| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.10.2025 | European Tech Surge: AI, Robotics, Space Attract Major Capital, Fueling Global Growth | European startups are commanding significant venture capital. AI-driven platforms, advanced robotics, and innovative space technology lead recent investment rounds. German firms like PartSpace, Energy Robotics, and Isar Aerospace secure mul... |
| 15.10.2025 | Energy Robotics: $13.5 Million Series A Closed For Scaling Fleet Orchestration Software Platform | Energy Robotics, a leader in AI software for autonomous inspections using robots and drones, has successfully closed $13.5 million in Series A funding. This round was co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Climate Investment (CI), with contributio... |
| 13.10.2025 | AI Orchestration Leader N8n Secures $180M, Achieves $2.5B Unicorn Valuation | Berlin-based n8n just closed a $180M Series C, valuing its AI orchestration platform at $2.5B. This makes it a unicorn. N8n automates tasks, connects hundreds of apps, and deploys AI agents. It addresses a key challenge: effective AI orches... |
| 12.10.2025 | AI Robotics Fuels Critical Infrastructure Revolution with $13.5M Investment | Energy Robotics, an AI software platform, raised $13.5 million in Series A funding. This investment accelerates its autonomous robot and drone inspection solutions for critical infrastructure. The platform enhances worker safety, cuts opera... |
| 10.10.2025 | +++ Unicorn +++ n8n +++ Agile Robots +++ The Creative Club +++ Energy Robotics +++ snocks +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Freitag, 10. Oktober). #STARTUPLAND
SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Es... |
| 08.10.2025 | PartSpace sammelt 13 Millionen ein – Energy Robotics erhält 13,5 Millionen | Im #DealMonitor für den 8. Oktober werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-A... |
| 07.10.2025 | Energy Robotics Secures $13.5 Million Series A to Scale Critical Infrastructure Inspections with AI + Robotics | Company's leading hardware-agnostic fleet orchestration software platform delivers operational savings and worker safety to its customers
DARMSTADT, Germany, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy Robotics, the leading AI software platform for... |
| 07.10.2025 | German startup Energy Robotics raises €11.5 million to advance autonomous robot and drone inspection software | Darmstadt’s Energy Robotics, an AI software platform for autonomous inspection with robots and drones, today announced the successful close of €11.5 million Series A funding to commercially deploy their software across energy, chemicals, in... |
| 07.10.2025 | Energy Robotics raises $13.5M to bring autonomous inspection to critical infrastructure | AI software platform for autonomous inspection with robots and drones Energy Robotics, has raised $13.5 million Series A.
It offers a full-stack, hardware-agnostic AI autonomy platform for fleet management in critical infrastructure.
Autono... |
| 13.09.2025 | Nuclearn: $10.5 Million Raised To Advance AI Solutions For the Nuclear Industry | Nuclearn, a technology company specializing in AI for nuclear operations, has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate product development and expand its market presence. The round was led by Blue Bear Capital, with participat... |
| 09.09.2025 | Nuclearn Raises $10.5M in Series A Funding | Nuclearn, a Phoenix, AZ-based provider of an AI platform designed specifically for nuclear operations, raised $10.5M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Blue Bear Capital, with participation from SJF Ventures, AZ-VC and Nucleation Cap... |
| 26.08.2025 | Splight: $12.4 Million To Improve Grid Congestion Management | Splight, an innovative grid technology company headquartered in San Francisco, has raised $12.4 million in SAFE funding, spearheaded by Blue Bear Capital and ZOMA Capital. This infusion of capital is a pivotal milestone for Splight as it ac... |
| 22.04.2025 | $42.1 million poured into startup offering energy-efficient solutions for costly and unwieldy operational data and AI workloads | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Hyperscale data warehouse vendor Ocient announced today that it has raised $42.1 million as the second extension ... |
| 13.02.2025 | ACCURE's $16 Million Boost: Powering the Future of Battery Safety | In the heart of Aachen, Germany, a revolution is brewing. ACCURE Battery Intelligence has secured $16 million in a Series B funding round, igniting its mission to enhance battery safety and performance globally. This funding, led by Incharg... |
| 12.02.2025 | ACCURE Secures $16 Million to Scale Battery Safety and Performance Offerings Across Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific | ACCURE's co-founders (L to R): Dr. Georg Angnendt, Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies, Dr. Johannes Palmer
ACCURE’s AI-based predictive analytics software ensures battery safety, reliability and maximum output for energy storage systems and EV fleets ... |
| 17.08.2023 | Demex raises $5 million from Blue Bear Capital | Climate change’s repercussions are more palpable than ever. Since the 1980s, we’ve seen a five-fold increase in non-catastrophic weather events like droughts, heatwaves, and storms. Such meteorological shifts have led to a burgeoning protec... |
| 01.08.2023 | TruckLabs Closes Successful Series B Funding Round to Drive Sustainability in Trucking | TruckLabs Closes Series B “TruckLabs has built out half a dozen patents, challenging IoT integrations, data-driven software automations, and an intimate understanding of the trucking industry's operational needs -- all combined into a surpr... |
| 18.01.2023 | Axiom Cloud Raises $7.4 Million Series A to Transform Commercial Refrigeration using AI | Axiom Cloud announced its $7.4M Series A financing led by Blue Bear Capital. Following large-scale rollouts with major North American grocery chains and cold storage warehouse operators, Axiom raised its Series A to prepare for its next pha... |
| 15.03.2022 | Copper Labs sparks joy for utility companies by making their meters smarter | Utility companies have a problem: Their “smart grids” were created to solve billing problems from a decade ago, not the needs and expectations from 2022 consumers with electric cars, solar panels and an obsession with real-time data. Copper... |
| 23.02.2022 | 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies | Almost the same size as Florida, global warming has made Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier increasingly unstable. This month, researchers are attempting to reach the “Doomsday Glacier” for study, but icebergs are slowing their progress.
The cli... |
| 29.09.2021 | 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 comp... |
| 28.09.2021 | 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 making? ... |
| 28.09.2021 | 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 immersiv... |
| 27.09.2021 | 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... |
| 27.09.2021 | 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 estate fi... |
| 21.09.2021 | Why dealmaking in the sports betting and online gambling world is currently insane | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Just a few years ago, sports betting sat in a legally dubious place in the U.S. That was until th... |
| 21.09.2021 | Why dealmaking in the sports betting and online gambling world is currently insane | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 10.08.2021 | 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 valu... |
| 10.08.2021 | How Houston companies can best learn and navigate startup etiquette | We often rely on frameworks, skillsets, and mindsets – many of which we can acquire in the classroom – to prepare us for a successful career. Even at Lilie, we emphasize the importance of entrepreneurial thinking and design processes. Yet w... |
| 09.08.2021 | City of Houston launches pilot program to promote stormwater infrastructure growth | The City of Houston has launched a pilot project that will speed up the permitting process for environmentally friendly stormwater projects.
The Green Stormwater Infrastructure Expedited Permitting Pilot Program, announced August 4, will ap... |
| 02.08.2021 | Rice University bioengineers create insulin-producing medical device | A team of bioengineers at Houston's own Rice University have created an implant that can produce insulin for Type 1 diabetics. The device is being created by using 3D printing and smart biomaterials.
Omid Veiseh, an assistant professor of b... |
| 02.08.2021 | 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 energy to health care — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Will Womble, CEO of Umbrage... |
| 29.07.2021 | These 10 Houston companies rank among best U.S. employers for young professionals | Ten businesses in the Greater Houston area are clocking in among the country's best employers for millennials, according to a new report.
The Best Workplaces for Millennials list is published annually by Fortune magazine and compiled by Gre... |
| 20.07.2021 | The way a workplace is structured can make or break business, Rice University research finds | It's a paradox of power: research shows that hierarchies often undermine the very structures they are designed to uphold. Within organizations, conflicts between members can erode entire systems. In a groundbreaking paper, Rice Business Pro... |
| 19.07.2021 | Free virtual event helps healthtech companies go global | In the growing healthtech sector, two is better than one — two partners, that is. If you've ever been curious what collaborating with an international company would be like, HealthTech Beyond Borders can provide answers.
The free virtual ev... |
| 19.07.2021 | Exclusive: New accelerator launches to prepare Houston's future civic leaders | A new nonprofit program dedicated to preparing the future leaders of the city of Houston's is launching with the city's burgeoning innovation ecosystem in mind.
HTXelerator is a three-month program that trains its group of aspiring politici... |
| 16.07.2021 | Innovative brain injury rehabilitation center breaks ground in Southeast Houston | The Moody Neurorehabilitation Institute broke ground July 14 on a 64,000-square-foot research and rehabilitation center at Nassau Bay's Space Park, near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
The Nassau Bay City Council granted a permit last year for... |
| 14.07.2021 | ERCOT announces plan to improve Texas power grid reliability | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently demanded aggressive action from state utility regulators to shore up the power grid.
Now, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is revealing its plan to address improvements.
On Tuesday, July 1... |
| 12.07.2021 | 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 medical device development to fintech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Stephanie C... |
| 08.07.2021 | These 10 Houston startups closed funding rounds in Q2 | It's been a banner year for Houston startups raising funds. From an Amazon competitor emerging from stealth and snagging a $25 million series A to a $74 million series B for a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, Houston's innovative c... |
| 08.07.2021 | Fresh off a $1.4B exit, this Houston innovator is focused on funding medical device tech | Earlier this year, Houston-based serial entrepreneur Larry Lawson celebrated the exit of his medical device company, Preventice Solutions, which he sold to Boston ScientificBoston Scientific in a $1.4 billion deal.
Nowadays, Lawson is laser... |
| 05.07.2021 | Comcast gives 50 community centers in the Houston area an upgrade with free Wi-Fi | Comcast is giving a technology lift to thousands of people throughout the Houston metro area.
The media and tech giant says it has started 50 WiFi-equipped "Lift Zones" at community centers across the region. These zones enable lo... |
| 05.07.2021 | 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 medical device development to fintech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Dan Purvis,... |
| 02.07.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a guest column on how veterans are leadi... |
| 02.07.2021 | Houston's Johnson Space Center names history-making new director | NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has witnessed a universe of history-making moments. There's now another milestone to add to the list.
On June 30, Vanessa Wyche was named director of Johnson Space Center, becoming the first Black woma... |
| 02.07.2021 | Houston clean energy lab names 4 new companies to program | Halliburton Labs has doubled the number of clean energy companies that are operating out of its facilities with the addition of its second cohort.
Four companies have been selected for the program, joining four existing member companies of ... |
| 01.07.2021 | Beloved Houston children's hospital once again named top in nation by prestigious report | Innovative and pioneering, Texas Children's Hospital has landed on many a best-of list. The latest is a ranking of the best pediatric hospitals in the nation by the prestigious U.S. News & World Report.
Texas Children's ranks an impress... |
| 01.07.2021 | Houston expert looks into behavioral analytics in private equity, growth equity, and venture capital | Study after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70 percent and 90 percent (2011, HBR). One KPMG study narrowed the band of M&A failures to 75 percent to 83 percent (2015, KPMG). One constant in the ... |
| 30.06.2021 | Amazon yet again expands its presence in Houston | Jeff Bezos' global powerhouse is showing no signs of slowing; indeed, its Houston-area footprint is growing. Amazon Logistics has announced plans to open a new 180,000-square-foot delivery station located in League City.
This new outpost pr... |
| 30.06.2021 | Local tech exec expands med device company into oil and gas in a 'uniquely Houston' way | When asked about founding his company, the first thing Dan Purvis wants to talk about is the culture.
"The technology of today and the technology of 24 months from now will be very different," Purvis, CEO and founder of Houston-ba... |
| 30.06.2021 | Nominate now: InnovationMap announces inaugural Houston innovation awards | Calling all Houston innovators — now is your time to shine.
InnovationMap and its partner, Houston-based Techwave, a global IT services and solutions provider, are pleased to present an inaugural set of awards honoring Houston's innovators ... |
| 29.06.2021 | MassChallenge Texas names the 71 startups that make up its latest Houston cohort | Five Houston-based startups have been accepted into MassChallenge's 50th startup accelerator.
Three of the local startups are part of the program's Houston cohort, and two are part of the Austin cohort. In all, 71 startups from around the w... |
| 29.06.2021 | Houston-based veterans will lead the energy transition, says this expert | Many people living in Houston don't realize that the veteran community is taking an increasing leadership role in the energy transition. The Greater Houston area is the second largest veteran community in America with over 5,500 new veteran... |
| 29.06.2021 | Houston energy exec launches well-plugging fintech | Long-time Houston energy executive Tony Sanchez has launched a new fintech company that aims to help oil and gas exploration and production operators decommission orphaned wells and cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
The company, OneNexu... |
| 28.06.2021 | 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 software to cryptocurrency — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Spencer Randall, co-fo... |
| 28.06.2021 | Houston-based research grant program doles out $23M to Texas scientists | One of the nation's largest private funders for health care research has announced $23 million in fresh funds — and about a third of that is going into the hands of Houstonians.
The Welch Foundation, based in Houston, announced its 2021 res... |
| 10.08.2020 | Clean energy VC funding roundup: Residential flow batteries, solar sales software and financing, EV charging and more | Investors continue to invest and clean energy entrepreneurs continue to innovate — despite global setbacks. Here are six companies that won a total of $170 million in funding in recent days, ranging across the cleantech spectrum.
Solar sale... |
| 09.08.2020 | Energy Jobs: First Solar has 2 CTOs, Tesla loses ultracap boss, CAISO’s new CEO, MJ at NRTC, plus Prologis, Ecoplexus | James D’Albora, previously with Spectrum Energy Development, is the founder and CEO at Verify Energy. The startup is developing a plug-and-play solar monitoring solution to reduce the cost of commercial solar. Verify is a winner of the DOE’... |
| 11.11.2019 | 5 Houston entrepreneurs to know this Veterans Day | Over a quarter of a million United States military veterans call Houston home, and that number is growing.
"Houston has the second largest and fastest growing veteran population in the country," says Reda Hicks, a Houston entrepre... |
| 26.07.2019 | 5 startups keeping Houston known as the Space City | This month, for the most part, has been looking back on the history Houston has as the Space City in honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20. While it's great to recognize the men and women who made this city the major ... |
| 25.06.2019 | Everactive Snags $30M Series C to Advance Battery-less IoT Sensors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Everactive, a Bay Area startup, has raised $30 million in a Series C funding round. The investment was led by Future Fund with participation from Blue Bear Capital, ABB Techno... |
| 16.01.2019 | Former NASA astronaut is investing in the future of the oil and gas industry | When Tim Kopra returned from space in 2009 after he served as flight engineer on NASA's Expedition 20, he was ready to transition into civilian life. The Army vet went to business school, received his MBA in 2013, and started thinking about... |
| 14.08.2018 | Expedi Raises $2.25 Million Seed Round | Expedi Inc. (www.goexpedi.com) CEO Tim Neal did not just set out to build just another online marketplace. Neal is re-inventing industrial procurement and bringing it into the modern era.
Initially focused on North American oil producers, E... |
| 14.08.2018 | Expedi Raises $2.25 Million Seed Round | Expedi Inc. (www.goexpedi.com) CEO Tim Neal did not just set out to build just another online marketplace. Neal is re-inventing industrial procurement and bringing it into the modern era.
Initially focused on North American oil producers, E... |
| - | Battery analytics startup Accure banks $8 million | Aachen, Germany-based battery analytics company Accure has received $8 million in a Series A funding round. The software and AI-driven solution assists manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a ... |
