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<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">CTAN is actively seeking great startups to fund. Providing more than just money, CTAN brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. Let us help you turn your vision into a sustainable and successful business. </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;">Not limited to the technology industry, our members invest in exciting companies in a wide range of industries including biotech, consumer products, Internet, IT, life sciences, media, software, clean tech, and others. </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 members have diverse backgrounds in almost every industry. Many of our members are entrepreneurs and have experience in running start-ups </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;">• Increase the chance of funding success by having access to a large group of angel investors </span><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;">• Access to industry-specific business expertise to help grow your business. </span><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;">• Gain potential long-term business advisors. </span></p>
<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.
Elsewhere Partners is a growth-stage venture capital firm that makes seven-figure investments in Elsewhere Outliers – business software companies that are located outside of traditional venture capital hubs and have achieved substantial customer traction and revenue growth without significant outside funding. Elsewhere Partners combines transitional capital with transformational expertise to help companies achieve exit readiness on their founder’s timetable. To learn more, visit www.elsewhere.partners.
<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>
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.
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.
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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.
Draper Startup House is disrupting the hospitality model by creating true value through building a larger business ecosystem. Our mission is to empower people across the globe who have unique and groundbreaking ideas, providing them with resources to dedicate themselves to their vision and accelerate their work.
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.
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<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>
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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.
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.
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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.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Silverton Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Austin-based companies. Our culture is people-driven which leads us to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who are committed to attacking growth markets with proprietary products or services. We are typically the first institutional investor and the lead investor in the companies we back.</span></p>
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.
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
<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>
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.
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