Austin resources to help you grow your business

Some content borrowed from Josh Baer’s Intro to the Austin Startup Scene

http://atxstartupscene.com

Hi, I’m Bill Boebel

Co-founder of Capital Factory Co-founder & CEO of Pingboard

Austin Stats

•2,000,000 residents in Austin Metro

•900,000 residents downtown

• 110 people move here everyday

• 1,055 startups & tech companies (BuiltInAustin)

•$54k avg salary (Indeed)

•$79k avg salary @ startups (AngelList)

• 2,555 active Austin bands & 1,032 music venues (Do512)

Virtuous Cycle

Dell Tivoli

Trilogy Motive BroadJump WaveSet

HomeAway BazaarVoice Indeed RetailMeNot SolarWinds

MassRelevance Blacklocus MapMyFitness OtherInbox CopperEgg Infochimps FrontGateTickets Boundless Spanning DachisGroup Unique Influence

WP Engine

Spiceworks

Main Street Hub

Sparefoot

Spredfast

Socialware

TabbedOut

LiveIntent

BigCommerce

uShip

BuildASign

UnboundID

Volusion

SailPoint

Adlucent

CivitasLearning

Silvercar

Vast

Pingboard

Acable

Trendkite

Favor

Bitfussion

AdMass

Nuve

AlertMedia

Umbel

Pingboard

Cratejoy

Able

Student Loan Genius

OwnLocal

MyTennisLessons

Datafiniti

DinnerElf

Workify

Eagle Eye

Goodybag

Convey

Help.com

TripChamp

DoStuff

Ordoro

Riskpulse

Equip board

OutboundEngine

SelfLender

StackExchange

Turnkey

TheZebra

Hive9

Weeva

Written

Zing

Events

•Startup Games

•SXSW

•Startup Crawl

•Austin Startup Week

•OpenCoffee (opencoffeeaustin.org)

•Hackathons (StartupWeekend, 3 Day Startup, HackTX, etc)

Just for Ladies

•All Girl Hack Night

•ATX Nerdy Ladies

•AVINDE

•Epic Office Hours for Women

•Girl Develop It

•GirlStart

•PyLadies

•RailsGirls

•SheDesigns

•She Hacks

•TEDxAustinWoment

•UT Women in Computer Science

•UT Women in Engineering

•Women@Austin

•Women Who Code

Just for Hardware startups

•ATX Hackerspace

•MAKEatx

•Technology Kitchen

•Techshop Austin

Just for Food startups

•SKU (consumer package goods accelerator)

•Capital Kitchens (culinary co-working space)

•Food & Tech ATX (meetup)

Accelerators

•Austin Technology Incubator

•Bunker Labs (for vetrans)

•Capital Factory

• International Accelerator

•Longhorn Startup (UT students)

•Techstars

•Medical Innovation Labs

•UnLtd USA (social good)

Venture Capital

•Silverton

•Live Oak

•S3 Ventures

•Mercury Fund

Plus lots of remote VCs investing in Austin:

•Chicago Ventures

•Battery

•Bessemer

•500 Startups

•Emerge

•Noro-Mosely

•Northbridge

•Floodgate

•ffVC

•Ballast Point

•Revolution

• Insight

•BuildGroup

•TechStars Fund

•Sante Ventures

•Social Start

Other Funding

•Angel investors

•Capital Factory angel matching fund

•Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN)

•NextGen Angels

•Able Lending

Coworking

•Atmosphere

•Capital Factory

•Chicon Collective

•Createscape

•Fibercove

•Link

•Opportunity Space

•Orange Coworking

•Patchwork

•Perch

•Posh

•Soma Vida

•Tech Ranch

•Techspace

•Urban Co-lab

•Vessel

•Vuka

•WeWork

Startup Law Firms

•KHRG

•Wilson Sonsini

•Andrews-Kurth

•DLA Piper

• Jones-Spross

•Sprinkle Law (patent)

•Anna Kuhn (trademark)

Places to hire great people

Facebook groups:

•Austin Digital Jobs

•Capital Factory Jobs

Sites:

•BuiltInAustin

Schools:

•MakerSquare

•General Assembly

•The Iron Yard

•Galvanize

•Austin Coding Academy

•UT

Meetups

Follow startupdigest.com/austin

Pitch Events

•Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (February)

•SXSW Accelerator (March)

•Capital Factory Demo Day (March & October)

•TechStars Demo Day (June)

•Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (May)

• Infotech Beta Summit (October)

•SKU Demo Day

•ATI Clean Tech & Wireless Forum

•CTAN Presentation Day (5x/year)

•NextGen (monthly)

Other Resources

•Austin Startups Facebook group

•WeAreAustinTech.com

•AustinTech.com

•AustinStartups.com

•Silicon Hills News

Thanks!

Slides available at:

pingboard.com/austin