TECH Fort Worth
October TECH Talk
Impacting Our World                                             October 2011 
In This Issue
Year-Round Program Sponsors
Let's Connect!
Did You miss It?
On the Local Side...
What's New at TECH Fort Worth?
Program Updates
TECH Nest Updates
Client Spotlight
Board Member Spotlight
Thanks to Our Year-Round Program Sponsors!

VISIONARY LEVEL
Sabre Holdings
UNT-HSC
Fort Worth Business Press

Neeley School of Business

ACCELERATOR LEVEL
Lockheed Martin
Bank of Texas
Staples

Studios 121

INNOVATOR LEVEL

THR Research 
Healthpoint Biotherapeutics  
Charter Business    

The Landscape Partners

(for sponsorship information, click HERE) 

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Did You Miss It?

 

Don't worry if you've missed past issues of our newsletters! We've archived them for your reading pleasure. Click HERE to visit our e-news archives; you can also bookmark the page for your convenience.

 

On the Local Side...

 

BioDFW Breakfast Series

Thursday October 20 at the UNT Health Science Center for BioHealth

 

The speaker for October is David Sougstad with Emergent Technologies, Inc. (ETI). ETI is a life sciences technology investment and management company which provides... (more)

 

TECH Nest Networking Event

Tuesday, October 25 at TECH Fort Worth

 

Are you a technology entrepreneur, technology inventor or accredited investor? If so, then join us on Tuesday, October 25 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm for TECH Nest's quarterly networking event. If you want to meet other technology entrepreneurs, have access to potential future investors, and discover.... (more)

 

TeXchange DFW Member Showcase

Wednesday, November 2 at the University of Texas - Dallas


This is TeXchange's first Member Showcase - an opportunity for members and sponsors to show off their company and products to the DFW start-up community, including (more)

Let's Connect!!!

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Here's Your Monthly TECH Talk!, 

 

October is a busy month in the tech entrepreneur world! There are many events and activities for you to choose from.  We hope that you received our 'Bonus" event email earlier this month, and that the information in it was valuable to you. 

 

Please take a moment to read about our programs and outcomes. Technology plays a huge part in a healthy economic environment, and we're proud to be playing our part. 

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Fort Worth Economic Development Guide: To read more about TECH Fort Worth and our impact on the local economy, click through to read about us in the Fort Worth Economic Development Guide.  TECH Fort Worth is featured on pages 14-18 and 34-35, along with our Acceleration client ZS Pharma and our Incubation graduate Precision Songs. (to find out more about our Acceleration Program and our Incubation Workshop, see below).

What's New at TECH Fort Worth? 

 

Darlene Ryan, Executive Director of

 TECH Fort Worth was elected 

Secretary of the NBIA 

(National Business Incubation Association)

 

The NBIA works to advance business incubation and entrepreneurship, providing incubator professionals with information, education, advocacy and networking resources to bring excellence to the process of assisting early-stage companies. (more)

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German Imaging Business BAPis 

Thriving in Fort Worth

 

BAPis is an acceleration graduate from TECH Fort Worth. BAPis provides consulting and development assistance as the German company expands its imaging services nationwide.  "We chose Fort Worth because... (more)

  

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Program Updates

 

TECH Fort Worth programs are designed to reach technology entrepreneurs at every stage: from concept to market. 

 

Our clients participate in affordable, hands-on mentoring and coaching targeted at meeting them where they are, answering their questions, working through their challenges, and helping them make their vision a reality. (which means getting their product or service to market, because "technology doesn't commercialize itself." 

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Incubation Workshop 

 

TECH Fort Worth's Incubation Workshop is an intensive, hands-on workshop series designed to create feasible business plans around unique and/or proprietary technologies which... (more)

 

We are very excited to continue to have new companies come through this program. If you have a technology-based idea and you'd like to see if you are a fit for this program, contact Brent Sorrells, Director of Programs at 817-984-9841.

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Acceleration Program 

 

The Acceleration Program at TECH Fort Worth is designed for early stage companies that are commercializing new and unique technologies. Qualified companies will have rights to a proprietary and commercially viable technology and a feasible business model. During the Acceleration Program client companies receive... (more)

 

TECH Fort continues to grow! We'd like to welcome and introduce our newest Acceleration Program client, Claritia.  Click the link to get a brief insight into the work that they do. 

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TECH Nest

 

UPCOMING WORKING LUNCHEON

 

November 8 ""

Sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank

Click HERE to Register 

 

Our October luncheon was sponsored by Bank of Texas.

 

UPCOMING TECH NEST NETWORKING EVENT

 

October 25 5:30 - 7:30 pm 

You must be a TECH Nest Member or approved sponsor to attend. For more information or to RSVP, click HERE.

 

We'll be enjoying some amazing BBQ, sponsored (and actually cooked) by Novotus. 

Client Spotlight: 

MedHab

MedHab  

TECHNOLOGY: MedHab is a medical device company specializing in orthopedics and rehabilitation.

 

TRANSLATION: MedHab manufactures medical devices that allows healthcare providers to manage patients remotely.

 

IMPACT: Our technology will help patients take greater ownership in the rehabilitative process. This will allow for better and faster outcomes. Healthcare providers will have the ability to manage patients remotely and consistently. In addition, healthcare providers will have the ability to move the patient along the rehabilitative pendulum based on actual data.

 

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Board Member Spotlight: 

Fresnel Technologies

 

(as reported by Mitchell Schnurman in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

 

"Nelson Claytor's gift to the University of Texas at ArlingtonNelson Claytor wasn't extraordinary, but other circumstances were. Although the Fort Worth businessman never attended the school, he made the donation as a tribute to his father and as a way to boost his company.

 

In this case, his interests lined up perfectly with the university's. He wants to strengthen the physics department so there will be a pipeline of local scientists who might work for him someday.

 

'The places that are great for technology all have strong colleges,' said Claytor, president of Fresnel Technologies, which makes lenses for motion detectors, mail-scanning equipment and other devices.

 

'Great professors start companies and their students want to work with them, and the cycle just... (more)