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| Apr 23, 2024 | Op-Ed: Removing barriers is critical for the future of Houston's health care workforce | Houston houses one of the most renowned medical communities in the world. However, Texas' current health care workforce shortage has severely impacted the city, with large swaths of the Gulf Coast Region deemed medically underserved. Thousa... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | 4 Houston universities earn top spots for graduate programs in Texas | Houston's top-tier universities have done it again. U.S. News and World Report has four Houston-area universities among the best grad schools in the state, with some departments landing among the top 100 in the country.
U.S. News publishes ... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | With FDA approval, Houston health tech company prepares nationwide deployment | Jessica Traver Ingram has been captivated by the intersection of physics and health care for most of her life, and that passion led her to contributing to the establishment of the Texas Medical Center's Biodesign Fellowship. After helping m... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Accenture, Goodwill-backed cleantech job accelerator celebrates Houston launch | A major nonprofit and a worldwide corporate leader have teamed up to advance cleantech jobs — and the program has officially celebrated its launch in Houston.
Goodwill Houston, in collaboration with Accenture, BlocPower, and Goodwill Indust... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Houston initiative selected for DOE program developing hubs for clean energy innovation | Houston has been selected as one of the hubs backed by a new program from the United States Department of Energy that's developing communities for clean energy innovation.
The DOE's Office of Technology Transitions announced the the first p... |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Houston physicist scores $15.5M grant for high-energy nuclear physics research | A team of Rice University physicists has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics for their work in high-energy nuclear physics and research into a new state of matter.
The five-year $15.5 m... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Houston tech platform raises series C round backed by Mastercard | Hello Alice, a fintech platform that supports 1.5 million small businesses across the country, has announced its series C round.
The amount raised was not disclosed, but Hello Alice reported that the fresh funding has brought the company's ... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | NASA awards $30M to Houston space tech company to develop lunar rover | Houston-based space technology company Intuitive Machines has landed a $30 million NASA contract for the initial phase of developing a rover for U.S. astronauts to traverse the moon’s surface.
Intuitive Machines is one of three companies ch... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Houston health tech company announces $10M in fresh funding to bolster customer care | Roshal Health, a Katy-based provider of ultrasound and echocardiogram services for health care facilities, has secured $10 million in structured equity financing.
New York City-based investment firm Catalio Capital Management led the financ... |
| Feb 16, 2024 | Houston energy startup closes $17M series A to fund Texas geothermal facility | A Houston geothermal startup has announced the close of its series A round of funding.
Houston-based Sage Geosystems announced the first close of $17 million round led by Chesapeake Energy Corp. The proceeds aim to fund its first commercial... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Ion's leadership changes, fintech exit, and more trending Houston innovation news from the week | Editor's note:Let's roundup the top Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included big changes at the Ion, a rebrand for a data science firm, and more.
Houston innovation hub rest... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Houston health tech startup revolutionizing spinal taps receives FDA clearance | Houston startup IntuiTap Medical has gained clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its VerTouch medical device.
The company says VerTouch is designed to make spinal punctures more accurate and consistent. The handheld imag... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Houston DEI programs are in place — now it's time to trust them | It’s no secret to almost any Houston-area businessperson that diversity, equity and inclusion has been front and center on the corporate radar for quite some time. According to the 2021 Deloitte/Fortune CEO survey, 94 percent of the 175 CEO... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Houston founder calls for business leaders to 'make room for diverse voices' | Last year was one of quick pivots and tech solutions for Ashley Small and her company's clients. Small — the CEO and founder of Medley Inc., a Houston-based branding and public relations firm — works with both for-profit and nonprofit entit... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Why one of the world's leading life science companies chose Pearland | In 2018, Switzerland-based company Lonza debuted a 300,000-square-foot life science facility in Pearland, the largest dedicated cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility in the world at the time.
What made one of the world's largest comp... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Houston health tech startup launches COVID-19 vaccine management tool | Houston-based health care software startup Luminare Inc. is arming soldiers in the coronavirus vaccination campaign with technology to help smooth the inoculation process.
Luminare, which launched with the mission of combating sepsis, switc... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In the week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three innovators recently making headlines — from health tech founders to a venture capital rising star.
Jim Havelka, founder and CEO of InformAI
Sha... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Expert: New 401k investment options would spur Houston venture capital and innovation | With fossil fuels facing an uncertain future, Houston is wisely pushing to further develop its innovation economy with initiatives like Houston Exponential and Rice Management Company's Ion, as well as the No. 1 ranked entrepreneurship prog... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Houston-based senior care startup accelerates gameplan amid pandemic | Houston-based acute care startup Kare Technologies has yet to waste a good crisis.
The company, which offers senior facilities and qualified caregivers a platform to post and accept work for hire, was born out of founder Charles Turner's ex... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Here are 3 breakthrough innovations coming out of research at Houston institutions | Research, perhaps now more than ever, is crucial to expanding and growing innovation in Houston — and it's happening across the city right under our noses.
In InnovationMap's latest roundup of research projects, we look into studies on robo... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | Houston-area medical device engineering firm acquires Texas company | A engineering firm based in Katy has made a strategic acquisition of a Magnolia, Texas-based company to start of the new year.
Velentium, which specializes in the design and manufacturing of medical devices announced that it has acquired Oa... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Editor's Picks: Top 7 Houston innovation interviews of 2020 | Editor's note: With 2020 in the rearview, InnovationMap is looking back on the top stories of the year. With over 60 episodes of the Houston Innovators Podcast and about half of those being recorded in 2020, here are the top episides from t... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Houston expert shares advice for navigating confusing costs for researchers | Facilities and Administrative costs (F&A), also known as Indirect Costs or IDC, are at the very least misunderstood by researchers. At their worst, they smack of "Big Brother." But F&A costs truly are transparent and nothi... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Houston-based startup shoots for affordability and convenience with new photo biz | Houston-based photographers Chris Bailey and Joseph West have brought automated technology and innovative efficiencies to the often cumbersome task of taking professional headshots.
Bailey and West first met as wedding and corporate photogr... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | Houston innovator to help minority entrepreneurs get access to resources she wished she had | Joy M. Hutton is used to wearing multiple hats. A consultant for nonprofits and small businesses at her own firm, Joy of Consulting, and the founder of On the Go Glam, an on-demand beauty platform, Hutton recently added another hat into rot... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Deloitte explains why it's time to shift from survive to thrive | The pandemic brought into sharp relief the pitfalls of strategies that envision moving from point A to point B on a static path, and that assume that one has years, not months or weeks, in which to rethink outdated views and establish a new... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's Monday roundup of Houston innovators, I'm introducing you to three innovators across the city — from the Greater Houston Partnership, The Ion, and Texas Heart Institute.
Patrick Jankowski, senior vice president... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | How 2 Houston friends founded the fitting industry's go-to company | If you're in the market for a specific kind of pipe, valve, fitting, flange, bolt, gasket, or hose, your first stop should be TPC Industrial.
The Pasadena-based company has been making a name for itself in the PVF/hose and fitting industry ... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Houston-area company is harvesting plant technology for treatment of chronic diseases and COVID-19 | The original version of this story included some factual inaccuracies due to misinformation from a source. The story below has been corrected.
In a 130,000 square-foot facility outside of Bryan-College Station, iBio is growing the makings o... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Houston innovation team wins global award for painless heart technology | Houston's Texas Heart Institute's pain-free defibrillation technology was named the top future medical product design worldwide last month as part of the annual Create the Future Design contest.
The tiny technology aims to change the way ca... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | These are the latest COVID-19-focused research projects happening at Houston institutions | Researchers across the Houston area are working on COVID-19 innovations every day, and scientists are constantly finding new ways this disease is affecting humankind.
From a COVID breathalyzer to a new collaboration in Houston — here's your... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Experts rank holiday activities that put Houston residents most at risk for COVID-19 | The Texas Medical Association has released its COVID-19 holiday risk chart, a ranking of popular activities based on how likely one is to contract the novel coronavirus.
With infections spiking in Houston and across the country, the chart w... |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Houston expert: How to safely promote holiday cheer in the workplace | With the 2020 winter holiday rapidly approaching, time is running short to plan festivities that are fun, engaging — and safe — amid a global coronavirus pandemic.
While many companies are planning to forego holiday parties this year, there... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | Houston company partners with General Motors, others to boost country’s ventilator supply | Houston-based Velentium played a key role in mobilizing thousands of ventilators in the United States at a time when the pandemic and the uncertainty around it was surmounting around the country.
The medical technology company primarily wor... |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Here's what events to attend each day during The Houston Innovation Summit | Back for its fourth year, The Houston Innovation Summit has tons of online, interactive events lined up — starting today.
THIS, just like last year, runs on the same week of Global Entrepreneurship Week, which is focused on education, ecosy... |
| Nov 10, 2020 | Clutch City: Is 2020 a time of devastation or doubling down for Houston? | "Clutch City" may be Houston's most befitting nickname — and it has proven to stand the test of time. Whoever coined the term likely had no idea in how many ways this moniker would be tested and upheld over the next 20-plus years.... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | 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, breakthrough research projects in Houston... |
| Nov 4, 2020 | 4 Houston-area CVS locations now offering free COVID-19 rapid tests | Flu season and cedar fever compounded with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is likely to make for a worrisome winter. In an effort to make testing for the novel coronavirus more accessible, CVS is launching rapid-result tests in 21 stores acro... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | How Houston companies big and small should approach politics in the workplace | Politics has always managed to find its way into the workplace. Casually popping up in conversation here and there. Usually reserved for the water cooler. It always managed to seep through the cracks like a gentle breeze. But, what was once... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | East Houston development launches smart city initiative with new hire | A 4,200-acre master-planned development that's rising on the east side of town has created a new role within their executive suite to drive innovation and a new smart city initiative.
Houston-based real estate developer, McCord, has hired N... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Houston lab develops game-changing supplement for cell heath | Rajan Shah, an MIT-trained chemical engineer, brought his patented manufacturing process 20 years in the making and from an ocean away to Houston with one goal in mind: to take what he calls the body's "master antioxidant" to mark... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | University of Houston joins Microsoft-backed initiative for digital tech workforce development | The University of Houston College of Technology has been selected for a new initiative to bring digital and technical skills to students and the workforce.
Microsoft's Accelerate program is a part of the tech giant's Global Skills Initiativ... |
| Oct 23, 2020 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note:Another week is in the book. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, 10 can't miss space exploration panels, nominations open for new innovation awards, and more.
3 Houston innovato... |
| Oct 15, 2020 | University of Houston launches interactive map of the city's innovation ecosystem | The greater Houston area spans 9,444 square miles — an area larger than the entire state of New Jersey — and the question was never if Houston's sprawl was going to affect interaction between startups, resources, and opportunities, but how ... |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Houston scientist taps nanotech in masks and air filters to use to prevent COVID-19 spread | For over a decade, Seamus Curran, a physics professor at the University of Houston, has worked on his nanotechnology coating substance. He first thought the innovation could be used on fabrics and textile coating, but he realized, once gett... |
| Oct 2, 2020 | Texas entrepreneur brings on-demand nail service to Houston | Ladies, take note: A Dallas-based on-demand nail service app, Cherry, has expanded to Houston. Founded by Amber Venz Box, the blogger/influencer-turned tech entrepreneur, the convenient, at-home service is now available in 37 ZIP codes.
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| Sep 30, 2020 | Houston Independent School District launches new COVID-19 tracker | Greater Houston parents have an important date circled and marked on their calendars: October 19. That's the day Houston Independent School District welcomes students back for in-person instruction at all schools.
However, a major point of ... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Houston's Brené Brown rises strong with new podcast and exclusive Spotify deal | For two decades, renowned Houston thought leader and researcher Brené Brown has delved into the human condition, studying and exploring themes such as courage, vulnerability, empathy, and shame. Her work has made her a national figure as a ... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | Houston biotech company launches animal testing on a drug that could treat COVID-19 | A clinical stage pharmaceutical company based in Houston has entered into the next phase of testing out a drug that could be used to treat COVID-19.
Moleculin Biotech Inc. has tapped an independent lab to examine the antiviral activity of i... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | Houston apartment company on 6 smart home technologies for renters | With recent changes to the ways we work and live, the importance of smart home technology in apartment complexes is becoming more important than ever. Residents not only want to streamline their lifestyles, but are looking for ways to limit... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | New innovation leader at Rice University plans to take campus innovations to the world | When Kyle Judah accepted his position as executive director at Rice University's Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, he had spent less than 48 hours in the city of Houston. In fact, his first two months in the role have been... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Houston coworking space to donate office space to startups affected by COVID-19 | A Houston-based commercial real estate company in the historic East Downtown District, is giving away free space to two startups who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
The Headquarters is currently accepting submissions f... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Houston's fund of funds announces 2 new investments | The HX Venture Fund, which invests in out-of-town venture capital funds that have their eyes on Houston startups, has grown its portfolio.
The fund of funds now has a portfolio of 10 VCs from across the country, across industries, and acros... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Overheard: Here’s what these energy VCs think of the pandemic’s effect on the energy transition | In a lot of ways, venture capital firms are tasked with predicting the future. They put money into tech and business services that are going to disrupt the status quo, and energy VCs are tasked with taking bets on the energy transition.
At ... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Joint venture between two Houston companies creates new mask line with disease-destroying tech | Two Houston companies have joined forces to create a new line of protective face masks that are able to deactivate the coronavirus.
Accel Lifestyle and Ascend Performance Materials have partnered to create Blended Huemanity, which has relea... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | Houston-based startup makes a splash with cloud technology for E&P in oil sector | A Houston area environmental and energy tech company offers a new pay-as-you-go SaaS application that uses chemistry, physics, artificial intelligence, and cloud technology to build simulation platforms for major exploration and production ... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: One week into September is through, and plenty of Houston innovation news came with it, including three female innovators to know, a mobile vet startup plans to expand, a new coworking space plans to open, and more.
3 female ... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Children's Museum of Houston pivots to new digital learning programming | As more Houston parents opt for online classes when kids return to school, a beloved local museum is offering up a clever learning assist. In September, Children's Museum Houston will launch "All-Time Access," an online initiative... |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Houston mobile vet company plans to roll out services statewide | It's safe to say that the real winners of work-from-home trends that sparked due to the pandemic are our pets. Dogs and cats that were used to not seeing their owners for eight hours every work day now have 24-hour access to attention, trea... |
| Aug 17, 2020 | Houston startup — buoyed by Halliburton — plans to scale | A Houston-based material science startup that uses nanotechnology for thermal insulation and fireproofing has been chosen as the first participant of Halliburton Labs, an innovation incubator, announced late last month by the oil and gas gi... |
| Aug 5, 2020 | 5 innovation-focused takeaways from the Greater Houston Partnership's annual report | In an annual economic report from the Greater Houston Partnership, researchers and data scientists outlined the city's economy by the numbers, and Houston's industries such as technology, health care, energy, and more were all represented.
... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Dive deep into Deloitte's artificial intelligence findings | As AI adoption grows, how are companies working to manage risk and stay ahead of the pack? Deloitte's third annual survey suggests how leaders' thinking is changing as applications become pervasive throughout the organization.
For the third... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | These 3 Houston-area researchers receive millions in grants for ongoing innovation projects | Money makes the world go 'round, and that's certainly the case with research projects. Grants are what drives research at academic institutions across the country and fuel the next great innovations.
These three projects coming out of Houst... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | City of Houston calls local and Texas artists for $3 million public project | Houstonians love their public art, and the City of Houston is banking on that love and civic pride with a hefty new call to local artists. The Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs (MOCA) has announced new opportunities for artists and artist ... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | University of Houston researchers studying COVID-19 prevention and treatment | Researchers across the country are focusing on all things COVID-19 — from biotherapies and treatment to vaccines and prevention. A handful of researchers based out of the University of Houston are doing their best to move the needle on a cu... |
| Jun 17, 2020 | Houston entrepreneur is helping his oil and gas clients get 'out of the paper world' | Travis Parigi isn't afraid of an oil downturn. His company, LiquidFrameworks, provides cloud-based, mobile field operations management solutions to oil and gas, environmental, and industrial service companies, and he usually expects drillin... |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Houston expert: How to make the most out of your virtual meeting | Even in the pre-pandemic world, more employees were working remotely in America than ever before. Participating in virtual meetings is the norm, at least for now. The shift came rather abruptly. Millions of Americans had only a few days to ... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | Houston-area health services company launches COVID-19 pre-screening app | A Woodlands-based health services company recently announced a new app that can serve as a self-service pre-screening tool for COVID-19 to be used by employees to return to their workplace.
Axiom Medical created the CheckIn2Work app to make... |
| Jun 9, 2020 | Rice University research looks into corporate responsibility for compassion | Since the early 2000s, the business of doing business has changed its looks markedly. As corporations gain power and reach, many in the public are subjecting them to increasingly insistent questions about their impact on the lives of worker... |
| Jun 8, 2020 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | This week's roundup of who's who in Houston innovation include the HX Venture Fund's newest team member, a startup founder whose app is gamifying corporate training, and a Houston accelerator leader who's pivoted to digital.
Aleece Hobson, ... |
| Jun 4, 2020 | 15 more COVID-19 research projects receive funds from Houston university | Researchers at a Houston institution have been rewarded for their work that focuses on COVID-19 and how it's affected various aspects of life.
Rice University has named its two more rounds of recipients of its COVID-19 Research Fund — an in... |
| Jun 1, 2020 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | This week's Houston innovators to know are all using technology — but in completely different ways and across various sectors.
From creating a circular and sustainable economy for your company's technology to an online platform for your chi... |
| May 27, 2020 | Online camp and programming marketplace pivots amid pandemic to help Houston parents | This summer was supposed to be Houston-based Camppedia's breakout moment — a chance for CEO and Founder Tudor Palaghita to prove the company's value to its users. Palaghita is still getting to provide a much needed service to parents lookin... |
| May 27, 2020 | Houston innovation hub leader shares details on recent resignation | A Houston tech ecosystem leader has announced her resignation from her position in order to seek out a new role.
Gabriella Rowe, who served The Ion as executive director until earlier this week, has confirmed she has resigned from her posit... |
| May 27, 2020 | Here's how to watch the historic NASA/SpaceX mission launch in Houston | Update: The launch was scrubbed a few minutes before launch due to undesirable weather conditions. The new launch date is Saturday, May 30, at around 2:30 CST. The original story is below.
Two Houston-area NASA astronauts are set to make hi... |
| May 26, 2020 | Report recognizes Houston as a top city to launch a career | First-time job hunters are facing a competitive job market with historic unemployment and an unstable economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. However, Houston, according to a recent report, might give its residents an advantage.
The report, ... |
| May 22, 2020 | These 3 Houston research projects are revolutionizing health science | Researchers across the world are coming up with innovative breakthroughs regarding the coronavirus, but Houston research institutions are also making health and wellness discoveries outside of COVID-19.
Here are three from Houston researche... |
| May 21, 2020 | Houston organization creates the 'Netflix for churches' in light of social distancing | Places of worship were not immune from various stay-at-home orders, and many still have not resumed services. But a Houston startup is giving religious institutions an opportunity to reach their congregations — virtually.
Houston-based Chur... |
| May 15, 2020 | The do's and don'ts of using your PPP loan funds | Now that you've taken the first steps toward getting your Paycheck Protection Program loan funds, Texas Citizens Bank is here to help you stay on track by sharing important do's and don'ts about how to use them.
The staff of Texas Citizens ... |
| May 4, 2020 | Houston entrepreneur creates online marketplace to support local shops amid coronavirus crisis | The retail industry has been hit hard due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent social distancing measures that kept customers out of stores. With retail stores reopening at 25 percent capacity, a Houston startup is helping custome... |
| May 1, 2020 | Houston artist launches virtual pop culture convention | Though states around the country— including Texas— have been slowly but surely been trying to reopen businesses and public places and so forth amid this global pandemic, there have been many events that are still cancelled and won't go down... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | Report finds two major metros are the biggest sources of new Houstonians | Despite the current state of things — a pandemic, historic unemployment numbers, and an unstable economy — people are still thinking of moving. And, according to Apartment List, they have eyes on Texas.
The website's quarterly Renter Migrat... |
| Apr 29, 2020 | University of Houston partners with health system to provide COVID-19 protective equipment | A Houston health system was in need of protective personal equipment, or PPE, when they reached out to a local academic institution for support.
Harris Health System tapped the University of Houston to make medical face shields for doctors ... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Across industries, Houston innovation leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators are coming up with creative solutions for the coronavirus or its subsequent challenges — from digital resources to reliable face masks.
This week's innovators to k... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | This Texas startup is helping Houston pets get virtual care during coronavirus | A Texas-based, digitally optimized company focused on veterinary care is helping pet owners connect with medical professionals from the comfort of their homes, offsetting the impact of the social distancing measures to reduce the spread of ... |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Houston health tech startup launches game-changing, at-home coronavirus testing | Politicians, scientists, public health officials, and others continue to stress the need for widespread testing to tame the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Houston-based startup Imaware, an at-home health testing platform, recently rolled ... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | Physics professor at University of Houston puts nanotech to work to fight the spread of COVID-19 | The start of 2020, though most didn't know it at the time, meant a huge change to society. Though coronavirus didn't yet seem to be an issue for the United States, the world was entering into a new normal where wearing face masks in public ... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Philanthropic supply chain tool connects Houstonians with resources during coronavirus crisis | A Houston startup that has been working in a pilot program capacity with the city of Houston has accelerated the rollout of its platform to help connect and coordinate people's needs to resources in real-time during the coronavirus outbreak... |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Now is the time for Houstonians to invest in solar energy, says expert | Largely due to the growing popularity and falling prices of solar energy in Texas, including incentives at the federal, state, and local level, the number of solar panel installations continues to trend upward throughout the state and espec... |
| Apr 6, 2020 | TMCx names 9 health tech startups to its 2020 cohort | Now, more than ever, is time to think about the future of health care. Lucky for the Texas Medical Center, they've been doing that for years with their accelerator program, TMCx, which has just announced its latest cohort of health tech sta... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | Houston tech company launches digital logistics platform to help coronavirus supply chain disruptions | Houston-based ChaiOne recently announced the soft launch of Velostics, the "slack" for logistics that solve wait times and cash flow challenges in the supply chain and logistics industry. The digital logistics platform is set to a... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | Coronavirus has placed new focus on digitization and supply chain, says Houston blockchain startup leader | From a business perspective, Kim Raath, founder and CEO of Topl, sees the challenges and expected recession caused by COVID-19 as an opportunity — and a test.
"A bunch of companies — like Airbnb — were built in the 2008 recession,"... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: The Houston innovation ecosystem is joining together — virtually — to provide health and resources to those affected by coronavirus — from fashion entrepreneurs designing face masks to 3D printers making personal protective e... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | Texas startup provides COVID-19 home-testing kits at no cost to medical professionals | The on-again, off-again launch of a coronavirus test from Austin startup Everlywell is on again — sort of.
On March 23, Everlywell was supposed to start shipping 30,000 test kits to U.S. consumers. But before a single test was sent, the U.S... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Designers and entrepreneurs fashion face masks for medical professionals in Houston | The coronavirus is sweeping the globe and creating new challenges. Notably, companies are not able to keep up with the demand for the N95 masks needed to keep the health care workers safe. Now, Houston's fashion industry is stepping up.
Meg... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | How to use tech to take your event virtual, according to this Houston expert | As the long-term repercussions of the coronavirus set in around the world, the events space was one of the first to realize its need to change course. Events across the world that were scheduled for March through June and beyond are being c... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Houston startup creates COVID-19 tracking tool | A Houston tech startup has created a web application to give the residents of Harris County all the local information on COVID-19 in the palm of their hand.
Predictive Solutions uses a map tool to indicate the county's nearby testing locati... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | 3 female Houston innovators to know this week | This one's for the ladies. InnovationMap's weekly roundup of innovators to know features three female founders — one is offering her advice on crisis communications, one is innovating the at-home workout, and one is planning on making Houst... |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Houston startups turn to digital pitches during coronavirus shutdown | When SXSW canceled a couple weeks ago, event organizers were sent into a frantic scramble of how to salvage some aspect of their plans while also balancing lost deposits, canceled travel, and so much more.
Three pitch events associated with... |
