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| Jul 23, 2025 | Reliant’s smart new bundle puts energy savings + insights into one app | Two companies known for innovation in energy and home automation, Reliant and Vivint, have teamed up to launch the Smarter Home Bundle: a powerful new offering that simplifies home energy management and enhances everyday living for Texans.
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| Oct 28, 2024 | Holiday at the Arboretum Celebrates 10th Anniversary of The 12 Days of Christmas | Partridge in a Pear Tree
The Christmas Village's Christmas Pyramid
Holiday at the Arboretum's Christmas Village at Night
A Della Robbia Holiday Terra Cotta Exhibit Debuts at the DeGolyer House
As we celebrate a decade of holiday t... |
| Sep 6, 2024 | Dallas Arboretum Welcomes Texas Town Reimagined at Fall Festival | Autumn at the Arboretum Texas Town is this year's 2024 theme.
Autumn at the Arboretum Texas Town features 100,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash.
Autumn at the Arboretum features changing color at Red Maple Rill.
Autumn at the Arboretum p... |
| Jul 11, 2024 | Where to find cooling centers in Houston | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
For those seeking relief from the heat, city officials and nonprofits have opened cooling centers around town.
What they're saying: "If you think you need t... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | Holiday at the Arboretum, Presented by Reliant, Features Three Large-Scale Exhibits, Dazzling Tree and a Million Lights | Christmas Village at the Dallas Arboretum is magical.
The Christmas Village at Night at the Dallas Arboretum
Dallas Arboretum 12 Days of Christmas with 4 Calling Birds
Holiday at the Arboretum, presented by Reliant, features three large-sca... |
| 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.
Caroly... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 serv... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 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 imm... |
| 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 mak... |
| 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 innovati... |
| 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... |
| 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 gam... |
| 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 Departmen... |
| 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 | 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 | 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.
Th... |
| 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 Innovatio... |
| 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 202... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 fi... |
| 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 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-s... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Halliburton company raises $10M, gBETA opens apps, Houston coworking space expands, and more innovation news | It's been a busy summer for the Houston innovation ecosystem, and for this reason, local startup and tech news may have fallen through some of the cracks.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, a Halliburton Labs m... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Houston health tech company raises $7.85M series A led by local VC | A Houston-based health tech company has scored fresh funds from a Houston venture group to fuel its growth and to expand nationally.
KARE Technologies, a digital labor marketplace for health care workers, raised a $7.85 million series A inv... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | New app maps out hot Heights development's shopping and restaurants | Bustling mixed-use Heights development M-K-T (600 N Shepherd Dr.) has been all the buzz lately, with new hip fashion shops such as Nollege and TAFT strolling in and Homestead Breakfast, Lunch & Later serving up breakfast to hungry shopp... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Rice Alliance announces 4 most promising energy tech companies at OTC | Fourteen companies pitched at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship's Energy Venture Day at the 2021 Offshore Technology Conference, and virtual attendees voted on the companies they think are the most promising.
The co... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | How this entrepreneur is preparing Houston for the future of electric vehicles | If you live in Texas and you drive an electric vehicle, you probably own a home — mostly because homeowners have a place to safely charge their vehicle. Apartment dwellers don't have that option in most residences. But David Aaronson i... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | City of Houston sorts trash and curbside recycling questions with new app | Ah, the age-old Houston recycling questions: Is recycling today? Next week? Is glass accepted? Recycle the birthday card from the ex or burn it?
The City of Houston is here to help with those questions (er, perhaps not the last one) with a ... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Fortune 100 company moves materials tech biz HQ to Houston | A nearly $10 billion division of Honeywell International that primarily caters to the oil and gas industry has moved its headquarters to Houston.
On August 11, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Honeywell announced its Performance Materials an... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | 4 ways Houston businesses can recover cash flow in a post-COVID world | The COVID-19 pandemic has been a cash flow disaster for many businesses, whether it's small restaurants forced to close their doors for months on end or commercial rental properties unable to fill their office space in light of widespr... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Houston businessman sells online gaming casino in $1.56B deal with fantasy sports tech company | DraftKings, the nationally renown fantasy sports and online sportsbook company (Nasdaq: DKNG), announced it will acquire Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta's Golden Nugget Online Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNOG) in an all-stock transaction... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Photos: Here's a sneak peek at The Ion Houston's construction progress | The Ion Houston is expected to open its doors this year, and the building's exterior is close to completion. Now, the construction team is focusing on interiors and then tenant build outs.
The 270,000-square-foot coworking and innovati... |
| Feb 26, 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 responding to W... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | The Ion's accelerators are working to bring out the best in Houston — from resiliency to diversity | When you look at the business accelerator programs offered at The Ion, a rising innovation hub in Midtown, you see Houston represented. From energy and space tech to resiliency and diversity, the four accelerators intentionally cover what H... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Pivotal new waterfront science lab set to cast off in The Medical Center | The first step of a pivotal new Medical Center district has been revealed. International real estate firm Hines and partner 2ML Real Estate Interests have unveiled the first look at the initial building at Levit Green.
This new, 53-acre lif... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Houston expert: 4 misconceptions of university tech transfer offices | Beyond their education and research missions, universities across the nation have turned research discoveries into big business. In addition to protecting intellectual property from faculty discoveries, universities build and support startu... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Early-stage accelerator names new Houston leader, opens applications for next cohort | Houston's gBETA accelerator announced new leadership in conjunction with opening enrollment for its latest cohort this week.
The early-stage program, which is a part of Wisconsin-based gener8tor, has named Anu Pansare as its new direct... |
| Feb 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, an update from Greentown Houst... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Tilman Fertitta takes much of his empire public in massive $6.6 billion merger | Tilman Fertitta is about to become even wealthier. The Houston billionaire announced that his company, Fertitta Entertainment, will go public via a merger with FAST Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: FST).
In total, the deal will be worth approximate... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In today's Monday roundup of Houston innovators, I'm introducing you to three innovators across industries — from sports tech to startup mentorship.
Youngro Lee, co-founder and CEO of NextSeed
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| Jul 23, 2020 | YMCA of Greater Houston announces equity-focused innovation center backed by Reliant | Houston is the most diverse city in the nation, and the YMCA of Greater Houston is looking to do its part to promote equity innovation by opening a new center.
The Equity Innovation Center Powered by Reliant will be the first of its kind in... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Rice University launches online programming for entrepreneurs dealing with COVID-19 closures | Houston small businesses and startups have a long road of recovery ahead of them, and Rice University and some of its partners want to help local entrepreneurs prepare for it.
Rice University's Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing... |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Houston-based oil and gas software company raises $1.6 million | A Houston energy tech startup that's digitally optimizing the minerals rights buying and selling process has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed financing round to the tune of $1.6 million.
M1neral's round was co-led by Amnis Ventur... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Houston-based digital marketplace for industrial equipment raises $5.5 million series A | A Houston startup that acts as a digital marketplace for industrial equipment in the oil and gas and construction industries closed a sizeable series A financing round this month.
Hitched Inc. raised $5.5 million in its series A funding led... |
| Jul 10, 2019 | MassChallenge Texas Announces First Houston-Based Cohort | 26 high-impact companies represent the top startup applicants from around the world who will participate in the not-for-profits first Houston-based program. The addition of the Houston program startups extends MassChallenge Texas’ support t... |
| Nov 28, 2018 | Houston startup founder plants the seeds for innovative capital raising | After eight years as a private equity lawyer, Youngro Lee quit his job to start NextSeed, a digital avenue for businesses to raise capital from the community they serve.
"One thing that I always realized in my professional career is th... |
| Sep 4, 2012 | From the Gridiron to the Electric Grid | Installing solar power systems at NFL stadiums provide both cost savings and great public relations opportunities for everyone involved.
Entering FedExField, home to the Washington Redskins, fans are greeted by a 30-ft tall man. It isn’t an... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | NRG To Build Network Of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Throughout Texas | NRG Energy— a wholesale generator and publicly traded company— announced plans to build a network of 150 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Houston starting in February 2011, then to expand this network throughout Texas and the Unit... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Nissan’s wireless EV charging could leave Coulomb, Better Place in the dust | Electric vehicles have come a long way in the last two years. Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive have proven that EVs can be fast and decently ranged, even sexy. Nissan is promising to make them fairly cheap. General Motors is working on so... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Nissan’s wireless EV charging could leave Coulomb, Better Place in the dust | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Electric vehicles have come a long way in the las... |
