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Venture Labs Investment Competition Sponsors
Funding of the Venture Labs Investment Competition offers a variety of benefits and
opportunities. Join us in launching the world’s next generation of
entrepreneurs. See Become a VLIC Sponsor for more information.
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 IC² 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, IC² is focused on knowledge
exploration, dissemination, and application, across a broad range of
academic and applied areas. IC²'s vision is a quest for constructive
forms of capitalism that allow communities to prosper. Visit
www.icc.utexas.edu.
NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation
The NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation, Inc. was established in 1994 and
is supported entirely by contributions from The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
The mission of the foundation is to promote and support educational
projects, curricula and research that advance financial markets
literacy. For more information on NASDAQ OMX® and the NASDAQ OMX
Educational Foundation, please visit
www.nasdaqomx.com.
Sponsors
Angelsoft was founded in 2004 with a simple idea: to bring the power of
collaboration technologies to the professional early-stage investment industry.
Today, with over 20,000 investors using online tools to manage their
investments, and over 450 venture funds and angel groups, Angelsoft's platform
has become a vital, global ecosystem supporting serious entrepreneurs and
serious investors from 45 countries. With Angelsoft's software-as-a-service they
collaborate on thousands of new applications each month as they build and
finance the best new, high-growth companies of the 21st century. See
http://angelsoft.net.
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 (AV) has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build
valuable companies for nearly 25 years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV
is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas and one of
the most established in the nation. With an investment focus on business
services and supply chain, financial services, media and information services,
software and Internet, and Texas special situations, AV invests at all stages of
company development, from $100,000 "planned experiments" in early stage ideas to
$100+ million investments in expansion rounds, minority recapitalizations, and
buyouts of lower middle market growth companies. AV’s strategy is to partner
with talented executives and entrepreneurs through its CEO-in-Residence and
Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs. Visit
www.austinventures.com for more
information.
Through three major business units – Corporate Banking, Retail Banking, and
Wealth Management – BBVA Compass offers innovative and industry-leading products
and services with a focus on providing customers with financial solutions to fit
their lives. As the 15th largest U.S. commercial bank based on deposit market
share, BBVA Compass is Sunbelt-based and operates 724 branches in seven states
including 387 branches in Texas. For more information about BBVA Compass, visit
www.bbvacompass.com.
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, Twitter, 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.
G-51 is a premier, seed-stage Entrepreneurs' venture capital firm that
specializes in creating high value for our portfolio companies and
delivering top returns to our investors. Geographically centered in
Texas, G-51 invests nationally in the software, hardware, internet and
cleantech sectors. For more information, go to www.g51.com.
Inc.’s mission is to help people who are on the entrepreneurial journey
by providing inspiring stories; benchmarking data; peer-to-peer advice;
and educational resources on essential topics for today’s business
owners. The magazine prides itself on bringing sophistication and a
depth of experience to the subject matter, and enjoys celebrating the
men and women who have the drive, intelligence, and creativity to take
an idea and turn it into a new business. Visit
www.inc.com.
International Bank of Commerce (IBC Bank) is a member of International
Bancshares Corporation (NASDAQ:IBOC), a $12.4 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 270 facilities and 440 ATMs in more than 100 communities throughout
Texas and Oklahoma. See www.ibc.com.
OnRamp Access
Founded in Austin, TX, OnRamp Access has been providing all of the
services necessary to build, deploy and manage Internet Operations since
its inception in 1994. Today, OnRamp is still the only Data Center in
Austin and Central Texas to provide a single source for all of the
services and complementary resources necessary to fully integrate your
Internet Operations. Because OnRamp’s enterprise team is experienced at
application development, software/hardware configuration and system
management, customers depend upon OnRamp’s broad set of services and
24/7/365 hands-on support to supplement their abilities in order to
reliably deploy every layer of their Internet Operations.
See www.onr.com for more information.
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.
Prime II Investments
Prime II Investments has a broad portfolio of investments. One area of focus is
education and specifically education that furthers teaching entrepreneurship.
Prime II Investments has an interest in Grand Canyon University (www.gcu.edu)
now publicly traded under LOPE which has the School of Entrepreneurship, LA
College International (www.lac.edu) that has an
emphasis on Entrepreneurship and Chancellor University (www.chancelloru.com),
a 160 year old business College.
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel
successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. As an information
partner, ProQuest’s entrepreneurship solutions connect people and information.
ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with
community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment. To
discover more, start here:
www.proquest.com/go/yourpath.
Ron Kessler 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 whose President is Johnnie Johnson, former UT
All American. See
www.ronkesslergroup.com.
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.
Team Hosts
Austin Technology Council
DLA Piper
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
Origin Partners
Silicon Valley Bank
TeXchange