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Unwired Nation Continues Growth Into New Markets

Austin Startup

ethosIQ, a Houston-based software solutions provider, plans to leverage Unwired Nation’s Kinita platform and services to address huge opportunities for mobile applications in a number of enterprise verticals, including field service organizations, financial service companies and utilities.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston. They operate multiple investment funds focused on industry verticals like Real Estate, Consumer or CPG and on under-represented founders such as Women and People of Color.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Austin is different from Dallas which is different from Houston and San Antonio.

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How to Create an Effective Branding Campaign That Inspires a Movement

ConversionXL

We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Insurance has remained fundamentally unchanged for centuries, so an insurance product for today’s consumer required re-architecting every part of the value chain.

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Austin: Airbnb “Super City” and Hotspot For Emerging Boutique STR Purveyors

Austin Startup

million in seed funding , though it already had 150 apartments under management in Austin, Houston and Nashville beforehand. Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. We actively search out diverse founders and mentors to join our community.