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 […]
Author: Brumley Institute for Graduate Entrepreneurship
The Brumley Institute for Graduate Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin offers courses, programs, and competitions that provide graduate students with a rich, immersive experience in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. With a focus on real-world, hands-on learning, we equip students with the practical skills, experience, mentorship, and resources needed to build careers in new product development, venture creation, and early-stage companies.
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! […]
TVLIC Spring 2025 Pitch Schedule of Events and Competitiors
Here is the agenda for the TVLIC Spring 2025 event on Friday, May 2nd, 2025. Further below you will find the pitch schedule for competitors and the list of finalists which will be updated in real-time during the course of the competition. 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Semifinals in Rowling Hall classrooms 12:30 PM- […]
Entrepreneurship Starts Here: Alumni Spotlight on Jane Hervey
Jane Claire Hervey is a community and brand development director, award-winning curator, creative producer and accidental nonprofit founder. Currently, she directs Future Front, a 501c3 cultural space she founded in 2021, alongside her own consultancy, group work. Through these projects, her community-designed festivals and fairs have distributed more than $1M in commissions and support to independent artists, musicians, […]
Entrepreneurship Starts Here: Community Spotlight on Laura Rivera Gomez
We wanted to shoutout a special member of the TVL community, Laura Rivera Gomez. In addition to being a TA for our Energy Ventures Practicum class, Laura is a M.S. Mechanical Engineering & MBA Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant for the Webber Energy Group. She also has project management experience working for companies like Ethos […]