About
About
The University of Texas at Dallas Venture Development Center (VDC) is a leading incubator designed to help students, faculty, and alumni commercialize their ideas and inventions. It does this through targeted, one-to-one support, enabling ventures to identify and build relationships with key industry partners, investors, entrepreneurs, and others to help them succeed.
The VDC offers 20,000 square feet of state-of-the-art dedicated office, lab, and meeting space, as well as shared business services and equipment. We help companies build out their teams, protect their Intellectual Property (IP), and connect with expert advisors. We work to get minimum viable products (MVPs) into customers’ hands and prove a viable, scalable business model.
For startups, we help founders identify investor options, write and rehearse their company pitch, and navigate funding terms and other questions. For researchers and inventors seeking industry connections for translational research and licensing, we help identify partners, make introductions, and identify commercialization paths, including licensing agreements, IP assignments, and other contracting alternatives.
Amenities
Amenities
Four spacious conference rooms are fully equipped with whiteboards, TVs, and conference phones. We also have two smaller workrooms for conference calls or one on one meetings. Fully furnished and move-in-ready private offices, cubicles, and co-working desks designed specifically to match your needs.
Access facilities and labs at cost-effective prices with the opportunity to work with world-class faculty on research, grants, and commercialization.
Access core facilities: state-of-the-art instruments and technology for users in biological and interdisciplinary sciences. Perform device fabrication and characterization with a range of equipment in our cleanroom.
We offer below-market rates to allow our entrepreneurs to focus their capital on pursuing groundbreaking science and building their ventures.
Complimentary Services
From Amazon Web Services and Rackspace free hosting credits, our startups get access to an array of resources to help them get started. You’ll also enjoy UTD technology discounts, gym and recreational center membership eligibility, and access to countless databases through the UTD Library. Our Comet Discount Program gives you savings across the metroplex. Use our high-speed internet with individual company networks. Grab a cup of coffee from our complimentary coffee bar.
Labs
Wet Labs
- Material science wet labs (10 labs ranging from 125 to 1,900 square feet), general lab amenities: fume hoods, benches and cabinet space, lab stools, gas storage, equipment space, and access to shared lab equipment.
- Life science wet lab (175 square feet lab) general lab amenities: a fume hood, tissue culture hood, bench, cabinet space, lab stools, gas storage, and access to shared lab equipment.
Shared Lab
– The 120-square-foot shared media lab features a common freezer, RIO water supply, autoclave, and lab/glassware washer.
Residents
Residents
Astrapi Corp
Astrapi is the leader in a revolutionary method of communication – spiral-based modulation, a game-changing force in communications technology that will support performance advances across a wide range of radio communications.
Avsana Labs Incorporated
Avsana Labs Inc. is an early-stage in vitro diagnostics technology company led by Dennis Robbins with UTD Prof. Zhenpeng Qin, developing new technologies for viral diagnostic testing, such as the COVID-19 virus.
ClearNano
ClearNano is a biomedical device service utilizing luminescent metal nanoparticles and their applications.
Data Security Technologies
Data Security Technologies is developing innovative technologies for securing big data stored in NoSQL systems to enforce a wide range of security, privacy, and governance policies.
Emtec Solution
Emtech Solution is a product development company specializing in designing and building new custom hardware and software, in addition to modifying existing ones.
HermTac
We’re a group of makers, engineers, artists, designers, inventors, and volunteers working together on pandemic response initiatives.
Max IR Labs
Provides scalable IR sensor solutions to industries that require specific thermal and chemical monitoring capabilities for R&D and production line operations.
MedCognetics
The operator of a medical company intended to facilitate AI in breast imaging.
MicroSol Technologies
MicroSol focuses on developing innovative energy harvesting solutions to power wearable electronics, wireless smart sensors, ultralow-power systems, and IoT applications.
OnPoynt
OnPoynt is the nation’s leading supplier of Drone Aerial Robotics Equipment and training for STEM Education.
pSolv
pSOLV provides big data services and solutions including data integration, big data analytics, and cloud consulting.
Qualia
Qualia Labs translates neuro- and biotechnologies into novel research tools and human clinical therapeutics.
SNAP Energy Ventures
SNAP Energy Ventures assists companies by providing specialty chemical products to oil & gas, mining, and water treatment industries with an emphasis on custom formulations geared towards meeting customer needs and demands.
UBPBio
The Ubiquitin-Proteasome Biotechnologies (UBPBio), LLC is dedicated to providing academic and industrial communities with high-quality reagents to accelerate discoveries on the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and related pathways.
Membership
Membership Application
Process & Criteria
As we consider your application, we’ll look for commitments from you: you will fully participate in development programs, and be obsessed with growing your product, your customer base, and your team over the course of your membership.
The VDC accepts high-potential applicants that have a novel product or service that is scalable, addresses a clear market opportunity, and gives the company a sustainable competitive advantage. We focus on supporting the entrepreneurial, early- to mid-stage activities of true startup companies. The selection committee reviews applications and interviews companies to assure that they meet the standards for high-impact science, promising execution, and equally important, fit. Startups must show a willingness and capacity to operate within the VDC-shared community
*Note – At least one team member must be a current student, faculty, staff, or an alumnus/a of any University of Texas System school.
Basic Requirements
Intellectual Property Rights
- The proposed business should not be in violation of any intellectual property rights; including, but not limited to, patent infringement.
Conflicts of Interest and How to Avoid Them
Funding Limitations
- The amount and source of secured capital arrangements and/or generated revenue should be clearly identified in the team’s Executive Summary.
- The amount and source of generated revenue should be clearly identified in the team’s Executive Summary.
Contact
Contact
UT Dallas Research and Operations Center
17217 Waterview Pkwy, ROC 1.202
Dallas, TX 75252
Driving & Parking
The Venture Development Center is located inside the Research and Operations Center (ROC) building. The ROC is on the west side of the campus across from Waterview Parkway. There is limited guest parking in the front of the facility.
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