Texas Venture Labs has supported the startup ecosystem in Texas since 2010 through the TVL Accelerator program. We are now expanding our offerings, thanks to the Wells Fargo Foundation, to include our small business community. Our Small Business Impact Program is designed to provide small businesses with tools and knowledge to pursue growth and sustainability in a series of comprehensive […]
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Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs (TVL) is a McCombs School of Business Center of Excellence created to foster entrepreneurship for graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. TVL offers programs including courses, competitions, and access to the startup community in Austin, Texas. TVL connects students from the Texas MBA and MSTC programs to graduate students from across campus to encourage innovation and commercialization.
Meet the Fall 2024 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 […]
Introducing the TVL Small Business Impact Program: Propelling Central Texas Businesses Towards Growth with New Grant from Wells Fargo
Austin, TX – August 26th, 2024 – The Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs (TVL) at The University of Texas at Austin launches the TVL Small Business Impact Program, supported by Wells Fargo. This initiative aims to empower local businesses through strategic resources and talent from UT Austin. “The TVL Small Business Impact Program […]
July 2024 Upcoming Opportunities
Texas Venture Labs has supported the startup ecosystem in Texas since 2010 through the TVL Accelerator program. We are now expanding our offerings, thanks to the Wells Fargo Foundation, to include our small business community. This Summer, we are offering two opportunities to support our community! The TVL Accelerator presents a remarkable chance for Texas […]
July 2024 Alumni News
Congratulations to Beatbox Beverages whose founders were recently named 2024 Entrepreneurs of the Year for the Gulf South region by EY. Beatbox Beverages is an alumni company of the TVL Accelerator’s Spring 2014 and Spring 2016 cohorts. Fall 2021 TVLIC Champion Bold Move Beverages and Spring 2023 TVL Accelerator alumni company Card.io recently were awarded […]
Meet the 2024-25 TVL Startup Fellows!
Rishi Dubey – TVL Commercialization Fellow Rishi Dubey is a dedicated technologist and graduate student at the Cockrell School of Engineering, where he specializes in Operations Research, supported by a strong foundation in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. Throughout his career, Rishi has demonstrated a commitment to leveraging technology to solve real-world […]
NovaBuild is the Spring 2024 TVLIC Texas Champion!
Congratulations to NovaBuild, the Spring 2024 TVLIC Texas Champion! The Spring 2024 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition was held on Friday, May 3 featuring the top graduate student startups on the UT campus. After twenty nine companies competed in five semifinal rounds in the morning, five teams advanced to the finals in Crum Auditorium in […]
Spring 2024 TVLIC Semifinalists and Pitch Schedule with updated results
UPDATE: The results are in, and NovaBuild is the Spring 2024 TVLIC Texas Champion! Click HERE for the full results from the competition. Thirty companies have been selected to compete at the Spring 2024 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition Semifinals on Friday, December 8 starting at 9 AM. The times and room numbers where […]
RSVP for the Spring 2024 TVL Investment Competition
The Spring 2024 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) will be happening on Friday, May 3 in Robert B. Rowling Hall on the University of Texas campus. This competition offers an invaluable opportunity for graduate students from UT System schools to pitch their startup ideas to a panel of investors and entrepreneurs. Past participants, such […]
Upcoming Ecosystem Events
Student Entrepreneur Acceleration & Launch (SEAL) Now in its 16th year, the Student Entrepreneur Acceleration & Launch (SEAL) program, hosted by LaunchPad at UT Austin, invites UT Austin founders to participate in a 9-week summer accelerator. This program is designed for those with a validated concept who are ready to raise capital. Through workshops led […]