| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.08.2024 | CruxOCM: Control Room Co-Pilot Platform Secures $17 Million (Series A) | CruxOCM, a leader in co-pilot technology for control room operators, announced the closing of a $17 million Series A funding round. The funding round was led by M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), with participation from new investors, includin... |
| 19.08.2024 | The Expansive Energy Sector in 2024 and Its Projected Growth Trajectory | The energy industry in 2024 stands as a colossal entity, fundamentally integral to the global economy.
It encompasses a vast array of sectors including fossil fuels, renewable energy sources, nuclear power, and emerging technologies such as... |
| 14.08.2024 | CruxOCM Raises $17M in Series A Funding Round | CruxOCM, a CA-based company which specializes in co-pilot technology for control room operators, raised $17M in Series A funding.
The round was led by M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), with participation from new investors, including ONEOK, R... |
| 01.04.2022 | From Series A To Salesforce, 50 Perspectives On Hiring Tech Talent | "The Great Resignation" has shaken up the tech talent landscape. I spoke with 50+ recruiters, hiring ... [+] managers, founders, VCs, and more folks on the hiring side about the current dynamic difficulties of hiring. David Lobbin... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 05.11.2021 | 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, , and more.
3 Houston innovators to know... |
| 05.11.2021 | Hardworking Houston suburb tops list of biggest boomtowns in Texas | The Houston suburb of Conroe has come a long way since Civil War veteran Isaac Conroe planted roots there in October 1881 with the purchase of a tract of land and the establishment of a sawmill.
Fast forward 140 years, and Conroe now reigns... |
| 04.11.2021 | Houston expert explains health care's inequity problem | We are currently in the midst of what some have called the "wild west" of AI. Though healthcare is one of the most heavily regulated sectors, the regulation of AI in this space is still in its infancy. The rules are being written ... |
| 04.11.2021 | Nuro scores $600M, Houston e-commerce startup launches ESG tool, and more local innovation news | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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? ... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 23.09.2021 | Exclusive: Houston startup is creating a unique digital network to connect innovative communities | About 10 years ago, Andrew Ramirez was working internally with a corporate team at a Fortune 500 company to build a digital platform that would connect employees to work collaboratively.
"What we really realized is that once you put a ... |
| 22.09.2021 | Houston innovator talks space health and the future of the commercial sector | Only about 500 humans have made it to space, which, from a research perspective, isn't a large data set. Yet as commercial space exploration continues and more people make it up into space, new opportunities for space health research are be... |
| 20.09.2021 | 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 health tech to energy venture capital — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Pamela Sing... |
| 16.09.2021 | Energy software company with Houston presence snags $6M in funding | CruxOCM, a Canadian tech startup that is establishing a Houston outpost, has collected $6 million in venture capital.
Bullpen Capital led the "seed extension" funding round, with participation from Angular Ventures, Root Ventures,... |
| 15.09.2021 | CruxOCM Raises $9M in Total Venture Financing | CruxOCM, a Calgary, AB-based leader in robotic industrial process automation (RIPA™) for control room operations, raised $9M in venture financing.
The total funding to date builds off of a venture round of $2.6M in 2019 co-led by Angular Ve... |
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| 14.09.2021 | CruxOCM secures $7.6 million CAD to bolster automation software for energy sector operations | Calgary-based startup CruxOCM, which provides software that automates the operations of heavy industrial control rooms in the energy sector, has raised $7.6 million CAD ($6 million USD) to fuel its product development and expansion efforts.... |
| 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... |
| 24.06.2021 | Networking with high-status colleagues isn't successful across industries, per Rice University research | In a timeless scene from the mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap," an 80s metal band swaggers in for a performance only to find they're billed second to a puppet show. Though the film is farce, real musicians often come to question t... |
| 24.06.2021 | Houston data management company closes $18M in fresh funding | A Houston company that's created a centralized log management solution has closed a new round in funding.
Graylog closed its $18 million growth equity round led by Richmond, Virginia-based Harbert Growth Partners, a new investor, and Minnea... |
| 24.06.2021 | Cancer-fighting company based in Houston emerges from stealth and snags $74M in its latest round | A Houston-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company has raised millions in its latest round.
Tvardi Therapeutics Inc. closed its $74 million series B funding round led by new investors New York-based Slate Path Capital, Florida-based P... |
| 22.06.2021 | 2 Houston research projects unveil groundbreaking solar and battery technologies | Research, perhaps now more than ever, is crucial to expanding and growing innovation in Houston — and it's happening across the city right under our noses.
In InnovationMap's latest roundup of research news, two Houston institutions are wor... |
| 22.06.2021 | 3 Houston innovators make Forbes list of up-and-coming entrepreneurs | Three Houston entrepreneurs are basking in the national spotlight.
The trio — Vernee Hines, Carolyn Rodz, and Siddhartha Sachdeva — were just named to Forbes' Next 1000 list of the country's up-and-coming entrepreneurs. They're among the 25... |
| 21.06.2021 | Houston-Dallas high-speed train still not official but now it has a builder | The high-speed train between Houston and Dallas still needs an official sign-off before it happens, but a builder has been hired for when that day comes.
Texas Central, the developers of the train, have signed a $16 billion contract with We... |
| 21.06.2021 | 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 startup and small business support to electric vehicles — recently making headlines in Houston innov... |
| 21.06.2021 | 3 Houston companies named to semifinals of clean energy competition | Three Houston energy startups are in the running for the $100,000 cash prize in Cleantech.org's GS Beyond Energy Innovation Challenge.
Amperon Holdings, Cemvita Factory, and Veloce Energy are among the competition's 24 semifinalists, which ... |
| 18.06.2021 | Houston shopping center opts for buzzy new environmental project | Bees are glorious creatures, tasked with pollination and the no-big-deal duty of balancing our planet's ecosystem and keeping the circle of life moving. Oh, and the honey!
No surprise, then, that beekeeping is all the buzz. With that in min... |
| 18.06.2021 | 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 autonomous delivery pilot, an Euro... |
| 17.06.2021 | Houston EV charging station startup gets ready to roll out services across the country | A Houston startup is revving up the region's — and the country's — supply of charging stations for electric vehicles.
The company, Refuel Electric Vehicle Solutions (REVS), recently installed its first two charging stations. They're at two ... |
| 17.06.2021 | Houston expert: 4 questions to ask when hiring employees in other states | A larger share of employees has found themselves working from home, or at least working remote, than ever before and many continue to do so permanently. As employers actively take steps to ensure a strong showing throughout the economic rec... |
| 17.06.2021 | Houston space tech company reveals details on its new $40M facility | A Houston-based space tech company focused on sending the first American spacecraft to the Moon since NASA's Apollo program is planning on expanding its presence here on Earth too.
Intuitive Machines announced its plans to move from its cur... |
| 16.06.2021 | Splashy European pool-sharing app dives into Houston just in time for summer | Scorching temps. Baking cars. ERCOT begging locals to set their thermostats to 78 (say what?). Why, it's almost like it's summer in Houston or something.
After a long sweat, nothing cools off like a long swim in a sparkling pool. To that en... |
| 16.06.2021 | Houston researchers snag government funds for net-zero emissions projects | Rice University and the University of Houston were two of four national institutions to receive sizable grants from the Department of Energy last month to go toward the research and development of projects that will improve CO2 storage to h... |
| 16.06.2021 | New Houston startup development program to help launch corporate volunteer software | Brooke Waupsh wanted to change the way people volunteered and help increase access to volunteers for nonprofits. So, she launched Swoovy, a dating app that connected singles who wanted to do some good on their first dates. Now, the Austin-b... |
| 14.06.2021 | 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 two local innovators, as well as one honorary Houstonian, across industries — energy, manufacturing, and more — recently making headlines in Houston... |
| 14.06.2021 | Nearly half of Houston workers complain of serious burnout, says new report | Local workers who're especially dreading that commute or cracking open the laptop in the morning aren't alone. A new study reveals that nearly half of Houston laborers are more burned out on the job.
Some 49 percent of Bayou City residents ... |
| 14.06.2021 | Houston small biz tech platform raises $21M series B | A tech company focused on supporting and growing startups and small businesses has reached its own next big growth milestone this week.
Machine learning-enabled small business support company Hello Alice, founded in Houston with a large pre... |
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