Congratulations to CerebroSonic, the Fall 2025 TVLIC Texas Champion! The Fall 2025 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition was held on Friday, December 12th featuring the top graduate student startups on the UT campus. Thirty companies competed in five Semifinal rounds in the morning with the winners advancing to the Finals in Crum Auditorium in the […]
Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Iman Salafian
At Brumley Institute for Graduate Entrepreneurship, we take immense pride in celebrating the achievements of our alumni. Whether it’s launching groundbreaking startups, leading innovation in their job, or making impactful contributions to their communities, their successes inspire us all. We are honored to have played a part in their journeys and look forward to sharing […]
TVLIC Fall 2025 Pitch Schedule of Events and Competitors
Agenda for the day of the TVL Investment Competition Fall 2025 on Friday, December 12th. Schedule of competitors will be added the week prior to the event. 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Semifinals in Rowling Hall classrooms 12:00 PM- 1:00PM Lunch in RRH 5.210 12:45 PM Announcement of Finalists RRH 5.210 1:00 PM – 2:00 […]
TVLIC Fall 2025 Gift Bags: UT Founded Products
Longhorn-Founded Favorites Each gift in the TVLIC Fall 2025 gift bags given to selected judges and advisory board members comes from a company founded by our UT alumni- a celebration of entrepreneurship and a way for us to all support their journey. Bawi Agua Fresca Founded by Victor Guardiola, B.S. in Communication Studies, 2020 Victor […]
Meet the Fall 2025 TVL Accelerator Cohort!
The TVL Accelerator connects innovative startups from across Texas with multi-disciplinary teams of graduate students in our unique campus-wide course, the TVL Practicum. These incredible startup ventures are able to leverage the high-impact consulting and market research conducted by their student teams to take their businesses to the next level. Our TVL Accelerator alumni companies […]
Announcing the Brumley Startup Fellows Cohort of Summer 2025
Alex Whitman – Founder in Residence Fellow School: Cockrell School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering Degree: Master of Science in Engineering Graduating: 2024 Texas Biodesign and Clinical Innovation & Design fellow passionate about needs-driven innovation and medical devices. Currently the CEO and co-founder of LumiPath, where we are developing a novel, minimally invasive approach […]
Imagine Devices is the Spring 2025 TVLIC Champion!
Congratulations to Imagine Devices, the Spring 2025 TVLIC Texas Champion! The Spring 2025 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition was held on Friday, May 2nd featuring the top graduate student startups on the UT campus. Thirty companies competed in five Semifinal rounds in the morning with the winners advancing to the Finals in Crum Auditorium in […]
April 2025 Ecosystem Events
ECOSYSTEM EVENTS! Texas Venture Labs is gearing up for a dynamic Spring semester designed to invigorate and inspire. We want to highlight some other events in our UT McCombs ecosystem that we are excited about! Texas Entrepreneurship has absorbed the Student Entrepreneur Acceleration & Launch (SEAL) program, a 9-week accelerator that picks the most promising […]
Entrepreneurship Starts Here: Alumni Spotlight on Anuj Swaminathan
At Texas Venture Labs, we take immense pride in celebrating the achievements of our alumni. With the anticipation of this Spring’s Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition building, we wanted to take some time to catch up with a previous TVL Investment Competition Champion, Anuj Swaminathan. Anuj won the Spring 2024 competition with his startup NovaBuild. Read […]
April 2025 Upcoming Opportunities
What’s new? Before the Spring 2025 semester comes to an end, we still have many exciting opportunities planned here at TVL. We’re thrilled to have accepted students into the Fall 2025 Practicum class. We appreciate all the students who applied and came to our info sessions! We’re most excited for the upcoming Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition on May 2nd! […]