Top Austin, TX Angel or VC Firm Companies (33)
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.
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.
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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.
ASTRALABS is the parent company of Newchip, Sofos, and Journey Venture Partners. We've built and launched multiple startups to exit and supported 1,000 startups in their growth in our accelerator with over $300M+ in funding. ASTRALABS companies drive results and set the standard for startups and investors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
A leading software development company in the market for 20+ years, we collaborate with organizations to simplify and amplify their business operations to scale and sustain effectively. With 100+ developers and 20+ industry experts, we help entrepreneurs and business leaders embrace digital transformation and move toward the bigger picture. We take a core tech approach and offer a wide range of services, like app development, data engineering, cloud deployment, enterprise transformation, etc., to nurture innovation. Operating at 6 different global locations, we have worked with a variety of brands and organizations, including critical industries like education, healthcare, agriculture, energy, etc. W2S Solutions is also a strong advocate for sustainability, and we help businesses shift to the post-carbon economy without compromising on their scalability plans. Our goal is to prepare businesses for the UN 2030 goals and create a holistic, sustainable, and inclusive future for all.
SnapExit platform allows investors to show intention in buying shares and thus reserve a part of future issue prior to initial offering is been made. On the other hand, SnapExit allows company' owners to gather required information regarding investors’ interest to their shares worldwide and to choose the best offering parameters.
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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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.
Founded in 2013, Tritium Partners is a private equity firm focused on buyouts of growth companies in the lower middle market. For over a decade, the founders of Tritium have deployed over $700 million of equity capital while partnering with talented founders and executives to build market-leading companies. Tritium’s investment approach emphasizes acquiring majority positions in profitable companies and creating long-term value through internal growth initiatives and acquisitions, with a particular focus on three core sectors: Internet and information services, supply chain and logistics, financial and business services.
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.
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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.
S3 Ventures is the largest venture capital firm focused on Texas. Backed by a philanthropic, multi-billion-dollar family for over a decade, we empower great entrepreneurs with the patient capital and true resources required to grow extraordinary, high-impact companies in Business Technology, Consumer Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology.
Newchip is a global startup focused software and services suite that provides world-changing early-stage startups with the tools, skills, mentorship, and network necessary to successfully raise, build, and scale their businesses to exit. We're a veteran founding team with decades of experience, numerous acquisitions under our belts, and we've helped fund over $150M into companies. As a remote accelerator, we've had startups from over 35+ countries and 200+ cities worldwide go through our program.
Seaplane Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in Austin, TX. Seaplane backs tech-enabled US startups at the pre-seed and seed stages which have business models geared around networks and recurring revenues. The firm takes a conviction approach to investing in order to free up our team at Seaplane to better support founders at our portfolio companies.
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