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| Nov 9, 2021 | Houston Exponential hires new exec to promote inclusive innovation | Houston's considered one of the most diverse cities in the country, and Houston Exponential is focused on building an innovation ecosystem that's reflective of that.
The nonprofit organization announced a new hire that will lead t... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Roundup: Houston startups announce new partnerships, crowdfunding campaigns, and more | The Houston innovation ecosystem has been bursting at the seams with news from innovative tech companies and disruptive Houston startups as we fly through the final quarter of 2021.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Houston biotech company raises $15M round led by Chinese health care investor | A Houston-based biotech company that was founded by a University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center doctor has closed a fresh round of funding.
Cellenkos closed its $15 million series A round led by BVCF Management, based in Shanghai, China... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | 4 Houston-area businesses rank among Inc.'s best-led companies in the country | Some Houston-area companies now have some major bragging rights — and perhaps, an influx of resumes on the way. Inc. magazine has released its new list of the country's 250 best-led midsize companies, and four Greater-Houston firms are... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | 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 dating tech to investment — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Erica Si... |
| Nov 5, 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, , and more.
3 Houston innovato... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Hardworking Houston suburb tops list of biggest boomtowns in Texas | The Houston suburb of Conroe has come a long way since Civil War veteran Isaac Conroe planted roots there in October 1881 with the purchase of a tract of land and the establishment of a sawmill.
Fast forward 140 years, and Conroe now reigns... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | Nuro scores $600M, Houston e-commerce startup launches ESG tool, and more local innovation news | The Houston innovation ecosystem has been bursting at the seams with news from innovative tech companies and disruptive Houston startups as we fly through the final quarter of 2021.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | Houston expert explains health care's inequity problem | We are currently in the midst of what some have called the "wild west" of AI. Though healthcare is one of the most heavily regulated sectors, the regulation of AI in this space is still in its infancy. The rules are being written ... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | 3 energy transition companies with Houston ties pitch at international conference | It's all hands on deck for pioneering technology to advance the energy transition and climatetech, and three companies with a Houston presence just took the national stage to showcase their climate change solutions.
The United Nations&... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | University of Houston: 3 problems with the 'covidization' of science and research | It has been – and for a while, will be – everywhere. The words: COVID-19, coronavirus and pandemic. According to an article by Holly Else in Nature, "coined in April by Madhukar Pai, a tuberculosis researcher at McGill University in Mo... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Houston makes the grade as a top place to live after college, says new report | For many college students, it's tough to imagine life after college when they're cramming for exams and cranking out research papers. Yet the time does come when they'll venture into the "real world" with their degr... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Houston expert: Prime times for cyber-attacks and how to stay protected | October is cybersecurity awareness month. The topic might sound overwhelming, and it certainly can be, but there are a few easy ways we can educate and protect ourselves and our loved ones.
Be mindful of timing
Cyber actors target certain t... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Greentown Labs hires former Houston sustainability exec | The country's largest climatetech startup incubator has made a strategic new hire.
Lara Cottingham is the new chief of staff for Greentown Labs, a Boston-area company that opened in Houston earlier this year. Cottingham previously serv... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | 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 energy to health tech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Amy Chronis,... |
| Oct 1, 2021 | Texas billionaire and family reign as the world’s richest clan | It's hardly a surprise that America's Walton family, including Fort Worth billionaire Alice Walton, remains the world's richest family. What's truly stunning is how much their wealth has grown in the past year — by more ... |
| Oct 1, 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 new innovators to know, a new energy innovation la... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Houston female-founded startup takes on national expansion | Houston-based Work & Mother Services LLC is embarking on a nationwide expansion of its network of lactation suites.
Work & Mother already operates two locations in downtown Houston (The Jones on Main and Three Allen Center) and is p... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Houston rise in the ranks of the top emerging ecosystems in the world | If you need evidence that Houston's startup ecosystem is flourishing, look no further than a new report from Startup Genome and the Global Entrepreneurship Network.
This year's Global Startup Ecosystem Report, released September 2... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Deloitte launches first-of-its-kind clean energy lab in Houston | Houston will become home to professional services giant Deloitte's largest and most technologically advanced immersive, interactive innovation hub dubbed the Deloitte Greenhouse, Powered by Energy & Industrials.
Co-located with the... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Research: 5 mistakes Houston entrepreneurs should be making | We all have heard "you learn from your mistakes," so, why do a lot of startup blogs warn entrepreneurs of the mistakes they shouldn't make when starting a business, but not very many tell them what mistakes they should be mak... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | High-tech virtual reality experience blasts into the Space City | From the earliest days of our circling the planet in a tiny NASA capsule — to Elon Musk's SpaceX current commercial journeys — Houston and space travel will be forever and inexorably linked.
Fitting, then, that an unprecedented new imm... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Real estate giant to open another downtown Houston coworking hub | A new downtown Houston skyscraper that's on the rise and expected to be completed by the end of the year will offer flexible office space.
Texas Tower will feature The Square, Hines' flexible office product, the international real... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | University of Houston scores national award for championing diversity | Fresh off news of a new free health clinic for the homeless, the University of Houston is once again making headlines for its commitment to empowering the community. INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has announced UH and the University of Hou... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | 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 space health to virtual collaboration — recently making headlines in Houston innovati... |
| Sep 24, 2021 | City launches public dashboard for tracking COVID-19 in Houston's wastewater | In 2020, a group of researchers began testing Houston's wastewater to collect data to help identify trends at the community level. Now, the team's work has been rounded up to use as an online resource.
The Houston Health Departmen... |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Rice University rises with massive $100M gift for innovative new student center | Rice University's Owls are soaring of late, with the school just being named the top in Texas and No. 7 in the U.S. Now, the institution known as the "Ivy League of the South" is the recipient of a mammoth gift aimed at a gam... |
| Sep 17, 2021 | Overheard: Experts share how Houston can lead commercial space exploration | Is the Space City poised to continue its reign as an innovative hub for space exploration? All signs point to yes, according to a group of experts.
The Greater Houston Partnership hosted its annual State of Space this week. The virtual even... |
| Sep 17, 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 new hires at Houston startups, photos from the Inn... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Houston expert: Texas energy customers deserve transparency | As Texas continues to grapple with fallout from Winter Storm Uri and state regulators determine the next steps forward to strengthen the electricity grid, protecting consumers and providing transparency regarding their energy bills must be ... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Houston startup with AI-optimized surgical scheduling technology is ready to scale | With so many moving parts in the health care industry, Pamela Singh says patients can go through all the pre-operation steps up to literally arriving to the hospital, only to find out their surgery has been canceled due to an admin error.
S... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | Houston investor launches fund to fuel early-stage energy transition startups | When Ahmad Atwan decided he was going to launch a venture capital fund focused on early-stage energy transition startups, Houston was a no brainer. But while there are similar funds on each of the coasts, Atwan learned that VC Fuel's c... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Photos: InnovationMap shares scenes from its inaugural awards celebration | Last week, the inaugural InnovationMap Awards presented by Techwave honored 28 companies across eight categories.
The hybrid event, which took place on September 8, was hosted at The Cannon West Houston as well as streamed online. The in-pe... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | 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 space to engineering — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Dorit Donovie... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | University of Houston prescribes homeless relief with new free clinic | Houston is no stranger to the plague of homelessness and now, a major university has a prescription for some relief.
The University of Houston College of Nursing will open its new Nursing Health Clinic in Midtown on September 13, the school... |
| 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 Innovatio... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Houston chemicals company raises $357M, claims unicorn status | Houston-based Solugen, a startup that specializes in combating carbon dioxide emitted during the production of chemicals, has hauled in $357 million in a Series C funding round. That amount eclipses the size of any Houston VC funding round ... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Editor's note: Celebrating 100 episodes of the Houston Innovators Podcast and the InnovationMap Awards | Editor's note: It's been a big week for InnovationMap. Not only did we celebrate our inaugural awards program on Wednesday, September 8, but, coincidentally, this week marked the 100th episode of the Houston Innovators Podcast.
Th... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | University of Houston engineer receives $3.7M to work on seizure-preventing tech | A professor at the University of Houston has received a federal grant aimed at helping stop epileptic seizures before they start.
The BRAIN Initiative at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded the $3.7 million g... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Digital pharmacy launches in Houston to address access with same-day delivery | A new Houston company has officially launched to serve as a digital pharmacy platform. The company is aiming to simplify the process for customers.
Houston-based Capsule has officially launched to address access-challenged pharmacy deserts ... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Watch the InnovationMap Awards livestream honoring Houston tech and innovation | Who are Houston's rising stars across energy transition, sports tech, health, and more? Watch the livestream to find out. Click play on the video above, or join the conversation on YouTube by clicking here.
We are also honoring our 202... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Rice University named one of the greatest schools in U.S. in prestigious new report | Just mere weeks after being named the No. 7 university in the nation, a local hall of higher learning has just landed on yet another prestigious list.
Rice University has scored high marks in the Princeton Review's annual survey on the... |
| Sep 6, 2021 | 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 logistics tech to computer science — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.... |
| Sep 3, 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, the InnovationMap finalists th... |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Houston university opens esports facility on campus | Houston's University of St. Thomas has taken a big step into the esports arena.
On August 31, the school held a grand opening for its on-campus esports facility. The facility features 13 gaming stations decked out with high-end tech eq... |
| Sep 3, 2021 | The Houston tech company that's helping startups shape their ideas | Startups, listen up. Techwave, newly headquartered in Houston, helps startup businesses analyze the demand for their product in the market by providing expert-level MVP application development services.
How, exactly, do they deliver on this... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | University of Houston: Tips for balancing faculty and founder life | Finding balance in your professional life and your dreams can be hard for anyone. Faculty in academia, hoping to become entrepreneur and start their own companies, find this especially difficult. Finding this balance is essential to having ... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | New Houston-based app tips the scales in favor of musicians and fans | Like so many business owners, Jeff James' inspiration for his innovative new music app PickleJar, came out of sheer necessity. Sitting in a bar in the buzzy Broadway district in Nashville, Tennessee, James, a serial entrepreneur, reali... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Houston founders share the challenges they've had to overcome as women in tech | Even in 2021, women face discrimination in the workplace — whether it's running their own businesses or climbing the corporate ladder.
The five female finalists of the Female-Founded Business category for the InnovationMap Awards prese... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Serial entrepreneur sees logistics innovation as a 'massive opportunity' for Houston | For over a decade, Gaurav Khandewal has been working with clients to provide software solutions to industrial problems with his company, ChaiOne. Now, in his latest venture, he's addressing a market within logistics that can be run a w... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | UW spinout AnswerDash, a contextual Q&A service for customer support, acquired by CloudEngage | Left to right: AnswerDash CEO Don Davidge, and co-founders Amy Ko and Jake Wobbrock. (AnswerDash Photos)
Nearly eight years after launching out of the University of Washington, AnswerDash has been acquired.
The Seattle startup, which uses a... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 14, 2015 | ipsy raised $100M; Plexxi secured $35M; Crossbar completed $35M round
GiPStech, a Milan, Italy-based indoor positioning and navigation startup, raised €400,000 ($453,700) in equity funding. Backers included members of Italian Angels for Gro... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | AnswerDash Raises $2.9M in Seed Funding | AnswerDash, a Seattle, WA-based provider of a website contextual help platform, raised $2.9m in seed funding.
The round was led by Voyager Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth by expanding its sales and marketi... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | AnswerDash Raises $2.9M |
SEATTLE, WA, World's leading provider of website contextual help, today announced a seed investment of $2.9 million led by venture firm Voyager Capital.
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| Sep 14, 2015 | UW spinout AnswerDash raises $2.9M to support growth of online contextual help platform | AnswerDash CEO Bill Colleran.
What started as an idea inside the Information School at the University of Washington is now a full-fledged business that’s raising cash from venture capital firms.
UW-spinout AnswerDash today announced a $2.9 ... |
| Aug 3, 2015 | Why millennials want self-service solutions [Q&A] | The millennial generation has grown up with the internet, so naturally they demand more from their business systems and online service providers. Product managers need to recognize this dynamic and ensure that their SaaS products deliver.
W... |
| Feb 12, 2015 | Web app self-service reduces support queries and cuts costs | Last year we looked at how supplier of point-and-click answer technology AnswerDash was integrating its software with the Zendesk help centre system.
Now the company has released performance stats from its customers which show that self-ser... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | Seattle Roundup: Skytap, Mercent, AnswerDash, FlowVella, Impinj | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle deal makers got busy in the last full work-week of the year, with a major funding round announced for Skytap, an acquisition for Mercent, a technology integration for ... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Self service platform helps cut online help desk requests | Ask anyone who has worked on a help desk and they'll tell you that a lot of their time is spent on solving the same problems.
In order to reduce the help desk workload for online businesses and allow users to solve straightforward issu... |
| Nov 7, 2014 | Usability survey reveals the most frustrating websites | We've all encountered websites that are badly designed or seem to be willfully hard to use and now a new survey reveals the sites which cause the most frustration and are likely to be rapidly abandoned.
Website FAQ technology provider ... |
| Oct 17, 2014 | Seattle Roundup: Costco, Sworl, GraphLab, AnswerDash, Tack, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In addition to significant funding rounds this week for employee behavior measurement company VoloMetrix, Amazon Web Services partner 2nd Watch, and solar energy developer One... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | U. of Washington-spinoff AnswerDash launches to make everything on a Web page questionable | A startup called AnswerDash is launching a self-help service today that brings contextual help down to a single word or image.
“AnswerDash is about giving answers in context when [visitors] use a website or web app,” CEO and co-founder Jake... |
| May 23, 2014 | Stuck on Website ‘Help Island’? First UW iSchool Spinout Has the Answer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 5/23/14, 10:53 am. See below.] The University of Washington Information School has more than a century of history, and now, it’s first startup company, AnswerDash, ... |
| May 20, 2014 | UW spinout AnswerDash launches, names ex-Drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore to board | AnswerDash co-founders Jake Wobbrock and Andy Ko.
As a first time startup CEO, Jake Wobbrock has learned a lot about his company in the past year. But one of the more important lessons he’s picked up has to do with something a little unexpe... |
