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.
Accelerate your business in a space designed for innovation. The VDC provides premium dedicated offices, cutting-edge lab facilities, and professional meeting spaces that adapt to your growing needs. Beyond world-class facilities, we offer comprehensive business services and shared equipment that reduce your overhead while maximizing your potential.
We connect startups with resources related to navigating funding terms, identifying industry partners, and discovering commercialization paths.
Amenities and Services
Our startups get access to an array of resources to help them get started. 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. 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.
Maximize your runway with below-market rates designed for entrepreneurs. Access world-class labs and facilities at cost-effective prices with the opportunity to connect with renowned faculty on research, grants, and commercialization strategies.
Move in ready. Choose from fully furnished private offices, cubicles, or co-working spaces—all equipped and designed for immediate productivity.
Media Kitchen
The 250-square-foot shared media lab features a common oven, RIO water supply, autoclave, and lab/glassware washer.
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
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.
For more information, reach out to katherine.lowrey@utdallas.edu
Contact
For more information, reach out to utdvdc@utdallas.edu
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