Noah’s Ark is being built as an all-in-one pet care app that combines lost-pet recovery with reward incentives, community-shared care advice, and a marketplace featuring both local pet vendors/shelters and national brands. The pitch is that pet ownership today is fragmented — lost-pet recovery relies on scattered Facebook posts and flyers, new pet owners struggle to find trustworthy care guidance, and small shelters and mom-and-pop pet shops struggle to compete with big-box retailers — and Noah’s Ark aims to unify all of it into one app, with planned features including in-app televet consultations and an AI-powered pet waste analyzer for early health detection. The company presented at BCIC’s September 2025 Startup Texas pitch nights at the eBridge Center, part of a program run by the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC) in partnership with UTRGV’s Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center (ECC).
CEO Daniel Pizana is a practicing Brownsville attorney (Law Office of Daniel Pizana PLLC, focused on criminal, family, and immigration law) who has also pursued another Startup Texas venture, PayMyLawyer, a legal payment platform, which he pitched at Startup Texas Pitch Fest 2025 in February 2025. He founded Noah’s Ark in March 2024 alongside three other part-time co-founders — Rick Morales, Odalys Curiel, and Juan Pablo Torne — who had already been working together for roughly 2.5 years when they applied to Startup Texas in March 2025.
At a glance
- Founders: Daniel Pizana (CEO), Rick Morales, Odalys Curiel, and Juan Pablo Torne (Co-Founders)
- Startup Texas program: 2025 Startup Texas Accelerator, Emerging Industries cohort
- Pitched at: Startup Texas Emerging Industries Pitch Fest 2025
- Website: noahsarkpets.net
- Email: legal@noahsarkpets.net (Daniel Pizana); rick.morales@noahsarkpets.net; odalyscuriel@noahsarkpets.net