| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.08.2024 | Diakonos Oncology: Pioneering the Future of Cancer Treatment with $11.4 Million Seed Funding | In the bustling heart of Houston, a beacon of hope is emerging in the fight against cancer. Diakonos Oncology, a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, has successfully raised $11.4 million in seed funding. This financial boost, led by the... |
| 27.08.2024 | Diakonos Oncology Closes $11.4M Seed Financing | Diakonos Oncology Corp., a Houston, TX-based clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, raised $11.4M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Restem Group Inc., with participation from existing investors.
Led by CEO Mike Wicks, Diakonos Oncology... |
| 26.08.2024 | Diakonos Oncology: $11.4 Million (Seed) Raised To Advance Differentiated Dendritic Cell Vaccine | Houston-based Diakonos Oncology – a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company – announced the final closing of an oversubscribed seed financing of $11.4 million. This funding round was led by biotechnology investment firm Restem Group, with pa... |
| 28.12.2023 | Money moves: Most-read Houston innovation grant and gift news of 2023 | Editor's note: As the year comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. Money means a lot to startups and other innovative entities, and while startups are usually scouting venture capital... |
| 22.12.2023 | Startup secures $2.5M, SPAC deal close, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included a recently closed funding round for an energy tech startu... |
| 18.12.2023 | New GHP leader takes helm, creates ‘shared leadership model’ | The Greater Houston Partnership announced organizational changes under the tenure of its new president and CEO, Steve Kean.
Kean officially took on his new role earlier this month, after being named the next CEO this summer. The GHP's forme... |
| 12.12.2023 | Proposed Texas high-speed Houston-Dallas rail lands $500K in federal funds | Amtrak and its partners will receive more than $2.1 billion in a federal program to improve existing routes and expand Amtrak service across the U.S.
That includes $500,000 from the Federal Railroad Administration awarded to the long-in-the... |
| 07.12.2023 | Space health nonprofit to send 6 more experiments to space on Houston company's next mission | A Houston organization announced that it plans to launch six more experiments into space next year that look to learn more about everything from motion sickness to genome alterations during space travel.
The Translational Research Institute... |
| 27.11.2023 | Houston software company raises $50M series A, plans to scale | Just nine months after its seed round, a Houston startup with a software platform for the aesthetic and wellness industry has secured $40 million in venture capital and $10 million in debt facility.
RepeatMD, a SaaS platform, announced toda... |
| 13.11.2023 | Houston initiative receives $4M grant to promote biomedical entrepreneurship | The National Institute of Health has awarded a $4 million grant to a Houston-area initiative in the name of sparking biomedical activity.
The grant will create a new Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub, known as REACH, in Houston.... |
| 13.11.2023 | New report ranks Houston as the top city for foreign investment | For the second time, a report has analyzed the top markets in the United States for the rest of the world to do business in. This year, that top spot belongs to Houston.
The second annual FT-Nikkei Investing in America ranking, which came o... |
| 09.11.2023 | Annual report ranks 4 Houston tech companies on list of fasting growing businesses | Deloitte just unveiled the fastest-growing technology companies in North America — and four businesses from Houston made the cut.
For the 29th year, 2023 Technology Fast 500 ranked top tech, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and ene... |
| 09.11.2023 | Houston expert shares strategies for addressing potential workforce shortages | The energy industry, a vital part of Houston’s business ecosystem, faces the challenge of a shrinking workforce.
A U.S. Chamber of Commerce report indicates the workforce has nearly two million fewer workers today as compared to February 20... |
| 09.11.2023 | Houston startups dominate ‘most-promising’ companies announcement at annual event | Rice University played host this week to the 12th annual Texas Life Science Forum, where life science leaders and startup founders could network, learn and present pitches on their solutions to a wide array of health-related issues.
Hosted ... |
| 08.11.2023 | Houston Innovation Awards winners revealed at 2023 event | Who are the top innovators and startups in Houston? We just found out for you.
The Houston Innovation Awards honored over 50 finalists categories, naming the 12 winners at the event. The 2023 Trailblazer Award recipient, Brad Burke, managin... |
| 26.10.2023 | Houston energy startup joins Texas-based climate accelerator | An Austin-based climate accelerator announced its 2023 cohort, which includes a Houston cleantech startup.
StudioX named seven startups to its 2023 cohort, and SeisWave Corp., a seismic service company, will join the program that aims to he... |
| 26.10.2023 | VC investor: Houston's energy tech ecosystem grows as Bay Area activity seemingly slows | There's stretch of sleek low rise office buildings in Palo Alto — referred to as Sandhill Road — that has long been the center of Silicon Valley (and the world’s) venture capital sector. An investor friend of mine told me recently that Sand... |
| 24.10.2023 | Rice University secures NSF support to look into Houston flooding | Houston will be the setting of a new three-year National Science Foundation-funded study that focuses on a phenomenon the city is quite familiar with: flooding.
Conducted by Rice University, the study will consider how "design strategi... |
| 20.10.2023 | Rice University, Houston Methodist launch state-of-the art human performance center | Rice University and Houston Methodist teamed up to open the new Center for Human Performance this month.
Located in Rice’s Tudor Fieldhouse, just across the street from Houston Methodist's Texas Medical Center offices, the interdisciplinary... |
| 18.10.2023 | Houston immunotherapy company achieves FDA designation for cancer-fighting vaccine | The FDA has granted a Houston-based company a Fast Track designation.
Diakonos Oncology Corp. is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company that has developed a unique dendritic cell vaccine, DOC1021. The vaccine targets glioblastoma multifor... |
| 16.10.2023 | Here's what Houston startups snagged fresh funding last quarter | With Houston's business and innovation community firmly in its final leg of 2023, it's time to look back on funding from the previous quarter.
While last quarter revealed a decline in VC funding in line with the rest of the country, per Pit... |
| 13.10.2023 | Local billionaires top list of richest in Houston, per Forbes | Austin's Elon Musk and Michael Dell are the richest people in Texas, but Houston billionaires are not far behind, according to the newForbes 400, a list of the 400 richest people in the United States for 2023.
Houston oil tycoon JefferyHild... |
| 12.10.2023 | Exclusive: First self-driving car service for passengers launches in Houston | For the first time, Houstonians can hail an autonomous vehicle to get from point A to point B, thanks to a tech company's latest market roll out.
San Francisco-based Cruise, which has launched in its hometown, Phoenix, and Austin over the p... |
| 12.10.2023 | 3 Houston college students win big in global Intel AI competition | Three students from Houston Community College Southwest won the top national prize at the 2023 Intel AI Global Impact Festival competition, HCC announced this month.
Sumesh Surendran, Ruben Treviño, and Muskaan Shahzad won the top spot in t... |
| 11.10.2023 | Innovative California company taps Houston area for purified water projects | Houstonians are used to filtering their water, but few really ponder why they’re doing it.
“Most people, when they think about water stress, they think about water scarcity, like what you see happening in Northern Africa or maybe the Southe... |
| 11.10.2023 | Houston corporate communications expert on importance of messaging when scaling a tech company | Several years ago, Kelsey Hultberg decided to make a pivot. Looking for a role with career growth opportunities, the communications professional thought she'd find something at an oil and gas company, but then she met John Berger, founder a... |
| 11.10.2023 | Global accelerator announces latest Houston cohort of early-stage startups | For the eighth time, a global accelerator and venture group has selected five early-stage Houston tech startups to support and help grow.
In partnership with the Downtown Launchpad, gener8tor began its eighth gBETA cohort in September. The ... |
| 10.10.2023 | Pediatric device consortium led by Baylor, Texas Children's lands $7.4M FDA grant | The Southwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium announced this month that it has received a $7.4 million grant from the Food and Drug Administration to continue developing innovative pediatric medical devices.
Led by Baylor Co... |
| 09.10.2023 | 3+ Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries, from biotech to energy software, recently making headlines in Houston innovation — plus the decision maker... |
| 06.10.2023 | University of Houston lands $63.5M contract with DOD to develop tech for the 'future battlefield' | The University of Houston was recently awarded its largest grant in history—this time, from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The $63.5 million contract aims to support UH in developing analytical modeling and simulation platforms that help t... |
| 06.10.2023 | Texas burger spot takes bite out of innovative, eco-friendly initiative | Hearty Austin-based chain Hopdoddy Burger Bar has unveiled a new lineup of regenerative burgers that are supposed to be better for the planet and the consumer.
The term "regenerative burger" could cause a few head-scratches: Some ... |
| 04.10.2023 | Why this innovator is passionate about uniting Texans in tech and venture | This Friday, Texas innovators across the state will simultaneously show up to support each other, network with potential investors, and talk shop — and it's all thanks to one Austinite.
CS Freeland is organizing the second annual Texas Vent... |
| 02.10.2023 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from femtech to edtech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Pedro Silva, CEO and co-founder... |
| 02.10.2023 | Space tech startup opens new $40M HQ at Houston Spaceport | Houston aerospace company Intuitive Machines has moved into its new $40 million headquarters at the Houston Spaceport.
Intuitive Machines’ new home supports NASA’s $93 billion Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon by ... |
| 28.09.2023 | Houston expert encourages energy industry to bridge its generational divides | What’s the biggest obstacle between us and net-zero? Is it policy? Technology? Financing? All of these are important, yes, but none of them is what is really holding us back from our energy transition goals.
The biggest obstacle is a lack o... |
| 27.09.2023 | Houston startup founders prepare to scale globally following Shark Tank success | While Milkify's founders — husband and wife team Pedro Silva and Berkley Luck — secured partners on a popular business pitch and investment show, the entire experience almost didn't happen.
Silva and Luck, who got her PhD in molecular and b... |
| 25.09.2023 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from health care to energy tech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Brianna Brazle, founde... |
| 22.09.2023 | United taps a Houston startup for business, awards tickets go on sale, and more trending innovation news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included Houston schools scoring national rankings, a new deal for a H... |
| 21.09.2023 | Houston program buoys promising cancer research with live-saving innovation | How do you bring promising cancer research to the masses? TMC Innovation's Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics was established with that question in mind.
Funded by a $5 million grant from CPRIT, or the Cancer Prevention and Research Instit... |
| 21.09.2023 | New-to-Houston hardtech accelerator names new CEO, opens applications | A national organization that helps accelerate scientists into entrepreneurs has named its new CEO in the same week that applications opened for its 2024 cohort.
This week, Activate announced Cyrus Wadia as CEO of the organization. Based Cal... |
| 19.09.2023 | 6 ways Houston startups and small businesses can integrate AI, machine learning | In today's fast-paced and technologically driven world, artificial intelligence and machine learning have emerged as transformative technologies that hold immense potential for startups and small businesses. While AI was once perceived as t... |
| 18.09.2023 | Texas organization announces inaugural cohort of social enterprise startups with Web3 tech | A Texas-based accelerator focused on helping BIPOC and female founders on their entrepreneurial journeys announced the inaugural class for its newest accelerator.
DivInc's DWeb for Social Impact Accelerator, a 12-week intensive hybrid progr... |
| 15.09.2023 | New certificate course trains a ready workforce as biotech companies in Pearland take off | Biotech companies in Pearland are thriving, with big names such as Lonza, Millar Inc. Inc., and Abbott all experiencing tremendous growth in recent years.
The only challenge to this success is the increased demand for a faster workforce pip... |
| 14.09.2023 | Houston startup with sustainable biotech solutions lands new customer in United Airlines | An innovative Houston company is celebrating a new deal with a global airline.
Cemvita Corp. announced a new offtake arrangement with United Airlines. Cemvita's first full-scale sustainable aviation fuel plant will provide up to 1 billion g... |
| 11.09.2023 | Rice University launches research innovation grant program with VC fund in the works | Over 60 years ago at Rice University, President John F. Kennedy recommitted the country to the Space Race. Now, decades later, the university is announcing its commitment to moonshot innovators.
Rice University's Office of Innovation establ... |
| 08.09.2023 | Houston innovation events, cell lab at UH opens, and more trending news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the latest roundup of can't miss events, a unique new lab at ... |
| 05.09.2023 | Houston regenerative medicine company opens new lab at UH | Pete O’Heeron wants you to know that “Bohemian Rhapsody” was originally released as a B-side. What does this nugget about Queen have to do with regenerative medicine? For O’Heeron and his company, FibroBiologics, it means everything.
That’s... |
| 30.08.2023 | How this Houston investor closed a $32M oversubscribed fund in less than a month | It might be cool to arrive fashionably late to a party, but Houston investor Sahir Ali likes to be early when it comes to new technologies.
"What has been a part of my success and has driven a lot of my profesional, scientific, and fin... |
| 28.08.2023 | Houston caught slacking in Forbes study on best cities for remote workers | With many companies encouraging — or commanding — that remote workers return to the office in 2023, more and more Americans are seeking employment opportunities that will give them the freedom to work from elsewhere.
Houston is (remotely) c... |
| 28.08.2023 | Photos: Ion Houston's latest art installations tackle tech, social issues | Two new art installations at the Ion speak to the building's past and its potential future.
Revealed at an event earlier this month, the innovation hub developed by Rice University is now home to installations by Houston-based artists Chris... |
| 24.08.2023 | Houston to host 6 Italian aerospace companies with new program | It's an Italian invasion in Houston — and it's happening in the name of accelerating innovation within aerospace.
For the first time, Italy has announced an international aerospace-focused program in the United States. The Italian Trade Age... |
| 22.08.2023 | Houston space tech startup raises $350M series C, clinches unicorn status | Houston has another unicorn — a company valued at $1 billion or more — thanks to a recent round of funding.
Axiom Space released the news this week that it's closed its series C round of funding to the tune of $350 million. While the compan... |
| 22.08.2023 | Massive $32M gift from former patient, new UH deal pump big changes into Houston organization | Leadership at The Texas Heart Institute has two major things to celebrate. First, it just received a $32 million donation from a patient — the largest charitable donation in its history.
Shortly after that news came out, the institute annou... |
| 18.08.2023 | Top hospitals, accelerator's new leader, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the top hospitals in Texas, key facts about Houston's innovat... |
| 16.08.2023 | This Houston medical device innovator plans to lead a 'paradigm shift' in vascular surgery | Commercializing a health tech innovation is a long game — fraught with regulatory obstacles, cyclical rounds of funding, and continuous improvement — all fueled by the desire to enhance treatment and save lives.
That's Tim Boire's plan. And... |
| 16.08.2023 | University of Houston's new hub scores $100,000 grant from energy co. | A Houston school is cashing in a major gift from a local energy company in order to support the industry's future workforce, research, and more.
The University of Houston Energy Transition Institute received a $100,000 grant from the Baker ... |
| 15.08.2023 | Houston health care expert shares lessons from journey of developing a telehealth MVP | In the vibrant landscape of startups, the quest to build groundbreaking products can sometimes overshadow the true essence of our existence — to solve problems for our customers.
It's a trap many fall into, often leading to two common outco... |
| 15.08.2023 | Exclusive: New-to-Houston hardtech accelerator names local leader | An organization that promotes early-stage innovation within the hardtech space has named one of the founding entrepreneurs of Greentown Labs as its local Houston lead.
Activate named Jeremy Pitts as the Houston managing director this month.... |
| 15.02.2021 | Houston named national hot spot for this tech career, says report | The Greater Houston area ranks as one of the hot spots in the country for an in-demand area of tech expertise.
A new report from career website LinkedIn looks at an array of career categories exhibiting the highest year-over-year growth rat... |
| 28.01.2021 | Houston biotech receives up to $6M federal grant for COVID-19 treatment | The Pentagon is putting its financial power behind two COVID-19 clinical trials led by Houston-based biotech company Pulmotect Inc.
The U.S. Department of Defense is pumping as much as $6 million into the pair of Phase 2 trials, which invol... |
| 12.11.2020 | Rice research: Do leaders with distinctive names run distinctive businesses? | You probably know the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Bob Johnson. But how about DeShuna Spencer? She's the founder and CEO of the online streaming platform KweliTV. The platform's broad array of movies, news and other programming features... |
| 11.11.2020 | Deloitte explores the brave new world of virtual communication | Picture this: A corporate executive spends the morning exploring a trade show floor, viewing videos and presentations on new products and networking with companies, vendors, and other attendees from around the world.
In the afternoon, they ... |
| 09.10.2020 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note:Another week is in the book. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included events not to miss, the grand opening of the Downtown Launchpad, and more.
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| 30.09.2020 | Houston-based 3D printing company plans to change the world — one piece of trash at a time | Aside from collecting their plastics throughout the week and dragging the bin to the curb, people aren't usually preoccupied with the recycling of materials. Houston-based Re:3D wants to change that.
The company was founded in 2013 by NASA ... |
| 31.07.2020 | Houston oil and gas giant premieres new startup incubator and names first participant | Not intending to be left out of the energy transition, a Houston-based, multinational oil and gas services company has announced its new incubator for startups to advance cleaner, affordable energy.
Halliburton Company has introduced Hallib... |
| 30.07.2020 | New next-gen technology in Houston is enhancing vehicle navigation | The dawn of smart cities is upon us, using the internet of things to solve both big and little problems. In Georgia, Texas, and Hawaii, a new technology is being used that will ease traffic woes for public safety vehicles.
The technology us... |
| 30.06.2020 | Data science startup based in Houston focus on neuroscience software nabs $3.78M grant | Armed with a nearly $3.8 million federal grant, a Houston startup aims to boost neuroscience research around the world.
Vathes LLC, a developer of data management software that collaborates with neuroscience research labs in North America a... |
| 30.10.2019 | Houston recognized among the best hospital cities in the nation | As home to Texas Medical Center — the world's largest medical complex — it stands to reason that Houston ranks among the country's best cities for health care. A new study bolsters that notion, but it also points out that several health car... |
| 16.10.2019 | Texas again ranks poorly for its energy efficiency | Despite some growth in the industry's regional job market, Texas fails to rise through the ranks of a national report on energy efficiency.
For the second year in a row, the Lone Star State has made the list of the states with the worst ene... |
| 19.12.2018 | Houston entrepreneur wants to pave the way for female-led startups and VCs | It took her a second to be able to admit it, but Allison Lami Sawyer — a physicist by training and education — realized what her professional path was going to be when she was finishing up her MBA at Rice University.
"It took me a long... |
| 05.12.2018 | Leading venture capitalists forecast the future of funding in Houston | Despite Houston being known for its money, venture capital has struggled to hit its stride until recently. Now, as Houston has attracted more money for its startups — even coming close to Austin, according to recent data — the Bayou City fa... |
| - | Diakonos Oncology | “Diakonos Oncology, a clinical-stage biotechnology entity, was founded to address the critical and unmet medical need of late-stage and aggressive cancers .” |
