Venture Labs Investment Competition
Two teams from the Texas Master of Science in Technology Commercialization program made strong showings at the recent Global Venture Labs Investment Competition, which was won by a biotechnology startup from the Indian School of Business.
Wells Fargo announces three-year, $450,000 grant to support Clean Energy entrepreneurship at the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs.
Seismos, whose founders are in the MSTC program, won the largest competition TVLIC has had so far. But according to Rob Warren, the new assistant director of Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs, this competition will only get bigger and better.
From the early days of Moot Corp to the formation of Texas Venture Labs and more than $20 million in funding and prizes for student ventures, we track McCombs' history of starting up startups.
After this year's Venture Labs Investment Competition, it is apparent that more of today's young entrepreneurs are shifting their focus from the Web to improving the world through education and innovation in life-saving technologies.
Athena Laboratories represented the MSTC program well in the May 5 final round of the Global Venture Investment Labs competition, which was won by a Northwestern University team that included an alumnus of the Cockrell School of Engineering.
The gift from business entrepreneur and oil tycoon Jon Brumley, BBA '61, will have a significant impact on the growth and development of the program Brumley calls "a gem in the Texas entrepreneurial ecosystem."
As executive MBA student Michael Garel prepared to pitch his business at the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition, we tracked his progress from before he had even conceived of the idea.
A Texas MSTC team took first place in the Stu Clark Investment Competition in Canada, and has now qualified for the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at UT this May.
Executive MBA students Harish Jayakumar and Michael Garel will take their product, which monitors consumer purchasing behavior, to the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition May 2-5.
