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==About==
 
==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 program was acquired and none exited in an IPO.  
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<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 the SURGE program was acquired and none exited in an IPO.  
 
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==Portfolio==
 
==Portfolio==
{| class="wikitable"
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{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
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! colspan=“1”| Surge Portfolio
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|-
 
! style="text-align:left;"| Name
 
! style="text-align:left;"| Name
 
! VC?
 
! VC?
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! IPO?
 
! IPO?
 
|-
 
|-
|INRFOOD
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| Autonomous Marine Systems
|No
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| Yes
|No
+
| No
|No
+
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Bractlet
 +
| Yes
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Clear Creek Networks
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Deep Imaging Technology
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Dynamo Micropower
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Eosense
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| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| GNOSYS
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Meshify
 +
| No
 +
| Yes
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Project Insiders
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Skynet Labs
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| WatrHub
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| greasebook
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Metal Networks
 +
| Yes
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Revokom
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Snugg Home
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Waveseis
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| GUARD1
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Molecule
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| renooble
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Secure-NOK
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Expert Knowledge
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| NeoTreks
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| RunTitle
 +
| Yes
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Terrabotics
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
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| ICT
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 
|-
 
|-
|myRoundUp2
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| OPTIMITIVE
|No
+
| No
|No
+
| No
|No
+
| No
 +
|-
 +
| SEE Forge
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| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Upslope
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Lowfoot
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Petrabytes
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| Seisquare
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|-
 +
| VERT Solar Finance
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|}
 +
 
 +
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
 +
! colspan=“1”| Surge VC Backed
 
|-
 
|-
|myLabBox
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! coname || datefirstinv || datelastinv || founddate || totinv || city || nation
|No
 
|No
 
|No
 
 
|-
 
|-
 +
| Autonomous Marine Systems Inc || 3/1/16 || 7/3/14 ||  || 1750.2 || Somerville || United States
 
|-
 
|-
|The Hippo Kitchen
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| Bractlet Inc || 10/10/16 || 2/27/15 ||  || 700 || Austin || United States
|No
 
|No
 
|No
 
 
|-
 
|-
|myLabBox
+
| Metal Networks Inc || 11/16/15 || 11/12/14 ||  || 6450 || Houston || United States
|No
 
|No
 
|No
 
 
|-
 
|-
|myLabBox
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| RunTitle Inc || 9/21/15 || 9/5/13 || 8/31/12 || 11000 || Austin || United States
|No
+
|}
|No
+
 
|No
+
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
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! colspan=“1”| Surge Acquired
 
|-
 
|-
|Adient
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! target || acquirorname || enterprisevalatannouncementmil || enterprisevaleffectivedatemil || equityvalatannouncementmil || dateannounced || dateeffective || acquirorind || targetind || status || acquirorcity || targcity
|No
 
|No
 
|No
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Luminostics
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| Meshify Inc || HSB || np                n || p ||  || 10/11/16 || 10/11/16 || Insurance || Business Services || Completed || Hartford || Houston
|No
 
|No
 
|No
 
 
|}
 
|}
  
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! Class
 
! Class
 
|-
 
|-
|Jeff Frey
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|Kirk Coburn
|Information Services Director; University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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|Founder & Managing Director, SURGE, CEO, Chief Outsiders
|None
 
|-
 
|Christopher McCord
 
|Managing Director; Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP)
 
|D2
 
|-
 
|Patrick J. McGinnis
 
|Director of Medical Informatics, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Adjunct Professor, UT Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
 
|None
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Huyen Bui
 
|CTO, Life Line Screening, CTO and Founding Member, Esurance.com
 
|D1
 
|-
 
|Greg Wright
 
|Founder, HATCH Pitch Competition Co-producer and Curriculum Development
 
 
|D1
 
|D1
 
|}
 
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|-
 
|-
 
|Education
 
|Education
|-
 
|Office Space
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Mentoring
 
|Mentoring
 
|}
 
|}
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[[Category:Ecosystem]]

Latest revision as of 21:08, 27 February 2017

Ecosystem Institution
SURGE
SURGE.png
SURGE Ventures Logo
Institution Information
Cohort Information
Director Information
City Houston
URL https://web.archive.org/web/20160526224558/http://www.surgeventures.com/
Date Founded 2011
Cohort Size 32
Percent Funded 12.50%
Percent Acquired 3.31%
Percent IPO 0%"%" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 0.
Number of Directors 1
Experienced Directors 1
© McNair Center, 2016

Part of the Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief) Series

About

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 the SURGE program was acquired and none exited in an IPO.


Contact Information

Website https://web.archive.org/web/20160526224558/http://www.surgeventures.com/
Address 177 W. Gray St., Houston, TX 77019

Portfolio

Directors

Name Bio Class
Kirk Coburn Founder & Managing Director, SURGE, CEO, Chief Outsiders D1

Services Provided

Funding
Experts
Education
Mentoring