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 […]

March 2025 Upcoming Opportunities

What’s new?! It’s shaping up to be quite a busy spring semester! We’re excited to catch up and share with you the important upcoming opportunities at TVL! Applications for fall semester’s TVL Practicum will be taken into consideration soon, deadline for submission is March 30th. Students with accepted applications will gain access to info sessions to hear more about how the […]

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 […]

Meet the Spring 2025 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 […]

Longhorn Life Sciences is the Fall 2024 TVLIC Texas Champion!

Congratulations to Longhorn Life Sciences, the Fall 2024 TVLIC Texas Champion! The Fall 2024 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition was held on Friday, December 6 featuring the top graduate student startups on the UT campus. Twenty-nine companies competed in five Semifinal rounds in the morning with the winners advancing to the Finals in Crum Auditorium […]