| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.11.2025 | VahatiCor Secures $23M to Combat Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (CMD) | What You Should Know:
– VahatiCor, a medtech company focused on transforming cardiac care secures $23M in Series B funding led by S3 Ventures, with support from Intuitive Ventures and a strategic investor.
– The capital infusion will be use... |
| 31.10.2025 | VentureMed Secures $28 Million to Propel Vascular Care Innovation | VentureMed Group, a medical device innovator, just closed a $28 million Series C funding round. This capital infusion accelerates the global reach of its FLEX Vessel Prep System. The system targets peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and arte... |
| 29.10.2025 | VentureMed: $28 Million Series C Raised For Expanding FLEX Vessel Prep System And Advancing Vascular Care | VentureMed Group, a Minnesota-based medical device company developing vessel preparation and access management technologies, has closed a $28 million Series C financing round led by S3 Ventures with participation from existing investor Ende... |
| 20.09.2025 | Nestimate: $3 Million Closed To Expand Access to Retirement Income Solutions | Nestimate, a financial technology company focused on improving retirement planning, has announced the closing of a $3 million funding round. The investment was led by S3 Ventures, with additional support from PruVen Capital, TIAA Ventures, ... |
| 17.09.2025 | Nestimate raises $3 million | Nestimate, Nestimate
Founded: 2022
Headquarters: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Total Funding: $3.33M
See full company profile "> a fintech startup looking to make it easier for 401(k) plan fiduciaries to implement retirement inco... |
| 21.01.2025 | MontyCloud Secures Investment from S3 Ventures After Achieving 700% Growth in 2024 | MontyCloud Logo
We’re excited to support MontyCloud's next phase of growth and help them scale their impact globally.”
— Eric EngineerSEATTLE, WA, UNITED STATES, January 21, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- MontyCloud, a leading AI-powered cloud ... |
| 15.11.2024 | Sunthetics: A New Dawn for Chemical Innovation Through AI | In the heart of Texas, a revolution is brewing. Sunthetics, an AI technology company, has secured a $4 million seed round. This funding, led by L’ATTITUDE Ventures, marks a significant step toward transforming the chemical and pharmaceutica... |
| 13.11.2024 | Sunthetics Secures $4 Million Seed Round to Revolutionize Chemical Industry with AI-Powered Innovation | Sunthetics announces the successful close of its $4 million Seed round, led by L’ATTITUDE Ventures and joined by S3 Ventures, Hearst Level Up Ventures, and the Global Impact Fund II.
Sunthetics, a pioneering AI technology company, has annou... |
| 23.05.2024 | Hydrolix Revolutionizes Data Management | A game-changer in the world of big data, Hydrolix has closed a $35 million Series B funding round, led by S3 Ventures. This Portland-based streaming data lake platform is disrupting the economics of log data, with a 10-fold growth year over... |
| 22.05.2024 | Hydrolix Closes $35M Series B Amid 10x Growth for Streaming Data Lake Offering | Transforming the Economics of Log Data
Hydrolix has hit its stride, growing 10-fold year over year, with new partnerships and a 75% growth rate in Q1 of 2024
PORTLAND, Ore., May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Hydrolix, a streaming data lake... |
| 09.03.2024 | BrainCheck Revolutionizes Cognitive Health Assessment with $15M Investment | BrainCheck, a digital health company founded by Stanford neuroscience professor David Eagleman, has secured a $15 million Series B extension to address the pressing need for rapid cognitive tests in the face of growing Alzheimer's disease r... |
| 07.03.2024 | Digital cognitive assessment platform BrainCheck raises $15M | BrainCheck's Assess medical device can evaluate five cognitive domains in less than 15 minutes
More than 7 million Americans are unaware they have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and without intervention nearly 30% of these patients could g... |
| 25.04.2023 | Riscosity – Third-Party Data Observability Pioneer – Closes $7M of New Funding | Riscosity Enterprises today need to inspire confidence with their customers as to how they are safeguarding their data. Being a good data custodian means having 100% observability on what data is leaving the organization, identifying policy... |
| 02.05.2022 | Houston medical device startup closes $6M series A | A Houston-based medical device company born out of the Texas Medical Center has closed its series A round of funding.
Ictero Medical's oversubscribed $6 million round was led by MedTex Ventures, S3 Ventures, and an undisclosed strategic inv... |
| 02.05.2022 | Houston-based energy tech venture firm moves into new office, names new partner | A Houston-based venture capital firm has been busy — with deploying capital, growing its team, and moving into new space.
Energy Transition Ventures has opened an office in the Ion Houston. The fund, which was announced last year, was found... |
| 11.04.2022 | Rice University competition doles out nearly $2M in cash prizes to student startups | Rice University brought back its international student startup competition to its in-person format in a big way, giving out nearly $2 million in investment and in-kind prizes to over a dozen student teams.
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Compet... |
| 10.03.2022 | Austin-based S3 Ventures Launches $250 Million Fund Focused on Texas Startups | S3 Ventures announced this week that it has established a new $250 million fund targeted at investing in Texas Startups. |
| 10.03.2022 | S3 Ventures Closes Fund VII, at $250M | S3 Ventures Team
S3 Ventures, an Austin, TX-based venture capital firm, closed Fund VII, at $250m.
S3 Ventures is solely backed by a philanthropic family with a multibillion-dollar foundation.
The firm, which has assets under management sur... |
| 09.03.2022 | S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups | Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere.
One is S3 Ventures, a venture capital firm that’... |
| 29.11.2021 | 3 Houston suburbs lead sleigh full of cities with biggest holiday budgets | If you live in The Woodlands, Sugar Land, or League City, you may be making a holiday shopping list as long as a stocking and checking it more than twice.
These three Houston suburbs rank among the 10 U.S. cities with the fattest holiday bu... |
| 24.11.2021 | 2 new COVID-19-focused research projects happening in Houston | While it might seem like the COVID-19 pandemic has settled down for the time being, there's plenty of innovative research ongoing to create solutions for affordable vaccines and tech-enabled protection against the spread of the virus.
Some ... |
| 24.11.2021 | Houston hospital receives $37M in donations to continue its life-saving cancer care | A $25 million gift will support expansion of research conducted at the Houston Methodist Cancer Center and may help the center earn top-tier federal designation.
In honor of the $25 million donation from Dr. Mary Neal and husband Ron Neal, ... |
| 23.11.2021 | Houston entrepreneur launches diversity-focused fund, programming to address inequality in tech | Phillip Yates is juggling a lot. The Houston lawyer started Equiliberty, a technology company that's part financial resource and part social network, to help diverse communities create lasting wealth. Now, he's also launching Diversity Fund... |
| 23.11.2021 | How this Houston-based alcohol importer, distributor uses tech to stay ahead of the curve | You might say that Mexcor International, a Houston-based importer and distributor of wine, spirits, and other types of alcohol, relies on a single bottle of vodka rather than a case of vodka when it comes to its tech capabilities.
The annua... |
| 22.11.2021 | 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 design innovation — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Allie Danziger, co-fo... |
| 19.11.2021 | 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, fastest growing Houston tech companies, ... |
| 17.11.2021 | University of Houston scores $1 million from top Texas foundation | One of the most prestigious foundations in Texas has made a generous gift to a local university's fledgling medical department. The M.D. Anderson Foundation has pledged $1 million to the University of Houston College of Medicine, UH announc... |
| 16.11.2021 | Greater Houston Partnership names former BP exec to lead energy transition | Jane Stricker, a longtime Houston-based executive at oil and gas giant BP, has been tapped to lead the Greater Houston Partnership's new initiative designed to boost the Bayou City's profile in the shift toward low-carbon energy.
The partne... |
| 15.11.2021 | 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 sportstech to startup-focused nonprofit work — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Aaro... |
| 12.11.2021 | 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 Galveston coworking and entreprene... |
| 12.11.2021 | International energy conference names 12 Houston companies to pitch at inaugural innovation track | A dozen Houston companies will take the stage next month for a pitch competition during the World Petroleum Congress at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
In all, 32 innovators have been selected to make presentations at the World Petro... |
| 11.11.2021 | How Houston companies can use pandemic challenges to foster innovative corporate inclusion efforts | They say necessity is the mother of invention, and over the last 18 months, that proverb has proven true across the world, from classrooms to boardrooms. Shuttered classrooms and businesses, overflowing hospitals, and social unrest spurred ... |
| 10.11.2021 | University of Houston System snags spots on list of schools with affordability and potential salary | Three University of Houston campuses earn spots on a new list of the 111 U.S. colleges that excel when it comes to affordability and potential salary.
Showing up on the new Optimal Choice list produced by Optimal, a provider of higher educa... |
| 10.11.2021 | Houston sportstech startup scales, plans expansion into health care | When sEATz launched, the startup was looking to provide a way for sports fans to order their beer and hotdog to their seat without having to miss a moment of a game. Over the years, the Houston company has expanded its technology to be a re... |
| 09.11.2021 | Roundup: Houston startups announce new partnerships, crowdfunding campaigns, and more | The Houston innovation ecosystem has been bursting at the seams with news from innovative tech companies and disruptive Houston startups as we fly through the final quarter of 2021.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation... |
| 09.11.2021 | Houston Exponential hires new exec to promote inclusive innovation | Houston's considered one of the most diverse cities in the country, and Houston Exponential is focused on building an innovation ecosystem that's reflective of that.
The nonprofit organization announced a new hire that will lead this initia... |
| 09.11.2021 | Representation in research matters, says this Houston expert | Diversifying your human subjects for studies is essential for good research.
"Up to 75 percent of Pacific Islanders are unable to convert an antiplatelet drug into its active form and therefore are at higher risk for adverse outcomes f... |
| 08.11.2021 | 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 dating tech to investment — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Erica Sinner, founder o... |
| 08.11.2021 | 4 Houston-area businesses rank among Inc.'s best-led companies in the country | Some Houston-area companies now have some major bragging rights — and perhaps, an influx of resumes on the way. Inc. magazine has released its new list of the country's 250 best-led midsize companies, and four Greater-Houston firms are in t... |
| 08.11.2021 | Houston biotech company raises $15M round led by Chinese health care investor | A Houston-based biotech company that was founded by a University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center doctor has closed a fresh round of funding.
Cellenkos closed its $15 million series A round led by BVCF Management, based in Shanghai, China... |
| 05.11.2021 | Overheard: Energy transition experts weigh in at Houston climatetech conference | This week, world leaders are discussing climate change and the future of our planet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, but local leaders were also discussing much closer to home.
Greentown Labs hosted its ... |
| 04.11.2021 | Houston health tech startup closes $10M series B led by Austin investors | A Houston-based tech company that's tackling cognitive health diagnoses with its innovative platform has closed its latest round of funding.
BrainCheck, the cognitive health care platform for physicians, announced the closing of its $10 mil... |
| 03.11.2021 | Houston entrepreneur is flipping the switch on online dating with new app | Like most people who are single and looking for a relationship, Erica Sinner is familiar with the dating apps. She's swiped and messaged with men in her area, but has little to show for it other than comically lazy responses from not-so pot... |
| 03.11.2021 | E-commerce company focused on car sales revs up for Houston expansion | Vroom, an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used vehicles, is driving up its presence in the Houston area.
The publicly traded company recently established a "last-mile hub" in Stafford where Vroom workers will inspect, d... |
| 02.11.2021 | Newly opened hub to put Houston on the map for sports innovation | Silicon Valley emerged as a consumer tech capital, and Atlanta has carved out a niche for fintech — but as sports innovation continues to be driven by startups and new technology, where should the innovators set up shop?
"There isn't r... |
| 02.11.2021 | 3 energy transition companies with Houston ties pitch at international conference | It's all hands on deck for pioneering technology to advance the energy transition and climatetech, and three companies with a Houston presence just took the national stage to showcase their climate change solutions.
The United Nations' 2021... |
| 02.11.2021 | University of Houston: 3 problems with the 'covidization' of science and research | It has been – and for a while, will be – everywhere. The words: COVID-19, coronavirus and pandemic. According to an article by Holly Else in Nature, "coined in April by Madhukar Pai, a tuberculosis researcher at McGill University in Mo... |
| 01.11.2021 | 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.
Carolyn Rodz, CEO and... |
| 01.11.2021 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events in November | This month, Houstonians have yet another good batch of in-person and online innovation events, and you and your tech network need to know about them.
Here's a roundup of virtual events not to miss this month — like demo days, workshops, con... |
| 29.10.2021 | MassChallenge's 2021 Houston cohort snags cash prizes in 12th annual showcase | Nine startups that went through the 2021 Houston cohort for MassChallenge Texas have received cash prizes from the global accelerator.
Now in its 12th year, Boston-based MassChallenge awarded 39 equity-free cash and investment prizes to 36 ... |
| 29.10.2021 | 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 included innovators to know, a new partnership between The Ion and Ca... |
| 29.10.2021 | Houston bioprinting startup to be acquired for up to $400M | Houston-based Volumetric Biotechnologies has gone from startup to nine-figure acquisition in a mere three years.
Volumetric, which makes 3D-printed human organs and tissues, agreed October 27 to be purchased by publicly traded 3D Systems, a... |
| 28.10.2021 | New women's health and beauty biz led by Houston entrepreneur emerges from stealth with $35M in funding | A Houston health tech entrepreneur who's started six businesses in his career has announced his latest endeavor.
Dr. Kimon Angelides, founder of Houston health tech startups Livongo Health and Vivante Health, launched FemTec Health, a tech-... |
| 28.10.2021 | Houston expert: Prime times for cyber-attacks and how to stay protected | October is cybersecurity awareness month. The topic might sound overwhelming, and it certainly can be, but there are a few easy ways we can educate and protect ourselves and our loved ones.
Be mindful of timing
Cyber actors target certain t... |
| 28.10.2021 | Houston makes the grade as a top place to live after college, says new report | For many college students, it's tough to imagine life after college when they're cramming for exams and cranking out research papers. Yet the time does come when they'll venture into the "real world" with their degrees.
Before gra... |
| 27.10.2021 | Houston entrepreneur amps up support for diverse businesses with new NAACP partnership | Carolyn Rodz didn't feel the need to rush into Hello Alice's series B raise. The company, which was co-founded by Rodz and Elizabeth Gore in 2017, closed its series B at $21 million this summer, but Rodz says they did so with a specific goa... |
| 27.10.2021 | Early-stage accelerator announces 5 startups to its fall 2021 Houston cohort | An early-stage accelerator has picked its latest cohort of five Houston companies.
The Fall 2020 cohort of gBETA Houston includes:
AllIDoIsCook is founded by Tobi Smith and focused on exposing the world to Africa's cuisine by manufacturing ... |
| 27.10.2021 | 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 world... |
| 26.10.2021 | 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... |
| 26.10.2021 | Houston edtech nonprofit grows its technology with $440K grant from Kinder Foundation | As the learning landscape shifted from in-person to virtual, the ability to provide students with necessary support systems and resources became compromised. However, one Houston edtech company worked hard to close that gap.
ProUnitas, a Ho... |
| 26.10.2021 | 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 served as... |
| 20.10.2021 | Report: Texas is home to a not-so happy workforce | Call it the Bayou City Blues. A report from job website Lensa ranks Houston third among the U.S. cities with the unhappiest workers.
The report looks at four factors — vacation days taken, hours worked per week, average pay, and overall hap... |
| 14.10.2021 | Houston research: Customer loyalty programs are effective — but not in the way you might think | Almost everyone who has shopped at a supermarket or hopped on a plane has been invited to join a customer loyalty club. But even the businesses that offer these programs are sometimes unsure of who uses and benefits from them most.
Rice Bus... |
| 08.10.2021 | 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 included new innovators to know, events you can't miss this month, a ... |
| 06.10.2021 | Innovative travel adviser talks Houston tech and advice for female founders | When the pandemic hit, it's safe to say that everyone in the travel industry panicked. Sarah Groen, who founded her company Bell and Bly Travel in 2017, caters her expertise to planning luxury travel experiences, and she didn't want her cli... |
| 04.10.2021 | Houston park accepts $10M donation for innovative ecological project | As Houstonians have been witnessing for the past few years, Memorial Park is in the midst of a renaissance, with a game-changing land bridge in the works, the recently opened Eastern Glades, and more than $200 million in improvements slated... |
| 04.10.2021 | 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 tech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Amy Chronis, Houston managi... |
| 01.10.2021 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events in October | This month, Houstonians have yet another good batch of in-person and online innovation events, and you and your tech network need to know about them.
Here's a roundup of virtual events not to miss this month — like demo days, workshops, con... |
| 01.10.2021 | 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 than $23 billion.
In... |
| 01.10.2021 | 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 included new innovators to know, a new energy innovation lab, a guest... |
| 30.09.2021 | Houston rise in the ranks of the top emerging ecosystems in the world | If you need evidence that Houston's startup ecosystem is flourishing, look no further than a new report from Startup Genome and the Global Entrepreneurship Network.
This year's Global Startup Ecosystem Report, released September 22, places ... |
| 30.09.2021 | Houston female-founded startup takes on national expansion | Houston-based Work & Mother Services LLC is embarking on a nationwide expansion of its network of lactation suites.
Work & Mother already operates two locations in downtown Houston (The Jones on Main and Three Allen Center) and is p... |
| 29.09.2021 | 2 Houston blockchain companies connect on ESG initiative | Two Houston-based startups specializing in blockchain technology have announced a collaborative within the Environmental, Social and Governance, or ESG, space.
Data Gumbo and Topl have partnered up to offer companies a private-public blockc... |
| 29.09.2021 | Health tech executive leads Houston startup into its next generation following $12.8M series B | When James Reinstein took the helm of Houston-based Saranas in March 2020, he was tasked with taking the medical device company through its series B funding round and into larger clinical trials. Navigating these tasks during a global pande... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 | Houston health tech startup using AI in palliative care scores $256,000 grant to test its product | A new Houston-based digital advanced care planning company is streamlining some of the most difficult conversations in the health care industry around palliative care.
Founded by Tatiana Fafanova, Dr. Desh Mohan, and Katelin Cherry, Koda He... |
| 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... |
| 27.09.2021 | 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 innovation.
James Hury,... |
| 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... |
| 24.09.2021 | 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 game-cha... |
| 24.09.2021 | 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 Department and Rice... |
| 13.09.2021 | 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... |
| 13.09.2021 | 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... |
| 10.09.2021 | 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 InnovationMap Award... |
| 08.09.2021 | 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 2021 Tra... |
| 08.09.2021 | 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 nati... |
| 01.09.2021 | 10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events in September | This month, Houstonians have yet another good batch of in-person and online innovation events, including the inaugural InnovationMap Awards, and you and your tech network need to know about them.
Here's a roundup of virtual events not to mi... |
| 31.08.2021 | Houston expert: Corporations can help level the playing field for BIPOC-owned businesses | There were times when I wasn't sure what to do next.
When I started Connect the Dots PR in 2012, I wrote out detailed business plans, saved startup dollars, and leaned heavily on people in the PR industry to guide me in terms of pricing and... |
| 30.08.2021 | 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... |
| 27.08.2021 | 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, ... |
| 27.08.2021 | 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 finalists in... |
| 26.08.2021 | 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-square-foot... |
| 23.08.2021 | 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... |
| 20.08.2021 | 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... |
| 20.08.2021 | 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 compani... |
| 18.08.2021 | 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 is try... |
| 17.08.2021 | Annual report ranks Houston university as the best in Texas | There's something to be said for consistency. In a new report card from Niche.com, Rice University retains its No. 7 ranking among the best colleges in the U.S. and its No. 1 ranking among the best colleges in Texas.
Niche.com, which helps ... |
| 05.08.2021 | Houston research: Innovating a way out of corporate scandal | When scandal tears through an institution, it can hurt innocents in the same field. But even the darkest scandal can sometimes benefit a similar organization — if, that is, the public sees it as far more ethical, says Rice Business profess... |
