Bart supports researchers and entrepreneurs in developing solutions to humanity’s toughest challenges. As Head of Accelerator at Starburst, he leads the new Innovation Corridor Defense Accelerator (ICDA) to catalyze the Austin-to-San Antonio, Texas region’s emerging aerospace, defense and space technology sectors.

As a Partner at ATP, he invests in early stage, deep-tech startups tackling energy transition, future-of-compute and climate change challenges. Bart teaches Entrepreneurial Finance at The University of Texas at Austin and is a co-founder of the emerging Texas Futures Coalition, a group of regional leaders developing a Texas-wide climate solutions ecosystem.

Previously in Bart’s entrepreneurial journey, he founded 3 Day Startup to provide learning-by-doing entrepreneurship educational programs to college students around the world; ATI Water to reduce embedded water in agriculture, energy production and manufacturing; WaterRIOT to get internet-of-things technologists to focus on our water infrastructure; UT SEAL to transition the most promising university-sourced startups to the mainstream startup ecosystem; Build Sec Foundry to help veterans launch cyber security startups; and co-designed and co-led the Onward climate tech startup accelerator with a division of Shell Energy. His own AI startups were members of Techstars, Capital Factory and ATI and he was previously a management consultant with KPMG Consulting (BearingPoint) and Arthur Andersen.