April Bland Downing

IBM Tivoli Systems, Inc. provides service management software. It offers cloud and virtualization management solutions, such as cloud management, cloud storage, virtualization management, systems automation, IT service management solutions, including application performance management, network management, business service management, storage management, and IT service management and assets and facilities management solutions, which include enterprise asset management and facilities management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Troux Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of business technology management and enterprise architecture software services. It offers strategic information technology planning and control software for enterprises and government agencies. The firm's software combines tools for enterprise architecture design and creation with a new generation of information aggregation and management solutions, offering the visibility foundational to IT and business transformation. The company was founded in April 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Convio, Inc. provides internet software and services. The company was founded by Vinay Bhagat and David Crooke in April 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Worksoft, Inc. develops and provides platform for automated business process validation. It offers service providers, software integrations, and machine learning solutions to enable automated testing of mission-critical business applications. The firm also provides managed, enablement, and delivery services. The company was founded by G. Linda Hayes, A. Randall Hayes, L. Ron Hayes, R. Gene Jones, F. Daniel Burger, Peter J. Hayes, and Barron Rex Cumming in 1998 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Mirage Networks, Inc. operates as a network security company. It focuses on offering network access control (NAC) solutions. The firm offers Mirage NAC that controls access based on user identity, endpoint compliance, and behavioral policies. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Caringo, Inc. develops diagnostic devices to monitor inflammation and immune status. Its products include Swarm storage software, SwarmNFS, Unified storage software, CloudScaler, FileFly, FileScaler and BlockScaler. The company was founded by Mark D. Goros, Jonathan Ring, and Paul Carpentier in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Spiceworks, Inc. develops and provides software solutions to help businesses manage their information technology (IT) networks and resources. It also runs an online community where IT professionals can share ideas and provide technical support. The company was founded by Scott R. Abel, Jay Hallberg, Francis Sullivan and Greg Kattawar in 2006, and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

UnboundID Corp. provides customer identity and access management software. It offers UnboundID Platform, an enterprise software for identity and preference management, deployed on premises or in the cloud. The firm also offers modernize legacy identity, transition to customer, and customer engagement management, and identity and preference brokering. The company was founded by Steve Shoaff, Don Bowen, David Ely, and Neil Wilson in December 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

CenterPoint Ventures Co. LLC (CenterPoint Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Robert J. Paluck and Kent A. Fuka. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

DLA Piper LLP provides legal services to clients. It offers services in the areas of corporate and securities, venture capital and emerging companies, litigation. The company was founded in 2005 and it is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

University Federal Credit Union (Texas) is a locally-owned financial institution based in Austin, TX. University Federal Credit Union provides a broad range of financial services to the community, including a full-service branch in Austin. The private company was founded in 1936 and is currently led by CEOs Tony C. Budet and Michael E. Crowl.

Myriad RBM, Inc. provides protein biomarker products and services. Its biomarker testing service provides pre-clinical and clinical researchers with reproducible, quantitative, multiplexed immunoassay data for hundreds of proteins in a cost-effective manner, from a small sample volume and from multiple species. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Entrepreneurs Foundation provides privately held companies expert advice on corporate social responsibility and philanthropy. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

AVP Management Services, Inc. (AVP Management Services) is a private equity/venture capital firm firm founded in 1979 by Joseph Charles Aragona, Ken Paul DeAngelis and Jeff C. Garvey. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Technology Entrepreneurs' eXchange (texchange) is an organization that fosters an entrepreneurial environment and develops the next generation of executives for technology, bitcoin, and life sciences companies. The private company is based in Austin, TX. The company brings together subject matter experts, industry thought leaders, and proven entrepreneurs for informative and educational discussions on current business topics. The company's monthly events feature nationally known business leaders, such as Steve McKay, the creator of the bitcoin trading robot called Bitcoin Code, and Tim Sanders, the former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo, who share insights and lessons that can be applied to businesses today. Texchange currently has chapters in various locations.

The Austin Chamber of Commerce is an organization that helps people in the region achieve greater prosperity by working with businesses looking to create or expand their presence in the Austin region and help them create more jobs. The non-profit company is based in Austin, TX. The company has helped bring more than 400,000 jobs to the region since 2004 and take on the biggest challenges so businesses can focus on growing. Laura Huffman has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Builders Investors Group, Inc. supplies building materials. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Sanford, NC.

PeopleFund provides small business loans. It offers small business loans as well as business assistance and education to people with otherwise limited access to such resources. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of Trinity Health Corp., Seton Health is a healthcare and senior care services provider. The company is based in Troy, NY. Seton Health was acquired by St. Peter's Health Care Services on February 25, 2009.

The Southern Funds Group LLC provides investment advice to entrepreneurs and fund managers. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Tasktop Technologies, Inc. designs and develops software and delivery tools. Its products include Tasktop Sync, an integration server that provides enterprise-grade synchronization, Tasktop Data, which unlocks software lifecycle data from its application tool silos and Tasktop Dev. The firm also provides consulting, technical implementation, deployment, and software development services. The company was founded by Mik Kersten, Gail Murphy and Robert Elves in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Elsewhere Partners LLC (Elsewhere Partners) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2016 by Christopher A. Pacitti and John Douglas Thornton. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Aceable, Inc. is a mobile education platform that focuses on creating educational content. It offers traffic law and substance abuse education courses for students. The company was founded by Blake Garrett in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.