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| Jun 19, 2024 | Why Men Should Talk About Their Health | (StatePoint) American men may be neglecting their health and wellness, particularly when it comes to their urological health. But an open line of communication between men and their healthcare providers, and among family members, can lead t... |
| 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 innovators to know... |
| 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 | 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 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 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... |
| 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' 2021... |
| Nov 1, 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 health tech to clean energy — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Carolyn Rodz, CEO and... |
| Oct 29, 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 new partnership between The Ion and Ca... |
| 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 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 degrees.
Before gra... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Houston university's MBA program claims coveted top spot of annual ranking | Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business has raked in yet another top spot on an annual list of top MBA programs.
A new ranking from Poets & Quants, which covers news about business schools, puts Rice at No. 3 among the world... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Renewables are Houston's next chapter, says this expert | Houston has long been known as an innovative city — from medicine to technology to creative cuisines (see Viet-Cajun). I am always proud to see how cultures, education, and change come together to build the fabric of our city. As we look fo... |
| 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 served as... |
| 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 than $23 billion.
In... |
| 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 lab, a guest... |
| 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 22, places ... |
| 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 comp... |
| 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 immersiv... |
| 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 making? ... |
| 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 innovation.
James Hury,... |
| 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 estate fi... |
| 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 game-cha... |
| 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 Department and Rice... |
| 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 InnovationMap... |
| 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 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 concep... |
| 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 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 Donoviel, director of ... |
| 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 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 | 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... |
| 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.
The podcast,... |
| 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 nati... |
| 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 2021 Tra... |
| 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.
Amanda Edwards... |
| 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 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 equipme... |
| 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 that are hir... |
| 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, realized t... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events in September | This month, Houstonians have yet another good batch of in-person and online innovation events, including the inaugural InnovationMap Awards, and you and your tech network need to know about them.
Here's a roundup of virtual events not to mi... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Houston artificial intelligence startup raises $6M in seed funding | A computer science professor at Rice University has raised seed funding last month in order to grow his company that's focused on democratizing artificial intelligence tools.
ThirdAI, founded by Anshumali Shrivastava in April, raised $6 mil... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Collaborative organization launches to support minority and female founders | A group of organizations — consisting of entrepreneurs, investors, chambers of commerce, business support organizations, and small business advocates — have teamed up to bridge the gap in resources for women- and minority-owned businesses.
... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Houston expert: Corporations can help level the playing field for BIPOC-owned businesses | There were times when I wasn't sure what to do next.
When I started Connect the Dots PR in 2012, I wrote out detailed business plans, saved startup dollars, and leaned heavily on people in the PR industry to guide me in terms of pricing and... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Overheard: 4 Houston BIPOC startup founders share their advice ahead of InnovationMap Awards | Houston is often lauded as one of the most diverse cities in America, and that diversity is seen across its business communities as well, which includes its innovation ecosystem.
The InnovationMap Awards presented by Techwave announced its ... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Houston-based research organization teams up with SpaceX for historic mission | The world's first all-civilian human spaceflight mission to orbit will be participating in health-related research projects sponsored by a Houston organization.
The crew of Inspiration4 will contribute to research projects that the Translat... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Houston startup addresses gaps in the gig economy with new app | Two Houstonians are making student side hustles on college campuses a whole lot safer and easier.
When Madison Long and Simone May were undergraduate students at Purdue University, their only option for scoping out basic services — like get... |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Houston-based composting startup grows commercial and residential subscribers amid pandemic | From landfills leaking into the water supply to reports of recycling being dropped in landfills, Houston's sustainable future has been mired by waste management faux-pas. According to a fact sheet from the City of Houston, 81 percent of tra... |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Here's which of the InnovationMap Awards finalists are hiring | After scouring Houston for the best of the Houston innovation ecosystem and evaluating dozens of companies, InnovationMap has announced the finalists in its inaugural awards. But which of these companies are growing their teams?
Turns out, ... |
| Aug 27, 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, 28 companies being named as finalists in... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | Innovative Houston-based pharmacy debuts new $55M facility | Adding heft to Houston's health care economy, Empower Pharmacy on August 26 publicly debuted what the company bills as North America's most technologically advanced compounding pharmacy.
Highlights of the new $55 million, 86,000-square-foot... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | Comcast program helps Texas families log on to reliable internet | The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the digital divide when it came to online learning, but one tech company is hoping the bridge the gap in Texas.
Comcast's Internet Essentials program and Region 4 Education Service Center have par... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Houston investor shares why she's focused on funding the future of femtech | Successful investors find gaps in the marketplace and direct funds into startups and technologies resolving those gaps. For Kyra Doolan, managing director at Houston-based Texas HALO Fund, femtech represents a huge opportunity for innovatio... |
| Sep 9, 2016 | Compounding pharmacies must safeguard public health | Having a prescription filled is one of the routine things most of us do for our health. That simple activity is anything but routine for the millions of individuals who can’t tolerate medicines made for the masses. They may have an allergy ... |
