Buda’s Texas Venture Crawl, 10/6/23

Flying house startup, Hover City and the Buda Economic Development Corporation co-hosted a special event at Buck’s Backyard during the Texas Venture Crawl. They introduced the HoverHaus™, a pioneering Tiny modular home that can fly, and celebrated their vibrant local innovation community.

Buck's Backyard was an evening of music, food, chatting with local businesses, and fun. Attendees discovered the future plans of Hover City’s Rawad Zaki in reimagining sustainable cities of the future after gearing up for their first line of production. They also had the opportunity to hear Shannon Mumley, the Assistant Director from Buda Economic Development Corporation share her thoughts on the significance of the HoverHaus™ and its role in the community and the Texas Venture Crawl. Mark Chapa, owner of Buck's Backyard and first HoverHaus™ host, shared his inspiring vision for how he plans to use the HoverHaus™ and future development on the property.

The event was part of the Texas Venture Crawl hosted by Texas Venture Alliance showcasing startups and investors statewide. It was a fantastic chance to connect with fellow businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators in Buda and across this great state! View more details about the speaker lineup and topics here.

View more information and photos via Rawad’s Instagram post here.

Nick Frank, CEO & Founder of Knectiv: The Knectiv team had an amazing time this past weekend discovering Hover City's pioneering and sustainable flying modular home during our visit to the Texas Venture Crawl, by the Texas Venture Alliance in Buda. It's inspiring to witness such groundbreaking innovations taking shape in the greater Austin area.

Collaboration and innovation are at the heart of what we do, and events like this reinforce our commitment to supporting and celebrating local businesses and startups. We believe in the power of transformative ideas, and HoverCity's project exemplifies just that. Here's to more inspiring encounters and collaborations that drive progress and positive change in our vibrant community.

CS Freeland, Texas Venture Alliance: It was extremely impressive how fast Buda’s Texas Venture Crawl came together under such a tight deadline. I am so glad that it did, as Buda had a very special type of event— with a flying house! Hover City’s founder Rawad Zaki of course, has the hustle of an ambitious entrepreneur. Thanks for seeing this through with the Buda Economic Development Corporation. Another key point I’d like to highlight was that San Marcos folks came in to visit! While they weren’t able to have a Texas Venture Crawl this year, the Greater San Marcos Partnership not only helped promote, but showed up, took some great photos, and shared some online. They demonstrated a key Texan value of being a great neighbor!

Put the next statewide, simultaneous venture networking experience on your calendar for next year here.

About the Texas Venture Crawl

The Texas Venture Crawl is a simultaneous statewide startup and investor networking experience founded in 2022 and is a partnership between Texas Venture Alliance and leading cohosts all across Texas. It started in downtown Austin, hosted in 5 venues, used 3 venture shuttle stops, and attracted more than 1,300 attendees.

This year it grew to 10 cities, 15 venues, 22 committee members, 10 volunteers, 40+ venture panelists, and 2,500+ Texans. The following cities participated: Austin, Dallas, Round Rock, Houston, Kerrville, Brownsville, El Paso, Buda, Boerne, and San Antonio.

Thank you to the “Texas-sized” statewide sponsors: Pacific Western Bank, Akerman, the Texas State Chamber of Commerce (Texas Association of Business), In Good Taste Wines, Liquid Death Water, and returning supporter from the first founding sponsorship of the Venture Crawl, Eisner Amper.