Lauren Cornell, a Ph.D. candidate at the UT Austin College of Pharmacy, received first place in the 2017 Spring Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) on May 5, 2017, for her company, NovoThelium. NovoThelium has developed a technology that enables women to regenerate a nipple made from their own cells after a mastectomy. The technology […]
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Mesh Wins Wells Fargo Clean Technology Prize at Spring 2017 TVLIC
The UT Austin student company called Mesh has won the Wells Fargo Clean Technology Award at the spring 2017 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) at The University of Texas at Austin on May 5, 2017. TVLIC featured 24 startup companies started by graduate students from programs at UT such as MBA, Masters of Science […]
Fall 2016 Accelerator Companies Highlight
Here at TVL, we are accustomed to our Accelerator Companies doing great things – securing financing, filing patents, hiring people, and acquiring customers. This semester is no exception. Below are highlights for three of our companies that have all reached major milestones since the start of the semester in late August: MedNoxa, HERO and Peeple. […]
Six Powerful Lessons from Jon Brumley
On a gorgeous afternoon in Austin, Texas situated in a private dining room inside the AT&T Conference Center at The University of Texas, students and staff of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs got to sit down with Jon Brumley himself for an engaging Q&A. Here are six powerful lessons from Jon Brumley to current […]
A Recent Deal Puts Beyonic in the Money
Last week, 1776 member Beyonic announced huge news. The mobile payment startup finalized its partnership with Mobile Accord to form the largest mobile money aggregator in Africa. Luke Kyohere, Beyonic’s CEO and Cofounder, is Ugandan and explained that his startup is different from other similar mobile payment platforms because it focuses on company customers in […]
2016 Texas Venture Labs Scholarship Now Open
The 2016 Texas Venture Labs Scholarship is now open. Apply Here 2016 Texas Venture Labs Scholarship is a program that annually awards two entrepreneurial McCombs MBA applicants with scholarships to defray the cost of their MBA while continuing to develop their startups. Each scholarship is valued at up to $174,000. 2016 Scholarship – Important Dates […]