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| Oct 22, 2024 | Houston's Innovation Surge: A Glimpse into the Future | Houston is buzzing. The city is a cauldron of innovation, bubbling with ideas and energy. The upcoming Houston Innovation Awards is a testament to this vibrant ecosystem. Scheduled for November 14, the event will spotlight over 50 finalists... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Podcast: The 2024 who's who of Houston innovation | The Houston Innovation Awards is less than a month away, and the finalists have just been named. In honor of the recent announcement, this week's Houston Innovators Podcast takes a look at the finalists.
But with six years of InnovationMap ... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Rice accelerator names innovative second summer cohort | Rice University's Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, or Lilie, has named eight teams to the second cohort of the Lilie Summer Venture Studio.
The teams are focused on a range of innovative concepts, from health care solutio... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Houston innovator: Why we need to protect the individual inventor | In 2011, Congress passed The America Invents Act, which created an administrative pathway for challenging the validity of patents. This allowed an opportunity to bypass our courts and get non-judges to determine whether an already issued pa... |
| Jan 5, 2024 | Top funding rounds, events not to miss, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:It's officially the new year, and the end of the first week of 2024 — it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included events not to miss this... |
| Jan 4, 2024 | These 9 Houston startups start 2024 with fresh funding | Houston startups ended 2023 with a flurry of funding news — from several seeds and series As to series C rounds and extensions.
Here are nine Houston startups that secured funding in the fourth quarter of last year, according to reporting b... |
| Jan 4, 2024 | Houston small biz organization expands strategic partnerships | In alliance with their mission of supporting Houston small businesses the Small Business Administration Houston District Office has expanded its partnerships.
The Houston SBA has joined forces with various organizations across a 32-county f... |
| Dec 29, 2023 | Raising the roof: These were the top 5 investment rounds raised by Houston startups in 2023 | Editor's note: As 2023 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 by Innovat... |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Money moves: Most-read Houston innovation grant and gift news of 2023 | Editor's note: As the year comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. Money means a lot to startups and other innovative entities, and while startups are usually scouting venture capital... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Startup secures $2.5M, SPAC deal close, and more trending Houston innovation 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 articles on InnovationMap included a recently closed funding round for an energy tech startu... |
| Dec 18, 2023 | 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 recently making headlines in Houston across energy and space tech.
Samra Nawaz, CEO and co-founder of WellW... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Houston startup focused on cultivating the future workforce of the energy industry raises $2.5M seed funding | With $2.5 million in fresh funding, Digital Wildcatters is on its way to keep empowering the evolving energy workforce.
Digital Wildcatters, a Houston company that's providing a community for the next generation of energy professionals, has... |
| 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 5, 2023 | Houston medical robotics startup announces $42M series C | A Houston medical device company that's tapping into robotics technology for the operating room has just announced a major chunk of fresh funding.
EndoQuest Robotics Inc. announced that it has closed a $42 million series C to advance its ro... |
| 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 ... |
| Dec 4, 2023 | 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 recently making headlines in Houston across business, software, and digital health.
Peter Rodriguez, dean ... |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Houston energy startup wins Ion's annual showcase, pitch competition | The Ion hosted its annual startup pitch competition, and one company walked away with a win.
WellWorth, a financial modeling and analysis software-as-a-service company for the upstream energy sector, won the Houston Startup Showcase + Expo ... |
| 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 23, 2023 | Looking for a job? These 2023 Houston Innovation Awards finalists are hiring | More than half of this year's startup finalists in the Houston Innovation Awards are hiring — who's looking for a job at one of the best startups in Houston?
When submitting their applications for the 2023 Houston Innovation Awards, which i... |
| Oct 17, 2023 | 2023 Houston Innovation Awards finalists announced | In just three weeks, all of Houston's innovation ecosystem will gather to celebrate the hard work of startups, entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and more — and over 50 honorees will be recognized for their achievements.
Scroll down to see ... |
| 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 country, per Pit... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Expert: Houston's at a critical inflection point amid energy transition | In 1914, Winston Churchill faced a difficult decision. Over two decades before his first term as Prime Minister during World War 2, he oversaw the entire Royal Navy as First Lord of the Admiralty. Shipbuilding technology was rapidly evolvin... |
| 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 as t... |
| Sep 11, 2023 | Houston VR training startup wins $90M contract with Air Force, Space Force | HTX Labs has won a three-year, $90 million contract to provide immersive training capabilities for the Air Force and Space Force.
Under the new contract, which is set to end in September 2026, HTX Labs will supply immersive training technol... |
| 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 unique new lab at ... |
| 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 24, 2023 | Houston robotics startup secures $2.1M contract extension with engineering tech co. | A Houston startup has just secured an extended contract with a major customer.
Webster-based Nauticus Robotics, a maker of autonomous oceangoing robots, has bulked up its current contract with Reston, Virginia-based Leidos in a $2.1 million... |
| 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... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In the first weekly roundup of Houston innovators of 2021, I'm introducing you to three innovators across the city — one of the richest people in Houston, a venture capital expert, and a female founder with big plans for 2021... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Houston startup is fostering the future of chronic disease prevention and treatment | A family illness got Jani Tuomi thinking — why does treatment of chronic conditions seem like too little, too late? When his brother fell ill, he wondered if more could have been done preemptively.
"The doctors were really good at trea... |
| 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 programming features... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Deloitte explores the brave new world of virtual communication | Picture this: A corporate executive spends the morning exploring a trade show floor, viewing videos and presentations on new products and networking with companies, vendors, and other attendees from around the world.
In the afternoon, they ... |
| Nov 5, 2020 | Houston real estate expert shares why now's the time for the city's innovation ecosystem to emerge | Rand Stephens has been in Houston since the '80s, and he's seen the city evolve from having an economy heavily dominated by oil and gas to a city focused on diversification of industry.
Now, as a technology and innovation ecosystem is emerg... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | New awards to 'pay homage' to Houston's tech scene | The deadline for nominations has been extended to November 6. The original story below has been edited to reflect the extension.
With so much of 2020 going wrong, a new awards program is hoping to shine a spotlight on Houston tech startups ... |
| Oct 8, 2020 | 3 ways artificial intelligence is changing Houston's future | Artificial intelligence is the buzzword of the decade. From grocery shopping assistance to personal therapy apps, AI has sunk its teeth into every single industry. Houston is no exception to the AI boom. Enterprise-level companies and start... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Houston-area education platform looking for new schools to help teachers with online tools | A Houston-based nonprofit mentorship program that matches underperforming second to fifth graders with college student tutors to provide them targeted support has adapted to the online schooling era, by introducing hybrid learning services ... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | Now is the time to expand machine learning, says Houston researcher | One might not expect the game of checkers to have anything to do with artificial intelligence, but the game really marked the beginning of machine learning in 1959. Pioneered by an MIT professor named Arthur Lee Samuel, it was discovered th... |
| Jun 12, 2020 | Overheard: Experts discuss why Houston is the next hub for tech investing | When Joe Alapat, co-founder and CEO of Liongard, was first getting started on his company, he says a few people recommended he go to Austin or one of the coasts to give his software company a better chance.
"For me, the thought process... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | Shell commits to $10M carbon initiative with Rice University, Houston startup acquired by Honeywell, and more innovation news | Even toward the end of the year and amid the holiday season, Houston's innovation news can be a lot to keep up with. Here are seven short stories of Houston innovation — from an exit for a Houston startup and a multimillion-dollar clean ene... |
| Sep 23, 2019 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Starting off a new — hopefully drier — week in Houston, these three Houston innovators to know are looking to make an impact. From using tech for good to creating a women's movement in Texas business, these three Houstonians are on a roll.
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| Aug 26, 2019 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | As Houstonians head back to work or school following a fun summer break, we know two things for sure.
The first is that traffic will get back to its headache inducing craziness and that Houston startup news will only get more frequent. This... |
| Jun 26, 2019 | Breaking down Houston's 4 new startup accelerator programs | It's official — 2019 is the year of accelerators in Houston. Four different accelerator programs have announced plans to launch Houston programs this year so far — and they are all bringing something different to the table.
All four of the ... |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Houston sees boom of foreign investment and exports over the past decade | Throughout the past decade, over 500 foreign-owned companies from 36 countries have planned investments in Houston. The investments are spread across more than 600 deals within 63 industries in Houston. Adding up the amount of disclosed val... |
| 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're strapped... |
| 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 organiz... |
| Apr 23, 2019 | How technology is disrupting — and improving — the real estate industry in Texas | A recent lawsuit is rocking the residential real estate industry across the country. Home sellers whose properties were listed on one of 20 MLSs claim The National Association of Realtors, Realogy Holdings Corp., HomeServices of America, RE... |
| Apr 10, 2019 | Accelerator program executive to connect the dots within Houston's innovation ecosystem | For Yvette Casares Willis, Houston already has what it takes to be a strong innovation ecosystem. Now, it's about working together to get the city where it needs to be, and MassChallenge hopes to do that with its new chapter in Houston.
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| Apr 9, 2019 | Houston venture fund of funds doles out $5 million in Austin firm in its first investment | After closing its initial round of funding last year, Houston Exponential's fund of funds, called the HX Venture Fund, has closed its first investment on March 29. Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners received a $5 million investment from ... |
| 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 21, 2019 | Here are 3 pieces of Houston startup advice from Capital Factory's emerging tech panel | Throughout the year, Austin-based Capital Factory loads up a bus and takes startup founders and tech entrepreneurs around the Lone Star State in order to better connect the dots of innovation within Texas' major metros. The Texas Startup Ma... |
| Feb 20, 2019 | Houston oil and gas software company is increasing downstream productivity while lowering emissions | In the next 30 years, the world will need 30 percent more energy due to population growth. While energy production will increase to keep up with demand, there is an increasing concern with the impact on the environment.
"How do you pro... |
| Feb 15, 2019 | Houston biotech company aims to enhance oncology treatment of highly resistant cancers | Immunotherapy and personalized medicine get all the headlines lately, but in the fight against cancer, a natural compound created by bees could beat them in winning one battle.
In 2007, chairman and CEO Walter Klemp founded Moleculin Biotec... |
| 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 10, 2018 | Houston company has sight set on AR solutions for industrial construction | When Lori-Lee Emshey got her first oil and gas construction job in Australia, she was carrying around a backpack full of papers.
"I was really shocked at how much work they were doing with such little technology," Emshey says. &qu... |
| Nov 27, 2018 | Houston DNA-based dating app expands nationwide, launches next funding round | Houston singles can find their perfect match — even if it's someone across the country. Houston-based Pheramor — a DNA-based dating app — is available for download in every state.
Brittany Barreto, Pheramor's co-founder and CEO, has a PhD i... |
