Overview

Founded in 2018, the UT Dallas Seed Fund aims to provide seed or “gap” funding to UT Dallas affiliated companies in an effort to accelerate their growth and prepare them for larger angel investment or venture capital investment.

Furthermore, the program is carefully designed to provide an experiential learning opportunity for students by emulating a real-world investment environment. This is achieved by enabling entrepreneurially minded students to directly participate in the process leading to grants in high-potential startups by engaging in the due diligence and selection process.

UTD’s pre/seed-stage venture capital fund invests exclusively in startups founded by, and/or commercializing technologies, innovations and intellectual property developed by, current UTD students, faculty, and researchers.

Criteria and Guidelines

This opportunity is open to startups founded by current students, faculty, and researchers at any UTD school, center, or institute.

The fund will consider proposals using the following evaluation criteria:

  • Early seed-stage, past ideation stage
  • Based in Texas – with a preference for the North Texas region
  • Expect valuation for funding to be less than $5 million
  • Is or will be working full-time on the venture
  • Must have UTD alumni, faculty, or student involved with the startup to apply
Current Portfolio Companies
Contact

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