Top Austin, TX Angel or VC Firm Companies (33)
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The next crop of billion-dollar companies face significant barriers. We want to find them, fund them, and unleash their transformative value.
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We invest in early stage companies in the enterprise technology, healthcare, and internet/consumer application sectors. We plan to deploy 70% of our Fund in companies headquartered in Sacramento and Northern California. The remainder of the fund will be concentrated in Austin, as well as other Texas markets.
Mission Capital was founded in 2001 by a group of local funders, nonprofit leaders and community volunteers as a place where Central Texas nonprofits could go for resources and guidance. The organization’s history has evolved from a nonprofit resource into a community resource and partner focused on solving complex social issues.
Digitech Venture Capital Fund, Inc. was formed to invest in the companies that will define our world in the years to come. Digitech is a venture capital investing model for tomorrow's technology. Our Fund intends to revolutionize the world of venture capital funding for technology companies by making venture capital investments available to non-traditional investors.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Austin Ventures (“AV”) has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for over 30 years. With $3.9 billion of capital raised, AV is the most active venture capital firm in Texas and one of the most established in the nation. AV invests in early stage and middle market companies, and its strategy is to partner with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build industry-leading companies predominantly in Texas. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Next Step Capital Partners™ invests in early stage, growing companies in exchange for a share of future revenue. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Angel investors, venture capitalists and banks often require an equity share, collateralization, or personal guarantees. We eliminate these requirements by offering an investment in exchange for a percentage of future revenue. As a result, your management team and Next Step Capital Partners™ are fully aligned toward creation of sustainable topline growth. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Our innovative, revenue-sharing approach eliminates the complexities of securing funds and significantly reduces the time required to receive them. Whether launching a new product, expanding sales staff, or building inventory, we offer the right investment at the right time to fund your mission-critical objectives. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">We understand the challenge of positioning your company for long-term success. We’ve been there – as entrepreneurs and executives for companies ranging from explosive start-ups to global corporations. Our experience and passion for turning small business into big business are the key drivers of Next Step Capital Partners™ innovative approach to investing.</span></p>
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Next Coast Ventures is a leading venture capital firm founded in 2016 in Austin, Texas with more than $265M in assets under management across three funds. We invest in “emerging, “next coast” companies at the critical stage of development to launch them into hyper-growth. Leveraging extensive experience as both operators and investors, Next Coast Ventures has been constructed around the central thesis of being “built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.” We aim to be an incredibly supportive partner to get in the weeds and help entrepreneurs with the challenges of running their business, because...we have been there ourselves. We built an array of world-class platform resources for our portfolio companies to help them address a broad range of operational challenges. We call these Company Building Playbooks, or “CBP”s. These playbooks are enhanced by the Next Coast Ventures Expert Network, which consists of 150+ top operators in Austin and similar “next coast” markets who are willing to provide advice and mentorship to our portfolio companies, as well as our Head of Platform who is dedicated to making sure our founders have everything they need to make their venture successful.
E3 is a national angel network of high net worth and ethnically diverse men and women that are passionate about empowering people to build successful, innovative and disruptive high growth companies.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">ATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm in Austin, TX primarily investing into B2B software, applications, and marketplaces.
Centennial Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in network companies and related enabling software and technology enterprises, with the potential to be market leaders. Our investment focus is on early and later-stage opportunities. Centennial Ventures VII, a $341 million partnership, is our most recent fund being invested.We believe great people, more than any single factor, transform innovative ideas into successful companies. Our job is to partner with talented management teams and provide our knowledge and resources to accelerate the growth of their enterprises. We call these resources: People, Plans, Money and Partners, and they are respectively designed to provide assistance in recruiting senior executives and directors, developing strategic plans, raising debt and equity capital, and attracting strategic partners.Since our inception in 1982, Centennial has invested in over 100 communications and related companies. Cencom Cable, OneComm, Brooks Fiber Properties, Crown Castle, and Verio are examples of successful portfolio companies that we assisted in growing into market leaders.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Mercury Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm that makes equity investments in compelling and novel software and science-based startup opportunities. Mercury partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build globally competitive businesses, focusing on technology innovation originating in the U.S. Midcontinent. Our firm has a particular interest in startups associated with seed accelerators, incubators and universities. We frequently invest prior to the formation of a business plan or complete management team. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Since inception in 2005, Mercury has become one of the most active seed-stage venture firms in the Midcontinent, becoming a "go-to" fund for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of idea generation, company formation, and market execution.</span></p>
CSC Generation is saving retail. In just four years, we’ve acquired and turned around several brands to get to a $500M run rate. We’ve also saved over 1,000 jobs, several companies from liquidation, and have over one million happy customers and counting. Starting with DirectBuy Home Improvement Inc in 2017, our acquisition of Z Gallerie in 2019, and our recent acquisitions of One Kings Lane, and Sur La Table, we're consolidating the home furnishings industry, while driving growth through digital. Founded by Justin Yoshimura and backed by world class investors.
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Sputnik ATX is a venture accelerator in Austin, TX. We combine capital (100k funding) with training and experience to prepare seed-stage businesses for future rounds of funding and move the sales needle for startups.
High Alpha Innovation partners with the world’s leading organizations to innovate through startup creation. Part strategy consultancy, part venture studio, our team is a diverse mix of highly experienced company builders, designers, and strategists who work with corporate partners to source, launch, and invest in venture studios and startups.
For women with big ideas to change the world. We see value in the impact of women. True Wealth Ventures invests in smart female entrepreneurs, from consumer health innovators to sustainable product pioneers. Women-led companies have proven they deliver higher returns. It’s time to invest in new perspectives.
We are a software holding company that selectively invests in leadership teams with staying power. We back founders who are ambitious enough to want to make a dent in the universe and humble enough to realize they can’t do it alone.
MarketingRunner Accelerator Fall 2015 is an 12 week intensive marketing accelerator operated online by StartupRunner Capital in Austin, TX. Five companies will be selected to join the Winter 2015 program. By the end of the 12 weeks you will know what marketing channels represent the most efficient path to acquiring high lifetime value customers.
We are early stage lead investorsPrimarily first institutional capital – seed and series A investmentsOpportunistically lead compelling later stage financingsSeek to be the largest and most active investors in our portfolio companiesWe invest in exceptional entrepreneurial teams, not pre- determined sectors or business modelsWe are active, hands-on investors providing our companies with:Access to our proprietary pool of executive and technical talentCollaboration with partners with a track record of building successful companies resulting in both M&A or IPODeep network of relationships with top venture investors for follow-on financings
Thinktiv is a value-creation consulting firm. As trusted partners to leading startup founders, established businesses, and their boards, we transform organizations to maximize their value. We are software-natives driven by a fierce get-shit-done entrepreneurial spirit. We’re an elite team of business veterans and technology pioneers. With a fully integrated understanding of market and customer behavior, we find value where others don’t. We tackle challenges others won’t. And we deliver results others can’t. We’re hands-in alongside you: enhancing organizational capacity in real-time with state-of-the-art thinking and world-class delivery. We’ll help you go farther, faster. We architect businesses: Our Business-Value Architecture positions companies to achieve premium valuations coupled with the needed strategies to grow revenue and protect enterprise value. Our Value-Creation Solutions are investment-driven and evolved from decades of real-world operating wisdom. At the heart of our operation is Thinktiv’s Value-Creation Philosophy. It identifies and de-risks the obstacles that threaten a company’s Enterprise Value and provides insights to build future Enterprise Value growth. We specialize in Mid-market transformations. From pre-transaction diligence to divestiture, we support executive teams and their investors throughout the investment lifecycle to enhance business value. We also selectively invest alongside our partner firms in proven entrepreneurs. For over a decade and in thirty-plus deals, Thinktiv has served as the value generation engine for invention-stage companies. We are Thinktiv. The architects of next.
The angels investors of the Southwest Angel Network for Social Impact (SWAN) are having fun working together to the make the world a better place. A key aspect of our mission is the nurturing and mentoring of social-impact entrepreneurs, helping them define sustainable social-impact businesses and to get ready to apply for funding. If giving-back appeals to you, and you want be part of an enjoyable social-good community, SWAN is the right place for you.
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