Capital Factory
Investments
272Portfolio Exits
28Funds
7Partners & Customers
8About Capital Factory
Capital Factory serves as a seed stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies. Startup companies apply to participate in Capital Factory's 10 week summer program intended to get a startup pointed in the right direction with a clear path to profitability and growth. It provides its annual class of startups with up to $20,000 each, mentorship services, office space, legal counsel, public relations and accounting support.On January 29, 2020, Capital Factory merged into Station Houston.
Capital Factory Headquarter Location
815-A Brazos Street Suite 184
Austin, Texas, 78701,
United States
512-696-0414
Latest Capital Factory News
Jun 24, 2022
Apptronik , an Austin, TX-based robotics company specializing in the development of versatile, mobile robotic systems that can work alongside humans, raised $14.6m in Seed funding. Backers included Capital Factory, Grit Ventures, Perot Jain and other strategic investors. The company intends to use the funds to fulfill current customer orders while accelerating the commercialization of a mass-produced humanoid robot capable of working alongside humans. Led by Jeff Cardenas, CEO, Apptronik is a robotics company that has built a platform to deliver and scale a variety of general-purpose robots. Founded in 2016 out of the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, the company aims to introduce robots for unstructured environments across enterprises. Already, the company has delivered many human-centered robots to the marketplace, several of which currently operate inside Fortune 50 enterprises including manufacturing, automotive, supply chain, defense and more. FinSMEs
Capital Factory Investments
272 Investments
Capital Factory has made 272 investments. Their latest investment was in Apptronik as part of their Seed VC on June 6, 2022.
Capital Factory Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6/24/2022 | Seed VC | Apptronik | $14.6M | Yes | Grit Ventures, Perot Jain, and Undisclosed Investors | 2 |
6/6/2022 | Seed VC - II | Colorcast | $3.5M | Yes | 1 | |
3/25/2022 | Seed VC | Phantom Neuro | $3.26M | Yes | Blackrock Neurotech, Breakout Ventures, Draper Associates, LionBird Venture Capital, and Undisclosed Investors | 8 |
3/16/2022 | Seed VC | |||||
3/2/2022 | Series A |
Date | 6/24/2022 | 6/6/2022 | 3/25/2022 | 3/16/2022 | 3/2/2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC | Seed VC - II | Seed VC | Seed VC | Series A |
Company | Apptronik | Colorcast | Phantom Neuro | ||
Amount | $14.6M | $3.5M | $3.26M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Grit Ventures, Perot Jain, and Undisclosed Investors | Blackrock Neurotech, Breakout Ventures, Draper Associates, LionBird Venture Capital, and Undisclosed Investors | |||
Sources | 2 | 1 | 8 |
Capital Factory Portfolio Exits
28 Portfolio Exits
Capital Factory has 28 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Cloudsnap on January 19, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1/19/2022 | Acquired | 3 | |||
9/27/2021 | Acquired | 2 | |||
9/21/2021 | Acquired | 3 | |||
Date | 1/19/2022 | 9/27/2021 | 9/21/2021 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Exit | Acquired | Acquired | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Capital Factory Fund History
7 Fund Histories
Capital Factory has 7 funds, including Capital Factory Partners 2021.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12/22/2020 | Capital Factory Partners 2021 | $1.13M | 1 | ||
1/13/2020 | Capital Factory Partners 2020 | ||||
12/31/2019 | Capital Factory Partners 2019 LP | ||||
11/26/2013 | Capital Factory IV | ||||
Capital Factory 6 |
Closing Date | 12/22/2020 | 1/13/2020 | 12/31/2019 | 11/26/2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fund | Capital Factory Partners 2021 | Capital Factory Partners 2020 | Capital Factory Partners 2019 LP | Capital Factory IV | Capital Factory 6 |
Fund Type | |||||
Status | |||||
Amount | $1.13M | ||||
Sources | 1 |
Capital Factory Partners & Customers
8 Partners and customers
Capital Factory has 8 strategic partners and customers. Capital Factory recently partnered with UT Dallas Seed Fund on March 3, 2019.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3/1/2019 | Partner | United States | UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory Partner to Accelerate... The partnership with Capital Factory marks the latest in a series of formalized relationships the institute has entered in order to elevate the visibility of UT Dallas Seed Fund in economic development efforts in North Texas and North America . | 2 | |
2/28/2019 | Partner | ||||
10/19/2018 | Partner | ||||
1/23/2018 | Partner | ||||
8/8/2017 | Partner |
Date | 3/1/2019 | 2/28/2019 | 10/19/2018 | 1/23/2018 | 8/8/2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner |
Business Partner | |||||
Country | United States | ||||
News Snippet | UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory Partner to Accelerate... The partnership with Capital Factory marks the latest in a series of formalized relationships the institute has entered in order to elevate the visibility of UT Dallas Seed Fund in economic development efforts in North Texas and North America . | ||||
Sources | 2 |
Capital Factory Team
10 Team Members
Capital Factory has 10 team members, including current Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Joshua Baer.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Joshua Baer | Founder, Chief Executive Officer | Current | |
Andrew Busey | Zynga, Conversable, Chaotic Moon Studios, and Austin Ventures | Founder | Current |
Gordon Daugherty | Nuve, CA Technologies, NetQoS, VCON Telecommunications, Vtel, and IBM | Founder | Current |
Sam Decker | Founder | Current | |
Stephen Dodge | Founder | Current |
Name | Joshua Baer | Andrew Busey | Gordon Daugherty | Sam Decker | Stephen Dodge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Work History | Zynga, Conversable, Chaotic Moon Studios, and Austin Ventures | Nuve, CA Technologies, NetQoS, VCON Telecommunications, Vtel, and IBM | |||
Title | Founder, Chief Executive Officer | Founder | Founder | Founder | Founder |
Status | Current | Current | Current | Current | Current |
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