Texas Venture Labs
Investment Competition
February 7-8, 2013
TVL Scholarship Competition
February 9, 2013
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Welcome to the 2013 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) at The University of Texas at Austin hosted by the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs.

What is the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs?

·  The Venture Labs Investment Competition—the premier venue for “Investor-Ready” companies founded by students

·  The TVL Accelerator—which pairs graduate students in Business, Law, Engineering and the Sciences with start-ups to solve fundamental business problems

·  New Venture Creation—a hands-on learning experience where graduate students refine and validate their business ideas before launching

What is the Venture Labs Investment Competition?

The Venture Labs Investment Competition (VLIC) is comprised of the annual Texas and Global competitions. These are graduate student-centric opportunities for new ventures from The University of Texas at Austin, and universities around the world, to obtain funding.

·  Texas Venture Labs Competition: February 7-8, 2013 – Texas VLICteams are comprised of students from The University of Texasat Austin competing for a total of $135,000 in awards, as well as an automatic entry to the Global VLIC and the UT Horizon Competition.

·  Global Venture Labs Competition: May 2-4, 2013 – Global VLIC, “theSuper Bowl of Investment Competitions” is the world’s premier investment competition. Teams from around the world descend on Austin to compete for awards totaling in excess of $150,000.

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Texas Venture Labs Programs

TVL Accelerator

The TVL Accelerator connects local start-up companies with talented and entrepreneurial graduate students from the Colleges of Business, Law, Engineering and the Natural Sciences. These students work with the company’s founders on semester long projects that address important issues facing the venture as they get ready for financing. The total amount raised by companies participating in this program in the last two years exceeds $37 million.

Join as a Startup: The deadline to apply for the Fall semester class is July 15, 2013. The application can be found at bit.ly/TVLentapp.

Join as a Student: The application for the Fall 2013 semester class is due on February 27, 2013. To learn more and to apply to be part of TVL, visit bit.ly/TVLstudent.

Venture Labs Investment Competition

The Texas and Global VLIC are annual competitions aimed at graduate student led new ventures from the University of Texas and around the world that are seeking funding. Some notable former competitors include Phurnace Software, uShip, eVapt, Ordoro and Halsa Pharmaceuticals.

Learn more: To learn more about the VLIC, visit bit.ly/GVLIC2013.

TVL Scholarship Program

The TVL Scholar Program allows aspiring entrepreneurs to compete for an MBA scholarship and access to a variety of resources that will enable them to further refine and eventually launch their venture.

Apply: The next TVL Scholarship Competition will be held in February 2014. Applications are due on January 7, 2014; to learn more and to apply, visit bit.ly/TVLscholarprogram.

TVL Office Hours

TVL holds office hours on the second Friday of every month from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm at Café One Twenty Five in the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. Anyone interested in learning more about our programs or discussing their business ideas should attend.

Get Involved: An RSVP is not necessary, but is appreciated. To RSVP, visit bit.ly/TVLofficehours.

Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition

Semifinals: Thursday, February 7, 2013

Division I – ATT Classroom 101

5:30 PM Gayatri Enterprise
Gayatri Enterprise is an Austin-based lean startup seeking to pioneer products for empowering women worldwide. Our vision is to deliver practical products that are not only simple and easy to use, but also offer comfort and convenience.
Pranay Kamat, MBA ‘14

6:15 PM The Array Pen Company
The Array Pen Company will manufacture and sell a new line of innovative writing instruments utilizing a patent pending technology that delivers greater utility and performance by allowing the color of ink to be changed by merely rotating the pen in the writer's hand.
Michael Chavan, MSTC ’13; Josh Trozak, MSTC ’13, James Fitzpatrick, MSTC ’13,
Ian Manire, MSTC ‘13

7:00 PM EduSex
EduSex is a tool to help nervous parents do a better job with sex education. EduSex provides content available in mobile web, web, app, ebook and book.
Harry Lindner, M.S. Mechanical Engineering ’14, Matt Evans, Ph.D. Education ’15

7:45 PM Keep Austin Funded
Our service model develops local entrepreneurs from idea to launch with access to capital through our local-centric crowdfunding platform.
Lance McNeill, LBJ ’15, Christie Wright, LBJ ’15, Kelly Steffen, LBJ ’15, Kyle McNew, LBJ ‘15

Judges

Jeff Harbach, CTAN / Monique Maley, Articulate Persuasion
Jay Manickam, uShip / Charles Dickerson, Qcue
Rick Lundbom, Living Direct

Division II – AT&T Classroom 102

5:30 PM Amicus
Amicus is a unified pet identification, recovery and health record management system that enables anyone to easily and readily access data about a pet, no matter their location.
Ricardo Cervantes, MSTC ’13, Jeffrey Cardenas, MSTC ’13, James Evans, MSTC ’13,
Manoj Iyer, MSTC ’13

6:15 PM HolidayEN
We focus on providing a fully automatic holiday plan based on user preferences. Our process drastically reduces the time required for the trip planning process by employing a database of attractions and activities for major tourist cities.
Tarun Madan, M.S. Chemical Engineering

7:00 PM BeatBox Beverages
BeatBox Beverages, LLC. (B3) is a new Austin, Texas- based alcohol beverage company with a passion for mixing together people, music and fun.
Aimy Steadman, MBA ’13, Justin Fenchel, MBA ’13, Daniel Singer, MBA ’13,
Jason Schieck, MBA ’13

7:45 PM FreshLOOKS
FreshLooks aims to become the go-to place for fashion savvy parents who want the most for their hard earned dollar.
James Booker, EMBA ’13, Cecilia Corral, M.A. Mechanical Engineering ‘13

8:30 PM WiBubble
WiBubble is a peer-to-peer platform for internet connections, allowing users to share, monetize and connect. We are turning the world into a hotspot and creating a new marketplace.
Mario Barrett, MBA ’14, Daniel Ehevich, MBA ‘14

Judges

Rajiv Bala, S3 Ventures / Gary Forni, Central Texas Angel Network
Kerry Rupp, DreamIt Ventures / Venu Shamapant, Live Oak Venture Partners
Patrick Motola, BlueSpace

Division III – AT&T Classroom 104

5:30 PM Networkaire
Networkaire is a private website for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the University of Texas. It simultaneously addresses a college student’s challenge – the difficulties connecting with classmates to share resources and information.
Marisa Maricich, MBA ‘12

6:15 PM Beyonic
Beyonic helps organizations make payouts to mobile in developing countries, solving the problems of cash payouts at the last mile.
Luke Kyohere, MSTC ’13, Daniel Hernandez, MSTC ’13, Dan Kleinbaum, MSTC ’13,
Van Nguyen, MSTC ’13, Nicole Maddocks, MSTC ‘13

7:00 PM Pravici
Pravici provides a cloud based mobility solution for both end users and internal users to leverage the power of Customer Relationship Management applications.
Ashish Kurchania, EMBA ’13

7:45 PM Intelligent Menu
Intelligent Menu is a cloud-based SaaS platform utilizing big data to create smarter restaurants by providing real-time certified customer feedback on individual menu items/servers.
Jordache Johnson, MSTC ‘13

Judges

Michael D’Eath, Sailpoint Technologies
Cybele Diamandopoulos, FOLIO Communications
Mike Fitzpatrick, Scheshunoff Consulting
Chantal Pittman, Unique Influence
Jeremy Carter, Fallbrook Technologies

Division IV – AT&T Classroom 105

5:30 PM RETiSCAN
RETiSCAN is a startup medical technology company that discovers and delivers solutions for compelling medical market demands.
Jerett Gordon, MSTC ’13, Gregg Parnell, MSTC ’13, Alison Johnson, MSTC ’13, Paul Brown, MSTC ’13, Daniel Surwit, MSTC ‘13

6:15 PM PatientBase, Inc.
PatientBase is a new health information technology company connecting medical practitioners through their clinical experiences.
Daniel Rigney, M.A. Communication Sciences and Disorders ’14,
Maggie Rigney, Ph.D. ICMB ‘17

7:00 PM GluTact
Kuzuka’s patent pending GluTact™ contact lens is a breakthrough in the Diabetic-Glucose monitoring space.
Deepika Gajaria, MSTC ’13, Kirya Francis, MSTC ’13, Matthew Poplawski, MSTC ‘13

7:45 PM aXessCare
aXessCare is a health informatics company providing products to integrate the existing disparate systems and helps provide the right health care access to customers when they need it the most.
Raghuram Krovvidi, MBA ’13, Umad Ahmad, MBA ’14, Chuck McQueary, MBA ’13, Monty Mohon, MBA ‘13

Judges

Randall Crowder, Texo Ventures
Luz Cristal Glangchai, Trinity University
Tom Inman, Limestone Ventures
Glenn Reinus, Reinus Strategy Partners

Division V – AT&T Classroom 106

5:30 PM QuorumBuy
QuorumBuy provides a website that helps small businesses combine their advertising purchases to obtain volume discounts.
Adam Guerra, MBA ‘13

6:15 PM Aqua Servare
Aqua Servare (Water Save) helps prevent water shortages by providing customers with solutions that allow them to meet their needs while using water efficiently and saving money.
Adam Zerrenner, EMBA ’14, Adam Zoppo, EMBA ‘14

7:00 PM Seismos
Seismos is a technology enabled services company that detects and interprets changes in underground oil and gas reservoirs in real time with unparalleled sensitivity.
Devin Bedwell, MSTC ’13, Panos Adamopoulos, MSTC ’13, Aldo Salandra, MSTC ’13,
Omar Hernandez, MSTC ‘13

7:45 PM Star Motor Co.
Star Motor Company is developing and commercializing the Star Engine, a highly fuel-efficient and fuel agnostic engine.
Steve Beier, MSTC ’13, Ryan Arbow, MSTC ’13, Donald Jefferson, MSTC ’13,
Chase Park, MSTC ’13, Andrea Rojas, MSTC ‘13

Judges

Ed Healy, MediaTech / Ed Cavazos, Bracewell & Giuliani
Scott Harmon, Noesis Energy / Zaz Floreani, Austin Ventures

Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition

Finals: Friday, February 8, 2013

Event / Time / Location
TVLIC Competition Finals / 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm / AT&T Conference Center, Room 204
TVLIC Competition Reception / 9:30 pm / AT&T Conference Center, Gabriel’s Cafe

Judges

Morgan Flager, Silverton Partners
Robert Reeves, Datical
Isaac Barchas, Austin Technology Incubator
Shelley Hossenlopp, Spot On Sciences
Jerry Sullivan, Retired Venture Capitalist

Judges for the 2013 Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition

Rajiv Bala, S3 Ventures
Rajiv is a senior associate at S3 Ventures in Austin, TX, focusing on software, medical devices and technology service companies. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Rice University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Isaac Barchas, Austin Technology Incubator
Isaac leads the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) in the IC2 Institute of The University of Texas at Austin. Over the past five years, ATI has screened over 1,000 companies, and helped more than 80 member companies collectively raise $250 million. Before joining ATI, Isaac focused on building businesses with McKinsey & Company’s Healthcare and Global Organization teams. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Jeremy Carter, Fallbrook Technologies
Jeremy is the Vice President of Product Development at Fallbrook Technologies in Austin, TX, where he has been since its founding in 2004. His past experiences include engineering and program management roles with Southwest Research Institute andnumerous engagements asa commercialization consultant and strategistwith small and medium sized businesses. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Technology Commercialization at the University of Texas in Austin
Ed Cavazos, Bracewell & Giuliani
Ed represents clients in general business and corporate transactions with an emphasis on complex technology-related matters involving intellectual property. He routinely counsels clients regarding formation, early stage financing and a variety of other issues faced by growing technology companies. Ed also has an active IP litigation practice. Ed received both his B.A. and J.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.
Randall Crowder, Texo Ventures
Randall is a Managing Partner at TEXO Ventures, an Austin, TX-based healthcare venture firm. Prior to founding TEXO, he led the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) to become one of the most active networks in the country and co-founded Texas Venture Labs (TVL) at The University of Texas at Austin. Randall also served as an officer in the US Army. He received his B.S. from USMA at West Point and an MBA from UT at Austin. He is a Kauffman Fellow and a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council.
Michael D’Eath, SailPoint Technologies
Michael is VP of Corporate Development at SailPoint in Austin, TX chairs the non-profit Kerrville Folk Festival (TFMF) and operates a business development consultancy. Michael’s 35+year career includes executive roles at many startups, including Novell, Tivoli, Waveset and Mirage Networks. Educated primarily in England, he is a rancher and professional musician.
Cybele Diamandopoulos, FOLIO Communications
Cybele is the founder of FOLIO Communications in Austin, Texas, where she and her team lead high-profile communication programs, product launches and marketing campaigns for emerging technology companies. She received her B.A. in History from The University of Texas at Austin.
Charles Dickerson – Qcue, Inc.
Charles is the COO at Qcue in Austin, TX. A seasoned executive, Charles has more than 20 years of experience working with high-growth, early stage companies across a variety of product management roles. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston.
Mike Fitzpatrick, Financial Consultant
Mike is a financial consultant in Austin, TX, providing a broad experience to venture capital in finance, accounting, treasury, tax, legal and SEC reporting. He received his B.S. in Finance from Bowling Green State University and MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Morgan Flager, Silverton Partners
Morgan joined Silverton in 2006. Prior to Silverton, Morgan worked with FTV Capital in San Francisco, where he focused on growth investments in technology and financial services. Prior to that, Morgan held various executive positions at Ingrian Networks (acquired by SafeNet) and Kintana (acquired by Mercury Interactive Corp.). Morgan received his B.S. from Stanford University.
Zaz Floreani – Austin Ventures
Zaz is the director of Business Development at Austin Ventures and VP of Membership for TeXchange in Austin, TX. She has broad experiences in marketing and operations for software and consumer web startups. Zaz received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.