Live from Austin, Texas -- we're featuring 4 Summer seed rounds from our portfolio!

These startups were selected to get pre-seed investment from Sputnik ATX VC and go through 13 weeks of growth focused curriculum.

Meet the founders:

**Nate Thomas, Co-Founder of Shmoody**
_Shmoody is the Swiss Army knife of mental health. The mobile app and community help people with depression, anxiety, and addiction with fun and engaging mood boosting tools, community support, and personal development challenges. Shmoody offers the perfect mental snack to improve your mood in the short term and elevate mental wellbeing in the long-term._

**Arif Khan, Co-Founder of WooStudy**
_WooStudy is a global edtech marketplace that leverages massive school data and AI to rapidly answer student questions, and match qualified students to colleges._

**Quest Moffat, Founder of Kadogo**
_Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) come with a host of tax benefits in return for charitable contributions, but have not historically been available to everyday Americans. In a Kadogo Giving Account, users can invest cash-back rewards from participating businesses, spare change from their daily transactions, and automatic employee matching on charitable donations. Then, they can give more to their favorite charities and cut their taxable income with one tax receipt._

**Sandy Padala, Founder of Rex Academy**
Rex Academy gives schools the curriculum they need to teach K-12 computer science, IT and coding at scale. Unlike their competitors, they’re built from the ground up to integrate with existing schools systems and support teachers without subject expertise.

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**About Sputnik ATX VC:**

Sputnik ATX is an Austin, TX based venture capital investor and accelerator that funds early stage maker-founders. We combine capital with training and experience to help startups reach their full potential.

Kalyn Dickson

Amanda Eakin

Joe Merrill

Texas Seed Roundup

Nate Thomas

Founder | CEO

Arif Khan

Co-Founder

Quest Moffat

Founder

Sandy Padala

Sputnik ATX is an an Austin, TX based venture capital investor and accelerator that funds early stage maker-founders. We combine capital with training and experience to help startups reach their full potential.

Sputnik ATX

Featuring 4 Summer seed rounds from Austin, Texas curated by Sputnik ATX VC. They've been accelerated. They're growing. They're looking for unicorn rocket fuel!

Shmoody is an app that helps people with depression and anxiety feel better now, and grow over time. Shmoody provides science-backed tools that are fun to use, so people actually use them. We use humor, gamification, and elegant design - and our users love it.

**We just crossed 100,000 installs, 50,000 of those from the last three months. We introduced revenue in April, and it's taking off.**

Mike McSweeney

Wynn Wang

Lucas Hoffmann

Paul Curbo

Shmoody

Draper Associates

We reimagine the way the world — and the cars that do the moving — moves for the better. In addition to giving cars a way to get from point A to point B, we're working to bring the future closer with car-driving-car technology and helping other cars order food, get gas, and directions affordably.

Guber

Rex Academy is a one stop solution for Computer Science Learning for K-12 and Workforce Development. We are committed to providing more opportunities to every student to enter into Computer Science and Cybersecurity careers. Rex Academy made $150K revenue in 2021 and has $500K committed for 2022.  

Product Rex Academy robust curriculum is self paced, project based, standards and industry aligned. Rex Academy’s curriculum can be delivered in person or via a Certified Remote Computer Science teacher, both of whom can be sourced directly from Rex Academy. If additional instruction is needed, students can receive virtual impact tutoring. Rex Academy's learning platform contains some unique features such as Coding editor, Auto grading, Virtual Machines, Analytics embedded into the platform, and it seamlessly integrates with a school's existing systems. Hence a low cost (SSO) single sign on solution to implement.

Rex Academy

SputnikATX 

gener8tor

ECMC Group

At WooStudy, we're digitizing admissions enrollment in EdTech using AI and chatbots.  We automate match-making intelligence to make it easier for international students to find multiple global best fit schools under a minute and remove the burden of manual engagement with programmatic chatbots rather than people.  What Uber is doing for riders, WooStudy does it for global students.

Wilson Lin

Jordan Wahbeh

VC backed - Sputnik ATX

India Domestic Launch-PR

US MAACBA Association -PR

Pakistan PR

 Bangladesh PR

Nigeria PR

WooStudy

71 percent of businesses don't have a giving vehicle. **With Kadogo, businesses & their employees can create tax-free returns on investments, by creating a Kadogo Account on the fly.** The app makes it simple to create and fill a Giving Account with outside funds, like charitable donations matched by brands and employers, as well as personal contributions like Crypto, stock assets, and more.