Welcome to the Latest TVL Cohort of Amazing Startup Companies!
What an exciting year of funding 2021 was for startups across the country! It was a banner year for the Austin ecosystem with a whopping $4.9 billion in funding flowing out across 387 deals according to Pitchbook data cited in this recent Axios Austin article. For our TVL Accelerator Spring 2022 cohort, we’ve selected 14 of the most exciting early-stage companies that will likely be part of the next few banner years anticipated in Central Texas as we continue to see phenomenal growth.
Every year, we have the honor of working with dozens of the most promising innovators and founders throughout Texas. As usual, we had a highly competitive group of applicants, and we are confident the evaluation process was as valuable for all of them as it was for us. We are very excited to begin working with these 14 up-and-coming startups in the next couple weeks and connect them with our graduate students in the TVL Practicum on January 31. Over the few months that follow, those students will provide high-impact consulting and market research that will help the accelerator companies take the next big step in their journey.
Without further ado, let’s meet the startups!
TVL Accelerator Spring 2022 Cohort
Blenders & Bowls has launched their famous smoothie blends into the national grocery channel. The local Austin, Texas startup launched 8 SKUs and will reach $700,000 in the first 12 months of sales for the CPG company. They first launched in 2011 out of a food truck and have sold over $10M worth of smoothie bowls at their cafes.
Combplex frames use bee behavior, AI, and lasers to eliminate varroa mites, a pesticide-resistant tick-like parasite of honey bees, automatically and chemically free. Varroa are the leading cause of global honey bee decline. Beekeeping is a 10s of billion-dollar industry but varroa infestations result in the loss of 40% of U.S. honey bee stocks annually.
Contentstack is a pioneer in API-first, headless CMS technology. They accelerate and simplify content management across today’s and tomorrow’s digital channels, including web, mobile and IoT. From desktops to smart phones, from kiosks to smart watches, from billboards to jumbotrons, from dashboards to VR headsets – content is delivered with the push of a button and optimized for every screen, device and channel.
Dreamland is a one-of-a-kind outdoor entertainment, recreation and arts venue in Dripping Springs. Located on 64 acres in the Texas Hill Country, Dreamland offers an oasis of outdoor sports, music, stunning visual arts, diverse food, and a beer garden and tap room with an expertly curated variety of beer and wine from all over the region.
EmpiricaLab is transforming how technical and analytics teams learn at companies and organizations. They enable teams to access multimedia programs curated and designed by industry experts to make it easier to onboard, learn, and improve productivity because they strongly believe that teams can be more resilient if learning is core to what they do.
GoalProfit is a low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. Founded by former IBM executives at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
InMoat is a free email management automation and productivity software built for individuals and teams. We make it easy to personalize your inbox, so you can focus on what matters most. Our library of predefined rules are a set of building blocks you can use to easily create the exact workflows you need, enabling you to automate tedious tasks and regain 30% of your workday.
Intuily builds trust in health care by matching individuals to practitioners using personality recognition. They take the blind dating out of finding the right practitioner which helps the relationship start with a foundation of trust. Trust increases patient value, reduces risk, and improves patient outcomes making for a healthier caring system.
Quimby helps build psychological safe teams while helping employees build emotional resilience. The app provides science based micro-habits like reflecting on emotions and journaling through a desktop app while also providing aggregate morale insights to teams and managers. Their mission is for wellness to seamlessly integrate into work days.
Quiver Quantitative is a class leading fintech startup that works with the world’s largest hedge funds and asset managers to deliver data that informs and educates their strategies and insights. We do this through groundbreaking products that source and aggregate alternative datasets.
REPCARDz is a Vendor Relationship Management platform for hospitals. Our software as a service helps increase operating room workflow efficiencies by enabling healthcare providers to easily find and connect with product experts when seconds matter for proper patient care.
SchooLinks is democratizing college and career readiness resources to ALL students with the most modern platform on the market. The platform includes 80+ interactive experiences from interest discovery to academic and post-secondary planning. They offer internship matching, career mentorship, industry partner management and more that help districts broaden the definition of college and career readiness.
Sommly is a digital platform and marketplace that enables wineries to sell wine and club memberships directly to consumers. Wine eCommerce sales are rising at an exponential rate, but most wineries do not have a strong digital presence. Sommly helps wineries avoid the three-tier system and provides them with an Etsy-like platform that is easy to manage, thus maximizing profits.
Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to eliminate the paper hassle of trade docs and provide unprecedented visibility into customers’ supplier networks by effectively memorializing trade data at every step in a products’ journey from point of origin to point of import and beyond.
Join us in welcoming these fantastic startups!
If you want to learn more about these 14 promising startup companies, visit their websites linked in their descriptions and connect with us on social media or subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date. You can also reach us directly at infoTVL@mccombs.utexas.edu for questions about any of our alumni companies or other JBTVL programs.