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 […]
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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 […]
TVL Upcoming Opportunities
APPLY NOW FOR TVL INVESTMENT COMPETITION The Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition awards more than $100,000 each year in prizes and in-kind support during its fall and spring competitions, where graduate students from the University of Texas System present their business ventures to simulate the experience of pitching to investors. Apply by April 21 to […]
April 2024 Alumni News
Fall 2023 TVLIC champs Tano Pharmaceuticals were named a Top 10 Finalist at Baylor University’s 2024 New Venture Competition. Tano received honorable mention and placed second in the Elevator Pitch competition which was decided by audience vote. Tano also debuted its line of face creams and lotions at UT’s Student Founder Fest during SXSW, and […]
Pecan Credit looking for a Chief Technology Officer
Pecan Credit is a pre-seed Cleantech startup dealing with Inflation Reduction Tax Credits and the Transferability Market. Their goal is to make it more open to smaller and medium-sized companies through a more efficient process and save their time. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is tasked with spearheading the company’s technological vision and strategy, particularly […]
Alumni News
Fall 2022 TVLIC winners Outmore Living are featured in Poets & Quants’ Most Disruptive MBA Startups of 2023.
