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Discovery to Impact brings products to market — simply, succinctly, and with ease. We provide startups with comprehensive entrepreneurial support, from assessing market fit and business plans to building relationships with investors.
If you’re an investor, contact our Business Development team at businessdevelopment@discoveries.utexas.edu for a curated list of startups that reflect your needs.
If you’re an entrepreneur who’s interested in creating a startup of your own, reach out to our Business Development team at businessdevelopment@discoveries.utexas.edu, who can help you assess which of our technologies would be the best fit.
Evo Security
Evo Security is a cybersecurity SaaS company that protects mid-size and small businesses from the number one form of cyber attack. Our specific focus is a sub-category of cybersecurity called Identity and Access Management (IAM), which includes technologies like multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and privileged access management (PAM). Basically, these technologies ensure that logins into networks and endpoints are secured, and once the user's identity is verified, the user's access is relegated to the least amount of privilege possible that doesn't cause friction in doing their job. At Evo, we've built each of these technologies from the ground up, then combined them into a single platform to make is easy and economic for mid and small businesses to manage and deploy. A fun fact about our company is that we hatched Evo Security from UT Austin's supercomputing center, The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and was initially a technology transfer project. We've completely rebuilt the technology and no longer use anything from TACC, however we are honored that UT Austin remains a shareholder in Evo Security. Evo Security's origin and success story will forever be tied to this great institution.
Computer Sciences
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Group 1
Group1 is the world's first company commercializing a non-flammable, critical-mineral-free "Made-in-Texas" potassium-ion battery that strengthens national security by enabling a fully domestic supply chain for energy storage. Continuing the lineage of innovation from the pioneering co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery and 2019 Chemistry Nobel laureate UT-Austin Professor JB Goodenough.
Physical Sciences
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Seed
Actively Raising:
Yes
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Jurata Thin Film, Inc.
Jurata Thin Film, Inc. is commercializing a proprietary pharmaceutical formulation which stabilizes vaccines and biologics without freeze-drying, expediting manufacturing and removing all need for refrigeration or freezing storage of these life-saving therapeutics. Jurata's thin film technology has also been shown to enable needle-free administration of vaccines, supporting global health equity efforts.
Life Sciences
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Seed
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Yes
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