To further provide opportunities to turn viable ideas into reality, we supported the University of Texas at Dallas’ new entrepreneurship degree program at launch two years ago. As of last month, two startup projects from the program have successfully made it into the marketplace. We're excited to be a part of the forefront of student innovation and creativity. The below story about these startups originally appeared on The University of Texas at Dallas' News Center. The story in its entirety can be found here.
Entrepreneurial alumni who received grants from the Naveen Jindal School of Management recently presented their new companies to Texas Instruments executives.
Matt Hinson MBA’13 MS’15 and Alejandro Jacobo MS’13 MBA’15 introduced Rollout, a comprehensive, portable product for accessing blueprints, and Nicole Mossman MS’15 presented EverThread, a custom-fabric design company.
Matt Hinson and Alejandro Jacobo of Rollout
TI provided seed money for the JSOM Startup Launch grants that Hinson, Jacobo and Mossman received while they were still students. Steve Lyle, director of university and engineering workforce development programs at Texas Instruments, was among those who listened to the presentations.
“I really think this presentation should motivate other companies to make an investment like we did,” Lyle said. “From a TI perspective, this investment was money well spent.”
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