We are currently accepting applications for our fifth class of partner companies, which will kick off at the end of August. If you're an entrepreneur interested in putting your startup through TVL, go to our website to apply.  

Additionally, we'll be hosting office hours from 11am - 1pm at the ATT Conference Center Coffee Shop on Tuesday, July 10. Come talk to our Accenture Venture Partners about TVL and your startup.  

This past spring, TVL had the privilege of welcoming Mark MacLeod-Smith for a month to assist with the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition. Mark is a Market Validation Executive at the ICEHOUSE startup incubator in Aukland, New Zealand, which Forbes recently named as one of the top 10 technology incubators in the world. Since its inception in 2001 the ICEHOUSE - a collaboration between the University of Auckland Business School, The Boston Consulting Group, Telecom and Gen-i, Ernst & Young, HP and Microsoft - has launched 75 technology companies and has raised $50 million for them through its angel-investor network, the largest in New Zealand. Glitterati include Nexus6, of Auckland (U.S. offices in Franklin, Ohio), which has developed software and small hardware to monitor asthma patients in real-time, and M-Com, maker of mobile-banking software, also in Auckland. Read Mark's article on the New Zealand startup scene here.

Visit Mark's blog to read about his thoughts on and experiences in Austin.

Former TVL Associate David Leigh opened Grand Avenue Movie Theater in May in Belton, TX. Leigh, who is also the owner of Harvest Technologies, said he was excited to see the theater with future customers inside after more than two years of planning and working on bringing Grand Avenue to Belton."It's real exciting to see it come to fruition. There's still a lot of work to do, but it's mostly cosmetic now," Leigh said. "There's a lot of buzz and a lot of people are excited."

Read more here.