Vol. XXVI · No. 2Austin, TexasFebruary 2026

THE TVG TIMES

The Official Record of the Texas Venture Group · Events Edition

Edition I — Speaker Series

Conversations with the
People Building the Future

Fireside chats, pitch nights, and panels with founders, investors, and operators redefining venture.

Fall 2025

TVG San Francisco Trek

Visited top VC firms (Sequoia, Entrepreneurs First, Vista, Gradient Ventures, Transpose, Heavybit, Antler) and high-growth startups (Crusoe, Tavus, Mira) in San Francisco.

Fall 2025

TVG x a16z & Saronic & Base (American Dynamism)

TVG Mega-event: TVG and a16z brought the Austin venture community together for an incredible night featuring Doug Lambert (Co-Founder & COO, Saronic Technologies), Erin Prince-Wright (GP, Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism), and Jared Green (Head of Software, Base Power Company), who shared incredible insights about scaling hard-tech ventures.

Fall 2025

TVG x Bessemer Venture Partners

Fireside chat with Jason Scheller and John Drake, General Partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, which gave us rare chance to dig into sourcing, founder judgment, and the realities of evaluating companies at the earliest stages.

Fall 2025

TVG x Superhuman

Fireside chat with Vivek Sodera, Founder & GP of Supercharge.vc and Co-Founder of Superhuman Mail, who shared lessons from scaling Superhuman (recently acquired by Grammarly), his experience co-founding LiveRamp (IPO: RAMP), and his journey backing 20+ AI-centric startups across Silicon Valley and Austin.

Fall 2025

TVG x Throne

Fireside chat with Scott Hickle, co-founder of Throne Science, a company pioneering continuous gut health testing to help people improve their health with every flush