New UTEWeek Event hosted by McCombs Entrepreneur Society

ProxToMe_logoCEO and Co-founder of ProxToMe, Carlo Capello, is coming to UT on Tuesday (3/5/2013) at 4:30pm in UTC 4.112. ProxToMe is well respected in the tech startup community and considered one of Mashable’s 6 Apps You Don’t Want to Miss. Anyone is welcome to come listen to Carlo share his startup story and answer questions from you. Carlo is prepared to talk about: designing, creating and launching an app, raising angel money, making the tough decision to devote yourself 100% to your new venture, teaching entrepreneurship in school, doing business between Italy and Silicon Valley, and anything else you want to know.

Led by President Tom Coffey, McCombs Entrepreneurship Society (MES) is a group of MBA students dedicated to the practice, understanding and promotion of entrepreneurship. Email Tom (thomas.coffey@utexas.edu) with any questions about MES or the event!

UTEWeek2013 Student Startup Expo Line-up

Get one on one with the hottest student startups on the 40 acres. LEA teamed up with Scientific Entrepreneurial Society (SES) to pull together these 14 teams that will have a booth during the expo. Big thanks to Taylor Barnett and Jane Gergen who are helping out on the SES end! Help rally UT-Austin around the entrepreneurial spirit and share the list.

Hope you join us and make sure to RSVP at utew-startupexpo.eventbrite.com

Vinsource, LLC (www.vinsourceonline.com) is an online portal that allows restaurants to buy wine products directly from producers without using a wholesale intermediary. CEO: Andrew McMaster

QuorumBuy (www.QuorumBuy.com) helps small businesses combine their purchases to get volume discounts they can’t get individually. CEO: Adam Guerra

FBNinc (fbninc.net) is retooling one of the largest networks of flash game portals to launch the next generation of casual games. CEO: Dave Stanwick

G-free in the City (GFreeintheCity.com) is a gluten-free lifestyle company aimed to both provide consumers with safe, truly gluten-free dining experiences and work directly with restaurants to enhance their offerings and reach this valuable and loyal market. CEO: Jamie Sutton

CrowdRx (angel.co/crowdrx) uses big data to help save lives. CEO: Tony Llongueras, COO: Justin Crites, CTO: Macario Lara

Burpy.com is a brand new service that takes the hassle out of grocery shopping. Using our website or app, users can order products and have them delivered right to their doorstop within an hour. Order It. Get It. Burp It.

Beyonic allows you to make payments to any mobile money network in East Africa. CTO: Luke Kyohere.

MunchyMart.com is a late night delivery service that is a convenience store on wheels for students. Mathew, Arely and Jessica run the show.

Hook ‘em Groceries (HookEmGroceries.com) is a local online grocery delivery service, serving both on and off campus residence halls at the University of texas at Austin. Delivered products include food, beverages, basic office supplies, personal care items, laundry items and cleaning supplies. CTO: Daniel Goss

reQuip is a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying, renting and selling sports gear using a mobile and web app. CEO: Dan Driscoll

Predictable Data (PredicatableData.com) turns contact databases into powerful sales and marketing tools. Within minutes, improper capitalization, abbreviations, and formatting of: names, salutations, titles, addresses, and much more. We then fill in the missing data and other valuable information like gender and SIC/NAICS codes. CEO: Dwayne Smurdon

Seismos is a technology enabled services company that detects and interprets changes in underground oil and gas reservoirs in real time with unparalleled sensitivity. Seismos is focused on Enhance Oil Recovery (EOR) applications and can save the operator 50% in CO2 procurement costs through optimization of the CO2 reservoir and flow during oil recover. Co-founders: Devin Bedwell, Panos Adamopoulos and Stevan Slusher.

Clay.io is a place to play games that work on any device – phone, tablet, PC, calculator… well, maybe not that last one.  CEO: Austin Hallock

Lynx Laboratories makes 3D cameras using advanced computer vision technology to rapidly create proportional 3D images of scenes and objects.

The 40 acres has a diverse array of entrepreneurial resources that Longhorns can leverage to grow themselves and their startups. UTEWeek is meant to introduce the university community to these resources and allow attendees to connect with organizations, programs and people that can help them achieve their goals as an entrepreneur. This week of interactive and educational events is a collaboration between entrepreneurial student organizations, academic departments and programs, and off-campus supporters of Longhorn Entrepreneurship.

We hope you will join us!