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- Austin Inno’s Brent Wistrom
“The Fund’s new Texas branch was born out of a meeting in 2015 during the SXSW Pitch competition when Andy Ambrose’s startup Liveoak Technologies caught Fielding’s attention. She encouraged Liveoak to join Techstars, stayed in touch and now, years later, reached out to Ambrose about launching a microfund for Texas startups based on years of successful investing.
“It really is about the same premise of Techstars, which is that a community of founders creates all sorts of positive things that are beyond what you’re doing yourself,” Ambrose said. “There’s just tons of relationships and introductions that can be made.”
The Fund, which will invest in Texas-based startups, is a pre-seed fund that is looking for gritty founders. It will write checks of $50,000 to $100,000, which it plans to deploy mostly over the next 18 to 24 months. While The Fund isn’t limiting the types of startups it will back, Ambrose said it will focus first on driven founders. But he noted the fund’s managers have a lot of interest in SaaS, CPG, future of work and aging and health technologies.” — Austin Inno’s Brent Wistrom
- Austin Business Journal’s Mike Cronin
“Hurt, a six-time company founder, applauded the competition and collaboration among the VC firms active in the Austin market today, among them ATX Venture Partners, Brand Foundry Ventures, CAVU Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Silverton Partners, Springdale Ventures and others.
“Oh my gosh, it’s an amazing setup for entrepreneurs and angel investing,” Hurt said. “The greater diversity in VC capital stokes more investing. It stokes more angel investing. It’s incredible for everybody.” — Austin Business Journal’s Mike Cronin
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- Austin American-Statesman
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