The document provides information about the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a clean energy incubator located in Austin, Texas. ATI assists early-stage technology companies in areas like clean energy, bioscience, IT, and wireless. It provides companies with access to talent, capital, networking opportunities, and strategic guidance. ATI has supported over 350 companies since 1989, helping raise over $900 million in capital and creating thousands of jobs. Current membership offers various levels of support and resources to companies.

1. Mitch Jacobson
Director, Clean Energy Incubator
Austin Technology Incubator
www.ati.utexas.edu
3925 W. Braker Lane, Austin, TX 78759 | (512) 305-0049

2. ATI – A Part of UT Austin’s IC2 Institute
University of Texas
at Austin
Research
IC2 Institute
Founded in 1989 by
ATI Dr. George Kozmetsky
IT Wireless Bioscience Clean Energy
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3. What We Do
• Assist early-stage technology companies access talent,
raise capital, network, and provide strategic guidance
• Support and grow the Austin entrepreneurial community
• Serve as landing pad for international start-ups interested in
developing business in the U.S. (with focus in Texas)
• Train UT students in technology entrepreneurship
and help build businesses based on UT innovation
Positive economic + community impact for Austin
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4. ATI’s Value Proposition to Client
Companies
Talent
• Professional staff
• UT students & faculty
• “Been there, done that” advisors, mentors, and investors
Capital
• Private Capital: Angel & Venture capital relationships
$900M raised since inception
($75M private capital raised from 2008 - 2011)
• Companies have received money from Texas ETF, DOE
Stimulus grants, and SBIR grants
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5. ATI’s Sweet Spot
Cash flow
Surround ATI
companies with
talent & capital
that otherwise could Time
not access
“A” round
funding and/or
market traction
Seed
funding
~ 70% success rate in helping ATI companies get seed funding
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6. ATI’s Impact – 2008 - 2011*
Provided by : www.ThemeGallery.com
$75M Over
capital 300
raised jobs
20 $100m
relocation
efforts impact
ATI
Economic Impact
35 $300m
graduated
companies in Exits
* Reflects partial reporting; dollars rounded to nearest million
** Methodology developed by AngelouEconomics and vetted by IC2 Institute;
based on capital raised, company revenues, and multiplier effect 6

7. ATI’s Historical Impact Since 1989
• Over 350 graduate companies
• ~$900 million in capital raised
• ~50 acquisitions
• Thousands of jobs (direct and indirect) created by ATI
companies
• Hundreds of UT students trained in technology
entrepreneurship
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8. Types of Membership
Member Landing Affiliate**
Pad *
Business plan development & support  
Market analysis & market strategy support  
Validation and publicity  
Access to talent networks   
Access to business partners   
Access to capital sources   
Professional support and business infrastructure  
Access to ATI grants and award programs  
ATI facilitates U.S. & Texas business and channel development
*Landing Pad companies can be on a direct path to membership once business plan fully develops.
**Affiliate Companies do not provide equity per their membership
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9. Incubation Process at ATI
Vet
Internally
Admit into Set Graduate
Screen Review
ATI Milestones from ATI
Vet
Externally
3 years or:
1) When a major funding round is obtained
2) When significant cash from operations are achieved
People 3) When ATI can no longer add significant value
4) Company folds
Market
Technology
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10. ATI - Clean Energy Incubator (CEI)
• Launched in 2001 by the U.S Department of Energy National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• Supported by the Texas State Energy Conservation
Office (SECO), and Austin Energy
• Currently 9 member companies in portfolio. (27 @ ATI)
• Focus on renewable and alternative energy, biofuels, energy
efficiency, energy management, energy storage, electric
vehicles, green building, water
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11. Access to Utility Companies in Texas
Utility Geographic Area Customers
Austin Energy Austin 400,000
CPS Energy San Antonio 1 million
CenterPoint Energy Houston 2.1 million
TXU Energy State wide 2 million
Reliant Energy Houston 1.6 million
* Bluebonnet Electric Central Texas 80,000
* Pedernales Electric Central & West Texas 200,000
* Co-Op Utility
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12. Top Clean Energy Companies in Texas
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13. Current CEI Companies
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14. Secure Waters
SecureWaters Inc. manufactures and sells the
AquaSentinel, an electro-mechanical
monitor/alarm system for continuous protection
of source drinking waters.
www.secureaqua.com
• Utilizes patented technology from Oak Ridge National Laboratories
• Capable of detecting the presence of toxic agents at levels well below those
anticipated from terrorist attacks or accidental contamination
• First system of its kind to automatically and continuously test for chemical
toxins in source water supplies
• Offers a continuous, rapid and broad-trigger detection capability against water-
born chemical toxins by monitoring natural occurring green algae to detect the
presence of chemical toxins in water

15. Convergence Wireless
The first All-Wireless Commercial Building Lighting Retrofit System!
In addition to delivering up to
• Wireless Module
50% day to day energy
savings, Convergence
• Photovoltaic Powered Wireless
Wireless’ Site Sense Lighting
Sensors & Self-Powered Switches
System (SSL™) provides up
to 75% energy savings to
•Building Automation Server /
deliver Demand Response
Demand Response Module
(Automatic Load Shedding)
value to utilities, significantly
reducing the most expensive
operational costs (OPEX)
utilities face, peak grid demand
periods.
www.convergencewireless.com

16. Limelite
LimeLite’s award-winning and
patented technologies optimize the
performance of electroluminescent
lighting and provide an intelligent
platform for adding complementary
applications.
LimeLite’s line of safety lighting products are being rapidly
adopted in both domestic and international markets by
offering the most energy efficient, longest lasting, and cost
effective products available. LimeLite outperforms the
competition while offering the lowest overall cost of
ownership and significant value to the end user.
www.limelite.com

17. Omni Water Solutions
www.omniwatersolutions.com
Omni Water Solutions provides over 20 years of experience in
developing, manufacturing, and deploying water treatment solutions.
With its revolutionary portable system and patent-pending Octozone©
technology, Omni offers an integrated and dynamic platform which
supplies clean water at an unprecedented rate. With its cascading set of
interlocked devices linked with robust analytics and software, it can
activate only the necessary water treatment stage, saving energy,
water, and maintenance costs.
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18. Yan Engines
Yan Engines’s D-Cycle piston design changes 5
parts in existing 4-Stroke engines.
www.yanengines.com Test results results demonstrate the potential of the
technology to revolutionize the way we drive and
positively impact the environment.
• 80% more fuel economy
• 204% more torque
Under a US DoD contract, retrofit designs are complete for the first
engine platform. Prototyping will begin Q4 2011, and then the company
will look to commercialize with semi-trucks.
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19. Solavicta
Solavicta has developed a simplified
photovoltaic technology to significantly
lower the cost of solar modules.
Product Features/Advantages:
• Lowest cost solar solution
• Extremely fast and low cost installation
• Low profile, reduced wind-loading
• Easily upgraded as CPV cells improve
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20. Open Algae
www.openalgae.com Open Algae is a joint venture between Organic Fuels and
the University of Texas at Austin.
Developing a scalable, modular processing facility
offering cost-effective harvesting and extraction for algae
growers. Our two-year plan is to prove commercial
viability of our onsite, integrated fuel-from-algae facility.
The company has:
• Disruptive technologies
• Exclusive licenses to strong IP
• Access to U.T. algae expertise
• A fee-based business model
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21. International Brucite Corporation (IBC)
Focused on mining and selling micronized brucitic
marble to global industrial markets. With its
neutralization effect and ability to precipitate
metals from industrial waste streams, brucitic
www.internationalbrucite.com marble is a unique mineral which can help
companies:
• Reduce costs
• Improve operational performance
• Satisfy environmental requirements
This mineral is known in industrial and water
treatment markets for its strong neutralization
effect.
IBC will help companies to:
• Improve their pH balance
• Assist in metal precipitation
• Provide flame retardancy
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22. RRE Austin Solar
RRE Austin Solar is developing a 60 MW
solar farm in the city of Pflugerville.
The company intends to use 'state of art'
www.rresolar.com technology and world class equipment. The
objective of the company is not only to
provide clean renewable energy through Solar
PV Systems but also to become a "change
agent" of how people perceive and view clean
energy throughout the cities and counties
which ultimately may be chosen to develop its
solar farm projects.
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23. Recent Graduates
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24. Pecan Street Project Inc.

25. Austin’s Mueller Community
• 711 acre mixed use • Native landscaping
• 2 miles from Capitol • 25% affordable housing
• All green-built • Senior housing
• World’s first LEED platinum hospital • Critical loads
• Reclaimed water system • CHP gas microturbine
• Chilled water loop 22

26. Questions
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