| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.06.2025 | Future Fields raises $8m Series A to expand fruit fly biomanufacturing platform: ‘Clients come to us because they’ve struggled to make proteins in legacy platforms’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Future Fields.]
Canadian startup Future Fields has raised an $8 million Series A round to expand its biomanufacturing platform harnessing genetically engineered fruit flie... |
| 26.10.2023 | プラスチックとサーキュラーエコノミー ～スタートアップと研究プロジェクトの最新動向～ | アスタミューゼ株式会社（本社:東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長 永井歩）は、サーキュラーエコノミーにおいて重要な「プラスチックのリサイクル」に関する技術領域において、弊社の所有するイノベーションデータベース（論文・特許・スタートアップ・グラントなどのイノベーション・研究開発情報）を網羅的に分析し、動向をレポートとしてまとめました。
著者：アスタミューゼ株式会社 琴岡 匠 博士（工学）/ 源 泰拓 博士（理学）
はじめに
近年、環境への負担を減らしつつ経済成長を実現する方法... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 12.10.2023 | 3 Houston college students win big in global Intel AI competition | Three students from Houston Community College Southwest won the top national prize at the 2023 Intel AI Global Impact Festival competition, HCC announced this month.
Sumesh Surendran, Ruben Treviño, and Muskaan Shahzad won the top spot in t... |
| 12.10.2023 | Houston founders: How safe is your company's data? | As news comes out every week about new technologies, from new crypto wallets to generative AI to self-driving taxis, it can get overwhelming for most of us to keep up or to understand the new intricacies of technology, and it can get easy t... |
| 11.10.2023 | Innovative California company taps Houston area for purified water projects | Houstonians are used to filtering their water, but few really ponder why they’re doing it.
“Most people, when they think about water stress, they think about water scarcity, like what you see happening in Northern Africa or maybe the Southe... |
| 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... |
| 05.10.2023 | Houston unpacks No. 7 rank in U.S. for recent moves, says new report | Houston is shifting as people move into the city and around it. A new population analysis by online loan marketplace LendingTree has named Houston the No. 7 metro for recent movers.
The study used population data from a 2021 U.S. Census Bur... |
| 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... |
| 29.09.2023 | Houston school names digital education expert to newly created position | Rice University is beefing up its digital education efforts with the hiring of an internationally known expert from Duke University.
Shawn Miller is set to join Rice on November 1 in the newly created position of associate provost for digit... |
| 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'... |
| 22.09.2023 | Houston health care leader on a mission to innovate an end to heart failure | Emerson Perin’s end goal isn’t to treat heart failure. The medical director of The Texas Heart Institute says that he has his sights set firmly on curing the malady altogether. And, with the power of innovation and a strong team, the Housto... |
| 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... |
| 18.09.2023 | Texas organization announces inaugural cohort of social enterprise startups with Web3 tech | A Texas-based accelerator focused on helping BIPOC and female founders on their entrepreneurial journeys announced the inaugural class for its newest accelerator.
DivInc's DWeb for Social Impact Accelerator, a 12-week intensive hybrid progr... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 07.09.2023 | University of Houston reveals $35M campus transformation ahead of centennial | As the University of Houston gets ready for its centennial in 2027, the school is launching a major transformation to its urban campus. The $35 million project aims to transform several prominent areas of the university grounds and create a... |
| 05.09.2023 | Houston regenerative medicine company opens new lab at UH | Pete O’Heeron wants you to know that “Bohemian Rhapsody” was originally released as a B-side. What does this nugget about Queen have to do with regenerative medicine? For O’Heeron and his company, FibroBiologics, it means everything.
That’s... |
| 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 | How this Houston investor closed a $32M oversubscribed fund in less than a month | It might be cool to arrive fashionably late to a party, but Houston investor Sahir Ali likes to be early when it comes to new technologies.
"What has been a part of my success and has driven a lot of my profesional, scientific, and fin... |
| 28.08.2023 | Photos: Ion Houston's latest art installations tackle tech, social issues | Two new art installations at the Ion speak to the building's past and its potential future.
Revealed at an event earlier this month, the innovation hub developed by Rice University is now home to installations by Houston-based artists Chris... |
| 24.08.2023 | Houston to host 6 Italian aerospace companies with new program | It's an Italian invasion in Houston — and it's happening in the name of accelerating innovation within aerospace.
For the first time, Italy has announced an international aerospace-focused program in the United States. The Italian Trade Age... |
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