About Us
About Us
Venture Texas is a nonprofit, minority and female-led education and action driven movement on a mission to bring economic parity to the founder/VC ecosystem by introducing VCs to innovative, diverse founders.
Venture Texas brings innovative diverse companies, disruptive technologies and top-tier Investors together for the best venture capital conference in the US.
Why Austin?
The 2021 AUSTIN VC Ecosystem:
Austin is ranked #7 in the nation for the amount of venture dollars flowing to
locally based companies, according to PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report.
Venture/Startup funding flowed in Austin in 2021, delivering 387 deals valued at a record-setting $4.9 billion — or 211% growth compared to the previous year — per data from PitchBook.
The investments range from seed money to later stage rounds, a sign Austin serves to benefit brand-new startups as well as growing companies.
Austin's biggest deals of 2021:
- Homeward raised $371 million in series B funding.
- Workrise raised $300 million in series E funding.
- ICON Technology raised $207 million in series B funding.
- ZenBusiness raised $200 million in series C1 funding.
- The Zebra raised $150 million in series D funding.
- CrowdOut Capital raised $150 million in later stage funding.
- Ambiq raised $145 million in later stage funding.
- Elligo Health Research raised $136 million in series E funding.
- Outdoorsy raised $100 million in series D funding