Wake Up! is hosted by Texas-Boxed, with generous sponsorship from Egan Nelson (http://www.egannelson.com/) and the Silicon Hills Lawyer blog (http://siliconhillslawyer.com/) and Dell for Entrepreneurs (Dell)
Austin CPG brands, retailers, service providers, and local enthusiasts should join us for a lively discussion about the CPG scene and helping each other grow our businesses.
Wake Up! CPG Meetup
Thursday, August 26th - 8:30am - 10:00am
WE'RE BACK TO IN-PERSON MEETINGS:
Cosmic Coffee and Beer
121 Pickle Rd, Austin, TX 78704
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It's that time of year where all of your friends will be begging you to vote for their panel to be selected at SXSW next year. I'm not above asking for your vote for the Super Connectors Meetup: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/118300
Super Connectors are professional business developers who understand the power of a qualified referral network and know how to make friends with ease. Their network of other professionals is typically vast and varied in that they know people in different industries and walks of life. Building and maintaining relationships is what makes Super Connectors tick, and the very nature of these types of people is that no one is ever a stranger. This meetup embodies everything that makes SXSW special for professionals who attend. VOTE UP PLEASE
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- Social listening app Earbuds raises $3 million in Series A funding - Link
- TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling
- #3 Marc Nathan Vice President Client Strategy with Egan Nelson The most connected individual with the Tech Start up Community - Podcast
- Get Smart About People & The Workplace [Thank you John, this was a very fun conversation]
- Covid-19 and its Variants Put the Kibosh on Austin Companies Plans to Go Back to the Office - Link
- 109 Austin Companies Make Inc. 5000 2021 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies - Link
- Silicon Valley News' Laura Lorek
- Investor Interview: Samantha Lewis from Mercury Fund - Podcast [This is one of the best podcasts I've heard in a long time and certainly worth a listen]
- Beta Business Podcast with Grant Gurtin and Nick Spiller
- Why Austin, Texas Becoming the New American Tech Hub - Link
- CMS WIre
- ClosedLoop.ai Raises $34M Series B to Usher in AI-Enabled Healthcare and Tackle Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Problem - Link
- Rising Tide Ventures - BIPOC Investors Supporting BIPOC Founders - Link
- How Austin Became The Bitcoin Mecca Capital of Texas.- Link
- Firefly names former SpaceX and Blue Origin Veteran as Chief Operating Officer - Firefly Aerospace - Link
- 101 Most Innovative Austin Based Machine Learning Companies – Futurology - Link
- Bloomfire Announces Major Growth Investment from Primus Capital - Link
- App fighting food waste by selling restaurant leftovers destined for the trash launches in Austin - Link
- KXAN Austin
- Six Reasons You Need to be at Fed Supernova This September - Link
- Austin Startups
- Questions linger on both sides of $1.1M guaranteed income pilot program - Link
- Council funds guaranteed income pilot program - Link
- Austin Monitor
- Be ready for the classroom and beyond with must-have Samsung items - Link
- Austin wordsmiths meet virtually to ‘sit down, shut up, and write’ - Link
- Culture Map Austin
- Walmart is hiring a ‘Cryptocurrency Lead’ – are they developing their own crypto? - Link
- The wrong and right ways to mandate COVID vaccines for your employees - Link
- Reddit in hot water for allegedly allowing underage revenge porn - Link
- Immigrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs – why? - Link
- Workcations: Should you find new scenery or reject the trend? - Link
- Can you be sued for roasting your former employer on Glassdoor? - Link
- The American Genius
- 'As easy as playing a video game': Austin company helps make the perfect shot simple with its cinema robots - Link
- Over 100 Austin businesses highlighted on Inc. 5000's national fastest-growing business list - Link
- Austin ranks in top cities for electric vehicles as Giga Texas on the way - Link
- Local company builds first 3D-printed military barracks in Austin-area - Link
- Austonia
- Meet the Fall 2021 TVL Accelerator Companies - Link
- ‘The Great Resignation’ - Link
- Immigrants Face Inclusion Challenges in Austin, Analysis Shows - Link
- University of Texas
- Why Workrise is Driving a Cultural Reset - Link
- What Does It Mean When a Real Estate Company Can 'Do It All'? - Link
- 7 Austin Companies Actively Growing Their Sales Teams - Link
- ClosedLoop.ai Raises $34M Series B to Solve Healthcare Challenges With AI - Link
- How Remote Hiring Is Propelling Two Austin Companies Forward - Link
- Here Are This Year's 5 Fastest-Growing Austin Tech Companies, According to Inc. - Link
- Software Startup NinjaRMM Opens New Austin HQ for Growing Team - Link
- Cart.com Raised $98M, Cloudflare Expands, and More Austin Tech News - Link
- How Whole Foods Defines and Measures Success With KPIs - Link
- How a Thirst for Challenge Binds This Team Applying AI to Insurance and Beyond - Link
- Built in Austin
- Pandemic pushed Keller Williams into overdrive — here's how world's largest real estate franchise adapted - Link
- How Sisu developed a robotic camera arm being used on HBO film sets - Link
- Jet service JSX adds flights between Austin and Dallas - Link
- Telehealth startup Wheel hires chief commercial officer to help shape rapid growth - Link
- More than 250 companies circling Austin area - Link
- Austin-based Kerbey Lane Cafe opening first San Antonio location - Link
- Austin demographer explains main takeaways from latest Census: 'We're not growing as fast as we thought we were' - Link
- Moca Financial CEO: Bastrop in store for a Google-like office campus - Link
- Enabling access to quality health care for women in Texas - Link
- New brewery planned in Southeast Austin opportunity zone dubbed 'craft brewery desert' - Link
- 111 Austin companies rank on 2021 Inc. 5000 - Link
- Austinites to bring venture-backed skincare franchise to town - Link
- M&A wrap: Software maker Bloomfire gets new majority owner; Periscope fetches $260M buyout - Link
- After moving HQ, NinjaRMM poised to grow in Austin - Link
- In the money Aug. 16: Nearly $70M in deals announced in software, skincare, other industries - Link
- Austin Business Journal & Austin Inno's Brent Wistrom
- Austin's jobless rate fell to 4.2% in July, lowest since COVID struck - Link
- State could borrow up to $6.5B for energy bills caused by Texas freeze - Link
- State to Texas businesses: Requiring vaccine proof may mean loss of liquor license - Link
- Software firm NinjaRMM moves HQ to Austin, plans to keep growing - Link
- Financial tech giant Green Dot moving HQ to Austin - Link
- Austin gas prices edge downward - Link
- In Austin, COVID surge puts brakes on return-to-office plans - Link
- Four Austin companies involved in acquisitions - Link
- Beer giant Anheuser-Busch plans downtown Austin office - Link
- Austin startup Rey aims to use tech to reshape mental health therapy - Link
- As prices keep rising, Austin home sales slow: Is market cooling a bit? - Link
- Austin American-Statesman
SAN ANTONIO
- Robotic Prosthetics Startup Alt-Bionics Raises $283K Seed Funding - Link
- Startups San Antonio's Iris Gonzalez
- The pandemic has forced women in the restaurant industry to reevaluate how it values their work - Link
- CityScrapes: An open welcome letter to San Antonio’s new economic development director - Link
- Developer behind never-opened Toby Keith bar in San Antonio pleads guilty to federal charges - Link
- Sen. John Cornyn says he won't support legalizing pot because of, get this, opioid overdoses - Link
- Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation building $8 million growing site for medical pot - Link
- Court rules that smokeable hemp can be sold in Texas, as long as it's not produced inside the state - Link
- San Antonio Current
- Critics say proposed noise ordinance changes could hurt small businesses - Link
- Legislators affirm commitment to Texas gas, oil industry while pushing for clean energy future - Link
- Green infrastructure investments the focus of border forum - Link
- San Antonio Report
- Grande Communications parent company acquisition closes - Link
- Nonprofit leader Asia Ciaravino to keynote SABJ Women's Leadership Awards - Link
- Editor's notebook: Putting down roots in San Antonio - Link
- Spurs plan expansive, $510M Human Performance Campus near UTSA - Link
- Texas ranks 11th for homeownership among people of color - Link
- New Spurs Performance Center cost to top $70M - Link
- 25 San Antonio metro companies make Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies - Link
- Local fintech company to help NYC pay people to get vaccinated - Link
- Despite revenue growth, Rackspace downgraded by investment firms - Link
- Local university lands near top of best schools in Texas list - Link
- Dallas firm building apartments near future Amazon facility - Link
- Major SA biotech campus requires Covid vaccinations for all employees - Link
- San Antonio Business Journal
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- LaunchBio, UTSW Blackstone LaunchPad, BioLabs NTX and TechFW are partnering up to provide a FREE ThinkLab™ startup accelerator fall cohort starting September 14, 2021 for NTX life science startups. - Link
- UT Dallas Announces New Universities and Advisors for the Texas Network of Blackstone LaunchPad - Link
- Stoke Denton to host celebrate five-year anniversary, recent remodel with ribbon-cutting - Link
- Denton Record Chronicle
- With DFW Poised To Become Life Sciences Center, BioLabs Begins Renovating Central US Hub - Link
- Bisnow
- UT Arlington achieves milestone with Texas Tier One status - Link
- Local providers concerned as Fort Worth considers exclusive food, beverage service provider for Will Rogers - Link
- Another plant-based food/drink manufacturer coming to Dallas-Fort Worth area - Link
- Council approves restructure for new Business Equity Advisory Board - Link
- Rollin’ N Bowlin’ establishes mentorship & grant program for college entrepreneurs - Link
- Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies includes more than 20 from Tarrant County - Link
- Fort Worth Business Press
- Dallas real estate tech firm lands new $4.5 million investment in platform - Link
- Dallas Morning News
- Be ready for the classroom and beyond with must-have Samsung items - Link
- DFW company ranks as one of fastest-growing in U.S., says Inc. - Link
- New $120M hospital coming to Dallas suburb with off-the-charts growth - Link
- Culture Map Dallas
- This Dallas Tech Company Is Creating Ventilators to Help Rural Indian Hospitals - Link
- Two Dallas-Born Entrepreneurs Create Starla, an Alcohol-Free Wine - Link
- New EarBurner Podcast: Alex Macon Talks D’s First Daily Newsletter - Link
- Grant Pruitt: Three Steps for Workforce Re-entry Success - Link
- D Magazine
- DI People: Wingstop, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Robin Autopilot, and More Make Moves - Link
- If Rivian Builds Its $5 Billion Plant in Fort Worth, It Would Be “A Huge Economic Generator for the Region” - Link
- UTA Joins Just Three Other Universities In Achieving the Prestigious Texas Tier One Designation - Link
- Connected Driving: General Motors, AT&T to Equip Future Vehicles With 5G - Link
- UK’s Quorn Grows Meatless Presence in U.S. with $335M Investment and a New Culinary Development Center in the Dallas Area - Link
- Fort Worth’s Jeff Bond Didn’t Like What He Was Finding On Job Staffing Sites. So He Launched His Own. - Link
- EV Fintech Xcelerate Auto Relocates Headquarters to McKinney - Link
- Dallas-Based Health Food Brand Rollin’ n Bowlin’ Launches Grant Program for College Entrepreneurs - Link
- Infrastructure Giant AECOM Is Moving Its HQ From L.A. to Dallas - Link
- Rural College Promise Program Launches with $3.1M Grant from the Greater Texas Foundation - Link
- Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of Aug 3 - Link
- ‘Persistence, Perseverance, and Pluck’: 179 Dallas-Fort Worth Area Companies Rank on the 2021 Inc. 5000 - Link
- BioNTX Will Hold Its 2021 IC3 Life Science Summit Sep. 30-Oct. 1 with a “Reignite” Theme - Link
- Lewisville’s Overhead Door, Innovator of the Modern Garage Door and Garage Door Opener, Celebrates 100th Birthday - Link
- Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas, Lyda Hill Philanthropies Partner With Catchafire to Support Local Nonprofits - Link
- Westlake’s Virbac Announces Availability of New Dog Cancer Treatment Across the U.S. - Link
- Dallas-based Pursuant on 2020’s Record Fundraising and Strategies for the ‘Great Resumption’ - Link
- Dallas Innovates
- Local media giant Nexstar buys political news outlet The Hill in $130M deal - Link
- After facing COVID challenges, specialized material firm expands in new markets, raises $5M - Link
- Body wash and blockchain: This Dallas startup is launching a crypto token tied to its product sales - Link
- Raelyn Wilson named chief operating officer at Valify - Link
- Pharos Capital's Charter Health Care Group purchases San Antonio-based Generations Hospice Care - Link
- Trinity Industries and global investment firm form joint venture to deploy up to $1B - Link
- Florida tech firm shifted HQ to DFW — and is bringing hundreds of jobs amid investments - Link
- Recently-launched Plano startup aims to inject AI into the oil and gas industry - Link
- North Texas is a major market for private aviation, as commercial airlines struggle - Link
- Private equity firm with long-time Texas roots commits major portion of inaugural fund to local businesses - Link
- First Foundation partners with Austin-based risk and compliance company - Link
- Fintech company for electric cars, including Tesla, moves HQ to McKinney from Frisco - Link
- Google parent’s Waymo building local site for hundreds trucks, personnel - Link
- Infrastructure giant AECOM to relocate global headquarters to Dallas - Link
- DFW among top 5 metros for office-work flexibility as tech expands, report shows - Link
- Exclusive: PNC picks Dallas for next debt capital markets hub - Link
- Meet DFW's fastest-growing companies: 103 companies land on the newest Inc. 5000 list - Link
- Newly launched faith-based ETF issuer's inaugural fund hits NYSE - Link
- The Mark Cuban Foundation selects Birmingham as host city for bootcamp - Link
- Bloomingdale's, Ebay vet will run Neiman Marcus's digital business - Link
- EDTX enters final judgment in trade secrets case, awards ResMan $62M - Link
- Dallas Business Journal & NXT Inno's Kevin Cumming
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- Diane Yoo Paving the Way for Minority Women at the Executive Level: Making Not Waiting for Opportunity - Link
- Golden Section Ventures Announces $1M Partner Preferred Investment in MXTR - Link
- Golden Section Ventures Leads Series A Funding for KARE - Link
- HTXelerator Open Applications - Apply
- energyNEXT program by Foresight Canada and Eunike Ventures - Apply
- Halliburton Labs Application - Apply
- Houston company ranks as one of fastest-growing in Texas, says Inc. - Link
- Rice Alliance announces 4 most promising energy tech companies at OTC - Link
- New app maps out hot Heights development's shopping and restaurants - Link
- 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week - Link
- InnovationMap names inaugural Trailblazer Award recipient - Link
- The Ion Houston announces opening of its coworking space - Link
- Houston e-commerce company ranks as one of fastest-growing business in Texas, says Inc. - Link
- Houston digital health platform raises $1.2M seed round - Link
- AI-optimized health startup with HQ in Houston takes its tech to the next level with new partner - Link
- How this entrepreneur is preparing Houston for the future of electric vehicles - Link
- Surprising share of Houstonians saddled with $10,000 or more in credit card debt - Link
- Annual report ranks Houston university as the best in Texas - Link
- Impact-driven Houston fintech startup officially launches after successful beta - Link
- Houston boasts massive population growth among major U.S. metros from 2010 to 2020 - Link
- University of Houston spinout's smartphone COVID-19 test to head to market - Link
- 3 Houston innovators with fresh funds to know this week - Link
- InnovationMap's Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
- CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center - Link
- Rice, Baylor win defense grant to advance metastasis study - Link
- National 2D materials research center wins NSF funding - Link
- Smalley-Curl Institute honors students’ research at summer colloquium - Link
- The Way I See It: The state of quantum computing - Link
- DesRoches, Nakhleh, others tour startup Syzygy Plasmonics - Link
- ‘Smart cells’ show promise to treat disease - Link
- Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power - Link
- Rice University
- UH Dining introduces new options for Fall 2021 - Link
- University of Houston
- ‘Star Trek’ was a beacon for space travel — and for diversity - Link
- Researchers identify source of dinosaur-killing asteroid - Link
- Blue Origin files lawsuit over lunar lander contract - Link
- Houston Chronicle
- Mid-pandemic Offshore Technology Conference had more emphasis on energy transition - Link
- Houston entrepreneurs launch Campus Concierge platform at Texas Southern University, eye expansions - Link
- Texas has already lost 20,000-plus hotel jobs - Link
- Southwest's corporate travel arm just turned two years old. Here's what it's done. - Link
- United Airlines partners with Greater Houston Black Chamber to support local Black-owned businesses - Link
- SheSpace expands coworking space in mixed-use development to meet demand - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Zach Bell, David Callender, Andrea Caracostis, Armando Colombo, Lisa Descant - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Beth Eversole, Jenifer Jarriel, Doug Lawson, John Mangum, James Nelson - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Michelle Shonbeck, Helen Stagg, Wayne Voss, Beth White, Lynda Zelenka - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Joe Alapat, John Allen, Taseer Badar, Kevin Boyle, Sara Brook - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Jim Brown, Larry Campagna, Gregory Cokinos, John Corbeil, Margo Costello - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Travis Crabtree, Ali Dhanani, Eric Elfman, David Eller, Samantha Elliott - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Linhua Guan, Chris Hankslik, Monzer Hourani, Anthony Marre, Mohammad Millwala - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Michael Nichols, Malisha Patel, Joe Paulo, Peter Pisters, Gary Poon - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Elizabeth Ortega, Ruby Powers, Mike Spears, Rya Stone, Mark Strickland - Link
- Meet 5 of HBJ’s 2021 Most Admired CEOs: Amanda Tullos, Martin Turner, Don Valentine, John Willis, Brett Witte - Link
- Meet HBJ's 2021 Most Admired CEOs Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Darryl Montgomery - Link
- Fluence Analytics moves to Stafford, raises $7.5M for polymerization tech - Link
- OTC insights: Oil majors interested in Gulf of Mexico offshore wind - Link
- Why Amgen picked N.C. town over Houston and $110M worth of incentives - Link
- United Way of Greater Houston's chief advancement officer looks forward to normal, not back - Link
- OTC insights: How energy companies are addressing diversity, equity and inclusion - Link
- OTC insights: Oil and gas consolidation threatens industry's future innovation, experts say - Link
- DocSpace raises $1.2M seed round for health tech platform - Link
- 90 Houston-area companies make 2021 Inc. 5000 list - Link
- BP exec: How digitalization, optimization can drive net-zero emissions goals - Link
- Energy execs: Supplier diversity can help shape a low-carbon future - Link
- Offshore Technology Conference kicks off in Houston, drawing in-person, virtual attendees - Link
- Texas energy tech companies showcased at OTC Rice Alliance Energy Venture Day - Link
- Houston Restaurant Weeks offers much-needed boost to restaurant industry after difficult year - Link
- Rice University makes top 10 on Niche's 2022 Best Colleges in America list - Link
- Former CEO of SAExploration pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud - Link
- Houston-based Hyco1 launches industrial decarbonization tech - Link
- Retail power startup Branch Energy raises $4.5M seed funding - Link
- Spaces opens GreenStreet location, WorkSuites to add new coworking space in downtown Houston - Link
- Houston Business Journal
- UTRGV purchasing land in McAllen to double size of its medical school - Link
- STC meets with THECB Commissioner Keller and Farias, THECB Chair - Link
- McAllen Chamber of Commerce
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- We Aren’t Seeing the Best Innovators - Mercury Fund's Samantha Lewis - Link
- Breyer Capital’s Healthcare AI Investment Thesis: Learnings and Predictions by Jim Breyer - Link
- FirstMile Ventures Raises $21 million to Back Seed-Stage Tech Startups - Link
- Surfboard Sustainability Part III: Surfboard Companies in the United States - Kirk Coburn - Link
- Sign up for my One Interesting Deal newsletter - Michael Girdley - Link
- What I Wish I Knew Before Bootstrapping My Startup - Entrepreneur - Link
- My First Million - #211 with Julian Shapiro - The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash - Link
- Sales meeting booking platform Kronologic nabs $20M - VentureBeat - Link
- What’s Your Company’s Change Archetype? - Link
- The Legal Liability of A TITLE III Funding Portal – Crowdfunding & FinTech Law Blog - Link
- Pitch Deck Voice Messing Company YAC Used for Series A - Link
- FirstMile Ventures Raises $21 million to Back Seed-Stage Tech Startups - Link
- Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy: Stewart Butterfield - We Don’t Sell Saddles Here - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 43] on Apple Podcasts - Link
- Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World | Postman Blog - Link [Congrats to Postman’s Chief Growth Officer and Houston Startup founder, Javid Jamae]
- Productable - Portfolio Innovation Guide - Link
- Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash accumulates - Link
- The World's 100 Biggest Companies By Market Cap, Mapped - Digg - Link
- Start-Up Boom in the Pandemic Is Growing Stronger - The New York Times - Link
- Your Child’s First Smartphone: A Guide to the Proper Age, Phone Type and Parental Controls - WSJ - Link
- Amazon-Backed Rivian Automotive in Talks For $5 Billion Texas Plant - Bloomberg - Link
- Bite Ninja scoops up pre-seed funding to reimagine restaurant working environments | TechCrunch - Link
- The Million Gardens Movement wants to encourage more home agriculture - Link
- What is a venture partner and how do I become one? | Sifted - Link
- Blockchain For Energy Commences Smart Contracts R&D Program - Link
- NASA's latest space station cargo includes a 3D printing system for lunar soil | Engadget - Link
- The rise of the one-person unicorn - Link
- CoStar News - Apartment Industry's Struggle With Package Deliveries Turns Into Big Business - Link
- Beyond Wall Street Ep5: Investing and Finance - Direct lending to small businesses, CrowdOut Capital - YouTube - Link
- JPMorgan launches new real-time payments service | Reuters - Link
- Coworking Case Study · Skiptown · Coworking for Startups - Link
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Austin Funding Recap
Grant Gurtin, Nick Spiller, and Marc Nathan
Monday's 5pm CST
Clubhouse
Venture University - Reverse Demo Day - Cohort 13
Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 at 1:00 PM
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EnergyX ‐ Positioning to be a Worldwide Leader in Sustainable Energy with Teague Egan, CEO of EnergyX
Presented by the Technology Advisors Group
Friday, August 27, 2021 8:00 AM
REGISTER
Founder's Day Out (Part 2): Network with Houston Entrepreneurs
Thursday August 26, 2021 12:00 pm - 09:00 pm
Bravery Chef Hall 409 Travis St. Houston, TX
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