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Austin is the most exciting startup community in the world.
That’s a claim made with a degree of frequently lately and it begs the question: why? Does Austin live up to that title when, frankly still, most of the venture capital remains in Silicon Valley, the NE region, with Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and more, remain the United States’ most important economic hub, and other cities are developing entrepreneurs at as healthy a rate or greater?
And it should come as no surprise that that such growth is driving demand for innovation in recruiting, hiring, and placement. ROIKOI and TalentObjects immediately come to mind.
Energy is right at home here given the proximity to Houston’s Shell, BP, and other related venture capital sources, as well as Austin Technology Incubator’s focus on Smart Cities, water, and other energy related innovation. We have some overlap in the context of real estate wherein I already mentioned Balanced Development and Renew; DrillingInfo, Smart Home Hero, and Accend are a couple more worth a look.
Spend a few days in Austin and you’ll appreciate why I put the future of transportation innovation here. Where other major cities have freeways and mass transit, Austin frankly hasn’t kept up with it’s growth and that “problem” is resulting in innovation. Bliss Transit is looking at commute as a service, Guadaloop finds a brilliant team of UT Engineers looking to practical application of the Hyperloop concepts, and uShip continues to reinvent our shipping industry. We even have things like The Zebra rethinking auto insurance.
And finally healthcare and biotech and I want you to still think regionally as though Texas isn’t known as a hub of respective innovation, San Antonio and Houston are home to two of the largest medical communities in the country and with Seton Hospital’s innovation work and Dell Medical investing heavily in Austin, the Texas market is bringing about innovation in health. Unaliwear, Televero Health, ePatientFinder, MI7, Atlas Wearables, Afoundria, Humm Systems, ESO Solutions, Rallyhood, and even in pet care, Embark Veterinary.
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