Round Rock Chamber Partners with gener8tor, Kicks Off Inaugural gBETA Round Rock Accelerator
ROUND ROCK, TX — The Round Rock Chamber, in partnership with gener8tor, proudly announces five innovative startups selected to participate in its inaugural gBETA Round Rock startup accelerator.
They are: Formus; Longhorn Life Sciences; ThreatVisor; TillerXR; and XPerf.
This cohort was selected from a competitive pool of 60+ applicants, demonstrating strong interest in the program and the vibrant entrepreneurial spirit in the region.
Over the seven weeks of programming, the cohort will participate in:
Mentor Swarms – Weekly “speed networking” sessions connecting founders with 25+ mentors, investors, and executives across Central Texas.
Lunch & Learns – Targeted workshops on topics like Customer Discovery, Revenue Models, Fundraising Fundamentals, and Startup Legal.
Weekly One-on-Ones – Tailored strategy sessions with gBETA staff to refine business models, growth metrics, and investor readiness.
Community Engagement Events – Including a Kickoff Breakfast, Round Rock Innovation Mixer, and the culminating Startup Showcase, where founders will pitch to investors, partners, and the broader community.
The Round Rock Chamber enlisted gener8tor, a global venture capital firm and startup accelerator, to launch the program. Through partnerships with local universities, civic organizations, and ecosystem leaders in Round Rock, gBETA Round Rock aims to support early-stage entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds; attract investment and talent to Round Rock’s growing innovation district; bridge opportunities between Austin’s startup density and Round Rock’s emerging industries; and showcase Central Texas as a model for inclusive, sustainable economic development.
This marks a major milestone in the region’s growing entrepreneurial landscape, bringing together founders, mentors, investors, and community leaders to establish Round Rock as a vital node in the Central Texas innovation corridor.
“Round Rock has always been a city that builds; from technology to education to entrepreneurship,” said Jordan Robinson, President and CEO of the Round Rock Chamber. “Programs like gBETA accelerate that growth by giving founders the mentorship, access, and visibility they need to thrive. This partnership represents our shared vision of making Round Rock a recognized hub for innovation and opportunity in Central Texas.”
“Our mission is to make Round Rock a magnet for entrepreneurial energy,” said Destin George Bell, Program Manager for gBETA Round Rock. “Each of these startups reflects the ingenuity, grit, and diversity of the founders shaping the next generation of Texas innovation. Through our program, we’re connecting them to the people and resources that will fuel their growth.”
“We believe Round Rock can become a top destination for founders who want access to world-class talent and mentorship without leaving their community,” added Bell. “Our vision is to build an ecosystem where innovation thrives right where the people of Round Rock live, work, and create.”
To learn more about gBETA Round Rock, visit the website here or contact Destin Bell at destin.bell@gener8tor.com.
gBETA Round Rock Fall 2025 Cohort
Formus transforms the fragmented $600B home renovation industry by centralizing architecture, design, and construction planning into one AI-powered platform that reduces miscommunication and rework. Formus serves small design-build firms and solo practitioners who use the platform to automate workflows, flag risks early, and align all stakeholders from initial conversations through project completion. Across Formus’ first 15 pilots, it has grossed $200K in revenue, creating up to 5x client revenue and a 50% reduction in non-billable hours.
CEO: Melissa Wood | mwood@formus.ai | formustech.com
Longhorn Life Sciences (LLS)’s iDetect, a wearable wound monitoring system, detects infections before visible symptoms, enabling timely, low-cost care that keeps patients out of the hospital. Patients wear iDetect beneath standard dressings during at-home recovery while clinicians at hospital systems and surgical practices receive real-time risk alerts. In blinded testing on human tissue wound models, iDetect’s proprietary microneedle sensors captured infection signatures within 18 hours and achieved 100% classification accuracy.
Co-founder & CEO: Dr. Miles Massidda | miles@longhornlifesciences.com | longhornlifesciences.com
ThreatVisor LLC delivers an AI-powered cybersecurity auditing platform, transforming overwhelming vulnerability scans into crystal-clear business intelligence and enabling organizations to instantly identify which 10 threats out of 10,000 actually put them at risk. ThreatVisor’s platform guides remediation with actionable, personalized, executive-ready insights for cybersecurity teams to quantify financial risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and make confident security investments. Since its 2024 launch, ThreatVisor has processed more than 400 production scans, cutting false positives by 90%, and maintains a perfect 100% retention rate among pilot partners, including military contractors and medical universities.
Founder & CEO: Syon Balakrishnan | syonb@threatvisor.org | threatvisor.org
TillerXR redefines how businesses create and share interactive 360° experiences by connecting the dots through proprietary GPS-powered automation, creating immersive virtual tours for indoor and outdoor spaces and venues around the world. TillerXR serves business owners and operators who need to showcase their spaces online, increasing their customer conversion rate by 30% through tours that deliver superior booking confidence compared to traditional methods. Since product launch of 2024 TillerXR has earned over $85K in top line revenue and has worked with over 700 customers across outdoor hospitality, venues, and boutique hotels.
Co-founder & CEO: Lizzy Bustamante | lizzy@tillerxr.com | tillerxr.com
XPerf Inc. delivers AI-native, hardware-aware optimization to AI data centers. Its proprietary Smart Analyzer and AI + Algorithm Rescheduler monitor, diagnose, and dynamically rebalance AI workloads for data centers, turning underutilized clusters into high-efficiency systems to boost GPU utilization by 40%+. Since Xperf’s launch in July 2025, it has raised over $2M in funding and has secured $1.1M in recurring contract revenue, with several data center customers in the pipeline.
Co-founder & CEO: Dr. Jierui(Jerry) Yu | jerry.yu@xperf.ai | xperf.ai
About gBETA
gBETA is a non-equity accelerator that facilitates the growth of early-stage companies through a network-driven program. This accelerator supports five startups per cohort and requires no fees for startups and takes no equity. Since launching in 2015, gBETA accelerator alumni have raised $940M+ in capital and created more than 6,300 jobs across the US and Canada.
About gener8tor
gener8tor is a global venture firm and accelerator network that supports startups, workers, employers, artists and musicians across race, place and gender. gener8tor partners with companies, governments, universities and nonprofits to operate programs and conferences in more than 41 communities across 22 states and two countries. Fast Company named gener8tor one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021 and 2022. The International Trade Council recognized gener8tor as the Global Venture Capital Firm of the Year in 2022.