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Alamo Angels Appoints Cat Dizon as its New Executive Director

Cat Dizon, executive director of Alamo Angels, courtesy photo.

Alamo Angels announced this week that Cat Dizon is its new executive director.

The San Antonio-based group of angel investors, which launched in December of 2017, is now comprised of more than 105 members who have invested more than $2 million in 12 businesses.

Dizon is Alamo Angels second executive director. She replaced Chris Burney who will remain on the Alamo Angels board of directors and investment committee.

Dizon is a partner and chief operating officer of Active Capital, a San Antonio-based venture capital firm. She will remain at Active Capital. She previously spent 11 years at Rackspace as a leader in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, growth businesses and staff operations.

Dizon, who has lived in San Antonio for more than 20 years, is married to a former U.S. Marine and has one young daughter. She graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice.

September Tech Events to Attend in San Antonio

The Mission San Jose

Welcome to the fall.

Are you ready to attend some great tech events?

Silicon Hills News is working with Igloo Software, one of Canada’s most innovative companies, to give away 50 free tickets to its digital workplace conference at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa next week. Register by Sept 9th for your chance to receive 1 of 50 ICE’18 Conference Packages (includes conference pass, 2 nights at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort Spa, and more!). Register today.

Events to Attend in San Antonio in September

WHAT: San Antonio Hackers Association
WHERE: Geekdom Event’s Centre, 131 Soledad, San Antonio, Texas
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 6th at 6:30 p.m.
WHY: Monthly meetup at Geekdom hosted by a group of hackers.
TICKETS: Free

WHAT: ICE by Igloo Conference
WHERE: JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa
WHEN: Sept. 11-13
WHY: A fabulous conference with excellent speakers focused on the digital workplace.
TICKETS: Register by Sept 9th for your chance to receive 1 of 50 ICE’18 Conference Packages (includes conference pass, 2 nights at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort Spa, and more!). Register today

WHAT: Fireside Chat with Geekdom’s Founders Graham Weston and Nick Longo
WHERE: Geekdom Events Centre, 131 Soledad, San Antonio, Texas
WHEN: Monday, Sept. 10th 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHY: This is Geekdom’s new monthly event series featuring San Antonio founders.
TICKETS: Free but the event is sold out.

WHAT: San Antonio Open Coffee Club
WHERE: Olmos Perk Coffee, 5223 McCullough, Olmos Park, Texas 78212
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
WHY: A gathering of likeminded individuals to talk about tech entrepreneurship and innovation.
TICKETS: Free

WHAT: Men as Advocates for Women’s Leadership – Panel and Reception
WHERE: Geekdom Events Center, 131 Soledad, San Antonio, TX
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 11th, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
WHY: Event is hosted by Girl Power Hour-San Antonio and Geekdom and features a panel of speakers
TICKETS: $7

WHAT: Smart SA Datathon Q&A Event by CivTechSA
WHERE: 110 E. Houston Street, 8th floor, San Antonio, Texas
WHEN: Friday, Sept. 14th 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHY: CivTechSA and the Smart SA partners will be hosting an open data competition in October and are putting on a Q&A event to cover the Datathon competition and to answer questions about the data sets and give more information about the prizes.
TICKETS: Free, but registration is required.

WHAT: San Antonio Tech Job Fair
WHERE: Jack Guenther Pavilion at The Briscoe, 210 W Market St San Antonio, Texas
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHY: Codeup presents its bi-annual San Antonio Tech Job Fair where local tech talent can connect with employers.
TICKETS: Free but registration is required.

WHAT: Digital Inclusion Forum – Engaging the Tech Community by the Digital Inclusion Alliance of San Antonio
WHERE: UTSA Downtown Campus, 501 West Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 25, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHY: The alliance is working with Tech Bloc and the UTSA College of Public Policy to engage the tech community to talk about digital inclusion. Others are expected to join the discussion as well.
TICKETS: Free, but registration is required.

Upcoming:
(This one requires a road trip to Austin)
WHAT: InnoTech Austin
WHERE: Austin Convention Center
WHEN: Tuesday, October 2nd

WHY: The 15th annual InnoTech conference has a variety of tech exhibits and talks of interest to the Austin-San Antonio Technology community. It even hosts a popular Women in Tech conference.
TICKETS: Tickets start at $39 a person

H-E-B is Creating a Digital Innovation Center in East Austin

San Antonio-based H-E-B is increasing its presence in Austin.

The grocery company announced Wednesday that it has leased a two-story, 81,000 square foot building at 2416 East Sixth Street in East Austin for its tech facility and innovation lab for the H-E-B digital team and Favor, the on-demand delivery startup H-E-B acquired earlier this year.

The new center should open in spring of 2019 H-E-B is renovating the industrial warehouse into a creative and collaborative workspace. The workplace is also close to restaurants, breweries, coffee shops and the 7th Street H-E-B store.

“This state-of-the-art space will be a hub for creativity and innovation as we continue to develop the ultimate digital experience for our customers,” Jag Bath, H-E-B Chief Digital Officer and Favor CEO and President, said in a news release. “Bringing H-E-B and Favor closer together will allow us to promote collaboration between our two companies as we strengthen our commitment to building out H-E-B’s omnichannel services.”

With the new space, H-E-B and Favor plan to add several hundred new employees in a variety of jobs including product management, product design, and software engineering.

This year, H-E-B has made a lot of moves into Austin and the tech industry. It acquired Favor. It also appointed Bath as H-E-B’s Chief Digital Officer and it recently added Mike Georgoff as Chief Product Officer for H-E-B Digital.

5 Tech Events to Attend in San Antonio This Week

It’s summertime and the living is easy, despite temperatures almost hitting triple digits all week long.

And the tech scene in San Antonio is also heating up.

Lorenzo Gomez announced Monday morning the launch of a new venture, Geekdom Media and its first podcast, Brand Brothers. Check it out on iTunes.

Also, there’s some cross-pollination of tech ecosystems going on this week with Michael Girdley, managing director of the Geekdom Fund, traveling to Galvanize on Thursday to give a talk about how to raise a seed stage round of investment. If you feel like making a road trip, there are still a handful of tickets available at $10, which includes lunch and beverage.

And late next month, Silicon Hills News is hosting “BlogIt SA 5” fifth annual content creation event at Geekdom’s Event Centre. Join us for a day of learning and networking. We’re also looking for a few sponsors.

Here are some other San Antonio tech events happening this week worth checking out:

TUESDAY – June 26 – AI Meetup at 6 p.m. at the Geekdom Event Centre featuring FunnelAI. Pizza provided by Codeup.

WEDNESDAY: June 27: One Million Cups at Launch SA at the downtown library starts at 9:15 a.m. and features entrepreneurs pitching their ventures before a live audience. Tickets are free.

WEDNESDAY: June 27: Startup Grind San Antonio hosts David Monroe, San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology at the museum starting at 6 p.m. Tickets start at $5.

THURSDAY – June 28: Global Lecture Series at 6 p.m. at the Geekdom Event Centre by EPICenter on clean energy. Kick off speaker is Lynn Abramson, PhD, president of the Clean Energy Business Network.

FRIDAY – June 29th – Geekdom announces the June recipients of its Community Fund grants at 10 a.m. at the Geekdom Event Centre.

Upcoming Events:

BlogItSA 5 – a daylong conference at the Geekdom Events Centre on Saturday, July 21st focused on content creation. Tickets are $30.

Lorenzo Gomez, Author of the Cilantro Diaries, Talks About Tech in San Antonio on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

Lorenzo Gomez III, author of The Cilantro Diaries.

The Cilantro Diaries is a delightful book about how Lorenzo Gomez III made his way first through H-E-B Grocery Store No. 5 in San Antonio and then on to Rackspace and Geekdom.

It’s a fun read and packed with good advice, particularly for people just starting out in their careers.

Gomez, the author of the Cilantro Diaries, business lessons from the most unlikely places, grew up on San Antonio’s Westside. Today, he serves as a director at Geekdom and the 80/20 Foundation, a philanthropic organization, and co-founder of Tech Bloc. He also serves as a board member, advisory board member and mentor for a variety of local and national tech and entrepreneurial organizations. He has also worked at two startups, Rackspace and CityView.

In this edition of the Ideas to Invoices Podcast, Gomez shares with us some of his “Popisms” or life lessons learned from his father that proved helpful in the workplace and in life. He also talks about San Antonio’s evolution from a tourist town to a technology center.

The book came about because Gomez worked in the produce department at H-E-B No. 5 and he also often told stories during his days at Rackspace that came to be known as the Cilantro stories.

One piece of advice Gomez tells people to do is to assemble their own personal board of directors. These are trusted confidants who want you to succeed.

“The further up I got in my career I realized that all the most successful people that I met had a personal board,” Gomez said.

People don’t have to do it themselves, Gomez said. The board consists of people who have your best interest at heart, he said.

“In your career you’re inevitably going to get to a decision point where you just don’t know what the next right decision is to make, and Google isn’t going to answer it for you and that’s when you need to go to these people on your board to get counsel,” he said.

Gomez also advises people not to speak hard truths to people whose boards they are not on.

In the book, Gomez also recounts several “Popisms” or pieces of advice from his father like “nothing good ever happens after midnight” or “You’ve got to dance with the one who brung ya.” Gomez believes strongly in loyalty and he thinks that concept is a strong one in San Antonio in particular.

Graham Weston, co-founder of Geekdom and Rackspace, is Gomez’s mentor. They shared a cubicle when Gomez was 21. Gomez advises people to look for mentors in their career paths that can unlock doors for them. They don’t have to be someone of Weston’s stature, they can be managers in a company that see potential in you.

“Who in your world can see the potential in you that even you don’t see,” Gomez said.

Gomez credits several female managers at Rackspace who changed his life and career trajectory. He’s also an advocate of diversity and inclusion in the technology workspace.

“The magic only happens when you have two radically different ideas that collide with one another,” he said. And that only happens with people from diverse backgrounds, he said.

Rackspace, founded in 1998, had such a profound impact on San Antonio and pretty much changed the face of the city from a tourist town to a tech town.

“Rackspace was one of the very first confidence boosters to the city,” Gomez said. “It really changed people’s perspectives that anyone can be in tech.”

In 2011, Geekdom also changed the face of San Antonio’s technology ecosystem downtown. It has spun out several companies and served as the catalyst for the city’s downtown tech center. Nick Longo and Weston founded Geekdom.

“Nick and Graham saw San Antonio’s potential,” Gomez said.

They created a place for a community to happen, Gomez said. Geekdom has transformed into the new way for cities to do economic development, he said. Geekdom’s companies together have created about 700 jobs, Gomez said.

For more, listen to the entire interview below where Gomez talks about the 80/20 Foundation, San Antonio’s changing skyline, Cast Tech High School and more.

Also, please rate and review our Ideas to Invoices podcast on iTunes and support Silicon Hills News by becoming a patron on our Patreon site. You will get to vote on what we cover in future podcasts and stories.

UK-Based THG is Considering San Antonio for its U.S. Divisional Headquarters with 165 Jobs

The Commerce Building, under consideration for THG’s U.S. Divisional Headquarters, courtesy photo

A technology company from the United Kingdom is considering San Antonio for its U.S. divisional headquarters with 165 high-paying jobs.

The Hut Group, based in Manchester, United Kingdom, first considered San Antonio for a new U.S. based sales center but has since decided to put an even bigger office in San Antonio, pending the approval of economic incentives.

“THG has great growth potential in San Antonio, and I am extremely happy with the prospect of having them as our newest corporate citizen,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in a news release. “It was obvious that THG was a perfect fit for downtown San Antonio’s booming technology sector when I first talked to them several months ago.”

THG is considering basing its operations in the Commerce Building, a 36,000 square foot historic building that is being renovated in downtown San Antonio.

“San Antonio’s secret is out: our cost competitiveness, growing tech workforce supported by military talent, and downtown development opportunity cannot be matched by other U.S. cities,” said San Antonio Economic Development Foundation President and CEO Jenna Saucedo-Herrera said in a news release. “For tech companies looking to grow in a community and make an impact, San Antonio should be on the list and along with our partners at Geekdom, we were able to make that case for THG.”

On June 19, Bexar County Commissioners Court will vote on an incentive package for THG hat includes a $250,000 grant from the County’s Innovation Fund.

“We welcome this divisional headquarters to San Antonio and know that our community’s growing tech workforce will amply support THG’s plans for growth,” Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said in a news release.

On June 21, the San Antonio City Council will vote on an incentive package for THG that includes a performance-based Economic Development Incentive Fund grant of up to $500,000 for the creation of at least 165 high-wage jobs in a downtown San Antonio location. All 165 positions would earn above $70,000 annually, with average earnings of $85,000.

Geekdom Teams With Alamo Angels to Launch a Pre-Accelerator Program in San Antonio

Geekdom, the tech co-working space at the heart of San Antonio’s technology district, announced recently that it has teamed up with Alamo Angels to launch a pre-accelerator program designed to nurture new startups.

The program is focused on early-stage startups and includes mentorship from entrepreneurs, tech leaders and investors. The applications for the program opened last week with a deadline to apply on April 3rd. The program is free and no equity is taken. It culminates with a Demo Day pitch event on May 24th.

“During this program, early-stage startups will receive mentoring to prepare them for investment opportunities or applications into top-tier accelerator programs. Startups will also gain exposure in the tech community at the conclusion of the program on Demo Day,” Luke Owen, Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Co-Director, said in a news release.

Alamo Angels is providing at least $25,000 of equity investment to a selected team at the end of the program, according to Chris Burney, Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Co-Director and Executive Director of Alamo Angels.

“San Antonio’s startup community is thriving, and we need more resources to prepare high-potential companies for funding. This program will help local startups gain initial traction and become investor-ready,” Burney said in a statement.

San Antonio Tech Events to Attend This Week

The Mission San Jose

The biggest event going on this week in San Antonio is the first Philanthropic Pitch event at the H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center.

The proceeds from the ticket sales go to the winners of the pitch event. It’s another event that brings together the Austin and San Antonio tech and philanthropic communities. Notley Ventures and The Center for Social Innovation put on the event, fashioned after similar ones in Austin.

Looking for other events to attend this week? Check these out:

Tuesday –Feb. 27 – Geekdom’s Transition Outpost Launch – Geekdom Events Center from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Event to provide transition military members and their families with post-military career information and tools.

Tuesday – Feb. 27 – Philanthropic Pitch – a social impact fast-pitch event that connects nonprofits with the coaching and capital they need to scale sustainable funding models. Tickets cost $25.

Thursday – March 1 – Twelve-Factor Python Apps Meetup at the Geekdom Events Center from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. to talk about Twelve-Factor Apps. It’s free, but registration is required.

Friday – March 2 – – Fermented Friday – beers and networking with the Geekdom community for members at Geekdom from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Upcoming Events

SXSW in Austin March 9-18.

Upcoming events: (sponsored)

InnoTech San Antonio at the Norris Conference Center

Imagine Virtua and Alamo Reality Bring the Alamo Back to Life Through Technology and Storytelling

Alamo Reality board

By LAURA LOREK
Publisher of Silicon Hills News

Known as the Shrine of Texas Liberty, the Alamo in San Antonio holds a special place in the hearts of many Texans.

Throughout the years, films, books, songs, games and more have told the story of the men who heroically died there defending the mission against the Mexican Army.

And on the 300th anniversary of the city of San Antonio this year, Michael McGar and Chipp Walters, the founders of Imagine Virtua and Alamo Reality, have found a new way to tell the story of the Battle of the Alamo. They created Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications called Experience Real History: Alamo Edition.

In this episode of the Ideas to Invoices podcast, McGar and Walters discuss Alamo Reality and the cutting edge work they are doing in the Augmented Reality and Virtual Realty fields, first for the Alamo project and then for a Gettysburg project.

Michael McGar, CEO of Alamo Reality

For the Alamo project, McGar and Walters have created an Augmented Reality app that works on the latest models of iPhone and Android smartphones. That app lets people enter “portals” to transport them back to a virtual world showcasing the grounds of the Alamo from 1836, the year of the famous battle. Through the portals, visitors can explore the room where Jim Bowie died, clutching his famous knife and pictures of his family as he lay critically ill in bed. The app also has a special feature where people can point the phone at a portal and be elevated up above the scene to survey the entire Alamo compound and see where Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna attacked the mission after a 13-day siege.

The project is an ambitious one, but it has a strong backbone in storytelling from previous Alamo projects. In 1995, McGar, whose great-great uncle died at the Alamo, created a two-disc the Alamo “Victory or Death” CD-ROM set “containing games, biographies and a bird’s eye view of this historical event.” It also featured stories told by native Texans like Sissy Spacek, Charlie Pride, and Dan Rather and at the time Texas Monthly called it the best history of the Alamo in any medium.

“It was a very complete history of Texas up through the revolution,” McGar said.

It depicted the first virtual Alamo that people could fly around inside and do a scavenger hunt, he said.

“It was a very compelling experience at the time, but compared to what we can do today it was very primitive,” he said.

But now McGar, who has founded several multimedia companies in Austin, has teamed up with Walters, who has also founded Human Code, Design Edge, and other startups, to create 3D computer-generated models of the Alamo in 1836 for the Alamo Reality project.

Chipp Walters, CEO of Imagine Virtua

The Alamo Reality project really has three parts. They have created an Augmented Reality app available to anyone, anywhere with an iPad, tablet computer or smartphone. The viewer doesn’t need to be at the Alamo to see the content, but visitors to the Alamo will be able to see images at 14 locations throughout Alamo Plaza where events actually took place. Each location contains biographies and stories of various people who fought there.

In addition to the app, McGar and Walters created a Virtual Reality experience only available at the Alamo. And the third part is an Alamo Reality board and playing cards depicting the heroes of the Alamo.

The startup bucks the high-tech tale of twenty-something founders. In fact, McGar and Walters, who are both in their 60s, have tapped the expertise and talent of more than seven sexagenarians who all have extensive experience in the multimedia industry and Alamo history.

And it’s a project that draws on the strengths and cooperation of the tech community in both Austin and San Antonio. Alamo Reality got funding from a San Antonio investor. Leslie Komet, public relations executive in San Antonio, is also a partner in the project, McGar said. She’s the one who encouraged him to create the venture, he said.

At the time, Pokemon Go had just come out and McGar wanted to create an application that would let a person stand on the spot where Davy Crockett defended the Alamo and experience it firsthand.

In about seven months, a team of about 25 people including Stephen Hardin, an expert on the history of the Alamo and Texas, have created the app to be released March 1st, in advance of the anniversary of the battle of the Alamo on March 6th.

For three or four months, Walters and his team worked with Gary Zaboly, author and illustrator of many non-fiction accounts of the Alamo, to make sure the architecture of the Alamo is accurate from 1836 for the Augmented Reality app.

The app is free, but it also requires a $2.99 fee to unlock additional content. Imagine Virtua also plans to make money from the sale of realty boards and trading cards.

Walters background is in design. Early on in his career, he was employee number 48 at Compaq. After a year and a half, he then launched his own company Design Edge and he worked with a young entrepreneur named Michael Dell to design PCs.

Later, he created Human Code to work with Apple. He sold Human Code and retired to his ranch in Dripping Springs with his wife. But he never stopped working. He designed the Hyperloop Concept for Elon Musk a few years ago. He has also created moon bases. And he was working on virtual reality projects when McGar approached him about joining him for the Imagine Virtua Alamo Realty project.

Walters also teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.

Storytelling and content are a few of the key strengths of their project, Walters said. Floyd Wray is the head writer and he brings the characters to life in the virtual world, Walters said.

The Alamo app contains stories that haven’t been told before, he said. One of them is about a black woman named Sara who died manning a cannon defending the Alamo. She is one of the hidden figures of the Alamo. She died near a cannon in the Southwest corner of the Alamo. It was known that there was a black woman who died at the Alamo but no one knew who she was, McGar said. Historians recently found court papers in Louisiana detailing a lawsuit filed against Patrick Henry Herndon, an Alamo defender, who had absconded with a slave named Sara. It is thought that Sara died defending the Alamo alongside Herndon who had freed her from slavery.

“If there is any takeaway from this, is that we’re trying to use technology to communicate in a way that hasn’t happened before,” Walters said. “Especially, in a very embedded and interactive way at the Alamo and away from the Alamo. We think the key differentiator that is going to make this technology great is not the technology it’s the storytelling, it’s the design. Those are the key things. And the accuracy of the storytelling. That’s the takeaway. And it’s not a game.”

For more discussion about the Alamo and the AR/VR projects, listen to the entire podcast. And please rate and review Ideas to Invoices on iTunes.

Mass Challenge Texas Selects 84 Startups for its First Program

Mass Challenge Texas’ Kick off event at the Bullock Texas State History Museum last October.

Mass Challenge Texas has selected 84 startups to join its first accelerator program.

The accelerator received 520 applications, with a little more than half of those going to the second round where 120 judges selected the winners, said Mike Millard, managing director of Mass Challenge Texas.

The finalists are the “highest impact and highest potential startups,” Millard said. They come from a wide range of industries and hail from 12 states, 11 countries and five of the major Texas cities including Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas/Fort Worth and El Paso.

And 32 percent of the companies are led by women, that compares to 48 percent women-led startups participating in the Boston Mass Challenge cohort.

Most of the startups, 33 or nearly 40 percent, are classified as high tech. The second major category is healthcare and life sciences with 24 startups and nearly 29 percent, followed by general consumer at 12 startups and 14 percent and social impact with 9 startups and nearly 11 percent and clean teach with six startups and 7 percent.

“The startups can learn from one another even though they are different industries,” Millard said.

Mass Challenge officially announced the program in October of 2017 at a big event at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. Following that event, Millard and the Mass Challenge staff visited with startups at 37 events throughout Texas.

“It was just such a privilege to go around the state and listen to these people talk about how they are going to change the world,” Millard said. “I found great startups everywhere. It was sort of humbling. There are talented people all over this great state.”

The program kicks off in April at WeWork in Austin and runs for 16 weeks. The startups are provided with mentoring, specialized programming, coworking space at WeWork locations in Austin, WeWork memberships, and other services. In August, they will compete in a pitch day competition for $500,000 cash prizes. Mass Challenge is a nonprofit organization and doesn’t take an equity stake in the companies.

Some of the startups on the Mass Challenge list are familiar names in the Austin startup community. Re:3D just won $1 million in the WeWork Creator Awards in New York last year and GrubTubs won $360,000 in a regional WeWork Creator Awards competition.

The startups had to have raised less than $500,000 at the time of application, Millard said. It’s not uncommon for the startups in the Mass Challenge cohorts to have participated in other programs, he said.

Mass Challenge Finalists GrubTubs, AquaSprouts and Shower Stream also just completed the Tarmac TX accelerator held at Galvanize.

The following is a complete list of the chosen companies with descriptions supplied by Mass Challenge:

4.0 GPA LLC (Texas, USA): Our app and program help students/schools/parents better understand the advantages of furthering their education and win scholarships.

Abraxas Technology (Texas): Abraxas Technology is bringing out-of-home advertisement into the digital age by allowing advertisers to calculate their ROI in real-time.

Advanced Scanners, Inc. (Texas): A 3D Optical Vision System for Brain Surgeons to track and correct brain shift.

Aggressively Organic (Indiana): We offer a simple hydroponic system for plant-to-plate food production that anyone can afford and use regardless of experience and space.

Agile Agriculture Technologies (Greece): We are taking the guesswork out of fertilization and pesticide spraying in real time, with a machine vision/learning plug and play device.

AquaSprouts (Texas): AquaSprouts allows anyone to easily bring an aquaponic or hydroponic garden into their home, office or classroom, right out of the box.

Atlas Regeneration Technologies (Texas): Atlas was formed in El Paso, Texas, and is developing a hardness sensor that can improve the efficiency and performance of water softeners.

BabyNoggin (California): BabyNoggin identifies the 1/4 of American kids who are at risk of developmental delays to their doctors and local resources.

Backspace

Bezoar Laboratories

Big Wheelbarrow (Texas, USA): Big Wheelbarrow helps food wholesalers easily find & purchase from small local farms by using AI to aggregate, automate, and manage orders.

Black Business University (Texas): Black Business University is an online course marketplace that provides affordable biz education, mentoring, and support to black entrepreneurs.

Black Fret (Texas): Black Fret is an innovative evolution of the symphony patronage model that supports local music via a national network of local incubators.

BlockMedx (Kentucky): Blockchain e-prescribing to combat the opioid crisis, improve health outcomes, and save lives.

Blue Zero Homes

Brain Stem AI

Brands Of (Puerto Rico): Help local brands and businesses better understand the market of their diaspora and export their products worldwide.

Carrot Pants Studios (Texas): We tell stories that bring the world of electronics to life for kids and families.

Cloud 9

Cloud Dentistry (Texas, USA): Uber meets LinkedIn for dental professionals. We provide on-demand medical personnel through an interactive online platform.

Complai DBA Shep (Texas, USA): Shep is a plug-n-play Chrome extension that shows employees what to book on most travel sites, tracks expenses & rewards savings.

DermaDiagnostics

Diffregen, Inc (Texas, USA): Diffregen is attacking Leukemia at its core with new therapeutics that stop progression and activate the healthy immune system.

Dynofit, Inc. (Texas, USA): Flexdot is a cell phone based wearable sensor for physical rehab that reads the muscle action of any muscle and pairs with apps and games.

Educational Documentary Services Trust (Zimbabwe): EduDoc produces and distributes curriculum-based multimedia educational resources, serving students in off-grid, offline communities.

EllieGrid (Texas, USA): The smart pill box with brains and beauty.

EQO (Texas, USA): EQO brings uses molecular solutions for environmental problems. We treat aquatic invasive species like cancer.

FADE (Texas, USA): FADE is the world’s first men’s lifestyle app.

FastVisa (Texas, USA): FastVisa is a process automation company for immigration workflow. We’re reinventing the current immigration process as an automated process.

FunnelAI (Texas, USA): Connecting businesses with their prospective customers in real-time by leveraging AI.

Future Sight AR (Texas, USA): The future doesn’t arrive – it’s built. We provide augmented reality work instructions to field engineers & construction workers in OG&C.

GRASSLAND CAMEROON, LTD

GrubTubs (Texas, USA): GrubTubs collects leftover food from restaurants to create animal feed – saving local farmers thousands per month on feed costs.

GuestBox (Florida, USA): GuestBox is a subscription box service for Airbnb and vacation rental hosts to welcome and delight their guests.

Halo Life Science (Texas, USA): Halo’s functional nutrient Naturalin, added to foods makes them better for you, more nutritious, and will significantly impact world health.

Indulge.Yo.Self. (New Jersey, USA): We boost conversions and improve e-commerce engagement with virtual dressing room with seamless integration with Shopify, Magento etc.

Innovein (California, USA): Innovein is advancing vein care with a first-of-its-kind replacement valve for veins.

Instapath Inc. (Louisiana, USA): We developed a revolutionary microscopy system for real time pathology review, so patients can get an early and accurate diagnosis.

Justspot.me (Texas, USA): We connect people to their loved ones and their loved things with a simple and charge free smart location device.

Komeeda

Specifi-Kali, LLC., Laelaps (Texas, USA): Laelaps is a groundbreaking GPS-based system that brings reliability to tracking and asset monitoring devices in the outdoors.

Living a Book (Mexico): Living a Book gives you a unique and immersive reading experience, Books, audiobooks and VR-360 stories with multiple endings.

Loanables (Texas, USA): We are reducing over-consumption by making it as easy to rent and share as it is to buy.

Multisensor Diagnostics, LLC.

NEMOCARE WELLNESS PRIVATE LIMITED

Newormics, LLC. (Texas, USA): Newormics provides optical and micro-technologies to advance early stage drug discovery with cost effective solutions using humanized models.

Next Play, Inc. (California, USA): Enterprise AI software for inclusive mentoring.

NovoThelium (Texas, USA): We provide a tissue engineered matrix for nipple areolar regeneration after mastectomy.

Open.Media (Colorado, USA): We enhance democracy through live streaming and archiving legislative sessions, offering innovative search, share, and notification features.

Partboyz Auto Parts (Nigeria): Partboyz Auto Parts mission is to bring the car parts business in Africa into the 21st century.

Penguino Travel (Texas, USA): Penguino Travel is a peer-to-peer platform empowering families go on life-changing adventures.

Popspots (Texas, USA): We’re building AdMob for the physical world. Our initial network is in grocery, the highest traffic space in retail.

PrimeVOX Communications (Texas, USA): We are a modern telecommunications service provider revolutionizing telecom with game-changing infrastructure and software.

PYT Funds Inc, Pay Your Tuition (Washington, D.C., USA): PYT, Pay Your Tuition is changing the way families finance and pay for higher education using technology to create the best private loan.

re:3D, Inc (Texas, USA): At re:3D we’re working to modify Gigabot – the world’s largest, affordable, industrial 3D printer- to 3D print from reclaimed plastic trash.

ReillyWorks (California, USA): ReillyWorks “Phygital” Kit with unlimited Game Packs combine Augmented Reality + Smart Objects into immersive storytelling and family fun!

Resthetics (Texas, USA): Resthetics converts waste anesthesia into a safe, renewable resource.

Revolution Computing, Inc. (Texas, USA): Revolution Computing is developing a revolutionary new processor architecture to accelerate emerging graph and machine learning applications.

Savant (Illinois, USA): Savant is an “enterprise” solution for the sharing economy – we transform scrappy freelancers into sharing experts.

ScalaMed

Sempulse (Texas, USA): Applies in seconds to the ear & wirelessly monitors 100+ vitals non-invasively in non-sterile conditions supporting triage & telemedicine.

SenceTech (Texas, USA): Bridging the gap between consumers & healthcare providers by providing consumers insights with deeper medical analysis for Dr.s.

Shower Stream (Texas, USA): The problem of Shower Warm-up Waste, which costs $50B in water and energy in the U.S. annually, can be solved by installing Shower Stream.

SkillsEngine (Texas, USA): SkillsEngine connects educators and employers using artificial intelligence to validate skill requirements so students are more employable.

Smallhold

SMARTSHUNT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Texas, USA): SmartShunt cerebrospinal fluid flow detection is a compelling and disruptive solution to a common problem in the hydrocephalus patients.

Smokeless

Steadiwear Inc. (Canada): We developed the Steadiglove – a lightweight & battery-free glove that stabilizes the wrist in Essential Tremor & Parkinson’s disease.

SurgePower Materials (Texas, USA): A green company that produces high quality graphene, a key nanomaterial that improves performance of batteries, from a renewable resource.

TeacherTalent

The Mentor Method (Virginia, USA): The Mentor Method creates inclusive workplace cultures through mentoring diverse talent.

The Tiny Heights (Texas, USA): The Tiny Heights is a tiny house community development consisting of homes under 1,000 sqft. that can be paid off in 12 years or less.

Tiny House Coffee Roasters (Texas, USA): The tiny house movement taught us to dream big by thinking small. We collaborate with small-scale producers to bring the world great coffee.

Toggle Health (Kentucky, USA): Toggle Health connects surgeon to their digital case data in the sterile field of the operating room using a sterile wireless controller.

Ungrocery (Texas, USA): A food system built for people not shelves.

Vena Medical (Canada): Vena Medical makes a fiber optic imaging catheter that allows physicians to see inside arteries and veins during complex procedures.

Vigilant Waste Technologies, Inc. (Texas, USA): Prevent opioid diversion in the hospital and reduce the compliance burden by automating drug analysis and verification at the point of care.

Vinder, Inc. (Washington, USA): Vinder is a peer-to-peer marketplace for homegrown produce. Buy/sell/trade with your community. Localizing the global food system.

Volt480

Web2ship Services Sdn Bhd (Malaysia): Web2ship.com is an elogistics gateway that connects all the courier services and online merchant with single API and low shipping rate

Whimmly (California, USA): Whimmly delivers virtual personal shoppers for eCommerce stores, using deep learning and natural language generation.

Yotta Solar Inc. (Texas, USA):
Energy storage coupled with solar panel installations through patent-pending thermal regulated high life battery.

YOUR6, Inc. (Texas, USA): YOUR6’s goal is to revolutionize hiring by measuring performance and potential of job candidates, and providing business a verified ranking.

ZPEG (Texas, USA): What if you could reduce your video delivery costs without sacrificing quality or changing infrastructure? That’s the ZPEG advantage.

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