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==About==
<onlyinclude>SURGE Venture's accelerator program was a Houston-based, for-profit institution founded in 2011. It is no longer operating and closed down in 2016. It advertised a wide array of services, including funding, access to experts, educational programs and mentorship. SURGE's director has direct entrepreneurship experience as an established entrepreneur. Of the 32 startups which had enrolled in the SURGE program, four had received venture capital funding. One company which had participated in HHV's NextHIT the SURGE program was acquired and none exited in an IPO.
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==Portfolio==
{| class="wikitablecollapsible collapsed"! colspan=“1”| Surge Portfolio|-
! style="text-align:left;"| Name
! VC?
| No
| No
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! colspan=“1”| Surge VC Backed
|-
! coname || datefirstinv || datelastinv || founddate || totinv || city || nation
|-
| Autonomous Marine Systems Inc || 3/1/16 || 7/3/14 || || 1750.2 || Somerville || United States
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| Bractlet Inc || 10/10/16 || 2/27/15 || || 700 || Austin || United States
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| Metal Networks Inc || 11/16/15 || 11/12/14 || || 6450 || Houston || United States
|-
| RunTitle Inc || 9/21/15 || 9/5/13 || 8/31/12 || 11000 || Austin || United States
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! colspan=“1”| Surge Acquired
|-
! target || acquirorname || enterprisevalatannouncementmil || enterprisevaleffectivedatemil || equityvalatannouncementmil || dateannounced || dateeffective || acquirorind || targetind || status || acquirorcity || targcity
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| Meshify Inc || HSB || np n || p || || 10/11/16 || 10/11/16 || Insurance || Business Services || Completed || Hartford || Houston
|}
! Class
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|Jeff Frey|Information Services Director; University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center|None|-|Christopher McCordKirk Coburn|Founder & Managing Director; Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP)|D2|-|Patrick J. McGinnis|Director of Medical Informatics, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Adjunct ProfessorSURGE, UT Houston School of Biomedical Informatics|None|-|-|Huyen Bui|CTO, Life Line Screening, CTO and Founding Member, Esurance.com|D1|-|Greg Wright|FounderCEO, HATCH Pitch Competition Co-producer and Curriculum DevelopmentChief Outsiders
|D1
|}
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|Education
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|Mentoring
|}
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