Ecosystem: Austin TX

Project

Ecosystem: Austin TX
Project Information
Has title	Ecosystem: Austin or Houston
Has owner	Yi Ma
Has start date	2019/03/12
Has deadline date	2019/03/28
Has project status	Active
Subsumed by:	Incubators in Five Ecosystems
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Austin/Houston Project

This page shows the main progress, findings and relevant information on the Austin/Houston Project that belongs to Kauffman Incubator Project

For additional information on the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Austin, please refer to the blog post Austin TX Emerging Ecosystems (Blog Post)

There is a similar project done on the ecosystem of Houston. Please refer to Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project

Progress Report

As of 03.28.2019

Continuing working on incubators in Austin and searching different metrics for the incubators.

An updated spreadsheet of incubators in Austin can be found here

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Incubators that Support High-tech High-growth Startups

Capital Factory – Both an incubator and accelerator. Focused on helping tech startups get profitable with less than $1 millino in funding apiece. Its more notable members include Pingboard, Instacart and HomeAway. Membership is invitation-only.

Austin Technology Incubator(ATI) – The startup incubator of the University of Texas at Austin. Its 2012 class raised more than $230 million in funding, and its overall membership has snagged more than 40 percent of all Texas Emerging Technology Fund awards in Central Texas. Its portfolio spans the bio/health sciences, clean energy, development and IT/wireless industries. (Scheduled interview on April 2nd at 9:30 EST)

Tech Ranch – Tech Ranch offers three levels of programming: a one-day workshop, an eight-week book camp, and a 26-week series that falls somewhere between an incubation and acceleration track. Its tech startups range from workplace wellness platforms and couponing apps to staffing, payment and event management systems.

IncubatorCTX for Innovation and Impact – IncubatorCTX is the incubator designed for innovation and impact in Northwest Austin. The Incubator connects entrepreneurs from all industries with professors’ valuable insights, student support, mentors, investors and outstanding and valuable programs for development. They partner with Tech Ranch and G-51.

Techstarts Austin – Techstarts counts Austin among its eight locations around the US. Providing mentorship, networking opportunities and $118,000 in seed funding in exchange for seven to ten percent equity. Its Austin-based members’ fields of specialty range from healthcare to hardware. Of Techstars’ startups overall, 88 percent are still active or have been acquired, and its 2014 summer class in Austin received an average of $1.9M in funding.

Austin Founder Institute – The Founder Institute is the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program. Its program focuses on Founders versus ideas in our admissions process, and identify founders of the highest potential through a collection of aptitude and personality tests that have been in development with leading social scientists since 2008.

MassChallenge Texas – MassChallenge Texas is the second domestic and sixth international location in MassChallenge’s global network. The region launched in 2018 in Austin. In 2019, the program expanded to Houston. The 4-month accelerator program provides up to $500k in equity free cash grants, a 6-month complimentary community membership at WeWork in downtown Austin, access to >$250k in curated deals and discounts, Bespoke mentorship opportunities through mentor teams and office hours programs, deep engagement opportunities with the Texas innovation ecosystem, one-on-one engagement with the MCTX founding and corporate partners, unique curriculum in the form of workshops, events, and classroom series.

Bunker Labs – Bunker Labs supports military veterans throughout the journey of starting a business: from the idea stage - where active-duty service members are thinking about what to do post-service - to the growth stage of successful companies looking to hire, raise capital, and expand into new markets. Bunker Labs at Austin collaborates with Capital Factory and The Entrepreneur’s Foundataion.