Activate: UT | Things in Austin

Incubators and Consulting

Capital Factory - A hub for entrepreneurship in downtown Austin. Provides office space, mentorship, and classes for startups and entrepreneurs.

Tech Ranch Austin - Provides training, workspace, and educational resources to individuals and startups. Located in North Austin.

BiG Austin - "BiG Austin is Central Texas’ single-source solution for entrepreneurial education, tailored business counseling, and flexible loans."

Incubation Station - "Accelerator for market-validated CPG (consumer product goods) companies. Give(s) entrepreneurs access to vital resources needed to succeed, including dedicated mentorship from industry experts and entrepreneurs, as well as the education, connections and growth funding required for companies to achieve optimal success through rapid and sustainable growth."

Napkin Ventures - Holds brainstorming sessions, consulting services, and provides other startup resources from business specialists.

Austin Art & Music Partnership - "Nonprofit organization created to nurture and protect the creative process....grants space to community-driven art and music projects, workshops and events."

Funding

Austin Ventures - "Invests in early stage and middle market companies."

Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) - "Assist entrepreneurs and early-stage growth companies by serving as a key source of funding, mentorship,and strategic advice."

G51 - "Early stage venture capital firm that specializes in creating high value for portfolio companies."

Live Oaks Venture - "We are a full lifecycle investor focused on technology and technology-driven services in texas and the Southwest."

Next Step Capital Partners - "Invests in growing companies in exchange for a share of future revenue" (*Not equity driven).

S3 Ventures - Earlier stage venture firm focused on information technology solutions that solve large business problems.

Slow Money Austin - "Develop and promote essential capital resources for environmentally, socially and culturally sustainable food enterprises serving Central Texas."

Far West Capital - "Clients receive custom finance and business solutions that specifically meet the personal and professional goals of the entrepreneur."

Napkin Ventures - Holds brainstorming sessions, consulting services, and provides other startup resources from business specialists.

Angel List - Website that links Angel investors to startups.

People Fund - "Provides financing and technical assistance to women- and minority-owned businesses in low-income neighborhoods."

Coworking Spaces

GoLab Austin - "Coworking Space for Creative Professionals."

Conjunctured - "Austin's original coworking space" located East of downtown.

Hub Austin - Coworking space focused on creating an environment that facilitates ad hoc networking. Located in South Austin.

Vuka Austin - Beautiful new coworking space and event venue located in South Austin.

Perch Coworking - Shared East Austin office space located on the ground floor corner of a new mixed-use development property.

Link Coworking - "A membership club that brings people together who share the need for a place to conduct their business in an interactive space." Located in North Austin.

Events

3 Day Startup - "Entrepreneurship education program designed for university students with an emphasis on learning by doing. The idea is simple: start tech companies over the course of three days."

RISE Austin - Relationship and information series for entrepreneurs. A once a year event that holds informative sessions, collaboration opportunities, and other activities beneficial to entrepreneurs.

ATX Startup Week - Morning coffees, a startup career fair, EPIC mentor office hours, panels, regular meetups, happy hours, workshops, a Bazaar, Capital Factory Demo Day and a “startup crawl.”

Hack TX - A once a year "hack-a-thon" hosted by UT TES where students form teams to create mobile/web applications and other programs from scratch. Multiple awards are given at the end based on a panel of judges.

Communities

Austin Lean Startup Circle - Organization of Lean Startup practitioners who come together to share tips, tricks, and stories about successes and failures when building companies.

Bootstrap Austin - Local Austin community of bootstrap entrepreneurs led by Bijoy Goswami.

TechShop Austin - "A community-based workshop and prototyping studio on a mission to democratize access to the tools of innovation."

Venturephile - Online Startup eco-system allowing people to connect with entrepreneurs, service providers and potential investors.