Elevate the American Dream

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Last activity: 28.12.2023

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Dec 12, 2023	Proposed Texas high-speed Houston-Dallas rail lands $500K in federal funds	Amtrak and its partners will receive more than $2.1 billion in a federal program to improve existing routes and expand Amtrak service across the U.S. That includes $500,000 from the Federal Railroad Administration awarded to the long-in-the...
Dec 11, 2023	Customizable commercial condo concept expands to The Woodlands	An Austin-based company that provides ownable multi-use space is expanding in the Houston area. XSpace has announced that it will break ground next year in The Woodlands and open near the intersection of Six Pines Drive and Lake Woodlands D...
Dec 7, 2023	Space health nonprofit to send 6 more experiments to space on Houston company's next mission	A Houston organization announced that it plans to launch six more experiments into space next year that look to learn more about everything from motion sickness to genome alterations during space travel. The Translational Research Institute...
Dec 5, 2023	Houston expert: How to build startup runway in a choppy venture funding market	The venture funding market in 2023 has been very tough. The number of rounds closing is significantly down from the 2022, and a record number of companies are raising. Overall VC fundraising is down, but great deals are getting funded well ...
Nov 16, 2023	Groundbreaking prosthesis device designed at UH earns international ‘luminary’ award	A recent University of Houston graduate is receiving international recognition for his 3D-printable finger prosthesis. David Edquilang, the creator of a low-cost prosthesis known as Lunet, was awarded the 2023 Red Dot: Luminary award last m...
Nov 15, 2023	Houston small biz-supporting platform's founders face 'frivolous' discrimination lawsuit	For years, Hello Alice has been helping small businesses across the country get equitable access to funding and support. Now, the Houston tech company is facing its own obstacle: An affirmative action lawsuit. "I don't think in a ...
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 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 16, 2023	Hello Alice Defends Grants For Black Entrepreneurs	Black/African woman-owned businessgetty
Oct 16, 2023	Here's what Houston startups snagged fresh funding last quarter	With Houston's business and innovation community firmly in its final leg of 2023, it's time to look back on funding from the previous quarter. While last quarter revealed a decline in VC funding in line with the rest of the countr...
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 19, 2023	6 ways Houston startups and small businesses can integrate AI, machine learning	In today's fast-paced and technologically driven world, artificial intelligence and machine learning have emerged as transformative technologies that hold immense potential for startups and small businesses. While AI was once perceived...
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 uni...
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 15, 2023	Exclusive: New-to-Houston hardtech accelerator names local leader	An organization that promotes early-stage innovation within the hardtech space has named one of the founding entrepreneurs of Greentown Labs as its local Houston lead. Activate named Jeremy Pitts as the Houston managing director this month....
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...
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...
Nov 12, 2020	Rice research: Do leaders with distinctive names run distinctive businesses?	You probably know the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Bob Johnson. But how about DeShuna Spencer? She's the founder and CEO of the online streaming platform KweliTV. The platform's broad array of movies, news and other programmin...
Jul 31, 2020	Houston oil and gas giant premieres new startup incubator and names first participant	Not intending to be left out of the energy transition, a Houston-based, multinational oil and gas services company has announced its new incubator for startups to advance cleaner, affordable energy. Halliburton Company has introduced Hallib...
Mar 30, 2020	Rice University students and staff team up with Canadian company to make low-cost ventilators	As the COVID-19 case numbers continue to grow, hospitals around the world are either experiencing or expecting a shortage of ventilation units. In Houston, a team of students and staff at Rice University have designed a solution. Along with...
Oct 30, 2019	Houston recognized among the best hospital cities in the nation	As home to Texas Medical Center — the world's largest medical complex — it stands to reason that Houston ranks among the country's best cities for health care. A new study bolsters that notion, but it also points out that several ...
Oct 16, 2019	Texas again ranks poorly for its energy efficiency	Despite some growth in the industry's regional job market, Texas fails to rise through the ranks of a national report on energy efficiency. For the second year in a row, the Lone Star State has made the list of the states with the wors...
May 24, 2019	These are the Houston companies headed to MassChallenge Texas in Austin	It's the second cohort for Boston-based MassChallenge Texas in Austin, and this year's 74 selected finalists are well represented by Houston. "Coming from an extremely competitive application pool, the startups in our second ...
May 21, 2019	Houston startup is using technology to connect parents to local summer programs for their children	Tudor Palaghita and his sister Ana are both parents and both busy professionals. And both used the same word when it came to finding camps to help their kids pass the long, steamy summer: painful. "We're working parents, we'r...
May 1, 2019	Houston nonprofit makerspace seeking donations as it prepares to move into its new home	With grants and public funds secured, Houston-based TXRX Labs as one last round of fundraising to acquire before it's ready to head full-speed ahead into its new location. TXRX launched a $85,000 fundraising campaign to help get the or...
Mar 13, 2019	Houston named a top city for emerging life sciences market	From a real estate and employment perspective, Houston is the second in the nation for emerging life sciences market, according to a new report. CBRE released the top 10 cities for life sciences, as well as nine cities that have seen recent...
Mar 1, 2019	Houston-based online fundraising platform launches new turnkey retail space opportunity	Houston-based NextSeed makes it easier for retail and restaurant startups to get funding, and the company is releasing a new line of services to help these startups on the next step after funding: Finding retail space. NextSeed Space now ex...
Feb 6, 2019	Houston B-to-B tech startup gears up for growth following $7 million Series A	A Houston startup looking to digitize the human resources industry just completed a reassuring round of funding. GoCo closed its Series A funding round led by ATX Seed Ventures alongside UpCurve, Inc. at $7 million. GoCo, which was founded ...
Dec 5, 2018	Leading venture capitalists forecast the future of funding in Houston	Despite Houston being known for its money, venture capital has struggled to hit its stride until recently. Now, as Houston has attracted more money for its startups — even coming close to Austin, according to recent data — the Bayou City fa...

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