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| Oct 23, 2026 | Meet 4 Houston health tech startups that are advancing medical innovation | Houston has been driving medical innovation for decades. And thanks to leading hospitals, cutting-edge research and breakthrough technologies, the region’s healthcare ecosystem continues to improve how patients are diagnosed, treated and ca... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | These 5 trailblazing Houston startups are leading the energy transition | Houston is home to a growing number of startups reshaping what it means to be called the "Energy Capital of the World."
As part of the 2026 Houston Innovation Awards, our Energy Transition Business category honors those innovative... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Houston shopping center opts for buzzy new environmental project | Bees are glorious creatures, tasked with pollination and the no-big-deal duty of balancing our planet's ecosystem and keeping the circle of life moving. Oh, and the honey!
No surprise, then, that beekeeping is all the buzz. With that i... |
| Jun 18, 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 autonomous delivery pilo... |
| May 7, 2021 | Houston SaaS startup closes $12M series A funding round with support from local VC | A Houston startup with a software-as-a-service platform for the energy transition has announced it closed a funding round with participation from a local venture capital.
Molecule closed its $12 million series A, and Houston-based Mercury F... |
| May 7, 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, events not to miss this month,... |
| May 5, 2021 | Houston health tech company bounces back from COVID-19 in a big way | The pandemic hit life science innovation hard. And no one knows that better than Kevin Coker, co-founder and CEO of Proxima Clinical Research, a Houston-based contract research organization focused on supporting life science startups as the... |
| May 4, 2021 | Expert shares advice for Houstonians experiencing a pandemic-sparked career change | I've had so many pivots in my professional career; moving across the country, internal promotions, leaving a corporate job to launch my own company, and repositioning myself and my brand in new markets. But I'm one of those people... |
| May 4, 2021 | Report: Houston ranks among the worst cities for unnecessary medical treatments | Houston boasts of being home to the Texas Medical Center, the world's biggest medical complex. Yet Houston's medical community also holds a distinction that's hardly boast-worthy: It's the worst major metro area in Texas... |
| Apr 9, 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 the challeng... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Houston health center working with new study that uses app to track long-term COVID-19 effects | Aided by technology, medical sleuths at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are tracking the long-term effects of COVID-19 as part of a national study.
At the heart of the study is an app that allows patients who have s... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Over $1.4M in prizes awarded at Rice University's student startup competition | In its 21st year, the Rice Business Plan Competition hosted 54 student-founded startups from all over the world — its largest batch of companies to date — and doled out over $1.4 million in cash and investment prizes at the week-long virtua... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Houston organization embraces digital in a time of immediate need | It started with a Zoom class. Shelby Saylor remembers shutting the doors to the YMCA of Greater Houston on March 17, 2020, as the threat of the coronavirus pandemic surged across the city. Like the rest of the world, the executive director ... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Rice Alliance event identifies 4 most-promising energy tech companies at CERAWeek | Wondering what energy tech companies you should keep an eye on? Wonder no more.
As a part of 2021 CERAWeek by IHS Markit, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted a virtual pitch competition today featuring 20 companies ... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Rice Business Plan Competition names 2021 startups to compete for over $1M in prizes | After receiving applications from over 440 startups from around the world, the Rice Business Plan Competition has named 54 startups to compete in the 2021 event.
Touted as the world's largest and richest student startup competition, RB... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Deloitte names new Houston-based O&G leader with focus on innovation and inclusion | Amy Chronis has had a big year. First, she took over as the Greater Houston Partnership's 2021 chair. And on February 25 she was named a vice chairman of Deloitte LLP and leader of its oil, gas, and chemicals sector.
In her new role, C... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Rice University competition to link veterans with NextSeed investors | Rice University's Business Veterans Association has helped military veteran raise more that $3.5 million in investments over the last seven years through it's annual pitch competition. And this year, the stakes are even higher.
Th... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Editor's Picks: Top 10 Houston startup feature stories of the year | Editor's note: As 2020 comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. This past year, InnovationMap featured profiles on dozens of these Houston startups — from blockchain and soft... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | Here are the top 5 Houston startup venture capital deals in 2020 | Editor's note: As 2020 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 ... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Houston named growing hub for life sciences, cybersecurity startups win contest, and more innovation news | Houston's innovation ecosystem has been booming with news, and it's likely some might have fallen through the cracks.
For this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, see why Houston has been named a top emerging hub f... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Houston tech companies have raised over $466M so far this year, new report finds | This year might be a wash for a lot of things, but according to a new fundraising report from Houston Exponential, the Bayou City has seen an increase in funding this year compared to 2019.
The HTX Funding Review found that Houston startups... |
| May 26, 2020 | Houston startup raises $10M, A&M names TMC campus, and more innovation news | Houston's innovation ecosystem has been booming with news, and it's likely some might have fallen through the cracks. From a Texas university naming its burgeoning new campus to a Houston SaaS startup with fresh funds, here are so... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | Pitch competition returns to Houston with cybersecurity-focused event | For eight years, Greg Wright has been organizing a SXSW pitch competition in Austin for startups from around the world that are using technology to improve life. In 2020, Wright is bringing Houston-based Hatch Pitch back into the Bayou City... |
| Mar 15, 2019 | MedCitizens: StartUPDATES | NeuroFlow has also hired Phil Del Vecchio as a software engineer, focusing on the Android and iOS platforms. The company now has 17 full-time employees. Last year, the company raised $1.2 million in part to add employees. It previously hire... |
| Mar 13, 2014 | SupaPass Lets Any Musician Run A Subscription Fan Club, Just Like Gaga | As the sole European company shortlisted for SXSW’s HATCH pitch competition this week, we thought we’d take a look at SupaPass. (For those who don’t know it, HATCH pitch is a competition startups that ‘make life better’).
SupaPass – current... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Three lessons learned from SXSW pitch competitions: What not to do | Seratis Health won the Monday contest. Founded by a doctor, Seratis is a communication tool to help healthcare providers coordinate, track and analyze care across a team and to replace pagers.
Some of the entrepreneurs had promising ideas b... |
| Mar 10, 2013 | Realty Mogul Won the HATCH Pitch Competition at SXSW | BY SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Mar 6, 2013 | Taskbox Raises $600,000 in Seed Stage Funding | Right before South by Southwest kicks off, Taskbox is making a lot of news.
The Austin-based startup Taskbox, which makes a popular iPhone app to manage an email inbox, announced it has raised $600,000 in seed stage funding from angel inves... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Storymix to pitch at SXSW’s Hatch | Storymix Media graduated from Capital Factory in Austin last year.
Since then, Mike and Ariane Fisher, the husband and wife founders, have expanded and diversified the startup’s product line from wedding videos to business, bar mitzvahs and... |
| MedCitizens: StartUPDATES | The StartUPDATES is a member feature of MedCitizens, a community of MedCity News startups. Submit here and join.
At SXSW in Austin, Texas this week, NeuroFlow placed first in Hatch — a pitch competition for global startups in information te... |
| Three lessons learned from SXSW pitch competitions: What not to do | You couldn’t throw a free beer coozie at SXSW this year without hitting a pitch contest. The main SXSW accelerator had two days of pitches and six tracks, including one for wearables and one for healthcare. There was a pitch competition Sun... |