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Partners (alphabetical order):


The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship supports academic research, teaching and programs related to new venture development. It brings together financial resources, leading entrepreneurs, students and faculty from multiple disciplines and multiple colleges and universities to develop and communicate new knowledge about entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial processes. As new technologies are created, the Center seeks to support research and teaching that concentrates on commercialization of new products. Visit us at www.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/hkcenter.


The ICē Institute is an international, transdisciplinary "Think and Do" tank devoted to solving unstructured problems to accelerate wealth and job creation and shared prosperity at home and abroad. As a research unit at The University of Texas at Austin, ICē is focused on knowledge exploration, dissemination, and application, across a broad range of academic and applied areas. ICē's vision is a quest for constructive forms of capitalism that allow communities to prosper. Visit www.icc.utexas.edu.

The NASDAQ Stock Market Educational Foundation, Inc.
NASDAQ Educational Foundation
NASDAQ is the largest U.S. electronic stock market. With over 3,200 companies, it lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. It is home to category-defining companies that are leaders across all areas of business including technology, retail, communications, financial services, transportation, media and biotechnology. In 1994, NASDAQ established The NASDAQ Stock Market Educational Foundation, Inc. to support educational projects, curriculum and research that advance financial markets literacy. For more information on The NASDAQ Stock Market and the NASDAQ Educational Foundation, visit www.nasdaq.com.
 

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Austin Technology Incubator

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) is a nonprofit technology business accelerator that harnesses local business, government and academic resources to provide strategic counsel, operational guidance and infrastructure support to early stage ventures in order to accelerate their transition into successful technology based businesses. ATI companies have raised more than $700 million in capital, generated more than $1.5 billion in revenue and created more than 10,000 jobs. ATI is a key program of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. Visit www.ati.utexas.edu.
 


Austin Ventures
With $3 billion under management across nine funds, Austin Ventures has provided startup and growth capital to emerging companies for over 20 years. We invest nationally but maintain a particular focus on Texas and the Southwest, where we are the region's most active investor. Our team of investment professionals works with companies at every stage of the funding lifecycle, from initial seed investments, through startup and growth capital, to management-led buyouts and recapitalizations. Visit www.austinventures.com.

 Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital, a leading international venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark’s general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm’s portfolio companies. Benchmark’s portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme, Yelp, and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. The firm manages nearly $2.8 billion in committed venture capital. For more information on Benchmark Capital, visit its website at www.benchmark.com.


Comerica Bank
Comerica Bank's Technology and Life Sciences Division is one of the nation's leading technology banking practices, offering a wide range of financial services tailored to corporate customers, entrepreneurs and professionals. Veteran bankers provide credit and financial services to young, professionally backed technology companies as well as their more mature counterparts in the computer products, Internet services, telecommunications, life sciences and e-commerce industries. From 18 offices across the U.S., Comerica’s Technology and Life Sciences Division serves all major technology centers. For more information, go to www.comerica.com.
 


G-51 is a premier, early-stage Entrepreneurs’ Venture Capital firm that specializes in creating high value for our portfolio companies and delivering top returns to our investors. G-51 focuses on the software, hardware, Web 2.0, web-enabled business services and Cleantech sectors. For more information, go to www.g51.com.

Hunt Ventures
Hunt Ventures, a Texas-based venture capital firm, focuses on early stage technology companies employing capital efficient business models which are engaged in the following industries: software, wireless communications, networking and technology-enabled services. Hunt Ventures is funded by affiliates of the Ray L. Hunt family which has worldwide interests in oil and gas, real estate, power, ranching, refining and private investing. See www.huntventures.com for more information.


International Bank of Commerce
International Bank of Commerce (IBC Bank) is a member of International Bancshares Corporation (NASDAQ:IBOC), an $11.2 billion multi-bank financial holding company headquartered in Laredo, Texas. IBC's "We Do More" philosophy guides the bank's commitment to doing more for its customers and the communities where it operates locations. IBC has more than 255 facilities and 400 ATMs in more than 100 communities throughout Texas and Oklahoma. See www.ibc.com.

Murphree Venture Partners
Murphree Venture Partners is a venture capital/private equity firm that makes investments in entrepreneurial enterprises with high-growth potential. While MVP will do start-up ventures with proven entrepreneurs on occasion, we prefer companies with revenue traction in the $3 million to $30 million range. We also prefer companies whose revenues can be grown both organically and through add-on acquisitions. The firm seeks to align itself with entrepreneurs and management groups with whom we can develop strong working relationships, and with whom we can act in concert as owners/investors. We invest in the Sun Belt region of the U.S. from our four offices in Houston, Austin, Baton Rouge and Birmingham. The practical experience of Murphree Venture Partners principals brings to the firm a "real world" point of view and is especially effective in guiding a venture through the entrepreneurial process to commercial success. The entrepreneur not only receives capital for his or her venture, but also gets almost 75 years of direct entrepreneurial experience as part of the process to help their company reach its full potential. See www.murphreeventures.com.


Palo Alto Software, Inc. develops and markets products, services and tools to help people succeed in business. Business Plan Pro, its flagship product, is the best-selling business planning software in the U.S. retail market. Palo Alto Software also offers Marketing Plan Pro, the most popular software for preparing and managing marketing plans. Business Plan Pro and Marketing Plan Pro are the #1 planning software programs in the academic market and are used in thousands of undergraduate and graduate level business and entrepreneurship classes across the world. The company's award-winning www.bplans.com website offers free resources on business plans and startups and is one of the highest trafficked sites in the small business market.

OnRamp Access
We’re another one of those Austin, Texas success stories that began in a student’s living quarters at the University of Texas. The idea was to reliably connect people to the Internet at a time when the term information superhighway was actually cool (1994). Ten years, thousands of Internet access customers, hundreds of professionally designed websites and 9,000 square feet of co-location space later, OnRamp Access is still the only technology company in Austin and Central Texas to provide a single source for all of these services. See www.onr.com for more information.

Prime Investments, L.P.
Prime Investments has a broad portfolio of investments. One area of focus is education and specifically education that furthers teaching entrepreneurship. Prime Investment has interest in Grand Canyon University (www.gcu.edu) which has the School of Entrepreneurship and LA College International (www.lac.edu) that has an emphasis on Entrepreneurship.


Ron founded the RonKesslerGroup (RKG) to address executive leadership opportunities and threatening enterprise needs while constructing long-term solutions that create and enhance the sustainable value of people, teams and organizations. RKG offers high impact executive and leadership coaching, entrepreneurial mentoring, alliance building and strategic partnering. RKG offers consulting in the areas of regional economic development collaborations and university-centered economic development. RKG has a coaching alliance with WorldClassCoaches and an alliance with Pike Powers as co-founders of the Big 12 Center for Economic Development, Innovation and Commercialization (CEDIC). See www.ronkesslergroup.com.

Ropes & Gray

Ropes & Gray has established national prominence in every area of intellectual property law, which includes patent prosecution, copyrights and trademarks, protection of trade secrets, licensing, litigation and financial transactions involving intellectual property assets. Ropes & Gray's IP Group is complemented by many of the firm's other practice areas, such as our venture capital practice that works with both early stage companies and investors. With more than 275 professionals exclusively focused on intellectual property work, Ropes & Gray's Intellectual Property practice is one of the nation’s largest and most acclaimed. For more information, visit www.ropesgray.com.

Thompson & Knight
For more than 120 years, Thompson & Knight LLP has consistently made a positive impact on its clients’ successes. The Firm offers extensive resources to companies, government entities, and individuals in connection with corporate and securities, litigation, employment, tax and insolvency issues, both domestically and internationally. The Firm's Austin office is staffed to handle a large range of corporate and securities, litigation, employment, and administrative projects. The Firm has approximately 420 attorneys, with offices and alliances in North America (including two offices in Mexico), South America, Europe and Africa. For more information, please visit www.tklaw.com.
TyRex Group
TyRex Group

The TyRex Technology Family is a diversified technology products and services provider to the high-tech electronics communities and network management professionals, principally those located in Austin (TX), Nashville (TN), Bentonville (AR), Winston-Salem (NC), and Erlanger (KY). The TyRex Technology Family consists of Deaton Engineering, iRex Group, Ltd., Megladon Manufacturing Group, Ltd., SabeRex Group, Ltd., TyRex Services Group, Ltd., TyRex Technology Incubator, Ltd. (dba TyRex Engineering Services), RF Scientific, Ltd., SaberData, Ltd., and the TyRex Group’s non-profit affiliate, the TyRex Learning Foundation (TLF). For more information, go to www.tyrexmfg.com.


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Access Venture Partners
Austin Technology Council
DLA Piper
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
Origin Partners
Silicon Valley Bank
Texchange