1) Newchip
New Chip gives startup founders all the tools and skills they need to build, grow, and fund their businesses.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Ryan Rafols, Travis Brodeen
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 403
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 24
You can find their website here.
2) Capital Factory
Capital Factory is the hub for entrepreneurs in Texas, which is the best place in the U.S. to start a business.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2009
- Founders: Andrew Busey, Bryan Menell, Gordon Daugherty, Joshua Baer, Sam Decker
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 169
- Number of exits: 20
You can find their website here.
3) Quake Capital Partners
Quake is a unique accelerator that puts money into new and early-stage businesses in a wide range of industries at the seed level.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Adam Cragg, Brandon Maier, Chad Burgess, Glenn Argenbright
- Industries: Technology, AgTech, Al, Engineering, Software, Advertising
- Number of investments: 163
- Number of exits: 4
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 12
You can find their website here.
4) Techstars Austin Accelerator
The Techstars Austin team puts their money into founders who they think can build a company that matters and attract top talent.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2006
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 108
- Number of exits: 12
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 14
You can find their website here.
5) Tech Wildcatters
Tech Wildcatters is a venture capital fund that invests in technology and tech-enabled companies with great founders that are in the Seed to Series A+ stages and want to go global.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2009
- Founders: Brad Taylor, Gabriella Draney, John Reed, Jon Feld
- Industries: Software, Hardware, Life Sciences, Cleantech
- Number of investments: 104
- Number of exits: 11
You can find their website here.
6) Texas Venture Labs
Texas at Austin (TVL) is an award-winning university-wide program that helps with technology commercialisation, entrepreneurship, and innovation while giving students a unique and directly useful learning experience.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: Randall Crowder, Rob Adams
- Industries: Healthcare, Consumer, Energy, Materials, Utilities, Information Technology, Telecommunications
- Number of investments: 83
- Number of exits: 13
You can find their website here.
7) Sputnik ATX
Sputnik ATX is a venture capital fund and startup accelerator that gives money to maker-founders in their early stages of business.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Joe Merrill, Oksana Mindyuk Malysheva
- Industries: Beauty, FinTech, AI, SaaS, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile, HRtech, Health, B2B
- Number of investments: 55
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 13
You can find their website here.
8) SURGE Accelerator
Surge Ventures helps start-ups in regulated industries like financial services and wealth management with data governance, privacy, and compliance management.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2011
- Founders: Kirk Coburn
- Industries: Software
- Number of investments: 41
- Number of exits: 2
You can find their website here.
9) DivInc
DivInc's goal is to use entrepreneurship to create social and economic justice.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Dana Callender, Preston L. James
- Industries: Technology
- Number of investments: 28
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 12
You can find their website here.
10) Health Wildcatters
Health Wildcatters was started in 2013 to fill a need in the growing Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex healthcare industry for a hub for health innovation.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Carl Soderstrom, Clay Heighten, Gabriella Draney, Hubert Zajicek
- Industries: HealthTech, M-Health, Consumer Health, HealthTechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, Diagnostics
- Number of investments: 25
- Number of exits: 2
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 12
You can find their website here.
11) SKU
SKU is a program that helps great consumer product startups grow quickly.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2011
- Founders: Shari Wynne Ressler
- Industries: Consumer Goods, Consumer Services
- Number of investments: 08
You can find their website here.
12) AccelerateHER
Stoke is a space in Denton, Texas, for startups, entrepreneurs, remote workers, and tech-enabled businesses.
Details of the startup:
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 06
You can find their website here.
13) Seed Round Capital
Seed Round Capital is a company that helps startups in their early stages by investing in them and giving them advice.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2020
- Founders: Austin Hill, Brad Jenkins
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 05
You can find their website here.
14) DallasStartups.com
Dallas Startups is a business incubator that helps founders with all aspects of their business, from getting started to making money.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2015
- Founders: Jay A. Lohmann, Matthew Barnes
- Industries: SaaS, Data Center, Ecommerce, RetailTech
- Number of investments: 05
You can find their website here.
15) International Accelerator
The International Accelerator's 12-month program gives entrepreneurs who were born outside of the U.S. a unique chance to live, work, and develop their idea in the U.S.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Angelos Angelou
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 04
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 10
You can find their website here.
16) Thinktiv
Thinktiv's goal is to get your company to make as much money as possible, change its multiples, and improve shareholder returns.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2005
- Founders: Justin Petro, Paul Burke
- Industries: Software Development
- Number of investments: 03
You can find their website here.
17) Blue Star Innovation Partners
Blue Star Innovation Partners is an investment firm that focuses on growth and works with the best software and payments companies.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2017
- Industries: Sports, Entertainment, Technology, Health, Wellness
- Number of investments: 02
You can find their website here.
18) Impact Ventures Accelerator
Impact Ventures is an organisation and startup accelerator whose goal is to help underrepresented Women and Minority Founders overcome social and economic barriers.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2016
- Industries: Technology
- Number of investments: 02
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 13
You can find their website here.
19) Halliburton Labs
Halliburton Labs is dedicated to the science and development of reliable and sustainable energy.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2020
- Industries: Environment Tech, Enterprise
- Number of investments: 02
You can find their website here.
20) RealCoAccelerator
RealCo is a Texas-based long-term accelerator that invests in, incubates, and speeds up B2B technology startups.
Details of the startup:
- Founders: Chris Saum
- Industries: B2B
- Number of investments: 02
You can find their website here.
21) RedHouse Associates
RedHouse Associates offers strategic advice and services to help startups create business plans, come up with product strategies, grow their sales teams, prepare their senior management teams for meetings with investors, and get advice on how to raise capital and make strategic exits.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2011
- Industries: Technology
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
22) Eunike Ventures
Hybrid Energy Technology accelerator Eunike Ventures is based in Houston and is supported by an Alliance of Energy Companies.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Amy Henry, Thomas Henry
- Industries: AI, Software, Technology
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
23) Austin Technology Incubator
The Austin Technology Incubator is the deep tech incubator at The University of Texas at Austin.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 1989
- Founders: George Kozmetsky
- Industries: DeepTech, Energy, Cleantech, Food, AgTech, Mobility, Water
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
24) MassChallenge Texas
MassChallenge gives brave entrepreneurs the tools they need to shake up the status quo and make changes that will last.
Details of the startup:
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
25) Astralabs
Astralabs is an accelerator that helps startups get started and grows them into successful businesses. It does this to build a diverse portfolio of startups.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2020
- Founders: Ryan Rafols
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
26) LiftFund
LiftFund is a small business loan company that helps entrepreneurs, both new and old, grow their businesses no matter what their life is like.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 1994
- Founders: Janie Barrera
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
27) Rex
Rex is a technology, investment, and real estate company whose goal is to help the billions of people who use real estate to work, play, and call home.
Details of the startup:
- Founders: Peter Rex
- Industries: Tech, Real Estate
You can find their website here.
28) The Cannon Community
The Cannon is an innovation infrastructure provider that runs a growing network of innovation hubs for its community of startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate innovators.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Lawson Gow
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
29) Velocis
Velocis works with entrepreneurs and businesses that are looking to the future to build amazing products and services that are powered by the Internet.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2008
- Industries: Information Technology
You can find their website here.
30) iStart Valley
iStart Valley Inc. is a business accelerator for technology-based Startups that has won several awards.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2011
- Founders: MJ Charmani
- Industries: Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, IoT, AI, Blockchain, VR, AR
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 17
You can find their website here.
31) Mission Accelerator
Mission Accelerator are a non-profit organisation that works to improve race equity and opportunity in the Central Texas social sector through personal transformation, community cultivation, organisational resilience, and ecosystem collaborations.
Details of the startup:
- Industries: Social Impact
You can find their website here.
32) Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UTD
Institute, with the help of the Office of Research and Innovation, is in charge of advancing all entrepreneurial and research commercialisation innovation activities at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Details of the startup:
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
33) PandemicTech
PandemicTech is a virtual incubator in Austin that works to stop the spread of infectious diseases that could cause a pandemic.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Andrew Nerlinger, Lisa McDonald
- Industries: Tealthcare Technology, HealthTech, Life Sciences
You can find their website here.
34) Launch SA
Launch SA first opened in 2014 in downtown San Antonio. Since then, they have helped thousands of people get their businesses off the ground.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2014
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
35) CoLauncher
CoLauncher is a digital agency that only works with startups and non-profit organisations.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2015
- Founders: Josh Bolinger
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
36) Accelerator for Clean Technologies
The primary goal of the Clean Technology Accelerator (ACT Global) is to produce wealth and specialised employment.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2006
- Industries: Technology, FinTech
You can find their website here.
37) DFW Excellerator
DFW Excellerator is the leading cross-border venture accelerator and strategic advisory company, with headquarters in both Dallas and Beijing.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Jason Liu
- Industries: Big Data, Semiconductors, IoT, Consumer Goods
You can find their website here.