gBETA Round Rock Announces Inaugural Cohort

ROUND ROCK, Texas — gBETA Round Rock, a free, seven-week pre-accelerator program powered by gener8tor, proudly announces the five innovative startups selected to participate in its inaugural Fall 2025 cohort.

The participating companies include Formus, Longhorn Life Sciences, ThreatVisor, TillerXR and XPerf. Click here to read more about each startup.

This cohort was selected from a competitive pool of more than 60 applicants, demonstrating strong interest in the program and reflecting 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 dozens of 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, mixer, and the culminating startup showcase, where founders will pitch to investors, partners, and the broader community.

“We’re incredibly excited about the caliber of startups participating in this inaugural gBETA Round Rock cohort,” said Jordan Robinson, president and CEO of the Round Rock Chamber. “Each company reflects the innovation that make our community so special. Their success underscores why programs like gBETA are essential to positioning Round Rock as a destination for world-class entrepreneurship.”

gBETA Round Rock was made possible through a partnership between gener8tor and the Round Rock Chamber, whose shared commitment to advancing innovation and entrepreneurship is helping position Round Rock as a leader in the Central Texas startup ecosystem.

Through this collaboration and with the support of local universities, civic organizations, and ecosystem partners 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 Round Rock as a model for inclusive, sustainable economic development.

“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.”

Click here to learn more about gBETA Round Rock or contact Destin Bell at destin.bell@gener8tor.com.

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