Investment Services is a business unit of Startech formed to coordinate the local, regional and national investment community, in order to provide capital to a pool of investable client companies.  Startech manages its Investment Services unit through the South Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (STRCIC) for the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF).  

The goal of Investment Services is to:

      • Import Early-Stage capital to the San Antonio regional economy
      • Stimulate technology-based private investment from existing regional resources
      • Coordinate and support local sources of capital

Investment Services accomplishes this goal by operating the STRCIC and the South Texas Angel Network (STAN).  STAN is a private investment group comprised of South Texas angel investors and high net-worth individuals. Investment services works directly with entrepreneurs and early stage companies to make qualified referrals to Startech’s local, regional, national, and international network of venture capital funds and other private investors. 

The following is a partial list of sources of funding Startech advises clients on: 
 

1.Acción Texas

www.acciontexas.org

2.Angel Investors - South Texas Angel Network

http://startech1.org/investment/investment_stan.html

3.Angel Investors - Angel Capital Association

http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org

4.Banks – Traditional lenders & SBA loan Guarantees

http://www.sba.gov/

5.Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)

http://www.cprit.state.tx.us/

6.Certified Development Companies

http://www.nadco.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

7.EDCO Ventures

http://edcoonline.org/

8.Incubators (Non Profit) - UTSA Roadrunner

http://business.utsa.edu/cite/cite_rrincubator.aspx

9.Incubators (Non Profit) - UTSA Institute for Cyber Security

http://www.ics.utsa.edu/

10.Incubators (Non Profit) - Texas Business Incubator Association

http://www.tbiaonline.org/

11.Incubators (Non Profit) – T3DC

http://www.t3dc.org

12.Incubators (For-Profit) - Idea Finishing School

http://www.ideafinishingschool.com/

13.Microsoft BizSpark

http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/

14.National Instruments Green Engineering Grant

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/10346

15.POCsparc

http://www.utsystem.edu/sttm/sparc.shtml

16.Private Foundations

http://foundationcenter.org/

17.Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

http://www.zyn.com/sbir/

18.Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)

http://www.zyn.com/sbir/

19.Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF)

http://strcic.com/

20.Texas Enterprise Fund

http://governor.state.tx.us/ecodev/financial_resources/texas_enterprise_fund/

21.Texas Small Business Loan Fund

http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1388

22.UT Ignition Fund

http://www.utsystem.edu/sttm/tif.shtml

23.Venture Capital

http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&Itemid=173

24.Texas Technology Development Center / McDermott Fund

http://www.t3dc.org/