TEXAS VENTURE FEST | NORTH TEXAS 2026
Connection. Collaboration. Outcomes.
For the third year, The Founders Arena is proud to host Texas Venture Fest | North Texas — and we can’t wait to bring this community together again.
This year feels especially important.
At a time when so much of business is moving faster, becoming more automated, and happening behind a screen, authentic connection matters more than ever. We need to know who is building, who is investing, who is buying, who is opening doors — and how we can help one another move forward.
That is what this evening is about.
No pitching. No pitch competition.
Just founders, investors, business leaders, universities, ecosystem builders, and friends of innovation coming together to connect, collaborate, and create outcomes.
We’ll have light refreshments, plenty of time to actually meet one another, and a special guest speaker to help us kick off the conversation.
Texas Venture Fest has always been about bringing the ecosystem together. For our third North Texas gathering, we want to make that connection even more meaningful.
Come meet someone new. Reconnect with someone you haven’t seen. Learn what’s being built across North Texas — and leave with a conversation worth continuing.
⭐ TEXAS' SIGNATURE INNOVATION EVENTS:
The Lone Star State shouldn’t have lone star founders. The Texas Venture Fest is a day of networking and programming highlighting the ecosystem of entrepreneur support. More than 15 cities simultaneously host this statewide phenomenon, across our small towns and the nation's biggest metropoles, 3,500+ Texans gather to help innovation flourish.
This event is part of the Texas Startup & Tech Week (9/28-10/2), the state's flagship innovation week. The sister signature event is the Texas Venture Gala & Forum, the largest convening at the Texas State Capitol & awards dinner in downtown Austin for innovators and investors from across the state.