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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

We have a partnership on anti-counterfeit security inks, which can address the global $500B counterfeit goods problem. We collaborated at the Los Alamos National Lab, the National Renewable Energy Lab, and University of Illinois. Your company has diverse areas of focus from agriculture to urban planning.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. Our philosophy is simple.