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 […]
Category: Alumni
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 […]
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 […]
March 2025 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! On Wednesday, March 26th, TVL is hosting a Founder Stories Event featuring Justin Fenchel, CEO of Beatbox Beverages. Join us at 5:00 PM in Robert B. Rowling Hall, RRH […]
Entrepreneurship Starts Here: Alumni Spotlight on Longhorn Life Sciences
In this special feature, we spotlight two remarkable alumni who have transitioned from academic success to entrepreneurial triumph. Miles Massidda and James Clarke, both graduates of UT, have recently launched Longhorn Life Sciences, a groundbreaking MedTech venture led by a strong and diverse team of scientists, clinicians, and entrepreneurs at UT Austin and MD Anderson. Their mission […]
January 2025 Upcoming Opportunities
Texas Venture Labs is extremely excited for what is in store for 2025! Calling all student entrepreneurs, are you looking for more opportunities to pitch your startup and grow your entrepreneurial network? Applications just opened for the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. The RBPC is the world’s premiere graduate-level student startup […]
TVL Alumni Spotlight
At Texas Venture Labs, we take immense pride in celebrating the achievements of our alumni. Our communications team has been working on a spotlight campaign on social media to feature thriving and enthusiastic members of our community, offering them the space to showcase their endeavors. One of the most recent alumnus to be highlighted on […]
September at TVL: A Month In Review
September was a whirlwind of fun and engagement! On September 9th, our new pilot The Small Business Impact Program had its kickoff event, where the cohort of 19 small businesses mingled with a number of community partners, including our program’s sponsors from Wells Fargo. We then had our first SBI Wednesday Workshop on September 11th, […]
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 […]