Articles from Capital Factory

Capital Factory today announced partnerships with ARK Invest and Tim Draper to scale its national network for founders building deep technology. ARK and Draper joined Capital Factory’s All Access 2027 as investors and strategic partners bringing different capabilities and regional networks to founders.

Capital Factory today announced that Colonel E. Michael "Mike" Fincke, USAF (Ret.), who this month concluded a 30-year career as a NASA astronaut, has joined Capital Factory Deep Tech as Senior Fellow and Senior Commercialization Advisor. Capital Factory also named Keri Waters Managing Director of Deep Tech Commercialization. The appointments represent a significant expansion of Capital Factory's work with DARPA and the broader federal research ecosystem.

Capital Factory, the center of gravity for entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley since 2009, announces STATION Austin, a new non-profit organization dedicated to carrying forward its community, programming, and innovation initiatives in perpetuity.

Capital Factory is proud to announce the launch of STATION NWA, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit hub dedicated to anchoring supply chain, logistics, and manufacturing innovation in Northwest Arkansas. Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation, STATION NWA will begin building leadership, programming, and strategic connections — linking Arkansas to major VC and innovation hubs, starting with Texas and Washington, D.C. This is the second STATION launched by Capital Factory.

Capital Factory, the center of gravity for entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley, is proud to host Fed Supernova — a three-day innovation event bringing together the most innovative minds in national security and venture capital to accelerate dual-use startups with technology critical to operational success and the warfighter.

Today, Capital Factory, in partnership with the City of Washington, DC, launched STATION DC, a desperately needed tech hub designed to foster collaboration between innovators and policymakers in the heart of the nation’s capital.

On July 9, 2024, on the margins of the 75th Anniversary NATO celebrations, national and international leaders will gather with tech startups in Washington, D.C. to discuss the massive disruptions reshaping our future. The micro summit – “NATO To The Future: Preparing for Coming Disruptions” – will be followed by an announcement from City leaders in Washington, D.C. about a new partnership with Capital Factory to accelerate the development of frontier technology to advance the national interest.

For the first time since 2019, Austin Startup Week, sponsored by IOOGO, will be back in person at Capital Factory in downtown Austin on November 14-18. The free event will celebrate and showcase everything entrepreneurial in Austin.

Texas’ leading innovation and mentorship hub for technology entrepreneurs, Capital Factory, will host Fed Supernova, presented by IBM, September 27-29, 2022.

On May 9, 2022, Capital Factory will launch its new Center for Health Innovation at Pegasus Park in Dallas to spur momentum for health and life sciences innovation in Texas. This launch event will begin with a Dallas Startup Crawl on Monday evening and be followed on May 10 with Health Supernova, presented by UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center — the premier event to engage with the most promising health and biotech startups in Texas.

On September 28-29, Capital Factory, Texas’ top innovation and mentorship hub for technology entrepreneurs, will host the #1 defense innovation event in the country — Fed Supernova — with sessions online and live onsite. Fed Supernova is the only event that exists specifically to bridge the Valley of Death between commercial technology and Department of Defense (DoD) programs.