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| Feb 3, 2025 | Houston Nobel Prize nominee earns latest award for public health research | Houston vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez can add one more prize to his shelf.
Hotez — dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, co-... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | West Coast innovation organization unveils new location in Houston suburb to boost Texas tech ecosystem | Leading innovation platform Plug and Play announced the opening of its new flagship Houston-area location in Sugar Land, which is its fourth location in Texas.
Plug and Play has accelerated over 2,700 startups globally last year with corpor... |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Houston's Innovation Landscape: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Opportunities | Houston is a city of dreams and determination. It’s a melting pot of innovation, where entrepreneurs are forging paths in uncharted territories. The recent Houston Innovation Awards highlighted this spirit, showcasing the wisdom of finalist... |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Houston joins newly launched 4-city, space-focused network | Four cities from around the world have teamed up on a mission to grow aeronautics, space, and astronomy.
The Space Cities Network launched last month at the International Congress and Convention Association Congress in Abu Dhabi. The first ... |
| Oct 30, 2024 | ALLY Energy Names 2024 GRIT Awards & Best Energy Workplace Winners | The 2024 ALLY Energy GRIT Awards and Best Energy Workplaces Winners are Announced
ALLY Energy proudly announces the winners of the 8th Annual GRIT Awards and Best Energy Workplaces, recognized as one of the most prestigious honors in the gl... |
| Oct 22, 2024 | Houston's Innovation Surge: A Glimpse into the Future | Houston is buzzing. The city is a cauldron of innovation, bubbling with ideas and energy. The upcoming Houston Innovation Awards is a testament to this vibrant ecosystem. Scheduled for November 14, the event will spotlight over 50 finalists... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Podcast: The 2024 who's who of Houston innovation | The Houston Innovation Awards is less than a month away, and the finalists have just been named. In honor of the recent announcement, this week's Houston Innovators Podcast takes a look at the finalists.
But with six years of InnovationMap ... |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Announcing the 2024 GRIT Awards Finalists, Honoring Difference-Makers in Energy, Sustainability and Climate | Join ALLY Energy for a reception on Sept. 12 during Houston Energy & Climate Week.
HOUSTON, Sept. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ALLY Energy, the talent and culture platform leveraging AI to power the energy workforce of the future™, is ... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Houston's Innovation Surge: A Glimpse into the Future**
** | ** Houston is a city of dreams, a melting pot of innovation and ambition. In recent weeks, the city has witnessed a surge in technological advancements and financial backing, propelling it into the spotlight. This article explores the lates... |
| Jul 22, 2024 | Houston clean hydrogen startup to pilot tech with O&G co. | Gold H2, a Houston-based producer of clean hydrogen, is teaming up with a major U.S.-based oil and gas company as the first step in launching a 12-month series of pilot projects.
The tentative agreement with the unnamed oil and gas company ... |
| Jul 22, 2024 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: Every week, I introduce you to a handful of Houston innovators to know recently making headlines with news of innovative technology, investment activity, and more. This week's batch includes an e-commerce startup founder, an ... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Cart.com's $130M payday, Houston sees VC uptick and more top stories | Editor's note:Let's roundup the most-read Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles from InnovationMap and its daily newsletter included big startup financing and VC funding, a feature on a Houston st... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Power grid tech co. with Houston HQ raises $25M series B | A Norway-based provider of technology for power grids whose U.S. headquarters is in Houston has raised a $25 million series B round of funding.
The venture capital arm of Polish energy giant Orlen, Norwegian cleantech fund NRP Zero, and the... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Rice research on bond and stock market differences, earnings variations | At the end of every quarter, publicly traded companies announce their profits and losses in an earnings report. These updates provide insight into a company’s performance and, in theory, give investors and shareholders clarity on whether to... |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Houston biotech company expands leadership as it commercializes sustainable products | Houston-based biotech company Cemvita recently tapped two executives to help commercialize its sustainable fuel made from carbon waste.
Nádia Skorupa Parachin came aboard as vice president of industrial biotechnology, and Phil Garcia was pr... |
| Jun 17, 2024 | Houston Airports to explore autonomous, fully electric air taxis in Houston region | A fleet of electric and autonomous air taxis is expected to take flight in Houston, thanks to a partnership between a California startup and the Houston Airport System.
HAS announced a Memorandum of Understanding with Wisk Aero, a fully-own... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Texas profits from 4th best state economy in the U.S., report finds | Despite growing sentiments that the U.S. is on a path towards a recession, Texas is pulling a lot of weight as one of the best state economies in the nation, according to a new annual report from WalletHub.
Texas' strong state economy ranke... |
| May 7, 2024 | How Houston startups can hire top talent amid 'The Big Stay' trend of 2024 | Attracting “A-plus” talent when job candidates are favoring "The Big Stay” is a challenge for small businesses today. This is especially true when small businesses are competing with larger corporations for the same top talent.
To help... |
| May 6, 2024 | Houston health tech startup scores $2.5M SBIR grant to advance unique cell therapy AI technology | A Houston biotech company just announced a new award of $2.5 million.
CellChorus, a spinoff of the Single Cell Lab at the University of Houston, announced the fresh funding, which comes from an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) gran... |
| May 1, 2024 | Texas lands in top 10 states expected to be most financially affected by weather events | Texas — home to everything from tornadoes to hurricanes — cracks the top 10 of a new report ranking states based on impact from weather-related events.
SmartAsset's new report factored in a myriad of data from the Federal Emergency Manageme... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | How to navigate toxic lab workplaces, according to UH research | There are many types of toxic bosses. The Micromanager. The Narcissist. The Incompetent Boss. The list goes on. But labs led by toxic PIs not only make for an abysmal workplace they can actually encourage research misconduct.
According to C... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Is Texas a top state for business? New reports find mixed results | Texas economic development boosters are crowing about a new top-in-the-nation ranking. But they’re probably frowning about a different business ranking that’s mediocre.
First, the good news.
Business Facilities magazine just named Texas the... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Houston innovator's new book to help business leaders be 'authentically successful,' move past just inclusion | Denise Hamilton says she's been used to looking around and realizing she's the only woman or African American in the room, and for the past nine years, she's been providing resources and education to trailblazing women like her. Now, she wa... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | New leadership team named to organization advancing climate tech innovation from Texas college students | A collaborative initiative between several colleges and Greentown Labs has named its inaugural executive director.
David Pruner will lead the Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy, known as TEX-E, which is comprised of partners includi... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Freshly funded startups, NASA-backed engine testing top this week's top Houston innovation stories | Editor's note:Welcome back for another roundup of top Houston innovation news from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included recent startup funding rounds, two new hires, and more.
These 9 Houst... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Houston innovation leader named to new role to drive strategy, programming | A longtime Houston innovation leader has added a new title to his role at Rice University.
Brad Burke, who has served as executive director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship for 20 years, has been named associate vice... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Driverless semi-truck tech to launch between Houston and Dallas later this year | Kodiak Robotics is scaling up its driverless semi truck, which will initially carry cargo on a Houston-to-Dallas route that’s set to formally launch this year.
The most recent version of Kodiak’s truck debuted in Las Vegas at the recent 202... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | How this Houston innovator plans on revolutionizing AI on a global scale | It’s taken people some time, but most of society is finally doing a collective 180-degree flip on its once guarded view of artificial intelligence in favor of being open to the idea that it can help humankind in a myriad of positive ways.
T... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Houston innovator: Why we need to protect the individual inventor | In 2011, Congress passed The America Invents Act, which created an administrative pathway for challenging the validity of patents. This allowed an opportunity to bypass our courts and get non-judges to determine whether an already issued pa... |
| Jan 5, 2024 | Top funding rounds, events not to miss, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:It's officially the new year, and the end of the first week of 2024 — it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included events not to miss this... |
| Jan 4, 2024 | These 9 Houston startups start 2024 with fresh funding | Houston startups ended 2023 with a flurry of funding news — from several seeds and series As to series C rounds and extensions.
Here are nine Houston startups that secured funding in the fourth quarter of last year, according to reporting b... |
| Jan 4, 2024 | Houston HR expert: Mitigating the manager squeeze | Middle managers are in a precarious position in today’s workplace as they are caught in the crossfire of conflicting demands from leadership and their teams, also known as the “manager squeeze.”
Of all employees, managers have faced some of... |
| Jan 3, 2024 | 5+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for January | Ring in the new year with fellow Houston innovators at everything from networking meetups to startup showcases.
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 be... |
| Jan 2, 2024 | Houston sustainability startup secures million-dollar prize after global competition | A Houston sustainability startup has secured a major win on a global scale.
Revterra, which produces novel batteries made from recycled steel, has been awarded a million-dollar piloting opportunity by ADNOC following a global competition.
T... |
| Jan 2, 2024 | Houston expert: Analyzing the impact of generative AI on research | Researchers have to write extremely specific papers that require higher-order thinking — will an intuitive AI program like OpenAI’s ChatGPT be able to imitate the vocabulary, grammar and most importantly, content, that a scientist or resear... |
| Dec 29, 2023 | Raising the roof: These were the top 5 investment rounds raised by Houston startups in 2023 | Editor's note: As 2023 comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. When it came to the money raised in Houston, these five startups raised the most, according to reporting done by Innovat... |
| Dec 29, 2023 | Houston soars as a small biz hub, innovators to know, 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 articles on InnovationMap included a roundups of 2023's top stories, Houston recognized as a... |
| Dec 28, 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... |
| Dec 27, 2023 | University of Houston establishes new health care business innovation chair thanks to $2M gift | A Houston philanthropist made a $2 million gift to the University of Houston to advance health care business innovation
Elaine Finger's donation will go toward an endowed chair to advance education, research and innovation in business and h... |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Houston startup's AI-driven networking and education platform to soft launch in TMC | Connecting medical professionals is about to get easier thanks to a new Houston company, Flourishing Nexus.
Next month, their digital platform, The Nexus, will debut to in a soft launch to a curated group of TMC employees.
“Think of it as a... |
| Dec 26, 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 recently making headlines in Houston across biotech and medical device.
Moji Karimi, co-founder and CEO of ... |
| Dec 22, 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... |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Houston biotech company expands as a network of startups with energy transition solutions | A lot has changed since Moji Karimi co-founded his biotech company Cemvita with his sister Tara in 2017. In fact, a lot has changed just in 2023 — for Cemvita, for the energy transition, and for world as a whole.
In the past year, Cemvita h... |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Houston SPAC deal closes, high-tech monitoring device co. IPOs | A sports tech-focused special purpose acquisition company has sealed the deal on its acquisition of a company with thermal imaging and sensing platform technology.
SportsMap Tech Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SMAP) announced the close of its a... |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Houston expert shares 5 HR trends to expect to see in 2024 | Several catchy names to common workplace issues surfaced in 2023, from “quiet quitting” and “quiet promotions” to “monk mode” and “coffee badging.” What came to the forefront of these conversations was employers need to take care of their p... |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Top stories: Houston's most-read health tech 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. In the health tech category on InnovationMap, top stories included startups relocating to Houston to further advance... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Startup-sourced gift ideas, Houston Spaceport's newest facility opens, 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 Axiom Space opening its new HQ, gift ideas from Houston s... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Houston startup focused on cultivating the future workforce of the energy industry raises $2.5M seed funding | With $2.5 million in fresh funding, Digital Wildcatters is on its way to keep empowering the evolving energy workforce.
Digital Wildcatters, a Houston company that's providing a community for the next generation of energy professionals, has... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | Houston AI company raises $35M, plans for Japanese IPO | A Houston tech startup with an artificial intelligence technology has announced it's raised two rounds of funding as it plans to continue developing its product and IPO in Japan.
Allganize recently closed a $20 million series B round of fun... |
| Dec 11, 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 recently making headlines in Houston across energy, health care, and more.
Natara Branch, CEO of Houston Ex... |
| Dec 8, 2023 | Texas charges up top-10 rank in states dealing with the most debt, per report | It's not too late to rein in that holiday spending, Texas. A new financial report has revealed Texas is the No. 9 state with the highest debt levels in the country.
The report by personal finance website CreditDonkey examined each state's a... |
| 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 24, 2023 | Houston expert: How early tech exposure can prepare the future workforce | In our ever-evolving digital landscape, there's no better time to embrace technology than now. This is evident by a fascinating prediction from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: a whopping 100,000 tech-related jobs are projected in the n... |
| Oct 24, 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... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | TMC names latest cohort of health tech startups for upcoming bootcamp | The Texas Medical Center's innovation arm has again invited a set of health tech startups to mix and mingle with potential partners, investors, and customers in hopes to score a place in the HealthTech Accelerator.
For the 17th time, the TM... |
| Oct 23, 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 space tech to robotics — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Tim Crain, co-founder and ... |
| Oct 20, 2023 | 6 energy tech startups named to corporate-backed manufacturing accelerator | Greentown Labs has named the six participating climatetech startups for an accelerator for a global energy leader.
Shell and Greentown Labs announced the cohort for Greentown Go Make 2023 — a program designed to accelerate partnerships betw... |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Self-driving cars roll out in Houston, Q3 VC funding recap, 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 a roundup of VC funding from last quarter, finalists name... |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Houston research addresses persistent wage gap, potential solutions | Gender wage discrimination remains a stubborn problem in the United States. On average, women are paid only 80 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men, and far greater gaps persist for Latina, Black, and Native American women.... |
| Oct 17, 2023 | $5M grant expands entrepreneurship opportunities at UH | A $5 million gift from the Wayne Duddlesten Foundation will establish expanded opportunities for entrepreneurship at the University of Houston, according to an announcement from the college earlier this month.
Known as the Wayne B. Duddlest... |
| Oct 9, 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... |
| Oct 6, 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 ... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Houston startup raises nearly $2M to expand logistics SaaS platform | A Houston company that's providing innovative unified scheduling software for the logistics industries has raised additional seed funding.
Houston-based Velostics Inc. raised $1.95 million, the company announced this week. The additional se... |
| 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... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Houston hospital lands $10 million grant to launch new neurological lab | Houston Methodist announced that it has received a $10 million gift from the The John M. O’Quinn Foundation to support research into neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and others.
The gift will create... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Google program plants software expert at Houston-area university | Computer science students at Prairie View A&M University are gaining firsthand knowledge this semester from a Google software engineer.
As an instructor in the Google in Residence program, Donnell Debnam Jr. is helping train future soft... |
| 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 | 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... |
| Sep 21, 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... |
| 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 19, 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... |
| Sep 14, 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... |
| 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 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 12, 2023 | Californians moving to Houston can save up to $646,000, study finds | Does it seem that Californians really are everywhere here in Houston? Here's why: A report by online storage finding platform StorageCafe has revealed just how much money the average Californian saves by taking on the title of transplant an... |
| Sep 11, 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... |
| Sep 8, 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 ... |
| Sep 6, 2023 | Houston innovator powers health care innovation by collaboration — inside and outside of the hospital setting | It might surprise most to know that Houston Methodist doesn't have an innovation department within their hospital system — at least not one set up as you'd imagine, with a team specifically dedicated to innovation. Instead, Houston Methodis... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 13 initiatives receive grant funding from new EV-focused, Houston-led program | Evolve Houston awarded its inaugural microgrants this week to 13 groups, neighborhoods and an individual working to make electric vehicles accessible to all Houstonians.
Launched in 2022, Evolve's eMobility Microgrant Initiative supports co... |
| Aug 29, 2023 | Houston researchers build life-saving decision making mathematical model with big potential | To wait, or not to wait? That is the question — or at least it might be, if you need a kidney transplant.
Nearly 89,000 Americans with chronic kidney disease are on a waitlist for a new organ, and an estimated 13 people die each day while a... |
| 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 | 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... |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Houston innovator makes major headway on his portable stroke rehab device | A University of Houston professor has taking a huge step in advancing his game-changing stroke recovery tech.
Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, the director of the UH BRAIN Center, recently published his work on a noninvasive brain-machine in a su... |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Houston robotics startup secures $2.1M contract extension with engineering tech co. | A Houston startup has just secured an extended contract with a major customer.
Webster-based Nauticus Robotics, a maker of autonomous oceangoing robots, has bulked up its current contract with Reston, Virginia-based Leidos in a $2.1 million... |
| Aug 22, 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... |
| Aug 18, 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... |
| Aug 16, 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 ... |
| Mar 28, 2023 | 10 Women Founders Taking The Synthetic Biology World By Storm | Synthetic Biology is one of the most exciting technologies of the decade that promises to reimagine entire industries and solve the economic, societal, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century. The recent signing of the Execut... |
| Feb 15, 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... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | This Houston suburb is the newest COVID-19 vaccine hub in the region | A major Houston suburb is the newest major COVID-19 vaccine hub in the region. Fort Bend County has received an additional 8,000 vaccines, county judge KP George announced on February 9 at a press conference.
That means the county is offici... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Houston software startup closes $7.5M series A led by two Houston-area VC firms | A Houston B2B software startup has closed a new round of funding led by two Houston venture capital firms.
WizeHire, a tech-enabled hiring solution for small businesses, closed a $7.5 million series A funding round that was led by Houston-b... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | Report: Lone Star State snags spot as world's 9th largest economy by GDP | If Texas were a country — and plenty of Texans wish that were the case — it would rank among the world's 10 largest economies. Economic development officials are now touting that fact as evidence of Houston and the rest of Texas being a gre... |
| Jan 28, 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... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Rice University researcher looks into what creates social well being | How nice! You're early. It's just you and your mat, alone for a moment at the office's weekly Zoom yoga session. Breathing in, you silently applaud yourself for investing in your well-being.
Then a guy from upper management pops onto the sc... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | TMCx company recognized internationally, Cannon acquires Houston fintech startup, and more innovation news | Houston's innovation ecosystem has been booming with news fresh out of the gate for 2021, and it's likely some might have fallen through the cracks.
For this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, a TMCx startup gets called out... |
| Jan 8, 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 top interviews from 2020, innovators to know, and a guest col... |
