| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.04.2024 | NASA awards $30M to Houston space tech company to develop lunar rover | Houston-based space technology company Intuitive Machines has landed a $30 million NASA contract for the initial phase of developing a rover for U.S. astronauts to traverse the moon’s surface.
Intuitive Machines is one of three companies ch... |
| 02.04.2024 | Houston startup scores $12M grant to support clinical evaluation of cancer-fighting drug | Allterum Therapeutics, a Houston biopharmaceutical company, has been awarded a $12 million product development grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).
The funds will support the clinical evaluation of a the... |
| 29.03.2024 | Latest Houston health tech news dominates this week's top stories | Editor's note:Let's roundup the top Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included introducing the Texas Medical Center's ongoing cohort, generative AI at Baylor College of Medici... |
| 29.03.2024 | Health tech startup launches Houston study improve stroke patients recovery | A Houston-born company is enrolling patients in a study to test the efficacy of nerve stimulation to improve outcomes for stroke survivors.
Dr. Kirt Gill and Joe Upchurch founded NeuraStasis in 2021 as part of the TMC Biodesign fellowship p... |
| 27.03.2024 | Houston student selected for prestigious health care research program | A Houston-area undergraduate student has been tapped for a prestigious national program that pairs early-career investigators with health research professionals.
Mielad Ziaee was selected for the National Institutes of Health’s 2023-2024 Al... |
| 22.01.2021 | 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, marketing and PR tips for startups, where... |
| 10.12.2020 | United Airlines launches new service to help travelers skip the lines at Bush Intercontinental | Houston travelers on United Airlines now have access to a new, virtual, on-demand customer service aimed at simple, contact-free, real-time information and support. The new feature is available at George Bush International Airport, as well ... |
| 09.12.2020 | Innovation hub exec wants to ensure Houston's diversity is well represented | The Ion is in its home stretch. Expected to open in early 2021, the rising innovation hub is inches away from its exciting entrance into the Houston market. Yet despite the physical location's ongoing construction, Deanea LeFlore and her te... |
| 16.11.2020 | Houston software company to launch innovation lab for enterprise startups | A Houston-based global software development company has teamed up to create an innovation lab that will launch virtually before moving into a physical space early next year.
Softeq Development Corporation announced the creation of the Softe... |
| 05.11.2020 | Houston Greek-American develops app to preserve culture | Theoharis Dimarhos grew up in a family determined to follow tradition. As a child, his mother serenaded him with old Greek folk songs he still remembers, and his parents made speaking Greek a rule of the house. Dimarhos lived the immigrant ... |
| 28.10.2020 | Amazon launches annual seasonal hiring event with thousands of Houston jobs | Just in time for the holiday, Amazon is doing a mega-seasonal hiring event, which includes new jobs available in Houston.
According to a release, the company is adding 100,000 new seasonal jobs across the U.S. and Canada, to complement its ... |
| 27.10.2020 | Rice University professor and startup founder talks advocating for change and strategy | Robyn O'Brien, co-founder of rePlant Capital and Rice adjunct professor, joined the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the first virtual Ladies who LaUNCH. RePlant Capital is working with food industry players to invest in... |
| 08.10.2020 | Prolific University of Houston professor wins prestigious $650,000 'genius' grant | A prolific fiction writer and award-winning University of Houston academic has just received a major accolade. Distinguished professor Cristina Rivera Garza has been awarded a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship — dubbed more casually as a "geni... |
| 06.10.2020 | Houston venture capital group leads Austin-based energy tech company's $5M series A | Houston-based Cottonwood Venture Partners has announced the closing of an Austin-based software solutions round that it led.
Founded in 2014, HUVRdata Inc. is a data analytics company focusing on the energy industry. The startup announced t... |
| 29.09.2020 | Houston student creates innovative mobile medical lab for rapid COVID-19 testing | An 18-year old high school senior from the Houston area mobilized his medical knowledge as one of the youngest EMTs in Texas and co-founded a mobile lab which can provide COVID-19 results in 15 minutes.
Texas Mobile Medical Labs was created... |
| 21.09.2020 | Houston's fund of funds announces 2 new investments | The HX Venture Fund, which invests in out-of-town venture capital funds that have their eyes on Houston startups, has grown its portfolio.
The fund of funds now has a portfolio of 10 VCs from across the country, across industries, and acros... |
| 03.09.2020 | Education company launches innovative virtual platform at Houston school | The coronavirus pandemic has spawned an array of digital innovations in education, and one of those innovations has been hatched right here in Houston.
Kïdo, an international network of preschools, recently introduced its first-ever virtual... |
| 11.08.2020 | Chevron's Houston-based venture group taps two companies for its startup-focused program | Chevron's corporate venture arm that invests into energy tech innovation and supports startups within the industry has tapped two companies for its Chevron Technology Ventures Catalyst Program.
Entech Solutions and mIQroTech have both recen... |
| 06.08.2020 | Statewide accelerator hires new Houston staffer and embraces 'virtual first' approach amid COVID-19 | For years, Capital Factory has existed to promote innovation and grow startups across Texas and has expanded from its headquarters in Austin to Dallas, Houston, and beyond. In light of COVID-19, the organization has pivoted to make sure it ... |
| 24.07.2020 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: People drive innovation in Houston, and that's been true more than ever amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This week's roundup of top news on InnovationMap also reflects that, from innovators to know, Q&As with local entrepreneu... |
| 20.07.2020 | Rice University students collaborate on COVID-19 solutions | An annual program with Rice University and its partners in Africa had to do things differently in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did operations have to shift to a virtual approach, but the projects themselves instead addressed the... |
| 16.07.2020 | Houston venture capital group enters into new era with rebrand | A Houston-based venture group has flipped the switch on its rebranding in order to transition itself into a new era of innovation and startup investing.
GOOSE Capital — previously known as GOOSE Society of Texas — is a private investment fi... |
| 14.07.2020 | Rice University physicists granted $1.3 million to continue study on dark matter | Two Rice University physicists and professors have received a federal grant to continue research on dark matter in the universe.
Paul Padley and Karl Ecklund, professors of physics and astronomy at Rice, have received a $1.3 million grant f... |
| 02.07.2020 | 4 COVID-19 messaging tips from Houston communications expert | Houston is undoubtedly hitting critical mass with COVID-19. The common sentiment has transitioned from "knowing someone who knows someone that has COVID-19" to more frequent first-hand, anecdotal experiences. When a potential expo... |
| 18.06.2020 | Amazon and Google to open new locations in Houston | Within the same week, two tech giants have announced plans to enter or expand in Houston. Amazon has began building out a robotic distribution center in Fort Bend County, and Google will open its first office in Houston focused on cloud tec... |
| 17.06.2020 | Houston medical school presents inaugural class as construction begins on new building | This month, the University of Houston has taken a couple huge steps toward establishing a prestigious medical school program — the first new medical school to be established in Houston in almost 50 years.
UH has broken ground on its $80 mil... |
| 15.06.2020 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | This week's Houston innovators to know have all grown or started a company during the COVID-19 pandemic — a bold choice. From an esports software entrepreneur to two serial founders looking to invest in the next generation of Houston tech s... |
| 05.06.2020 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor'snote: Summertime, and the Houston innovation news comes easy. Top stories of the week include recently acquired startup's technology is being used to screen temperatures, virtual events not to miss, innovators to know, an acquisitio... |
| 29.05.2020 | 2 corporations write checks to go toward Houston hospital's COVID-19 efforts | Two Houston companies have doled out cash to a Houston hospital's efforts in driving innovation during the pandemic as well as moving forward in a post-COVID-19 world.
Houston Methodist received $500,000 from Houston-based Aramco Americas a... |
| 13.12.2019 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Among this week's top stories were four powerful female Houston innovators, a generous donation to the University of Houston, and more. Scroll through to see what Houston innovation stories trended this week.
3 Houston female... |
| 09.12.2019 | University of Houston receives historic $13M gift for its entrepreneurship program | University of Houston's C.T. Bauer College of Business has received its second largest donation to benefit its entrepreneurship program.
The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, which was recently ranked the top undergraduate... |
| 06.11.2019 | City of Houston and local health care organizations receive $4M to treat mental health in students | The city of Houston just received a major opportunity to help grow access to mental health treatment in children.
Thanks to a four-year $4 million grant from the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the c... |
| 26.09.2019 | Houston companies need to get ready for an artificial intelligence and machine learning revolution | Looming on the horizon is a data tsunami coming towards us at breakneck speed. Companies have worked hard to keep up, creating digital transformation, taking manual processes from desktops, clipboards, and the paper paradigm to the Cloud. W... |
| 05.09.2019 | Streamlining supply chain efforts can help retailers survive the changing landscape, says this Houston expert | It's undeniable that retail habits of consumers is changing. DiCentral, a B2Bi managed services provider, recently partnered with the Center for Supply Chain Research at Lehigh University to survey over 180 global retail and manufacturing d... |
| 30.08.2019 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Major accelerator news hit the headlines this week. MassChallenge Texas is wrapping up its inaugural Houston cohort — just as the new Ion Smart Cities Accelerator is launching. Meanwhile, on the heels of the second anniversar... |
| 29.08.2019 | Rice University research finds executive board members are driven by incentives | If you're a stockholder, you may envision your investment helmed by a benevolent, all-knowing board of directors, sitting around a long finely-grained wooden table, drinking coffee, their heads buried in PowerPoint charts as they labor to p... |
| 28.08.2019 | Exclusive: New Houston accelerator reveals its inaugural cohort and announces strategic partner | The Ion Smart Cities Accelerator launched earlier this year with a goal of engaging startups from around the world to solve some of Houston's most prevalent challenges. Backed by Intel and Microsoft and partnered with the city of Houston an... |
| 26.08.2019 | A Texas organization has doled out millions to Houston cancer-fighting professionals | Researchers at medical institutions across the state have something to celebrate. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has made 71 grants this week to cancer-fighting organizations that total a near $136 million.
"CPRI... |
| 22.08.2019 | Houston church launches social entrepreneurship pitch competition with $250,000 on the line | First Presbyterian Church of Houston launched the second round of Project Flourish, a social entrepreneurship contest, on August 18.
The contest is "a creative invitation to the community to help bring fresh ideas to the issues that fa... |
| 20.08.2019 | Houston clean energy company closes $5.8M Series A and prepares to revolutionize the industry | A Houston technology company is doing something that, for many decades, wasn't thought to be possible. Syzygy Plasmonics is creating a hydrogen fuel cell technology that produces a cheaper source of energy that releases fewer carbon emissio... |
| 16.08.2019 | Houston inventor receives national recognition for leading innovation | A Houston inventor is being recognized for her leadership within cardiovascular regenerative medicine. Doris A. Taylor from the Texas Heart Institute has been named among the National Academy of Inventors' 54 academic inventors to the sprin... |
| 13.08.2019 | Houston nonprofit grows to provide more resources to underserved communities in Houston | For some Houstonians, fresh foods are far away and too expensive to incorporate into their diets regularly. A Houston organization is looking to change that.
Urban Harvest, a 25-year-old nonprofit focused on bringing fresh produce and educa... |
| 08.08.2019 | New study rates Texas among the 10 worst states for health care | Health care is already one of the hottest topics in the country, and a new study comparing systems at the state level offers even more to talk about — especially in Texas, which is rated one of the worst in the country.
Personal finance web... |
| 05.08.2019 | Houston fitness guru takes her expertise mobile with new app | As time spent on mobile devices stretches longer and attention spans get shorter, a Houstonian thinks she has a solution to combine personal technology and a healthy lifestyle.
Lizzie DeLacy, founder of DeLacy Wellness, has launched a new a... |
| 25.07.2019 | Rice University researcher studies whether engaging with unethical consumers pays off | Conventional wisdom, grounded in ethical theory, is clear: ethical retailers shouldn't tolerate unethical customers. But what if some unethical behavior is good for business? Is it really so wrong?
Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia and... |
| 17.07.2019 | New accelerator director at Station Houston wants to bring talent and impactful startups to town | When Christine Galib moved to Houston, she knew two things: it was going to be hot, and there were going to be tacos. But when Hurricane Harvey hit in 2017, she learned something else: the resiliency of the city — and its people — was a thr... |
| 16.07.2019 | Houston named among the best large cities for early-stage startups | When it comes to cities with over a million residents, Houston's at the front of the pack, according to a new study. But, there's a catch.
Last month, Commercial Cafe rounded up the 20 top cities for early-stage startups and entrepreneurs, ... |
| 08.07.2019 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | A true innovator is someone who's able to look past how something has been done for years — decades even — and be creative enough to find a better way to do it.
From redesigning conventional lab space to seeing a niche opportunity for luxur... |
| 08.07.2019 | WeWork doubles down on downtown with its 4th Houston coworking space announced | WeWork has decided to open yet another coworking location in Houston — this time, the new office is just down the street from an existing location.
The New York City-based coworking company has opened three locations across Houston — one in... |
| 17.06.2019 | Self-driving pizza delivery vehicles will hit Houston's roads later this year | Unmanned vehicles are taking over Houston, any way you slice it. Nuro, the robotics company specializing in commercialized self-driving cars, first entered the Houston market earlier this year with its grocery delivery partnership with Krog... |
| 14.05.2019 | Station Houston partners with universities to launch new accelerator program | Houston universities — namely the University of Houston and Rice University — have been providing student and alumni entrepreneurs with acceleration programming for some time now through RED Labs and OwlSpark, respectively. But nonprofit ac... |
| 25.03.2019 | World's fastest supercomputer is getting ready to power on in Houston | An Australian company that provides geoscience and tech services to the oil and gas industry is gearing up to flip the switch in Katy on what's being billed as the world's fastest supercomputer.
At the 20-acre Skybox Houston data center cam... |
| 20.02.2019 | Houston named 4th best metro for women in tech by a new study | If you're a woman in the technology industry here in Houston, you're in the right place. Houston was recognized as the 4th best city in the United States for women in technology jobs, according to a report from SmartAsset.
The study took in... |
| 12.02.2019 | 5 things to know about TMCx's newest cohort | On Monday, 21 startups settled in for a wild, four-month ride at the Texas Medical Center's Innovation Institute, and TMCx's eighth cohort, which is focused on digital health, is officially ongoing.
The companies will be absorbing the curri... |
| 08.02.2019 | Growing Houston podcast is bridging the gap between energy and tech | Collin McLelland and Jacob Corley want you to know that Houston has a whole lot of innovation in the oil and gas industry, and they want to tell you about it.
The two energy professionals launched the Oil and Gas Startups Podcast a few mont... |
| 08.02.2019 | Texas startup using Tesla cars for more efficient and eco-friendly travel | A Texas startup shuffling business men and women across the state in style has created an elevated road trip experience for its customers.
Founded in 2018 and based in Austin, ElecTrip aims to add luxury and convenience to regional commutes... |
| 31.01.2019 | Mayor, Station CEO: Houston's innovation ecosystem has arrived | For Gaby Rowe, Houston's not just an up-and-coming innovation leader.
"Houston's tech ecosystem is here. It exists now. It will continue to grow and gain momentum. It is not a thing of the future; it is here now," Rowe, CEO of Sta... |
| 22.01.2019 | Houston-area construction team utilizes technology to solve problems | In recent years, the construction industry has begun embraced advancements in reality technology like virtual reality and augmented reality. While it has yet to reach critical mass in the industry, several contracting companies in the Houst... |
| 17.01.2019 | Texas ranks as top state for female entrepreneurs | Texas is known for being a land of opportunity, but a recent study evaluated how those business opportunities translated to benefitting female entrepreneurs. Turns out, starting a business as a woman in the Lone Star State is a pretty good ... |
| 10.01.2019 | Growing Houston cyber security company plans to hire | Cyber security is constantly evolving, and, while information hacks are always a concern, worst-case scenarios could even be life threatening.
Houston-based startup, Security Gate, is addressing all of types of cyber security threats, says ... |
| 07.01.2019 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | From restaurant review apps to a device that monitors oil rigs, this week's innovators to know are tech savvy to say the least. All three took a chance on Houston for their startups, and that chance is paying off.
Christopher Robart, presid... |
| 04.01.2019 | App aims to connect Houston mothers using AI technology | Sometimes, to be a mom, is to feel utterly alone. Not every mom is the same, and it's tough for women to find the right support systems — people who are going through or have gone through the same struggles.
A new Houston-based app, Social ... |
| 31.12.2018 | Houston company creates portable device that eases pain without the use of drugs | Many of the estimated 50 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain turn to drugs — including heavily abused opioids — to relieve their symptoms. Houston-based startup Portable Therapeutix LLC's drug-free solution to pain management see... |
| 27.12.2018 | Updated: Houston startup relaunches to connect the dots for travelers | This story has been updated to reflect new information.
A year or so ago, Gordon Taylor had thousands of college students using his rideshare app focused on roadtrips, Croozen, across almost 20 universities in the United States. But, as the... |
| 27.12.2018 | Houston software startup pivots to provide digital networking solutions | Several years ago, David Grimes had a business partner who played dirty. It wasn't until the trial that followed the business wrongdoing that Grimes discovered the man had a history of cheating companies out of money. Grimes envisioned a so... |
| 03.12.2018 | Houston company aims to equally equip female workers | When Jane Henry was working on her home right after Hurricane Harvey — her house got three feet of mud in it — she went to throw a board into the dumpster, and her glove went with it.
Henry says the industry standard is to recommend small a... |
| 03.12.2018 | 3 Houston heath tech innovators to know this week | Whether it's for dogs or dating, Houston is prime for innovative leaders in health science startups, and there are three in particular you need to know going into a new week. From a DNA-based dating app creator and a researcher curing cance... |
| 30.11.2018 | Houston-based biotech company aims to revolutionize cellular dissection technology | Innovative Biochips, a Houston-based biotechnology company, is one step closer to commercializing technology that the company hopes will provide an opportunity for researchers to detect diseases earlier.
The company was founded three years ... |
| 19.11.2018 | Real estate startup makes it easier for Houston small businesses to find space | Whether you're looking for a home, a hair stylist, or an electrician, you're probably going online to find it. A Texas startup is trying to make finding retail or office space for small businesses just as easy and accessible.
Traditionally,... |
| 14.11.2018 | Houston entrepreneur creates a portable workspace for productivity on the go | By 2020, almost half of the American workforce will be freelance or contract employees. To prepare for this new way of doing business, innovators have been abuzz with coming up with software and AI workplace solutions.
However, Yared Akalou... |
