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Luis Martinez

Venture Principal at Capital Factory; organic chemist (Harvard PhD) and former Director of Entrepreneurship at Trinity University.

Oct 21, 2026

20:17
Is that correct?
20:19
So we're an investment firm.
20:21
We're a very unique investment firm.
20:23
We've been doing the work that we've been doing now for well over 17 years.
20:27
We were founded as one of the very first co-working spaces in the country, the first one in downtown Austin, and an accelerator, traditional kind of summer accelerator.
20:37
Our founder, Josh Baer, in 2009, had the vision right after the economic downturn that the future of startups and the future of venture capital wasn't going to be in San Francisco, going to be in Boston or New York.
20:49
It's going to be in this little town called Austin, Texas.

11 MINS LATER

32:06
One is for any scientists, young Latino scientists out there that it's a chemist or any other type of scientist and he's thinking about ventures or startups, right? What's your advice for them? And then just in the general, tell the audience where can they connect with you?
14:32
When you got, when you got on that plane that day, were you afraid? Were you excited? What was the feel?
14:37
I was not afraid.
14:38
I was [laughs]...
14:39
I mean, I knew what they were doing 'cause they were...
14:41
You know, I watched them, uh, do all the arrangements.
14:43
You know, I had to go for my inoculations.
14:45
I had to go for my passport.
16:30
... 'cause we have the government do it, I think a lot of us miss out on that opportunity for growth and joy.

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