Vik Thapar

Venture Dallas is a registered non-profit with a mission to connect early-stage investors and VCs with emerging technology startups across North Texas. We hold an annual event that brings together top VCs, startups, and influencers to Dallas to discuss the state of venture capital in North Texas.

Venture Dallas is a registered non-profit with a mission to connect early-stage investors and VCs with emerging technology startups across North Texas. We hold an annual event that brings together top VCs, startups, and influencers to Dallas to discuss the state of venture capital in North Texas.

For an entrepreneur considering growth funding, Cypress Growth Capital provides an innovative alternative to equity and traditional debt. Our firm invests up to $5M in emerging software and services companies using a royalty-based approach that preserves an entrepreneur's equity and control. With more than 65 investments in premier software and technology-enabled services companies since 2011, Cypress offers a flexible, patient form of capital that is well suited to the unique financing needs of fast growing companies. Bringing more than just capital, our collective operating and entrepreneurial experience helps our entrepreneurs achieve exceptional outcomes.

For an entrepreneur considering growth funding, Cypress Growth Capital provides an innovative alternative to equity and traditional debt. Our firm invests up to $5M in emerging software and services companies using a royalty-based approach that preserves an entrepreneur's equity and control. With more than 65 investments in premier software and technology-enabled services companies since 2011, Cypress offers a flexible, patient form of capital that is well suited to the unique financing needs of fast growing companies. Bringing more than just capital, our collective operating and entrepreneurial experience helps our entrepreneurs achieve exceptional outcomes.

For an entrepreneur considering growth funding, Cypress Growth Capital provides an innovative alternative to equity and traditional debt. Our firm invests up to $5M in emerging software and services companies using a royalty-based approach that preserves an entrepreneur's equity and control. With more than 65 investments in premier software and technology-enabled services companies since 2011, Cypress offers a flexible, patient form of capital that is well suited to the unique financing needs of fast growing companies. Bringing more than just capital, our collective operating and entrepreneurial experience helps our entrepreneurs achieve exceptional outcomes.

The $200 million Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) is designed to help create jobs and to develop the economy of Texas over the long-term by expediting the development and commercialization of new technologies and attracting and creating jobs in technology fields. It focuses on two main investment areas increasing research collaboration through new Regional Centers of Innovation and Commercialization and attracting more top-notch research talent. The North Texas Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization (NTXRCIC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that is responsible for identifying, vetting and processing all funding applications and supporting emerging technology companies in the North Texas region. The North Texas RCIC tat assists technology- based entrepreneurs in starting and growing new ventures. In this role it helps to identify, evaluate, and develop new technologies in the region. North Texas RCIC support to client entrepreneurs is both internal by its staff and external through its extensive resource network. NTXRCIC aims to increase cooperation between industrial, financial, and academic entities to focus on creating new commercial entities based on technologies that establish new, sustainable, high-growth potential businesses in the region. For detailed information about the Emerging Technology Fund and the North Texas RCIC, visit our web site at www.ntxrcic.org.