Texas Innovation Center

Wishing you a happy and restful holiday season! ❄️✨ As we reflect on this year’s achievements, we’re grateful for the incredible community around us.

📢 Exciting news from Locus Lock! We’re proud to announce the close of an oversubscribed funding round, marking a significant milestone in our journey to revolutionize PNT technology. This investment accelerates our mission to bring advanced and accurate positioning capabilities to government and commercial customers around the world. This round was supported by notable investors, including AIN Ventures, Aurelia Foundry, CreationsVC, Jolt VC, ff Venture Capital, Techstars, and the The University of Texas at Austin of Texas Seed Fund, along with a matching grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT). The funding will support product development, pilot deployments, customer acquisition, and scaling our production and manufacturing operations. We will also be growing our team, opening up new positions across engineering, sales, and customer success. If you’re ready to dive in and make a real impact, we want to hear from you! Send us your resume/CV at [email protected]. We’re grateful for the support of our investors, team, early customers, and advisors as we continue to ensure safe mobility everywhere through our GNSS positioning solutions. Stay tuned for more updates as we scale! To learn more about Locus Lock and our progress to date, visit: https://lnkd.in/gXnP8smY #gps #pnt #gnss #navigation #antijam #antispoof

Paradigm Robotics CEO Siddharth Thakur had a great time at International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) Technology Summit International 2024. From winning the Shark Tank Award to meeting with key fire chiefs, leaders in the fire service, and innovators across the fire-tech landscape, to collaborating with end users across emergency management, the conference was a crucial stepping stone in our rollout of FireBot V4 to 80+ fire departments around the U.S. Learn more about our work here: https://lnkd.in/gYBZ9a-Z

We're excited to share that Celadyne Technologies is amongst the 14 projects included in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s latest Critical Materials Collaborative investment. This funding is a part of the DOE's mission to strengthen and streamline manufacturing for high-impact components and technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells, magnets for high-efficiency motors, high-performance lithium-ion batteries, and high-yield low-defect power electronics. “DOE is helping reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign supply chains through innovative solutions that will tap domestic sources of the critical materials needed for next-generation technologies. These investments – part of our industrial strategy – will keep America’s growing manufacturing industry competitive while delivering economic benefits to communities nationwide.” – Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy The DOE has been a trusted partner and resource of ours for years, and their continued support is why we are able to do what we do. Read more about this latest step forward in MINING.com ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/dHdf964r

Last Friday we had another successful TVL Investment Competition! Congrats to all student founders who participated, especially 1st place Texas Champion winner Longhorn Life Sciences, represented by James Clarke, PhD in Physics in the College of Natural Sciences! He brought home the $15,000 prize. Congrats to all our other winners: 2nd place, Texas Superstar ($5,000)- Avid, congratulations to Fred Lindseth, MBA, McCombs School of Business, 2026. 3rd place, Texas Rising Star ($2,500)- Krishnan R. (MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2025) of Paradigm Robotics. Iman Salafian of Trinity Tube and Bharat Mathur of CerebroSonic were both awarded prizes for Health Innovation and an additional $5,000 prize. MagSuture was the winner of the Technology Commercialization Award and $10,000 prize. Congrats to William Gates, MSTC, McCombs School of Business, 2025 and Zachary Wright, MSTC, McCombs School of Business, 2025. The Sustainability Award and $5,000 prize went to Facilimax, Amy Polvado. The James D. Pippin Veteran Entrepreneurship Award and a $1,000 prize went to Brown Bag Games, congratulations to Spencer Payne. All twenty-seven teams also presented two-minute pitches in the Ann Whitt Elevator Pitch Challenge which awards a $1,000 prize to the top three presenters. The winners were Trinity Tube, Brown Bag Games and Greeni Tahini. Thanks to all judges and student volunteers who helped make this happen!

We invite you all to save the date for The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Dell Medical School’s 2025 Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo. This event will bring together #Austin's innovation & entrepreneurship community to support our finalists from this year’s Texas Health Catalyst cohort along with several successful alumni to present their innovations and progress toward commercialization.   This past fall, Dell Med’s Texas Health Catalyst program, in collaboration with the Cockrell School of Engineering, College of Pharmacy, College of Natural Sciences, the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML), the Center for Rare Diseases, and Discovery to Impact, put out a call for Outstanding Proposals in Health as well as specific requests for two targeted challenge areas: 1. Transformative Health Innovation and 2. Hospital of the Future Challenge. #savethedate #TXHC #THC #RoundupandRodeo #hospitalofthefuture Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Health Catalyst at UT Austin Dell Medical School, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Capital Factory Claudia Lucchinetti, Ruben Rathnasingham, Maarten Rotman, Ph.D., Stephen Ekker, Mark Arnold, Piper Nieters Su, Cindy WalkerPeach, Janet Walkow

Measuring brain activity using electrodes attached to your head might sound easy. However, traditional electroencephalography (EGG) setups are bulky, involve messy wires, and take hours to prepare. They also don't work well if someone has a lot of hair and the electrodes dry out quickly.   Texas Engineer Nansha Lu, a professor in the Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, along with David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA researchers, has developed breakthrough e-tattoo technology — ultra-thin, conductive ink sensors that can be printed directly onto the skin to decode brainwaves.   Learn how this breakthrough can help diagnose brain disorders, study sleep, and even control devices using brain signals (like wheelchairs or games). 

Introducing our TVLIC Semi-Finalists!! Come watch your favorite student founders pitch their startups to investors and VC experts on Friday, December 6th in Rowling Hall! To read more about the participating startups and event schedule, visit our blog: https://bit.ly/3YnxyLI #entrepreneurship #startups #UTAustin #TVLIC #pitchcompetition

Attending Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit this week at Austin, TX, and pitching TAU Systems and our solutions for compact radiation testing and ultrabright EUV and X-rays! Catch my pitch Thursday at 9am or reach out to talk.