About us
ATX Startup Network is a community for people building, operating, and backing early-stage tech companies in Austin.
Austin has no shortage of founders, experienced operators, investors, technical talent, and ambitious ideas. ATX Startup Network is about creating more ways for those people to get in the same room, around the same problems, earlier in the company-building process.
ATX Startup Network brings the ecosystem together through candid conversations, working sessions, founder office hours, demos, and community events centered on the messy, consequential parts of building early.
Some events will put you in the conversation. Others will put your product, problem, or idea on the table. The formats may change, but the expectation is consistent: show up curious, challenge assumptions, contribute what you know, and help move the work forward.
This is a home for different ways to participate in Austin's early-stage community.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND HERE
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Austin RAW Conversations
A monthly, interactive gathering that brings founders, operators, investors, and other ecosystem players into the same conversation around the questions shaping early-stage company building in Austin. Each session takes on a real issue, tension, or decision and opens it up to the room. The goal is to surface different perspectives, challenge assumptions, and leave with a sharper understanding of the problem than we came in with.
ATX Founder Office Hours
30-minute, 1:1 working sessions with Arturo Piña for early-stage founders. This isn't a pitch meeting. Bring a product question, GTM challenge, customer problem, fundraising decision, or something else you're actively working through, and let's get to work.
Demos + Community Events
Opportunities to share what you're building, explore problems across critical industries, meet other people working in the ecosystem, and participate in new event formats as we experiment with them.
More formats will be added as the community grows.
WHO THIS IS FOR
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- Founders building early-stage companies
- Operators working in or around startups
- People exploring entrepreneurship
- Active angel and venture investors
- Operators considering angel investing or venture
- Emerging fund managers
- Members of the Austin ecosystem who want to contribute, not just network
Whether you're building your first company, investing your first check, or have been doing this for years, the goal is to create more opportunities for useful collisions across Austin's startup community.
A NOTE ON EVENTS
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Each event series has its own format, schedule, capacity, and participation requirements.
Always refer to the individual event page for the most up-to-date details, location, format, and timing. Some events are open to the broader community, while others may have limited capacity or require advance booking.
OUR PARTNERS
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We're grateful to the organizations helping us create more places for Austin's early-stage community to come together.
🌟 STATION Austin sponsors Austin RAW Conversations.
Thank you to STATION Austin for sponsoring Austin RAW Conversations Meetup.
STATION Austin is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. Day and night, in-person and online, we gather the best founders, programmers, and designers outside of Silicon Valley and introduce them to investors, employees, and customers who help their ideas launch. STATION Austin is powered by Capital Factory, whose investments and leadership have helped power the Texas startup ecosystem for more than a decade. To sign up for a STATION Austin membership, click here**.
Upcoming events
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ATX Founder Office Hours
·OnlineOnlineATX Founder Office Hours are weekly 1:1 working sessions with Arturo Piña for early-stage tech founders in Austin.
This is not a pitch meeting. It’s 30 minutes to get an experienced operator and early-stage investor into the problem with you.
Arturo has spent 10+ years building zero-to-one products and operations across supply chain, logistics, proptech, and healthtech. He’s built a bootstrapped, profitable seven-figure business, helped scale venture-backed companies, been through two exits, and now invests in early-stage technology companies.
So bring what’s live in the business right now: finding your wedge, landing early customers, sharpening GTM, working through product or positioning, thinking about capital, or pressure-testing a decision before you make it.
No deck required. No need to package the story. Bring the context, the problem, and what you’ve tried so far. Then let’s get into the work.
BEFORE YOU RSVP
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⚠️ Your Meetup RSVP does not reserve an Office Hours session.
There are only four 30-minute sessions available each week, and appointments are booked separately through Calendly on a first-come, first-served basis.By RSVPing to this Meetup, you acknowledge that you still need to use the Calendly link below to reserve your actual 30-minute session.
BOOK YOUR 30 MINUTE SESSION → CALENDLY LINK
If the current week is full, check Calendly for the next available opening. New availability is released on a rolling basis.
COME READY TO WORK
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These 30 minutes are yours. Bring the question, challenge, or decision you want to make progress on and be ready to dig into it.Pre-launch is fine. Pre-revenue is fine. Messy is fine. Specific is better.
If you book a spot, please show up. There are only four sessions each week, and we want every one of them to count.
7 attendees
Awesome Company or Awesome Timing?
701 Brazos St, 701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX, USAustin RAW Conversations is a free, highly curated monthly meetup hosted by Arturo for founders, investors, and operators building at the edge of early-stage tech.
This month, we're talking market cycles with Nicole Bentz, Vice President at S3 Ventures.
How much of startup success is great execution, and how much is great timing?
The answer gets harder when the market moves underneath you. Capital tightens. Customer budgets shift. Sales cycles stretch. Valuations reset. What looked like disciplined growth in one cycle can read very differently in the next.
Nicole has spent years investing in and working alongside early-stage companies across Business Software and Healthcare Technology, with a front-row seat to dramatically different funding and operating environments.
She'll join us for a fireside conversation about what those cycles reveal: which fundamentals hold up, where timing changes the equation, and how founders should think about building when the conditions around them refuse to stay still.
We'll get into funding, customer behavior, growth, burn, timing, and what separates a company riding the cycle from one built to endure it.
The session will be interactive. Participation is highly encouraged.
📋 Agenda
- 6:00 PM — Check-in + light snacks
- 6:20 PM — Welcome + opening framing
- 6:25 PM — Fireside chat with Nicole Bentz
- 7:15 PM — Audience discussion + Q&A
- 7:50 PM — Closing synthesis
- 8:00 PM — Wrap + networking
📍 Location
STATION Austin | ACL Room
701 Brazos St., Austin, TXSTATION Austin is located inside the Omni building at the corner of 7th Street and Brazos Street, with entrances on 7th Street, Brazos Street, and 8th Street.
🚗 Parking
Grab a $10 parking validation via QR code when you arrive. For the most up-to-date parking info, visit: https://capitalfactory.com/parking/🗓️ Date & Time
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM CT👤 Who This Event Is For
- Founders making decisions about growth, runway, hiring, fundraising, and how aggressively to respond when market conditions change.
- Investors thinking about how timing, market conditions, and company fundamentals interact when evaluating early-stage businesses.
- Operators working inside early-stage companies who want a sharper understanding of what should change with the market and what shouldn't.
🤝 Sponsor
Thank you to STATION Austin for sponsoring RAW Conversations Meetup.STATION Austin is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. Day and night, in-person and online, we gather the best founders, programmers, and designers outside of Silicon Valley and introduce them to investors, employees, and customers who help their ideas launch. STATION Austin is powered by Capital Factory, whose investments and leadership have helped power the Texas startup ecosystem for more than a decade. To sign up for a STATION Austin membership, click here.
31 attendeesATX Founder Office Hours
·OnlineOnlineATX Founder Office Hours are weekly 1:1 working sessions with Arturo Piña for early-stage tech founders in Austin.
This is not a pitch meeting. It’s 30 minutes to get an experienced operator and early-stage investor into the problem with you.
Arturo has spent 10+ years building zero-to-one products and operations across supply chain, logistics, proptech, and healthtech. He’s built a bootstrapped, profitable seven-figure business, helped scale venture-backed companies, been through two exits, and now invests in early-stage technology companies.
So bring what’s live in the business right now: finding your wedge, landing early customers, sharpening GTM, working through product or positioning, thinking about capital, or pressure-testing a decision before you make it.
No deck required. No need to package the story. Bring the context, the problem, and what you’ve tried so far. Then let’s get into the work.
BEFORE YOU RSVP
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⚠️ Your Meetup RSVP does not reserve an Office Hours session.
There are only four 30-minute sessions available each week, and appointments are booked separately through Calendly on a first-come, first-served basis.By RSVPing to this Meetup, you acknowledge that you still need to use the Calendly link below to reserve your actual 30-minute session.
BOOK YOUR 30 MINUTE SESSION → CALENDLY LINK
If the current week is full, check Calendly for the next available opening. New availability is released on a rolling basis.
COME READY TO WORK
-----------------------------
These 30 minutes are yours. Bring the question, challenge, or decision you want to make progress on and be ready to dig into it.Pre-launch is fine. Pre-revenue is fine. Messy is fine. Specific is better.
If you book a spot, please show up. There are only four sessions each week, and we want every one of them to count.
3 attendeesATX Founder Office Hours
·OnlineOnlineATX Founder Office Hours are weekly 1:1 working sessions with Arturo Piña for early-stage tech founders in Austin.
This is not a pitch meeting. It’s 30 minutes to get an experienced operator and early-stage investor into the problem with you.
Arturo has spent 10+ years building zero-to-one products and operations across supply chain, logistics, proptech, and healthtech. He’s built a bootstrapped, profitable seven-figure business, helped scale venture-backed companies, been through two exits, and now invests in early-stage technology companies.
So bring what’s live in the business right now: finding your wedge, landing early customers, sharpening GTM, working through product or positioning, thinking about capital, or pressure-testing a decision before you make it.
No deck required. No need to package the story. Bring the context, the problem, and what you’ve tried so far. Then let’s get into the work.
BEFORE YOU RSVP
----------------------
⚠️ Your Meetup RSVP does not reserve an Office Hours session.
There are only four 30-minute sessions available each week, and appointments are booked separately through Calendly on a first-come, first-served basis.By RSVPing to this Meetup, you acknowledge that you still need to use the Calendly link below to reserve your actual 30-minute session.
BOOK YOUR 30 MINUTE SESSION → CALENDLY LINK
If the current week is full, check Calendly for the next available opening. New availability is released on a rolling basis.
COME READY TO WORK
-----------------------------
These 30 minutes are yours. Bring the question, challenge, or decision you want to make progress on and be ready to dig into it.Pre-launch is fine. Pre-revenue is fine. Messy is fine. Specific is better.
If you book a spot, please show up. There are only four sessions each week, and we want every one of them to count.
1 attendee
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