| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.12.2023 | StartUPDATES: New Developments From Healthcare Startups | FreezeNit, the trailblazer in non-toxic head lice treatment, is celebrating a significant win at the 2023 UpSwell conference’s Fast Pitch competition. Sponsored by Social Venture Partners Dallas, this prestigious event saw Joanna Shu, Freez... |
| 27.10.2023 | Houston is the 8th best metro for newcomers to make connections, study says | A big city might seem impersonal, but don't be fooled. There's more going on behind the scenes than what a resident might be seeing through their local lens, especially in Houston. A recent LinkedIn study has revealed the best U.S. metros f... |
| 27.10.2023 | What Houston startups are hiring, new high tech athletics facility, 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 articles on InnovationMap included which Houston Innovation Awards finalists are hiring, Ric... |
| 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... |
| 19.10.2023 | University of Houston doubles down on Sugar Land tech campus with $65M building | The University of Houston broke ground earlier this month on a new $65 million instructional building that will allow the college to move its entire Technology Division to Sugar Land.
The 75,000-square-foot building, known as Technology Bui... |
| 16.10.2023 | Houston-area selected among 7 regions for $7B federal hydrogen hub investment | A Houston-area project got the green light as one of the seven regions to receive a part of the $7 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to advance domestic hydrogen production.
President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Jennifer G... |
| 16.10.2023 | 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 health care to energy tech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Kelsey Hultberg, execu... |
| 13.10.2023 | Houston innovator backed by NIH grant tackles congenital heart disease in pediatric patients | In 1969, Dr. Denton A. Cooley implanted the first total artificial heart in a living patient. Most Houstonians know Cooley’s name, but fewer can name his colleague, Dr. Domingo Liotta, who created the device. Liotta died last year at the ag... |
| 12.10.2023 | Houston founders: How safe is your company's data? | As news comes out every week about new technologies, from new crypto wallets to generative AI to self-driving taxis, it can get overwhelming for most of us to keep up or to understand the new intricacies of technology, and it can get easy t... |
| 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 | Houston AI SaaS startup secures $5.5M seed funding from Austin VC | A Houston startup that's using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to disrupt the retail automotive industry has raised seed funding.
Konect.ai announced a $5.5 million seed investment from Austin-based Silverton Partner... |
| 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... |
| 25.09.2023 | Houston-based, cancer-fighting organization breaks ground on new collaborative building | Houston is where medical researchers and clinicians come together. And it’s getting easier for that to happen thanks to an innovative new facility from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
On September 20, the world-class inst... |
| 22.09.2023 | Houston health care leader on a mission to innovate an end to heart failure | Emerson Perin’s end goal isn’t to treat heart failure. The medical director of The Texas Heart Institute says that he has his sights set firmly on curing the malady altogether. And, with the power of innovation and a strong team, the Housto... |
| 20.09.2023 | Photos: City of Houston reveals $4.4M facilities upgrades to repair Hurricane Harvey damage | Where some might see just a basement, Mayor Sylvester Turner sees an opportunity to tell a story of Houston's resiliency and dedication to sustainability.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, it left 18 to 20 inches of floodwaters in the base... |
| 20.09.2023 | 2 Houston universities score big for patents, MBA programs | Two new rankings have put the University of Houston and Rice University in the academic limelight.
UH ranks 60th on the National Academy of Inventors’ list of the top 100 universities for utility patents granted last year in the U.S. Meanwh... |
| 19.09.2023 | Houston heart health startup secures $8M in funding, announces new partnerships | With fresh funding, a Houston-based health tech platform that's less than a year old has grown its United States footprint.
CardioOne, which has created a cardiology care delivery enablement platform that serves independent cardiologists, h... |
| 18.09.2023 | NASA lands on top of prestigious list of Forbes' best employers in Texas | Houston continues to prove it hosts the best of the best employers in Texas as NASA tops Forbes' 2023 list of "America’s Best Employers By State."
The highly anticipated list, published August 22, is a collaboration between Forbes... |
| 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... |
| 11.09.2023 | 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.
Michelle Stansbury, vi... |
| 08.09.2023 | Houston startup launches networking app for next-generation energy workforce | A Houston-based media organization dedicated to covering the energy industry has officially launched the beta program of their networking app.
After producing zanily named energy podcasts like “Big Digital Energy” and “What the Funk,” Digit... |
| 06.09.2023 | University of Houston reveals inaugural cohort of energy research fellows | The University of Houston has named eight graduate students to its first-ever cohort of UH-Chevron Energy Graduate Fellows.
The PhD and doctoral students will each receive a one-year $12,000 fellowship, along with mentoring from experts at ... |
| 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... |
| 30.08.2023 | NIH pumps $1.14M into Houston health care institute to develop life-saving cardiatric drug | Atherosclerosis is a prime pathway to heart attack, heart failure, and stroke. In fact, one in every five deaths recorded in 2021 was due to cardiovascular disease, much of which was caused by atherosclerosis. The thickening and hardening o... |
| 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... |
| 16.08.2023 | Houston developer to roll out innovative pilot to improve parking at major development | Houston real estate company McCord Development will roll out an innovative 12-week pilot to learn how to make parking smarter at its master planned development Generation Park in Northeast Houston.
In partnership with Milwaukee-based CivicS... |
| 02.12.2022 | Houston startups raise funding, secure partnerships across space, health, and sports tech | It's been a new month and a few Houston startup wrapped up November with news you may have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston startups and tech, three Houston startups across health care, space, and sports tech have som... |
