| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.12.2024 | Tuesday Capital: Ethan Imboden Named As Partner | Seed-stage fund firm Tuesday Capital announced it had added Ethan Imboden, a long-time collaborator, as a partner. Imboden joins the team after 10 years at global design & strategy consulting firm frog, where he founded and led the vent... |
| 19.11.2024 | Refactor: Interview With Solo Capitalist Zal Bilimoria About The Early-Stage Investment Firm | Refactor is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in companies in bio, climate, and hard tech innovation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Refactor Solo Capitalist Zal Bilimoria to learn more about the firm.
Zal Bilimoria’s Backgro... |
| 11.08.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: A New Era in Biomanufacturing | The world is changing. Traditional food systems are under pressure. Climate change, population growth, and health concerns are pushing us to rethink what we eat. Enter alternative proteins. They are not just a trend; they are a revolution. ... |
| 08.08.2024 | Cauldron Appoints Biotech Veteran to Spearhead Hyper-Fermentation Solution for Alternative Proteins | Contract manufacturer organization Cauldron Ferm announces the appointment of Solugen and BASF industry veteran David Weiner as new chief technology officer.
Drawing on his extensive experience in product development and scaling innovative ... |
| 03.07.2024 | Vaire Computing: Revolutionizing the Tech Industry with Reversible Computing for a Sustainable Future | Vaire Computing, a cutting-edge tech startup, has recently secured a significant $4 million in seed funding to propel its mission of developing near zero-energy silicon chips through the innovative concept of reversible computing. This grou... |
| 01.07.2024 | Vaire Computing secures $4M in seed funding for reversible computing bet | Vaire Computing, a company using reversible computing to create near zero-energy silicon chips, has secured $4M in seed funding. 7percent Ventures, an ex-founder led, deep-tech fund, and Jude Gomila, an early investor in multiple unicorns i... |
| 24.06.2024 | Refactor: Fund 4 Closed At $50 Million To Invest In Healthtech, Bio, And Climate Companies | Refactor Capital, which solo capitalist Zal Bilimoria leads, has closed the $50 million Fund 4. With about 90% of capital raised from existing investors, Refactor’s fourth fund will look to lead pre-seed and seed investments in bio, climate... |
| 27.05.2024 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: Every week, I introduce you to a handful of Houston innovators to know recently making headlines with news of innovative technology, investment activity, and more. This week's batch includes a podcast with the founder of a fa... |
| 27.05.2024 | Houston organizations launch study to explore hydrogen-powered travel | A few major players have teamed up to look into making air travel more sustainable — and it's all happening in Houston.
The Center for Houston’s Future, Airbus, and Houston Airports have signed a memorandum of understanding intended to stud... |
| 24.05.2024 | Top stories: CPRIT doles out $22M to Houston institutions, brainy new AI tech, and more | Editor's note:Let's roundup the most-read Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles from InnovationMap and its daily newsletter included fresh funding from CPRIT, a health tech startup's series A, and... |
| 24.05.2024 | Houston investors back new platform for retail traders looking to follow financial influencers | As anyone who witnessed the impact Gamestop's meme stock had on the country already realizes, influential investors can drive momentum within the financial sector. And one company with fresh funding from a Houston firm is betting on that ex... |
| 21.05.2024 | Houston-based cleantech unicorn named among annual top disruptors | Houston-based biotech startup Solugen is making waves among innovative companies.
Solugen appears at No. 36 on CNBC’s annual Disruptor 50 list, which highlights private companies that are “upending the classic definition of disruption.” Pri... |
| 28.12.2023 | 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 venture capital... |
| 22.12.2023 | Startup secures $2.5M, SPAC deal close, 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 articles on InnovationMap included a recently closed funding round for an energy tech startu... |
| 18.12.2023 | New GHP leader takes helm, creates ‘shared leadership model’ | The Greater Houston Partnership announced organizational changes under the tenure of its new president and CEO, Steve Kean.
Kean officially took on his new role earlier this month, after being named the next CEO this summer. The GHP's forme... |
| 27.11.2023 | Houston suburb ranks No. 10 for holiday spending | Santa and his elves get busier with every passing year, but sometimes even Kris Kringle has to use his black card to get the job done. And according to a new study by Wallethub, Santa's gonna be working overtime to fulfill the orders for re... |
| 27.11.2023 | Houston software company raises $50M series A, plans to scale | Just nine months after its seed round, a Houston startup with a software platform for the aesthetic and wellness industry has secured $40 million in venture capital and $10 million in debt facility.
RepeatMD, a SaaS platform, announced toda... |
| 14.11.2023 | Houston expert: How to celebrate National Entrepreneurship Month by recruiting, retaining talent | As November marks National Entrepreneurship Month and Small Business Saturday awaits Nov. 25, it is the perfect time to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of small businesses to the U.S. economy.
According to the U.S. Small Busines... |
| 03.11.2023 | Houston sustainable chemicals unicorn to build Midwestern biomanufacturing facility | Solugen has scored a partnership with a global company to build a biomanufacturing facility adjacent to an existing corn complex in Marshall, Minnesota.
Solugen, a Houston company that's designed a process that converts plant-derived substa... |
| 25.10.2023 | Developer delivers 120-square-foot life science innovation hub to The Woodlands | A new innovation hub mega campus has opened in The Woodlands.
The Alexandria Center for Advanced Technologies at The Woodlands comes courtesy of California-based Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. The campus is home to the first purpose-b... |
| 24.10.2023 | 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... |
| 23.10.2023 | Looking for a job? These 2023 Houston Innovation Awards finalists are hiring | More than half of this year's startup finalists in the Houston Innovation Awards are hiring — who's looking for a job at one of the best startups in Houston?
When submitting their applications for the 2023 Houston Innovation Awards, which i... |
| 17.10.2023 | 2023 Houston Innovation Awards finalists announced | In just three weeks, all of Houston's innovation ecosystem will gather to celebrate the hard work of startups, entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and more — and over 50 honorees will be recognized for their achievements.
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| 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... |
| 11.10.2023 | Houston corporate communications expert on importance of messaging when scaling a tech company | Several years ago, Kelsey Hultberg decided to make a pivot. Looking for a role with career growth opportunities, the communications professional thought she'd find something at an oil and gas company, but then she met John Berger, founder a... |
| 10.10.2023 | Houston Innovation Awards names longtime Rice leader as 2023 Trailblazer | In less than a month, all of Houston's innovation community's movers and shakers will gather to celebrate the Houston Innovation Awards, and the night's first honoree has officially been named.
Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alli... |
| 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... |
| 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.... |
| 04.10.2023 | Cancer-fighting startup partners with Houston cell therapy accelerator | When it came time to name their cell therapy startup, Houston life science innovators simply had to look to their calendar.
“I would argue that March is the best month in Houston,” Sarah Hein tells InnovationMap. “We started talking about p... |
| 03.10.2023 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 21.09.2023 | Inflation: Why Houston employers should prioritize employee financial well-being | Inflation impacts everyone, including individuals, the workforce and business leaders. As the cost of living continues to rise, employees face diminishing purchasing power, shrinking retirement savings and higher stress levels.
In PwC’s 202... |
| 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... |
| 13.09.2023 | Founders, investors sound off on Houston's VC scene, energy innovation potential, and more | Last week, nearly 1,000 people convened in Houston to discuss venture capital activity, startups, and decarbonization, and the Houston factor among it all.
On September 7, Venture Houston hosted several keynote addresses and panels througho... |
| 12.09.2023 | Houston edtech startup taps into AI to improve classroom engagement | Not many adages stand the test of time quite like this one: to be the best, learn from the best.
Sage advice, which is why Houston-based Sibme, the learning engagement platform designed by teachers, is introducing an all-new artificial inte... |
| 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... |
| 05.09.2023 | Houston expert: Cultivate transparency when recruiting flexible workplace positions | How the workplace operates, especially flexible work arrangements, captivate job seekers, prompting many job listings to spotlight remote or hybrid work options. Interestingly, a significant portion of hybrid and remote workers say they wou... |
| 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... |
| 29.08.2023 | Report: Rice University again ranks among the top schools in nation | Rice University has earned yet another accolade worth hooting about.
Niche, an education review and ranking website, has named Rice the ninth best college in the U.S., down from No. 6 last year. The Houston university receives an A+ in nine... |
| 15.08.2023 | Exclusive: New-to-Houston hardtech accelerator names local leader | An organization that promotes early-stage innovation within the hardtech space has named one of the founding entrepreneurs of Greentown Labs as its local Houston lead.
Activate named Jeremy Pitts as the Houston managing director this month.... |
| 26.07.2023 | Why Digital Biology Has the Power to Change the Game Across Industries | Is digital biology the next big thing? In a world where AI services like ChatGPT and Midjourney dominate the hype cycle, this might sound like quite the claim. But it’s based on a solid foundation. As digital biology tools continue to evolv... |
| 23.03.2023 | U.S. Government Sets Bold Goals For The U.S. Bioeconomy – Including A Target For 30% Of Bio-Based Chemicals | .Canva |
| 03.11.2022 | Solugen Raises Over $200M in Series D Funding | Solugen, a Houston, TX-based company which aims to decarbonize the chemicals industry, raised over $200m, which increased its valuation above $2 billion.
Backers included leaders Kennivik, Lowercarbon Capital, and Refactor Capital, with par... |
| 30.12.2020 | Here are the top 5 Houston space innovation articles from 2020 | Editor's note: As 2020 comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. When it came to the space innovation news — whether that be new NASA hires or startup news — in the Space City, five sto... |
| 12.11.2020 | 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 programming features... |
| 28.10.2020 | New awards to 'pay homage' to Houston's tech scene | The deadline for nominations has been extended to November 6. The original story below has been edited to reflect the extension.
With so much of 2020 going wrong, a new awards program is hoping to shine a spotlight on Houston tech startups ... |
| 09.10.2020 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note:Another week is in the book. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included events not to miss, the grand opening of the Downtown Launchpad, and more.
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| 30.09.2020 | Houston-based 3D printing company plans to change the world — one piece of trash at a time | Aside from collecting their plastics throughout the week and dragging the bin to the curb, people aren't usually preoccupied with the recycling of materials. Houston-based Re:3D wants to change that.
The company was founded in 2013 by NASA ... |
| 30.06.2020 | Data science startup based in Houston focus on neuroscience software nabs $3.78M grant | Armed with a nearly $3.8 million federal grant, a Houston startup aims to boost neuroscience research around the world.
Vathes LLC, a developer of data management software that collaborates with neuroscience research labs in North America a... |
| 30.03.2020 | 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... |
| 30.10.2019 | Houston recognized among the best hospital cities in the nation | As home to Texas Medical Center — the world's largest medical complex — it stands to reason that Houston ranks among the country's best cities for health care. A new study bolsters that notion, but it also points out that several health car... |
| 23.09.2019 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Starting off a new — hopefully drier — week in Houston, these three Houston innovators to know are looking to make an impact. From using tech for good to creating a women's movement in Texas business, these three Houstonians are on a roll.
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| 23.04.2019 | How technology is disrupting — and improving — the real estate industry in Texas | A recent lawsuit is rocking the residential real estate industry across the country. Home sellers whose properties were listed on one of 20 MLSs claim The National Association of Realtors, Realogy Holdings Corp., HomeServices of America, RE... |
| 19.02.2019 | How this Houston company is staying one step ahead of Google | Where's the best place to hide a dead body? According to Alexander De Ridder and other search optimization experts, it's on the second page of Google where no one ever goes.
Jokes aside, search engine optimization has become a serious busin... |
| 27.12.2018 | Updated: 10 can't-miss innovation events for January | Houston's innovation community is starting 2019 strong with plenty of business professional events.
If you know of innovation-focused events for February, email me at natalie@innovationmap.com with the details.
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| 19.12.2018 | Houston entrepreneur wants to pave the way for female-led startups and VCs | It took her a second to be able to admit it, but Allison Lami Sawyer — a physicist by training and education — realized what her professional path was going to be when she was finishing up her MBA at Rice University.
"It took me a long... |
| 11.12.2018 | Houston electronics manufacturing company gears up for growth | It takes an unnecessarily long time for electronic devices to get from idea to reality — and much of that is due to inefficiency in manufacturing. Just getting a prototype together takes weeks of back and forth between the engineer and the ... |
| 05.12.2018 | Leading venture capitalists forecast the future of funding in Houston | Despite Houston being known for its money, venture capital has struggled to hit its stride until recently. Now, as Houston has attracted more money for its startups — even coming close to Austin, according to recent data — the Bayou City fa... |
| - | Solugen | “Manufacturing in Houston TX, Solugen is the world's first scalable sustainable molecule factory for bio-based chemicals.” |
| - | This startup’s chemically engineered water filtration system helps large farms and industrial processors recycle their wastewater | Wastewater reprocessing startup ZwitterCo announced on Thursday that it has raised $33 million to scale up its chemically engineered membrane water filtration technology to help industrial companies and large farms recycle wastewater.
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