| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Houston expert shares 3 business trend predictions for 2024 | Last year was a dynamic year for businesses across all sectors. Artificial intelligence went from a novel technology to a more widely utilized business productivity tool. Many companies invested additional resources in sustainable business ... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | How to navigate toxic lab workplaces, according to UH research | There are many types of toxic bosses. The Micromanager. The Narcissist. The Incompetent Boss. The list goes on. But labs led by toxic PIs not only make for an abysmal workplace they can actually encourage research misconduct.
According to C... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Is Texas a top state for business? New reports find mixed results | Texas economic development boosters are crowing about a new top-in-the-nation ranking. But they’re probably frowning about a different business ranking that’s mediocre.
First, the good news.
Business Facilities magazine just named Texas the... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Houston innovator's new book to help business leaders be 'authentically successful,' move past just inclusion | Denise Hamilton says she's been used to looking around and realizing she's the only woman or African American in the room, and for the past nine years, she's been providing resources and education to trailblazing women like h... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Freshly funded startups, NASA-backed engine testing top this week's top Houston innovation stories | Editor's note:Welcome back for another roundup of top Houston innovation news from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included recent startup funding rounds, two new hires, and more.
These 9 ... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Key business marketing tips to take from top social media creators, according to these Houston researchers | Influencer marketing is booming, with companies allocating 10 to 25 percent of their advertising budgets to influencer-led strategies. Between 2016 and 2020, the number of sponsored posts rose from 1.26 million to 6.12 million, and overall ... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | NASA postpones historic crew landing until 2026 | Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday.
The space agency had planned to send four astronauts around th... |
| 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 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... |
| Jan 3, 2024 | 5+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for January | Ring in the new year with fellow Houston innovators at everything from networking meetups to startup showcases.
Here's a roundup of events you won't want to miss out on so mark your calendars and register accordingly.
Note: This p... |
| Jan 2, 2024 | Houston sustainability startup secures million-dollar prize after global competition | A Houston sustainability startup has secured a major win on a global scale.
Revterra, which produces novel batteries made from recycled steel, has been awarded a million-dollar piloting opportunity by ADNOC following a global competition.
T... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ventu... |
| Dec 21, 2023 | City approves $5.5M investment for Houston flight school | Houston City Council approved Houston Airports to use $5.5 million from its Airport Improvement Fund to build the Texas Southern University Flight Academy at Ellington Airport.
The new facility will add to student learning with TSU’s aviati... |
| 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-f... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Houston small biz services co. secures $30M in financing from Austin firm | Missouri City-based Exectras, a provider of services for small and midsize businesses, has secured debt financing of up to $30 million from Austin-based investment manager Tacora Capital.
Exectras says the money will go toward beefing up it... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | How this Houston SaaS startup plans to scale with future of energy in mind | As much as she loves a good Excel spreadsheet, Samra Nawaz had just about had it with the convoluted — and not always completely accurate — process of building financial models within upstream oil and gas.
"Excel is generally a good to... |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Space tech unicorn opens new 22-acre HQ in the Houston Spaceport | The Houston Spaceport has officially celebrated the opening of another facility from a fast-growing space tech company.
Axiom Space has opened its new Assembly Integration and Test Building, which will be the new headquarters for the Housto... |
| 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 8, 2023 | 2023 startup gift guide: Shop local from these Houston innovators | It's giving season, and you need not look any further than Houston's startup and innovation community for some gift ideas.
This year's Houston startup gift guide includes experiences, sustainable shopping, and more.
Need some... |
| 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 19, 2023 | Houston research addresses persistent wage gap, potential solutions | Gender wage discrimination remains a stubborn problem in the United States. On average, women are paid only 80 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men, and far greater gaps persist for Latina, Black, and Native American women.... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Google program plants software expert at Houston-area university | Computer science students at Prairie View A&M University are gaining firsthand knowledge this semester from a Google software engineer.
As an instructor in the Google in Residence program, Donnell Debnam Jr. is helping train future soft... |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Californians moving to Houston can save up to $646,000, study finds | Does it seem that Californians really are everywhere here in Houston? Here's why: A report by online storage finding platform StorageCafe has revealed just how much money the average Californian saves by taking on the title of transpla... |
| 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 29, 2021 | Report: Lone Star State snags spot as world's 9th largest economy by GDP | If Texas were a country — and plenty of Texans wish that were the case — it would rank among the world's 10 largest economies. Economic development officials are now touting that fact as evidence of Houston and the rest of Texas being ... |
| 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 15, 2021 | Texas named a top state for women-led startups | Who runs the world? According to Merchant Maverick's inaugural Best States for "Women-Led Startups'' study, Texas is a great place for women to be in charge.
The Lone Star state cracked the top 10 on the list, earning a ... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Microsoft announces lease in rising Houston innovation hub | Microsoft and Rice Management Company — the owner and management of The Ion, a rising innovation hub in Houston — announced that the tech company will be leasing space on the 288,000 square-foot building's fifth floor.
"Over the l... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Overheard: NASA administrator shares Houston's potential as a commercial space hub | The Greater Houston Partnership hosted its inaugural State of Space event featuring a keynote address by Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator, that touched on the many ongoing projects at Houston's Johnson Space Center.
The online event... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Houston nonprofit leader on the importance of supporting research — from COVID-19 to materials science | The Welch Foundation, a Houston-based nonprofit that supports researchers across the state, has identified a need to dedicate resources toward a specific field of study that affects everyone on a daily basis — and has done so for years: mat... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Chevron to launch makerspace at The Cannon, Houston a top city for STEM, 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, a startup snags a win at a pitch competition, Chevr... |
| 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 programmin... |
| 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 ecosyste... |
| 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 ... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | Houston-area space tech startup gets upgraded control center | A space tech startup based in Clear Lake, just outside of Houston, has a new office that's going to help them take their technology out of this world.
Intuitive Machines, an engineering firm specializing in automation and aerospace, ha... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Here's what the new SEC accredited investor definition means for potential Houston VCs | This month. the Security and Exchange Commission, or SEC, modified the definition of "accredited investor," with the effect of dramatically increasing the number of people eligible to participate in non-publicly traded investments... |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Texas startup dials up plans to reboot once-popular BlackBerry phone | A Texas company is dialing up a comeback for the once pervasive BlackBerry.
OnwardMobility, an Austin startup that produces mobile devices, said August 19 that it had sealed a deal with BlackBerry and FIH Mobile to resurrect the device. In ... |
| Aug 18, 2020 | New startup accelerator emerges in Houston to promote collaboration between Black and Hispanic communities | Two local business leaders have teamed up to create a Houston-based accelerator focused on Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs.
BH Ventures has applications open for its inaugural cohort until August 21, and co-founders Sharita M. Humphrey and... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | UH: How biotech companies are withstanding the pandemic | At a time when the business world is reeling, biotech companies are still hanging on. Many biotech startups have successfully pivoted their entire platforms to focus on coronavirus-related work.
Of course, these companies aren't withou... |
| Aug 7, 2020 | Nonprofit arts event in Houston pivots to virtual experience | As summer rolls on and Houston adapts to the new normal of the COVID-19 pandemic, myriad arts organizations are pivoting, morphing their in-person events into virtual experiences.
One such event is the 49-year-old, annual Bayou City Arts Fe... |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Houston oil and gas giant premieres new startup incubator and names first participant | Not intending to be left out of the energy transition, a Houston-based, multinational oil and gas services company has announced its new incubator for startups to advance cleaner, affordable energy.
Halliburton Company has introduced Hallib... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | Tech startup lands in Houston to help space support services take off | A Virginia-based space company startup focusing on developing small and inexpensive satellites is making an out-of-this-world entrance in the Houston commercial innovation space.
SCOUT has been selected as part of the 2020 MassChallange... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Here’s how much house you can buy in Houston for $250,000 | Houston may be in the midst of a pandemic, but that hasn't slowed our real estate market. And a new study shows just how much bang for your buck you can get in the Bayou City versus Texas' other major metro areas.
A study released... |
| 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... |
| May 21, 2020 | Managing through COVID-19: Six imperatives for CFOs | Slightly more than a decade after the Great Recession, COVID-19 has brought back the dreaded "R" word to haunt executives in the global economy.
The practice of social distancing to slow the contagion has abruptly and sharply curt... |
| May 7, 2020 | Houston specialist reflects on innovation and technology's effect on pregnancy care | Mother's Day this Sunday will be a very different kind of day for mothers across the world, and I found myself reflecting on the innovation and evolution of pregnancy care and the different options women have nowadays.When I founded Th... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | These 5 Houston-area research institutions have bright minds at work to battle COVID-19 | Since even the early days of COVID-19's existence, researchers all over the world were rallying to find a cure or potential vaccine — which usually take years to make, test, and get approved.
Houston researchers were among this group t... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | 9 Houston startups that are pivoting to provide COVID-19-related services | From software to new services, several Houston startups are using this time of crisis to roll out new options for people living in the time of the COVID-19 crisis.
Last week, InnovationMap rounded up seven health tech startups providing hea... |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Houston's innovation ecosystem can't lose momentum amid COVID-19, entrepreneur says | If you would have asked Lawson Gow a few weeks ago how he was feeling about the coronavirus closing down all three of his company's coworking spaces, his answer would have been pretty bleak. But now, as The Cannon has turned its attent... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | From quickly making face masks to preparing meals for hospital workers, Houstonians everywhere are finding the best way for them to give back. For these three innovators to know this week, their way of giving back is helping startups naviga... |
| Mar 30, 2020 | Rice University students and staff team up with Canadian company to make low-cost ventilators | As the COVID-19 case numbers continue to grow, hospitals around the world are either experiencing or expecting a shortage of ventilation units. In Houston, a team of students and staff at Rice University have designed a solution.
Along with... |
| Mar 18, 2020 | Former founder wants to make Houston a major femtech hub | Brittany Barreto has had a rollercoaster of a year. She went from a startup founder in her second round of funding to sitting on the other side of that fundraising table.
Barreto, who is the venture associate at Capital Factory, has a Ph.D ... |
| Mar 11, 2020 | Report: Houston ranked No. 2 in the country for corporate relocation, expansion projects landed in 2019 | In Texas, Houston rules the corporate relocation and expansion kingdom.
Site Selection magazine ranks Houston second among large U.S. metro areas for the number of corporate relocation and expansion projects landed in 2019. That's up t... |
| Feb 4, 2020 | 6 things this Houston entrepreneur wishes he’d known before starting his company | Recently, I was asked what it took to build a startup in Houston. It has taken me three attempts to create a successful startup, and there were a few things that I wish I'd known right out of the gate.
Whether your goal is to exit thro... |
| Jan 9, 2020 | New-to-Houston accelerator names program director, opens applications | The second of two top accelerator programs that have taken a bet on Houston has announced its new program director and opened applications for its spring 2020 cohort.
Wisconsin-based gener8tor announced in September that its pre-accelerator... |
| Nov 22, 2019 | Overheard: Local fighters land knockout statements at Houston's first Digital Fight Club | On Wednesday, Houston's innovation ecosystem hosted the rowdiest crowd at a professional business event that the city has ever seen.
Digital Fight Club, a Dallas-based event company, had its first Houston event at White Oak Music Hall ... |
| Nov 21, 2019 | Survey company wants to make collection information in Houston short, sweet, and to the point | In a 2019 report card handed out by Cincinnati-based startup Wyzerr, Houston didn't do too well — It got a C, a 2.5 out of 4. Houston is passing, but just barely.
Wyzerr didn't give the city a bad rating; Houstonians did. In July,... |
| Nov 20, 2019 | Houston-based medical device companies pitch at TMCx Demo Day | Earlier this month, 16 medical device companies wrapped up their time at the Texas Medical Center's accelerator program and pitched their companies to fellow health professionals, guests, and more. While each made important connections... |
| Nov 13, 2019 | Third Ward community expresses concerns with The Ion project that's underway | The city of Houston has been buzzing about Rice Management Company's Ion Innovation Hub — a 270,000-square-foot coworking and innovation hub project expected to deliver in 2021 — but there's one group isn't so thrilled with t... |
| Nov 5, 2019 | Here's what makes a startup stand out, according to University of Houston research | During your pitch, investors will be looking to see what your startup's value proposition is. What can you offer that your competitors cannot?
Imagine if you will, your startup develops a watch that can detect when you're about to... |
| Nov 4, 2019 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | This week, some key Houston innovators to know include the CEO of a tech company that's demystifying Google's SEO, a local entrepreneur who just raised millions in funding, and the newest addition to the Houston innovation ecosyst... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | New coworking space to open, Houston to host Accenture's health tech awards, and more innovation news | A lot is happening in the Houston innovation ecosystem — so much that you may have missed a few key news items. Let's hit the highlights, shall we?
Applications are open for major health tech awards program that is coming to town, a Ho... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Downtown Redevelopment Authority approves $1.25 million grant for new-to-Houston accelerator program | Houston has yet again attracted a nationally recognized accelerator program to downtown. Wisconsin-based genera8tor has announced its plans to launch its pre-accelerator program, gBETA, in Houston in spring of next year thanks to a $1.25 mi... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | Houston blockchain startup closes oversubscribed seed round of funding with local investors | Kim Raath is pretty proud of her company right about now. Not only is she proud that her startup, Topl, a blockchain network with applications across industries, closed a 20 percent oversubscribed $700,000 seed round, but because she did it... |
| Aug 29, 2019 | Health care tech company with Houston ties gets huge opportunity on the West Coast | Sani nudge, a graduate of the TMCx healthcare accelerator's nineth cohort at Houston's Texas Medical Center, is getting a significant nudge from a new collaboration with a social-impact organization based in California.
Among more... |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Houston artificial intelligence startup aims to impact medical field | A Houston-based startup has a new technology that allows hospitals and medical establishments better access to its own data – which translates into more effective diagnoses and preventative care.
InformAI — founded by Jim Havelka, CEO, in 2... |
| Jul 9, 2019 | Texas named the No. 1 state to start a business | The entrepreneurial spirit is best cultivated by Texans, apparently. The Lone Star State comes in first place for being business-friendly to startups and their founders in a recent study.
Out of all 50 states, Texas reigns supreme in Wallet... |
| Jul 5, 2019 | Here's what you should look out for in Houston during Space City Month | Fifty years ago, NASA sent a crew of astronauts to the moon and back while a team controlled the mission from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
In honor of this history-making experience, the Space City is playing host to Space City Mont... |
| 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... |
| Jun 10, 2019 | 5 Texas entrepreneurs rank among Forbes' richest self-made women | It's common knowledge Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta and Gulf States Toyota owner Dan Friedkin rank among the wealthiest people in Texas. But did you know that five other entrepreneurs — collectively worth more than $4 billion —... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Houston SaaS startup closes $4.5 million Series A round of funding | A Houston startup has something to roar about. Information Technology automation and management company, Liongard, has closed its latest round of funding at $4.5 million.
The Series A round was lead by TDF Ventures, a software, infrastructu... |
| May 16, 2019 | Houston named the No. 2 city for STEM jobs | Sure, Houston can boast that it's the Energy Capital of the World. That's undisputed. However, Houston also is making strides in the wider range of STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
A new study from ... |
| May 13, 2019 | New SpaceX exhibit expected to land at Space Center Houston this summer | Space Center Houston has a new exhibit launching this summer. The nonprofit will have a Falcon 9 first stage booster on display starting later this summer.
The booster was used in two missions, which marked the first time a refurbished boos... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for March | Rodeo has kicked off and spring break is around the corner, which can only mean one thing: March in Houston. The month is chock full of business, entrepreneurial, and innovation-focused events, but we've plucked out over 10 to highligh... |
| 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... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | Digital home buying and selling tool expands to Houston market | A Phoenix-based real estate company has expanded to the Houston market and opened a new office in town.
First launched in 2015, Offerpad is a tech-enabled home buying and selling solution. As of October, Offerpad had expanded to 534 cities ... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | 5 Houston startups beginning 2019 with new capital | Finding growing Houston startups is as easy as following the money, and a few local companies are starting 2019 strong with a recent round of funding closed. InnovationMap has rounded up a few recent raises to highlight heading into the new... |
| 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, h... |
| Nov 6, 2018 | TMCx receives national award for unique startup accelerator program | The Texas Medical Center has once again received national acclaim — this time, for its innovation.
Seed Accelerator Rankings Project selected TMCx for a "Silver" distinction in its 2018 awards. SARP evaluated accelerators' su... |
