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The Company That Taught Radio to Talk Back
Futuri spent a decade helping radio stations listen to their audiences. Then it built a robot that could do the talking - and pointed the same AI at the ad-sales desk.
The Company That Turned "Prove It" Into a Business
For 20 years, ActiveProspect has sold one unglamorous promise to marketers: keep the receipt. In a regulatory minefield where a single unwanted robocall can cost $500 to $1,500, that receipt is the whole business.
The Man Who Sold United Capital Is Back to Buy a Piece of Everybody Else's
Joe Duran built United Capital, sold it to Goldman Sachs, and could have retired. Instead he raised $250 million to bet on the advisors most consolidators overlook - the ones who want a partner, not a buyer.
The egg company that put a farm's name on every carton
How a 20-hen Texas farm turned radical transparency and 108 square feet of pasture per bird into a $759 million business - one carton at a time.
Summer Moon Coffee
How a family auction bid on a 19th-century roaster turned into Texas' original oak-roasted coffee - and a Moon Milk cult that now stretches across a dozen states.
SolarWinds
The unglamorous software that keeps 300,000 networks from falling over - and the Austin company that learned to rebuild trust after the most talked-about hack of the decade.
IgniteTech
The company that buys aging enterprise software, wires it up with AI, and rents the whole library for one flat fee - and famously rebuilt its own workforce to get there.
Bloomfire
Bloomfire sells companies a cure for their own forgetfulness - an AI knowledge layer that makes video, PDFs and buried Slack answers searchable, and then quietly tells you which of them have gone stale.
Tecovas
Tecovas is an Austin, Texas-based western brand that set out to be the "Warby Parker of cowboy boots" - selling handmade, León, Mexico-crafted leather boots and western apparel directly to consumers at attainable prices. Founded in 2015 by Paul Hedrick, it grew from an online-only startup into an omnichannel retailer with more than 50 stores, roughly $300 million in expected sales, and a loyal community drawn to its blend of heritage craftsmanship and modern retail.
4M Analytics
4M Analytics is an AI-powered utility mapping company that compiles millions of scattered public utility records, satellite imagery, and legacy blueprints into a single continuously updated digital map of what lies above and below ground. Its Utility AI Platform gives civil engineers, contractors, and departments of transportation instant, verifiable subsurface data to plan safer, faster infrastructure projects and avoid costly excavation strikes.
Everyware
Everyware is an Austin, Texas-based payments and customer-engagement company that lets businesses collect money and communicate with customers over text message. Founded in 2015 by Larry "Austin" Talley and Scott Orlinsky, its Pay By Text platform turns a mobile phone number into a payment method - customers receive an invoice by text or email and pay by replying, without downloading an app or logging in. Everyware combines two-way SMS messaging, online and in-person payments, recurring billing, and identity-verification tools for merchants in healthcare, travel, automotive, nonprofit, retail, and utilities.
HealthGrowth Pharmacy Solutions
HealthGrowth Pharmacy Solutions is an Austin, Texas company that gives independent community pharmacies a single ecosystem for capital, purchasing, and advisory support. Through direct lending (HealthGrowth Capital and PharmLine credit lines), a fast-growing group purchasing organization (HGRxGenesis), health-benefit programs (HGRxPreferred), bookkeeping, valuation, and buy/sell services (HealthGrowth Transitions), the firm helps owner-operated pharmacies improve margins, access working capital, and navigate programs like 340B and LTC@Home so they can compete against national chains.
Illumine-i
Illumine-i is a power and design engineering firm that provides turnkey engineering support for solar PV, battery storage, EV charging, substations, and grid infrastructure. Founded in 2015 by former Tesla and Sunrun engineers, the company works with EPCs, developers, independent power producers, and lenders - handling everything from preliminary feasibility to construction-ready permit packages, plus independent and owner's engineering. It has engineered more than 3 GW of clean energy across 200,000+ projects and complements its solar roots with construction-focused BIM/VDC and MEPF design services.
Infinitum
Infinitum is an Austin, Texas company reinventing the electric motor. Founded in 2016 by Ben Schuler, it replaced the century-old iron-and-copper stator with a printed circuit board (PCB) stator, producing air core motors that are roughly 50% smaller and lighter, use 66% less copper, and consume about 10% less energy than conventional motors. Its Aircore EC motor system integrates a variable frequency drive and targets HVAC fans and pumps, data center cooling, industrial equipment, power generation and mobility. Backed by more than $385M in funding and partners such as Rockwell Automation, Infinitum was named to Fast Company's 2025 list of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies, ranking No. 1 in energy.
Iris Telehealth
Iris Telehealth is an Austin, Texas-based telepsychiatry company that partners with hospitals, health systems, community mental health centers, and federally qualified health centers to deliver virtual behavioral health care. Founded in 2013 on the belief that every community deserves timely access to quality mental health care, Iris supplies vetted psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and licensed therapists on both scheduled and on-demand bases, plus an AI-enabled analytics platform. It is the only virtual mental health company to earn The Joint Commission's behavioral health care accreditation twice, and it works with roughly 200 partner organizations across the United States.
Performance Kitchen | Food Is Medicine®
Performance Kitchen | Food Is Medicine® is an Austin, Texas company that produces chef-crafted, dietitian-approved Medically Tailored Meals designed to help manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and renal disease. Founded in 2011 as a healthy consumer food brand sold in more than 10,000 retail stores, the company pivoted to lead the Food Is Medicine movement, delivering ready-to-eat meals that are increasingly paid for by health insurers and delivered directly to members' homes. Led by Chairman and CEO Mark Walker, a CPA and founder of athlete-backed Dugout Ventures, Performance Kitchen operates nationwide production and distribution reaching roughly 98% of the U.S.
SeekOps Inc.
SeekOps is an Austin-based climate-technology company that mounts a NASA-derived laser methane sensor, the SeekIR, onto enterprise-grade drones to detect, locate, quantify, and report methane emissions for energy, renewable natural gas, and waste operators. Spun out of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2017, its drone-agnostic Leak Detection and Quantification (LDAQ) systems help operators meet regulatory frameworks such as OGMP 2.0, EPA rules, and the EU Methane Regulation, and have been deployed onshore and offshore for majors including bp, Shell, TotalEnergies, and Equinor.
Televero Behavioral Health
Televero Behavioral Health is an Austin, Texas physician-led virtual behavioral health practice that delivers online therapy, psychiatry, medication management, and neurotesting for conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD and autism. Built as a licensed medical practice rather than an app or marketplace, it pairs same-day and same-week access with clinical oversight from MDs, nurse practitioners and licensed counselors, and accepts commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid so cost is not a barrier to care.
VORAGO Technologies
VORAGO Technologies is an Austin, Texas fabless semiconductor company that designs radiation-hardened and extreme-temperature microcontrollers and microprocessors for aerospace, defense and industrial systems. Its patented HARDSIL process hardens standard commercial silicon against radiation and heat using conventional high-volume manufacturing, letting spacecraft, satellites and downhole tools run Arm Cortex-based compute in environments that would destroy ordinary chips.
Oveit
Oveit is an Austin-based event technology company that runs ticketing, registration, cashless payments and access control on a single platform. Founded in 2016 by Andrei Stefan and Mike Mihai Dragan, it turns RFID/NFC wristbands and mobile passes into the wallet visitors wear at waterparks, theme parks, festivals, resorts and conferences - handling sales, entry and on-site spending in one closed loop. The company has extended into live shopping (Streams.live), NFT ticketing and AI sales agents, positioning itself as an all-in-one operating system for live experiences.
CREAN®
CREAN, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based aerospace engineering and Smart Factory company that supplies hands-on engineering services and manufacturing-optimization programs to space, defense, and commercial clients. Founded in 2002 by James and Jennifer Crean, the firm fields teams of aerospace subject-matter experts who help customers move systems from concept through full-scale production while modernizing factory operations. CREAN is also developing CelestNet, a proposed lunar communications and navigation network, following its 2023 acquisition of Aquarian Space.
SkyGrid
SkyGrid builds high-assurance, third-party software services that safely fold autonomous aircraft, drones, and eVTOL air taxis into shared airspace. Born as a 2018 Boeing and SparkCognition joint venture and now a subsidiary of Wisk Aero, the Austin-based company delivers a real-time digital twin of the low-altitude sky - weather, obstacles, traffic, and vertiport status - plus automation and decision-support tools that route, synchronize, and deconflict flights at scale.
Curative
Curative is an Austin-based health insurance company that pivoted from being one of the largest U.S. COVID-19 testing providers into an employer-sponsored health plan with a simple promise: $0 copays, $0 deductibles, and $0 out-of-pocket costs for in-network care, provided members complete an annual preventive Baseline Visit. Founded in 2020 by Fred Turner, Isaac Turner, and Vlad Slepnev, the company packages insurance, pharmacy, telehealth, and care navigation into a single monthly premium aimed at removing the financial friction that keeps people from using their coverage.
QbDVision
QbDVision is an Austin-based software company building the first cloud platform for Digital CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), giving pharmaceutical and biotech teams a structured, single source of truth for product and process knowledge. By operationalizing Quality by Design principles, the platform replaces scattered documents and spreadsheets with connected, machine-readable data that accelerates drug development, tech transfer, and regulatory submissions. Founded in 2015 as CherryCircle Software, QbDVision now serves several of the world's largest biopharma organizations and CDMOs.
wrrk
wrrk is an Austin-based customer-experience company that builds and runs fully-managed support organizations for high-growth brands. It blends vetted USA-based and Philippines-based agents with tooling and automation to deliver omnichannel customer service - phone, chat, email, SMS, social and marketplace - so startups and consumer brands get the reliability of an in-house team with the flexibility of an outsourced one. wrrk supports 125+ brands including Bombas, Supergoop, Taylor Stitch, Momofuku and AllTrails.
Striveworks
Striveworks is an Austin-based AI operations company whose Chariot platform helps organizations build, deploy, monitor, and retrain machine learning models in hours rather than months. Built for highly regulated and contested environments - especially U.S. national security and allied defense - Chariot pairs a fast MLOps workflow with end-to-end data and model lineage, giving customers governance and provenance over models that must keep working when conditions change.