Houston Technology Center (HTC) is the largest technology business incubator/ accelerator in Texas. HTC provides in-depth business guidance, access to capital, introduction to service providers and entrepreneurial education to client companies representing the following key sectors: Energy, Life Sciences, Nanotechnology, NASA-originating technologies and Technology. In eight years of operation, HTC has provided feedback to well over 1,000 companies; and coached more than 250 companies, helping them raise in excess of $750 million, and create over 3,000 jobs. A non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, HTC is supported by more than 300 corporations and organizations, Houston's leading academic institutes, the Greater Houston Partnership, the Texas Medical Center, NASA-Johnson Space Center and the City of Houston. HTC serves as the Gulf Coast Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (see profile) for Texas Governor Rick Perry's Emerging Technology Fund. HTC assists small to mid-size technology firms in expediting the commercialization of new life-changing inventions and improving research at Texas universities. HTC's 50,000 square foot state-of-the-art Midtown facility offers private, secured offices accessible 24/7, VOIP telecom system, network connections to printer/fax/copier and email. One hour of free IT desktop support per person per month and unlimited domestic long distance calling are included in the rent.