| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.05.2026 | Houston-based Oxy officially announces CEO transition, names successor | Houston-based Occidental (Oxy) has officially announced its longtime CEO's retirement and her successor.
Oxy shared that Vicki Hollub will retire June 1. Reuters first reported Hollub's plan to retire in March, but a firm date had not been ... |
| 08.05.2026 | Rice Brain Institute awards seed grants for dementia, Alzheimer’s research | The recently established Rice Brain Institute awarded 12 seed grants last month to support research on dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders.
The grants are part of the Rice DPRIT Seed Grant Pro... |
| 08.05.2026 | Report: These 10 jobs earn the biggest salary premiums in Texas | A move to Texas bolsters earnings for some, and a new SmartAsset study has revealed the top professions where the median annual earnings in the Lone Star State exceed the national median.
The report, "When it Pays to Work in Texas — an... |
| 07.05.2026 | Houston rises in 2026 ranking of best U.S. cities to start a business | Houston has reaffirmed its commitment to a business-friendly environment and now ranks as the 26th best large U.S. city for starting a business in 2026. The city jumped up eight places after ranking 34th last year.
WalletHub's annual report... |
| 07.05.2026 | Houston humanoid robotics startup taps Amazon veteran to lead manufacturing | Persona AI, a Houston-based startup that’s developing AI-powered humanoid robots for manufacturers and other businesses, has hired Brian Davis as head of global manufacturing.
Davis previously guided teams at Amazon Robotics and Dell Techno... |
| 06.05.2026 | Houston startup’s brain implant for depression advances to clinical trial | Houston-based Motif Neurotech has received FDA approval to move forward with its first clinical trial for its innovative way to fight treatment-resistant depression and other mental health disorders.
The company has developed a brain-comput... |
| 06.05.2026 | New immersive experience Time Mission clocks into Houston this summer | Time for a new immersive experience to come to Houston: Time Mission, a kid-friendly, team-based adventure, is scheduled to land at the Marq-E Entertainment District in summer 2026.
Created by LOL Entertainment, a location-based entertainme... |
| 05.05.2026 | 7+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events in May | Editor’s note: Houston is living up to its nicknames as Space City and the Energy Capital of the World this month with a lineup of insightful talks, pitch days and industry conferences. Plus, there are opportunities to network over crawfish... |
| 01.05.2026 | Houston legacy planning platform secures $2.5M investment, adds to board | Houston-based Paige, a comprehensive life planning and succession software company, has secured a $2.5 million investment to expand the AI-driven tools on its platform.
The funding comes from Alabama-based 22nd State Banking Company, accord... |
| 30.04.2026 | Houston digital health platform Koda lands strategic investment | Houston-based advance care planning platform Koda Health has added another investor to the lineup.
The company secured a strategic investment for an undisclosed amount from UPMC Enterprises, the commercialization arm of the University of Pi... |
| 29.04.2026 | New 'living pharmacy' biotech company launches out of Rice venture studio | Rice University’s biotech venture studio RBL LLC has launched a new “living pharmacy” company, Duracyte, designed to make cancer treatment easier on patients.
Backed by an up to $45 million Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA... |
| 28.04.2026 | Koda Health Secures Investment from UPMC Enterprises for AI-Enhanced Advance Care Planning Platform | What You Should Know
The Investment: Koda Health secured a Series A strategic investment from UPMC Enterprises to aggressively scale its AI-enhanced Advance Care Planning (ACP) platform across complex patient populations.
The Financial Toll... |
| 27.04.2026 | Texas earns 22nd 'best state for business' title as GDP hits $2.9T | The Texas business sector recently received a double dose of good news.
For the 22nd consecutive year, Chief Executive magazine named Texas the best state for business. In tandem with that achievement, preliminary new estimates from the U.S... |
| 24.04.2026 | UH med school granted $2M gift to offer student scholarships | A new scholarship endowment aims to support students in the University of Houston’s recently established medical school.
The University of Houston’s Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine received a planned estate gift commitment est... |
| 13.09.2025 | Penguin Ai: $29.7 Million Raised To Reduce Administrative Costs in Healthcare | Penguin Ai has completed a $29.7 million financing round aimed at tackling the massive administrative burden that weighs down the healthcare industry. Greycroft led the company’s Series A round with $25 million in new capital, and it also a... |
| 25.06.2025 | Report: Health Systems Turn to Technology to Combat Enduring Workforce Challenges | What You Should Know:
– A new report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) at UPMC and KLAS Research reveals that healthcare leaders are increasingly investing in technology to address persistent workforce issues, years after the COV... |
| 12.05.2025 | UPMC Enterprises, Redesign Health Launch Glimmer Health to Transform Chronic Pain Management in Primary Care | What You Should Know:
– Glimmer Health, a new company designed to empower primary care physicians with effective and comprehensive chronic pain management solutions, was officially unveiled today by UPMC Enterprises and Redesign Health. Thi... |
| 23.01.2025 | Percipio Health: A New Dawn in Population Health Monitoring | In the vast landscape of healthcare, innovation often feels like a mirage. Yet, Percipio Health emerges as a beacon of hope. This new platform, powered by artificial intelligence, has just raised $20 million in Series A funding. The backers... |
| 21.01.2025 | Percipio Health Launches AI-Powered Population Health Platform with $20M | What You Should Know:
– Percipio Health, a population health monitoring and management platform, today announced its official launch and the closing of a $20M in Series A funding round led by UPMC Enterprises, WAVE Ventures, and Labcorp.
– ... |
| 19.10.2024 | Pip Care's $5 Million Surge: Transforming the Surgical Experience | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, innovation is the lifeblood that keeps the system alive. Pip Care, a New York City-based company, has just injected fresh energy into this realm by securing $5 million in Series A funding. This ... |
| 17.10.2024 | Pip Care Raises $5M for Personalized Surgical Journey Platform | What You Should Know:
– Pip Care, a company revolutionizing the surgical experience for patients and care teams, has successfully raised $5 million in Series A funding led by A1 Health Ventures with participation from UPMC Enterprises.
– Pi... |
| 17.10.2024 | Pip Care Raises $5M for AI-Powered Surgical Journey Platform | What You Should Know:
– Pip Care, a company revolutionizing the surgical experience for patients and care teams, has successfully raised $5 million in Series A funding led by A1 Health Ventures with participation from UPMC Enterprises.
– Pi... |
| 25.06.2024 | eVisit Acquires UPMC’s Inpatient Teleconsult Technology | What You Should Know:
– eVisit, a provider of virtual care solutions for health systems, announced a significant expansion today through a three-pronged approach: acquisition of UPMC’s inpatient teleconsult technology, strategic investments... |
| 09.03.2024 | BrainCheck Revolutionizes Cognitive Health Assessment with $15M Investment | BrainCheck, a digital health company founded by Stanford neuroscience professor David Eagleman, has secured a $15 million Series B extension to address the pressing need for rapid cognitive tests in the face of growing Alzheimer's disease r... |
| 07.03.2024 | Digital cognitive assessment platform BrainCheck raises $15M | BrainCheck's Assess medical device can evaluate five cognitive domains in less than 15 minutes
More than 7 million Americans are unaware they have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and without intervention nearly 30% of these patients could g... |
| 15.12.2023 | HealthTech startup Patientory partners with WIVA in a capital raise to democratize access to healthcare data | About 40% of adults in the United States grapple with chronic illnesses, regularly navigating various facets of the country’s healthcare system, according to data from the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors. This results in t... |
| 13.09.2023 | Sempre Health Secures $20M to Expand Behavior-Based Healthcare Pricing | Sempre Health
What You Should Know:
– Sempre Health, a San Francisco, CA-based solution for behavior-based healthcare pricing raises $20M in additional funding from three new investors, including Cencora Ventures and Echo Health Ventures. E... |
| 07.03.2023 | Noema Pharma raises CHF103 million | |
| 27.01.2023 | Smile Digital Health Closes $30M to Expand Health Data Fabric Platform | What You Should Know: |
| 18.01.2023 | M&A: Arrive Health Acquires UPMC Enterprises Pharmacy Technology | What You Should Know:
UPMC Enterprises Pharmacy Technology Background
UPMC Enterprises and UPMC pharmacy experts have developed and deployed technology to support medication adherence. The AI virtual assistant and integrated workflow tools ... |
| 13.09.2022 | Redesign Health Raises $65M to Build Next-Gen Health Startups | What You Should Know: |
| 11.08.2022 | Abridge Secures $12.5M to Power AI-Powered Medical Conversations
| What You Should Know:
Provider burnout continues to be a serious issue for healthcare systems, especially in the aftermath of the pandemic. National studies suggest that more than 50 percent of providers experience burnout-related symptoms,... |
| 08.10.2021 | Can Pittsburgh become a life sciences hub? Here’s a list of startup resources to make it happen | As Pittsburgh makes strides in tech sectors like robotics, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence, some are wondering what the city’s next big horizon might be. Word on the street at recent events is that it could be life sciences.... |
| 05.02.2021 | UPMC Spinout Astrata Launches NLP Platform to Improve Value-Based Care | What You Should Know:
– UPMC spinout company Astrata launches a natural language processing (NLP) technology platform that allows health insurers to more efficiently analyze unstructured clinical data.
UPMC Enterprises, the innovation and c... |
| 05.11.2020 | How AlphaLab Health could spur some much-needed competition in Pittsburgh’s life sciences sector | Long before Rich Lunak became president and CEO of Innovation Works—the Pittsburgh region’s top seed-stage investor—he was on the other side of the table, working to turn Automated Healthcare, a humble three-person startup focused on automa... |
| 21.09.2020 | How Covid-19 is driving regional innovation in digital health | Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in every corner of the world have been touched by human tragedy and financial hardship from the global economic downturn. As difficult as these hardships have been, coping with Co... |
| 29.11.2019 | 3 Underfunded Areas Essential To The Success of Value-Based Care | – Third annual Top of Mind for Top Health Systems survey from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) reveals value-based care depends on three underfunded technologies.
– KLAS Research shows patient engagement, data analytics, and precisio... |
| 16.05.2019 | UPMC Launches New Telemedicine Company to Tackle Infectious Diseases | Abdel-Massih, director, tele-ID services at UPMC (Left) &
David Zynn, president,ID Connect (Right)
UPMC, today announced the launch of a new telemedicine-enabled company to help hospitals address the nationwide shortage of physicians sp... |
| 11.05.2018 | Biotech startup developing carbon monoxide poisoning antidote closes $5M Series A | Globin Solutions licensed the technology that forms the basis of the antidote from the University of Pittsburgh. The founders of the business who developed the antidote each serves on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Me... |
| 19.05.2017 | Where Do WI And Milwaukee, Last In Startup Activity, Go From Here? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Call it a “three-peat,” a losing streak, or what you will. Just don’t call it a surprise.
On Thursday, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation released its latest ranking of star... |
| 06.09.2016 | UPMC backs cancer diagnostics startup Cernostics | This recent infusion of cash will help Pittsburgh-based Cernostics build out the sales and marketing of a test that identifies patients at risk of developing esophageal cancer — before they develop cancer. But the technology, known as Tissu... |
| 22.03.2016 | UPMC Enterprises puts $3M into Big Data innovations | UPMC Enterprises, the commercialization and investment arm of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will put more than $3 million into the first six innovations created under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance.
The P... |
| 29.02.2016 | UPMC Chief Innovation Officer talks about its investment strategy in health tech | Tal Heppenstall, president of UPMC Enterprises, the commercialization arm of UPMC which made the investment, said in a statement on medCPU, that in the long-term, “this powerful technology will enable the development of other data-dependent... |
| - | UPMC Enterprises puts $3M into Big Data innovations | UPMC Enterprises, the commercialization and investment arm of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will put more than $3 million into the first six innovations created under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance.
The P... |
| - | Biotech startup developing carbon monoxide poisoning antidote closes $5M Series A | A biotech startup formed by a group of scientists at the University of Pittsburgh has closed a Series A funding round. Globin Solutions raised more than $5 million for an antidote to treat carbon monoxide poisoning.
The funding will be used... |
| - | UPMC Chief Innovation Officer talks about its investment strategy in health tech | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has led or taken part in a string of health tech startup investments in the past two weeks spanning data warehouse business Health Catalyst, behavioral health startup Lantern, and remote monitoring co... |
| - | How Covid-19 is driving regional innovation in digital health | Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in every corner of the world have been touched by human tragedy and financial hardship from the global economic downturn. As difficult as these hardships have been, coping with Co... |
| - | BrainCheck Secures $15M to Transform Digital Cognitive Care | What You Should Know:
– BrainCheck, Inc., an innovator in digital cognitive assessment raises $15M in Series A funding led by Next Coast Ventures, S3 Ventures, and UPMC Enterprises, the innovation arm of UPMC.
– Alongside the funding, Brain... |
| - | UPMC backs cancer diagnostics startup Cernostics | The molecular technology being developed to spot cancer may be less iconic than the old image of pathologists bent over a microscope looking at tiny cells trapped between glass slides. But algorithms and cells have spurred a market teeming ... |
