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| Mar 13, 2026 | Houston researcher secures $1.7M to develop drug for aggressive form of breast cancer | A University of Houston researcher has joined a $3.2 million effort to develop a new drug designed to attack a cancer-driving protein commonly found in triple-negative breast cancer.
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most d... |
| Mar 12, 2026 | NASA revamps Artemis moon landing program by modeling it after Apollo | NASA is revamping its Artemis moon exploration program to make it more like the fast-paced Apollo program half a century ago, adding an extra practice flight before attempting a high-risk lunar landing with a crew in two years.
The overhaul... |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Booming Houston suburb launches innovation grant to attract startups | Think you’ve got a burgeoning startup? Consider moving it to southwest Houston. The City of Sugar Land announced the Sugar Land Starts Innovation Fund last week to support companies that move jobs to the area.
“The Sugar Land Starts Innovat... |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Income study shows $100,000 salary goes further in Houston in 2026 | A 2026 income study has good news for big earners in Houston: A six-figure salary goes further than it did last year.
A Houston resident's $100,000 salary is worth $84,840 after taxes and adjusted for the local cost of living, according to ... |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Houston leads Texas with 7 new National Academy of Inventors senior members | The University of Houston is now home to seven new senior members of the National Academy of Inventors.
The distinction honors active faculty, scientists and administrators from NAI member institutions that have demonstrated innovation and ... |
| Mar 3, 2026 | 6+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events in March | Editor's note: March brings the return of some of Houston’s signature innovation events, plus insightful talks and celebrations in honor of Women's History Month. Here’s what not to miss and how to register. Please note: this article may be... |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Last call for European startups: Your fast track into Japan’s $165 billion R&D market (Sponsored) | Japan is the world’s third-largest economy and a global leader in robotics, advanced manufacturing, and healthcare technology. However, language barriers, cultural differences, regulatory hurdles, and complex distribution networks often sto... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Houston's Innovation Landscape: A March to Remember | March is a vibrant month in Houston. The city pulses with energy, innovation, and opportunity. As spring blooms, so do events that shape the future of business and technology. From women’s empowerment to groundbreaking neurotechnology, Hous... |
| Mar 3, 2025 | 10 can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for March | Editor's note: March is here, and that means the return of some of Houston’s signature innovation events, as well as insightful talks and a Mardi Gras block party. Here are the Houston business and innovation events you can't miss in March ... |
| Sep 10, 2024 | BioVeritas Selected for Top Pitch Competition at 21st Annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum | David Austgen, BioVeritas CEO
The Energy Tech Venture Forum is the top energy tech VC conference connecting energy innovators, investors and corporations within the greater energy ecosystem BRYAN, TX, UNITED STATES, September 10, 2024 /EINP... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | 4 Houston universities earn top spots for graduate programs in Texas | Houston's top-tier universities have done it again. U.S. News and World Report has four Houston-area universities among the best grad schools in the state, with some departments landing among the top 100 in the country.
U.S. News publishes ... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Report: Houston secures spot on list of top 50 startup cities | A new ranking signals great promise for the growth of Houston’s startup network.
Houston ranks among the world’s top 50 startup cities on a new list from PitchBook, a provider of data and research about capital markets. In fact, Houston com... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Houston university lands $2.5M grant to expand STEM scholarship program for underserved communities | Rice University will expand its Rice Emerging Scholars Program (RESP) over the next two years thanks to a recent grant from the National Science Foundation.
The $2.5 million in NSF funding will allow Rice to increase the number of scholars ... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Houston mental health tech startup receives industry validation for bioelectronic device | A new tool in the fight against treatment-resistant depression could be on the horizon thanks to a Rice University professor.
Jacob Robinson, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of bioengineering is also co-founder and CE... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | RBPC's big winners, Hello Alice scores funding, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:Let's roundup the top Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included the results from the 2024 Rice Business Plan Competition, recent funding from a Houston startup,... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Here's what Houston startups have raised in funding so far in 2024 | Five Houston startups have started the new year strong with over $320 million in venture funding — most of which from one mega deal for a geothermal company.
According to InnovationMap reporting, Houston's VC activity in the first quarter o... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Accenture, Goodwill-backed cleantech job accelerator celebrates Houston launch | A major nonprofit and a worldwide corporate leader have teamed up to advance cleantech jobs — and the program has officially celebrated its launch in Houston.
Goodwill Houston, in collaboration with Accenture, BlocPower, and Goodwill Indust... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Houston tech company building a next-generation space station has new investor | Houston-based Starlab Space, which is developing a commercial space station, has enlisted a high-profile investor — Japanese industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi.
With the addition of Mitsubishi, Starlab now boasts three equity partners. The ... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Houston organization introduces inaugural cancer-fighting cohort of data sciences, experts | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is one step closer to ending cancer thanks to its new institute that's focused on data science.
MD Anderson’s goal with the new Institute for Data Science in Oncology (IDSO) is to advance co... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Houston initiative selected for DOE program developing hubs for clean energy innovation | Houston has been selected as one of the hubs backed by a new program from the United States Department of Energy that's developing communities for clean energy innovation.
The DOE's Office of Technology Transitions announced the the first p... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | Troubled Texans are the 10th most stressed out people in America, report finds | There is a plethora of reasons to be stressed out in 2024. Among the list of grievances are budgeting woes, lapses in addressing racial inequity, a significant amount of drunk driving, and prohibitively high healthcare costs.
So it comes as... |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Cart.com makes acquisition, events not to miss, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:Let's roundup the top Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included news of a Houston company acquiring an Amazon partner, Houston events not to miss this month, an... |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Houston physicist scores $15.5M grant for high-energy nuclear physics research | A team of Rice University physicists has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics for their work in high-energy nuclear physics and research into a new state of matter.
The five-year $15.5 m... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | NASA awards $30M to Houston space tech company to develop lunar rover | Houston-based space technology company Intuitive Machines has landed a $30 million NASA contract for the initial phase of developing a rover for U.S. astronauts to traverse the moon’s surface.
Intuitive Machines is one of three companies ch... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Houston expert: How to avoid 'ghost hiring' while attracting top talent | One of the latest HR terms grabbing attention today is “ghost hiring.” This is a practice where businesses post positions online, even interviewing candidates, with no intention to fill them. In fact, the role may already have been filled o... |
| Apr 1, 2024 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for April | From pitching competitions to expert speaker summits, April is filled with opportunities for Houston innovators.
Here's a roundup of events you won't want to miss out on so mark your calendars and register accordingly.
Note: This post may b... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | Latest Houston health tech news dominates this week's top stories | Editor's note:Let's roundup the top Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included introducing the Texas Medical Center's ongoing cohort, generative AI at Baylor College of Medici... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | Health tech startup launches Houston study improve stroke patients recovery | A Houston-born company is enrolling patients in a study to test the efficacy of nerve stimulation to improve outcomes for stroke survivors.
Dr. Kirt Gill and Joe Upchurch founded NeuraStasis in 2021 as part of the TMC Biodesign fellowship p... |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Texas Space Commission launches, Houston execs named to leadership | Governor Greg Abbott announced the Texas Space Commission, naming its inaugural board of directors and Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium Executive Committee.
The announcement came at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and the ... |
| Mar 28, 2024 | City of Houston approves $13M for new security tech at renovated IAH terminal | A new terminal currently under construction at George Bush Intercontinental Airport just got the green light for new security technology.
This week, Houston City Council unanimously approved the funding for the new Mickey Leland Internation... |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Houston tech entrepreneur expands energy data co. in Europe, continues to scale | The technology that Amperon provides its customers — a comprehensive, AI-backed data analytics platform — is majorly key to the energy industry and the transition of the sector. But CEO Sean Kelly says he doesn't run his business like an en... |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Houston researches tap into GenAI for communicating genetic test results | Artificial intelligence in the health care setting has a lot of potential, and one Houston institution is looking into one particular use.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center have trained an AI assista... |
| Oct 27, 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... |
| Oct 27, 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... |
| Oct 26, 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... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | Developer delivers 120-square-foot life science innovation hub to The Woodlands | A new innovation hub mega campus has opened in The Woodlands.
The Alexandria Center for Advanced Technologies at The Woodlands comes courtesy of California-based Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. The campus is home to the first purpose-b... |
| Oct 20, 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... |
| Oct 16, 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... |
| Oct 13, 2023 | UH to deliver on tech to DOD, 2 Houston startups raise funding, and more trending news from the week | 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 major military contract for UH, two startups with fundi... |
| Oct 12, 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... |
| Oct 12, 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... |
| Oct 11, 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... |
| Oct 6, 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... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Houston unpacks No. 7 rank in U.S. for recent moves, says new report | Houston is shifting as people move into the city and around it. A new population analysis by online loan marketplace LendingTree has named Houston the No. 7 metro for recent movers.
The study used population data from a 2021 U.S. Census Bur... |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Energy tech startup secures $20M series B, plans to expand platform | A Houston startup has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding in order to accelerate its energy analytics and grid decarbonization technology.
Amperon Holdings Inc. announced today that it closed its series B round at $20 million.... |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Cancer-fighting startup partners with Houston cell therapy accelerator | When it came time to name their cell therapy startup, Houston life science innovators simply had to look to their calendar.
“I would argue that March is the best month in Houston,” Sarah Hein tells InnovationMap. “We started talking about p... |
| Sep 29, 2023 | Houston-area schools make best universities list, tech nonprofit expands, 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 Houston schools scoring big on a recent ranking, a tech nonpr... |
| Sep 29, 2023 | Houston school names digital education expert to newly created position | Rice University is beefing up its digital education efforts with the hiring of an internationally known expert from Duke University.
Shawn Miller is set to join Rice on November 1 in the newly created position of associate provost for digit... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Rice researchers score $45M from NIH for cancer-fighting tech | A research funding agency has deployed capital into a team at Rice University that's working to develop a technology that could cut cancer-related deaths in half.
Rice researchers received $45 million from the National Institutes of Health'... |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Growing Houston tech nonprofit expands access to textbooks for college students | If everyone that attended a college or university were polled, they’d all likely agree that one of the worst parts of the experience was the rising costs of textbooks.
In an effort to combat the hefty price tag of assigned texts, OpenStax, ... |
| Sep 25, 2023 | 10 startups named most-promising in energy tech at Houston conference | At the 20th annual Energy Tech Venture Forum presented by Rice Alliance for technology and Entrepreneurship, 11 startups scored recognition from the event's investors who evaluated over 90 early-stage energy transition companies.
"The ... |
| Sep 22, 2023 | 3 Houston universities rise to the top in new list of best Texas schools for 2024 | Houston universities are ramping up high quality educational experiences for their students as three local universities earn top 10 ranks for the best Texas colleges in 2024, according to a new report by U.S. News and World Report.
Rice Uni... |
| Sep 22, 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... |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Inflation: Why Houston employers should prioritize employee financial well-being | Inflation impacts everyone, including individuals, the workforce and business leaders. As the cost of living continues to rise, employees face diminishing purchasing power, shrinking retirement savings and higher stress levels.
In PwC’s 202... |
| Sep 20, 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... |
| Sep 18, 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 academia — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Ayse McCracken, founder o... |
| Sep 18, 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... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | Founders, investors sound off on Houston's VC scene, energy innovation potential, and more | Last week, nearly 1,000 people convened in Houston to discuss venture capital activity, startups, and decarbonization, and the Houston factor among it all.
On September 7, Venture Houston hosted several keynote addresses and panels througho... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | Baylor Medicine opens innovatively inclusive dermatology center in Houston | All skin is created equal, but not all skin behaves the same. It’s with this in mind that Baylor Medicine Dermatology has announced the debut of its newest office.
The Skin of Color Clinic is located inside the Jamail Specialty Care Center ... |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Houston edtech startup taps into AI to improve classroom engagement | Not many adages stand the test of time quite like this one: to be the best, learn from the best.
Sage advice, which is why Houston-based Sibme, the learning engagement platform designed by teachers, is introducing an all-new artificial inte... |
| Sep 11, 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... |
| Sep 7, 2023 | University of Houston reveals $35M campus transformation ahead of centennial | As the University of Houston gets ready for its centennial in 2027, the school is launching a major transformation to its urban campus. The $35 million project aims to transform several prominent areas of the university grounds and create a... |
| Sep 7, 2023 | Rice team develops complex wearables that can navigate users through Houston | A group of Rice researchers have tapped into the sense of touch to improve how wearable technology can communicate with its user.
Barclay Jumet, a mechanical engineering PhD student at Rice working in the labs of Daniel Preston and Marcia O... |
| Sep 6, 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 ... |
| Sep 5, 2023 | Houston expert: Cultivate transparency when recruiting flexible workplace positions | How the workplace operates, especially flexible work arrangements, captivate job seekers, prompting many job listings to spotlight remote or hybrid work options. Interestingly, a significant portion of hybrid and remote workers say they wou... |
| Sep 5, 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... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for September | From networking meetups to pitch competitions, September has a smorgasbord of opportunities for Houston innovators.
Here's a roundup of events you won't want to miss out on so mark your calendars and register accordingly.
Note: This post mi... |
| Aug 30, 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... |
| Aug 30, 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... |
| Aug 29, 2023 | Report: Rice University again ranks among the top schools in nation | Rice University has earned yet another accolade worth hooting about.
Niche, an education review and ranking website, has named Rice the ninth best college in the U.S., down from No. 6 last year. The Houston university receives an A+ in nine... |
| Aug 28, 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... |
| Aug 24, 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... |
| Aug 23, 2023 | A Louisiana-born, Houston-backed outdoors activity startup is expanding into the Bayou City | A Louisiana-founded hunting and fishing startup is growing its operations and expanding into Houston.
Mallard Bay, a marketplace for booking guided fishing and hunting trips, will move half of its employees to Houston and will join the Grea... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | MD Anderson, UT team up to expand medical school | Powerhouse and award-winning Houston cancer center MD Anderson will partner with the University of Texas at Austin to expand Dell Medical School and build two new hospitals.
This new medical center, called The University of Texas at Austin ... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Gene therapy company breaks ground on Houston biomanufacturing facility | China-based and Massachusetts-founded PackGene Biotech Inc. broke ground last week on a new 25,000-square-foot biomanufacturing and processing facility just south of NRG Park.
The full-service operations center is slated to include labs, ma... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Why Houston startups should consider a remote workforce | There are myriad reasons why it behooves a startup to hire remote workers. This article takes a look at the benefits of expanding your hiring pool.Remote work by the numbers
According to the State of Remote Work 2017 report, over 60 percent... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | 3 Houston startups join accelerators, PE-backed biz names new execs, and more innovation news | It's been a busy month so far with plenty of Houston startup news, major ecosystem events, and more — and there might be some headlines you may have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston startups and tech, three startups j... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | 10 can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for March | It's time to look at what's on the agenda for Houston innovators for the month of March — a busy one, from the end of Tech Rodeo and the start of CERAWeek, plus many more things to add to your calendars.
Note: This post might be updated to ... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Houston expert: What I've learned about navigating the business world as a Black founder | Entrepreneurship is the process of creating, developing and managing a new business venture with the aim of making a profit. Successful entrepreneurs are known for their creativity, tenacity and willingness to take risks, often disrupting e... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Houston hospital snags $1M to advance Alzheimer’s research | Thanks to a recent donation, Houston Methodist is setting up an endowment to support research in neurodegenerative diseases.
Susan and William “Dub” Henning, Jr. have committed to a $1 million gift to Houston Methodist to support Alzheimer’... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | How this Houston innovator is tapping into tech to make homeownership more accessible | Real estate and homeownership has been historically exclusionary. Bobby Bryant — the first Black man to create and franchise a real estate brokerage brand — wanted to do something about that.
Considering the history of the real estate indus... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | ESG has moved from sidelines to strategy — here's what that means for Houston companies | The Houston business community has embraced environmental, social, and governance investments, with a majority of deals in the past two years valued at $50 million or more, per PitchBook Data, Inc. In 2022, Houston companies invested just m... |
| Feb 16, 2023 | Houston HR SaaS company acquires remote-first platform | A Houston software startup has made a strategic acquisition to account for the increasingly large number of companies employing a remote-first workforce.
After closing a $15 million series B funding round last year, GoCo.io, an HR solutions... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | University of Houston, Intel team up to prepare workforce for AI revolution | The University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business has teamed up with semiconductor chip manufacturer Intel Corp. to provide training in artificial intelligence.
The new artificial intelligence program features a standalone business... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Houston founder shares how he's using tech to make digital media more effective and equitable | After working in both sides of the advertising world, Mark Walker thought he could reimagine a platform that would be more efficient and equitable.
Walker co-founded his company, Direct Digital Holdings, an adtech platform, after serving in... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Houston space company announces historic flight crew | A Houston-based company is making history with its next commercial flight mission.
Axiom Space announced that Axiom Mission 2, or Ax-2, the second all-private mission to the International Space Station, will have members of the Kingdom of S... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Houston space co. adds new adviser, startup named SXSW alternate, and more innovation news | Houston startup news is in full swing this year, and there might be some headlines you may have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston startups and tech, Venus Aerospace makes an impressive appointment, a sportstech startup... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Tech company revs up support for Texas women in STEM at special F1 event | This week, the worlds of the Lone Star State's tech scene, women in STEM, and Formula 1 collided.
At a private event on Wednesday, October 19, hosted by computational software company Cadence Design Systems, Senior VP of Global HR Tina Jone... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Houston startup expands nationally, teams win DOE prize, and more local innovation news | As Houston ramps up for fall, the city's innovation news has followed suit, and there might be some headlines you may have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston startups and tech, Houston angel investors dole out prize mon... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Houston readies for historic return to moon with new NASA launch date | Houstonians who are eagerly anticipating America’s historic return to the moon now have a new date. Artemis I will now launch on Saturday, September 3, with a two-hour window beginning at 1:17 pm, NASA announced late Tuesday, August 30.
Vie... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Aerospace company opens new $30M Houston Spaceport location, plans to move in | Collins Aerospace has cut the ribbon on its new 120,000 square-foot facility located at the Houston Spaceport in Houston — all that's left for the global aerospace and defense company is to move in.
“Collins’ long history of innovating, dev... |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Iconic Houston-area landmark rockets to No. 1 in new list of best employers in Texas | NASA must be over the moon about a new ranking of the best employers in Texas.
A new list from Forbes and Statista puts NASA at No. 1 among the state’s major employers, both those based in Texas and those with a significant presence here.
N... |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Why this Houston innovator dropped everything to move the needle on lung cancer diagnostics | After years of leading Johnson and Johnson's Center for Device Innovation, Joanna Nathan has hopped into the founder's seat in order to tackle early-stage lung cancer diagnostics.
"Unlike breast, prostate, and other types of cancers, w... |
| Aug 31, 2022 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for September | As temperatures begin to cool — hopefully, the city's business community is heating up with another month of networking and conference events. Here's a rundown of what all to throw on your calendar for September when it comes to innovation-... |
| Aug 30, 2022 | Houston expert: How to navigate Gen Z's quiet quitting movement at your company | This month, the internet has been discussing "quiet quitting," the practice of employees setting hard boundaries about when they work and to what extent they are willing to go beyond the outlined expectations of their jobs.
The co... |
| Aug 30, 2022 | City of Houston announces partnership college on 5th anniversary of Hurricane Harvey | Last week, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner looked back on the past five years since Hurricane Harvey and made a lofty goal to provide the community with resiliency training.
The city of Houston and Houston Community College signed a memorand... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Houston 'sneakerheads' raise $8.9M to further develop digital marketplace | A Houston-based company is kicking it with some fresh funding with plans to expand development of its marketplace platform.
Unique sneaker trading platform, Tradeblock, has raised $8.9 million in funding from investment partners Courtside V... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | 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 overwhelmingly included coverage of the inaigural InnovationMap Award... |
| Jul 2, 2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | 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 innovators to know, a guest column on how veterans are leadi... |
