Mellie Price

Educator, Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, Advisor, Consultant, and proud Executive Director of Texas Entrepreneurship and the Brumley Institute for Graduate Entrepreneurship. Hook’em!🤘🏼

📍 Austin, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 25 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2013𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Strategic Advisor, Investor & Former COO
Apr 2013
At Umbel, we believe that data is your most valuable asset. With the Umbel data management platform, some of the most recognizable names in sports, memberships and entertainment access, acquire, activate and analyze their customer data to increase engagement, revenue and loyalty. Founded in 2010, Umbel is headquartered in Austin, Texas. To learn more about Umbel, please visit us at http://www.umbel.com.
Investor & former Board Member
May 2011
Rallyhood is a social collaboration software that organizes and engages purpose-driven communities using a branded, secure web and mobile platform. By bringing all the functionality together in one tool, Rallyhood simplifies how communities connect, collaborate and communicate with each other. Learn more at: hello.rallyhood.com
Investor, Co-Founder
Dec 2001
Symbiot is a risk metrics appliance manufacturer specializing in providing decision support on information security issues for government and industry IT environments. The product is focused on aggregating information security data then providing a risk metric score and a single view of a security event. Symbiot is committed to the open source community with Symbiot.net, a central repository for attacker profiles based on the cooperative surveillance and reconnaissance gathered by all network participants.
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2021
Co-Founder, Board of Directors, Team Owner
Jun 2021
Our mission is to elevate pickleball in everything we do. From our thrilling players to our iconic owners and our pulse pounding events, there’s nothing else like it!
early stageSpectator Sports
Senior Advisor
Jan 2021
Ecliptic Capital is Seed through Series A stage Venture Capital firm based in Austin, TX. We invest in innovators who are building game-changing companies across the following sectors: Climate/Energy Transition, Material Science, Life Sciences, Med Tech, Digital Health, Cybersecurity, and Identity Sovereignty. As experienced operators and founders, we work hand in hand with our portfolio companies on everything from company strategy, tracking metrics, and hiring to financing and go-to-market strategy and sales process. We are passionate about helping entrepreneurs build great companies. If you are an innovator who is building a company in one of the areas we invest in, Ecliptic Capital would love to hear from you.
CEO & Founder
Jan 2021
Capital and mentorship for founders dedicated to growing their startups organically and operating them profitably.
2020
Partner
Oct 2020
Notley is a catalyst for social innovation with a mission to scale and support businesses, nonprofits, individuals and programs making positive change. Since 2015, Notley has provided the creative space and resources necessary to make the most impact in local communities. Through the use of magnetic risk capital, Notley works to bridge the gap of collaboration between for-profits and nonprofits to solve problems quicker. Today, Notley challenges the status quo with new models never before thought possible in communities across the nation, including Austin, Columbus, Denver and San Antonio.
2019
Executive Director, Texas Venture Labs, McCombs School of Business
Sep 2019
The Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at The University of Texas at Austin (TVL) is a university-wide award-winning initiative to support technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and innovation, while providing a unique and directly applicable educational experience for participating students. Our purpose is to provide the intellectual horsepower to promote new venture creation at The University of Texas at Austin through education and mentoring; market and business plan validation; team-building and networking; and providing direct links to resources and funding.
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