A-LIST 2021 Recap
10 years of celebrating Austin's brightest innovators
Posted on 10/25/2021 by Gabrielle Rodriguez
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A-LIST highlights the most promising, inventive, homegrown companies right here in Austin. It’s because of companies like these that Austin is continuing to grow and attract the best talent. Thursday, September 30, 2021, marked our 10th year in celebrating the most innovative startups in town.
This year’s event was sponsored by and hosted at Capital Factory, which values bringing the entrepreneurs of Texas together in one space.
Featured Speaker - Naithan Jones
Naithan Jones has always been entrenched in the tech and innovation scene. Aside from being a partner at Andreesen Horowitz venture capital firm, he also leads the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) which identifies cultural brainiacs to help further in building scaleable large businesses around their culture. Back in 2011, he founded AgLocal, which was one of the first direct-to-consumer food delivery markets between consumers and local farms.
Capital Factory CEO Josh Baer joined Naithan in a fireside chat to talk about his incredible story and why Naithan made the move to Austin.
"Never limit what you can do by what you can see.
Our favorite moments from A-LIST
Check out the full photo album here.
Thank you to all our speakers and attendees, and congratulations to our winners!
We look forward to working with our A-List winners throughout the year to provide guidance and exposure as these businesses continue to grow.
2021 A-LIST
Emerging Business Award
Sponsored by BAE Systems
Bootstrapped Winners
These companies were built from the ground up from only personal savings, luck, and cash from beginning sales. These businesses have done it all on their own without any outside funding.
Early Stage Winners
Early Stage companies are those that are angel-invested, seed-funded, or Series A funded.
Later Stage Winners
Later stage companies are Series B and Series C+ funded.
Congratulations to all of this year's finalists!
| Aceable Inc. | LeanDNA Inc. |
| AffiniPay | Living Security |
| AfterShokz | Mosie Baby |
| AlertMedia | RackN |
| Allstacks | re:3D Inc |
| Austin's Couch Potatoes Furniture | RightWorks Staffing, Inc. |
| Babson Diagnostics | Serenity Kids |
| Boomerang's Foods Inc. | Sips by |
| BOXT | SourceDay |
| Cartograph | Spyderbat Inc. |
| CherryCircle Software, Inc. | Stoplight |
| Clear Guidance Partners | Swivel |
| Cognite | TaxTaker |
| CognitiveScale | TrustRadius |
| Cyvatar | UnaliWear |
| Everyware | Urban Artist Alliance |
| Fieldcraft | Vapor IO |
| First Dollar | Voltek Inc. |
| Growth Acceleration Partners | Yonder |
| HANDSOME App | ZenBusiness |
Thank you to this year's sponsors!
PIVOTAL PARTNERS
FOUNDATION PARTNERS
CORPORATE PARTNERS
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