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 undergrad, grad, and faculty startups at UT and helps them make a go or no-go decision. Participants will spend the summer workshopping and getting guidance from handpicked industry-specific mentors. SEAL culminates in a final decision day at Crum Auditorium, where teams share their learnings and ultimately decide to accelerate, pivot, or shut down their venture. The deadline is approaching quickly, apply here by April 20th.

Texas Entrepreneurship is excited for their inaugural pitch event for TExAN (Texas Entrepreneurship Angel Network) on April 22nd. Selected UT Longhorn alumni founders are pitching to Longhorn angel investors. To be selected to join the network and attend the next event, please fill out these forms-
Longhorn Founders form here.
Longhorn Investors form here.

After an intense semester of honing their concepts, founders in Herb Kelleher‘s Forty Acres Founders Program submit their pitch to earn a spot in the Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition to compete for $20,000 in grant funding. The Finals Competition occurs on Thursday, April 24th from 2-6pm in Crum Auditorium. RSVP here to attend the event.

Consider joining the McCombs Entrepreneur Summer Fellowship – run by the Harkey Institute. Application deadline is May 9th, at 11:59pm.
The Summer Entrepreneurship Academy, also run by Harkey Institute has a deadline of April 18th. Apply here.