepting payments online, management tools to grow their business, and administrative efforts to help ease growing pains. After all, most teachers don't have a website ...

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