<span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-7707-4ff6-308a-b074e4499e49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Distinct Difference From Other Offerings:</span></span>
Sponsors<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1-Service LLC</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ABI Digital Solutions</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aquinas Companies, LLC/ Linebeck/Alpha Dev</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Austin Ventures</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank of America</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BBVA Compass Bank</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bennu</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue Lance</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BrandExtract</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BusinessMarkers Radio Show</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chai One</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comerica Bank</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ConocoPhillips</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Content Active</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DuaneMorris</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Energy Ventures</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enterprise Future Network</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ernst & Young</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Essex Woodlands Health Venture</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finger Interests</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FLS Associates</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fly Vax</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fortune</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fulbright & Jaworski</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gimmal</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goose Society of Texas</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Haynes and Boone</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heinlein Foundation</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Houston Angel Network</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Houston Business Journal</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Houston Technology Center</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Insperity</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jones Partners</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jones School Career Management Center (CMC)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kauffman</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MAANA</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McGuireWoods LLP</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mercury Fund</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Microsoft</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MinuteMan Press</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-7707771f-4ff67bfa-308ae63c-b074e4499e49ab04c4222e4e"><span style="fontbackground-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-sizespace: 15pxpre-wrap; font">Miller, Egan, Molter & Nelson LLP</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-familycolor: Arialtransparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Murphree Venture Partners </span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NASA Johnson Space Center</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nCourage</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New World Ventures</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunity Houston/GHP</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oracle</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OWL Investment Group</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Padgett Group</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palo Alto Software</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pearland Economic Development Corporation</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phillips & DonorsReiter, PLLC</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RedHouse Associates</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><spanstyle="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S3 Ventures</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sandi Heysinger and Dick William</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sante Ventures</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silicon Valley Bank</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shell/Shell Energy Ventures</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silver Fox Advisors</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sim-Tex, Inc.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V.S. Elgohary</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Statoil</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SURGE Accelerator</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TiE Houston</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thompson & Knight</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TOTAL</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trailblazer Capital</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">U.S. Department of Energy</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Venture Fellows</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK Science & Innovation, British Consulate-General, Houston</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waste Managment</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whitehall and Company</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-4755190d-771f-7bfa-e63c-ab04c4222e4e"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Winstead</span></span></li></ul>