| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.10.2023 | Houston energy startup joins Texas-based climate accelerator | An Austin-based climate accelerator announced its 2023 cohort, which includes a Houston cleantech startup.
StudioX named seven startups to its 2023 cohort, and SeisWave Corp., a seismic service company, will join the program that aims to he... |
| 23.10.2023 | Houston software company that supports businesses with non-technical founders expands to DC | Many innovators don't have the tools in their toolkit to make their tech dream a reality, but one Houston company might be able to help.
Octaria Software is focused on helping businesses, from the very seedlings of startups to established s... |
| 20.10.2023 | Rice University, Houston Methodist launch state-of-the art human performance center | Rice University and Houston Methodist teamed up to open the new Center for Human Performance this month.
Located in Rice’s Tudor Fieldhouse, just across the street from Houston Methodist's Texas Medical Center offices, the interdisciplinary... |
| 19.10.2023 | University of Houston doubles down on Sugar Land tech campus with $65M building | The University of Houston broke ground earlier this month on a new $65 million instructional building that will allow the college to move its entire Technology Division to Sugar Land.
The 75,000-square-foot building, known as Technology Bui... |
| 17.10.2023 | $5M grant expands entrepreneurship opportunities at UH | A $5 million gift from the Wayne Duddlesten Foundation will establish expanded opportunities for entrepreneurship at the University of Houston, according to an announcement from the college earlier this month.
Known as the Wayne B. Duddlest... |
| 09.10.2023 | Houston AI SaaS startup secures $5.5M seed funding from Austin VC | A Houston startup that's using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to disrupt the retail automotive industry has raised seed funding.
Konect.ai announced a $5.5 million seed investment from Austin-based Silverton Partner... |
| 09.10.2023 | New energy institute from UH and Shell will put Houston at the center of innovation | Two years ago, Texas’ failing electrical grid became a global sensation and the state was thrust into the spotlight of the developing energy crisis conversation.
This past year, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine again brought the push for altern... |
| 06.10.2023 | University of Houston lands $63.5M contract with DOD to develop tech for the 'future battlefield' | The University of Houston was recently awarded its largest grant in history—this time, from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The $63.5 million contract aims to support UH in developing analytical modeling and simulation platforms that help t... |
| 06.10.2023 | Mercury's biggest round to date, awards judges named, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included Mercury Fund's latest and largest raise, events not to miss t... |
| 05.10.2023 | Houston startup raises nearly $2M to expand logistics SaaS platform | A Houston company that's providing innovative unified scheduling software for the logistics industries has raised additional seed funding.
Houston-based Velostics Inc. raised $1.95 million, the company announced this week. The additional se... |
| 04.10.2023 | Energy tech startup secures $20M series B, plans to expand platform | A Houston startup has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding in order to accelerate its energy analytics and grid decarbonization technology.
Amperon Holdings Inc. announced today that it closed its series B round at $20 million.... |
| 03.10.2023 | Houston hospital lands $10 million grant to launch new neurological lab | Houston Methodist announced that it has received a $10 million gift from the The John M. O’Quinn Foundation to support research into neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and others.
The gift will create... |
| 28.09.2023 | Real estate giant taps downtown Houston tower for new smart building tech | Houston-based real estate giant Hines is rolling out a new smart building platform with the goal of better serving workers and workplaces at its buildings across the country, including one building in Houston that's aiming to be an office b... |
| 28.09.2023 | Houston expert encourages energy industry to bridge its generational divides | What’s the biggest obstacle between us and net-zero? Is it policy? Technology? Financing? All of these are important, yes, but none of them is what is really holding us back from our energy transition goals.
The biggest obstacle is a lack o... |
| 27.09.2023 | TMC again expands global impact with new Netherlands partnership | The Texas Medical Center may be based in Houston, but the organization has again grown its global impact.
Since 2016, TMC’s BioBridges have worked with 88 startup companies. Those include strategic alliances with four other countries. Austr... |
| 27.09.2023 | Rice researchers score $45M from NIH for cancer-fighting tech | A research funding agency has deployed capital into a team at Rice University that's working to develop a technology that could cut cancer-related deaths in half.
Rice researchers received $45 million from the National Institutes of Health'... |
| 26.09.2023 | Growing Houston tech nonprofit expands access to textbooks for college students | If everyone that attended a college or university were polled, they’d all likely agree that one of the worst parts of the experience was the rising costs of textbooks.
In an effort to combat the hefty price tag of assigned texts, OpenStax, ... |
| 25.09.2023 | 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 — from health care to energy tech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Brianna Brazle, founde... |
| 25.09.2023 | Houston-based, cancer-fighting organization breaks ground on new collaborative building | Houston is where medical researchers and clinicians come together. And it’s getting easier for that to happen thanks to an innovative new facility from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
On September 20, the world-class inst... |
| 19.09.2023 | Houston heart health startup secures $8M in funding, announces new partnerships | With fresh funding, a Houston-based health tech platform that's less than a year old has grown its United States footprint.
CardioOne, which has created a cardiology care delivery enablement platform that serves independent cardiologists, h... |
| 18.09.2023 | 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 — from health care to academia — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Ayse McCracken, founder o... |
| 18.09.2023 | NASA lands on top of prestigious list of Forbes' best employers in Texas | Houston continues to prove it hosts the best of the best employers in Texas as NASA tops Forbes' 2023 list of "America’s Best Employers By State."
The highly anticipated list, published August 22, is a collaboration between Forbes... |
| 15.09.2023 | Rice's new 'moonshot' initiative, VCs on Houston innovation, and more trending news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the a roundup of key moments from Venture Houston, a unique n... |
| 12.09.2023 | New biotech lab, accelerator emerges in Houston to speed up commercialization of life-saving cures | A new initiative from Rice University is launching with an ambitious goal — to take biotech innovations from concept to clinical trials in five years or less.
The Rice Biotech Launch Pad is a newly announced initiative that will expedite Ri... |
| 11.09.2023 | Rice University launches research innovation grant program with VC fund in the works | Over 60 years ago at Rice University, President John F. Kennedy recommitted the country to the Space Race. Now, decades later, the university is announcing its commitment to moonshot innovators.
Rice University's Office of Innovation establ... |
| 11.09.2023 | 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 — from health care to energy tech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Michelle Stansbury, vi... |
| 08.09.2023 | Houston startup launches networking app for next-generation energy workforce | A Houston-based media organization dedicated to covering the energy industry has officially launched the beta program of their networking app.
After producing zanily named energy podcasts like “Big Digital Energy” and “What the Funk,” Digit... |
| 30.08.2023 | 13 initiatives receive grant funding from new EV-focused, Houston-led program | Evolve Houston awarded its inaugural microgrants this week to 13 groups, neighborhoods and an individual working to make electric vehicles accessible to all Houstonians.
Launched in 2022, Evolve's eMobility Microgrant Initiative supports co... |
| 25.08.2023 | Nominations open for innovation awards, Houston gains unicorn, and more trending news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the region's newest unicorn, newly opened nominations for inn... |
| 23.08.2023 | How this Houston edtech startup's acquisition is primed to further advance platform reach, impact | For the second time in less than six years, Houston entrepreneur Allie Danziger has navigated a company through an exit. But, with the two exists under her belt, Danziger says the two transactions could not be any more different.
Danziger f... |
| 22.08.2023 | How patents can provide additional revenue streams for Houston innovators | Seeking patent protection can offer a substantial competitive advantage to startups looking to raise capital, especially during a venture capital downturn. Besides the protection patents can provide against intellectual property theft, they... |
| 18.08.2023 | Houston organizations snag chunk of recently announced $49M cancer research grant funding | Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine is beefing up its team of cancer researchers.
The college just received $6 million from the state agency Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to recruit three cancer researchers: Gra... |
| 17.08.2023 | Texas university to build $200M space institute in Houston | Texas A&M University's board of regents voted to approve the construction of a new institute in Houston that hopes to contribute to maintaining the state's leadership within the aerospace sector.
This week, the Texas A&M Space Insti... |
