| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.02.2025 | Preem Partners with Imubit to Drive Sustainability and Lower Emissions Through Advanced Closed Loop AI Optimization | Imubit, a global leader in closed loop artificial intelligence optimization (AIO), and Preem, Sweden’s largest fuel company, have entered into a partnership aimed at accelerating Preem’s sustainability journey through Imubit’s Closed Loop A... |
| 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... |
| 01.11.2021 | 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 health tech to clean energy — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Carolyn Rodz, CEO and... |
| 29.10.2021 | 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 innovators to know, a new partnership between The Ion and Ca... |
| 27.10.2021 | Houston university's MBA program claims coveted top spot of annual ranking | Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business has raked in yet another top spot on an annual list of top MBA programs.
A new ranking from Poets & Quants, which covers news about business schools, puts Rice at No. 3 among the world... |
| 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... |
| 26.10.2021 | Renewables are Houston's next chapter, says this expert | Houston has long been known as an innovative city — from medicine to technology to creative cuisines (see Viet-Cajun). I am always proud to see how cultures, education, and change come together to build the fabric of our city. As we look fo... |
| 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 | 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? ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 02.09.2021 | University of Houston: Tips for balancing faculty and founder life | Finding balance in your professional life and your dreams can be hard for anyone. Faculty in academia, hoping to become entrepreneur and start their own companies, find this especially difficult. Finding this balance is essential to having ... |
| 02.09.2021 | New Houston-based app tips the scales in favor of musicians and fans | Like so many business owners, Jeff James' inspiration for his innovative new music app PickleJar, came out of sheer necessity. Sitting in a bar in the buzzy Broadway district in Nashville, Tennessee, James, a serial entrepreneur, realized t... |
| 31.08.2021 | Overheard: 4 Houston BIPOC startup founders share their advice ahead of InnovationMap Awards | Houston is often lauded as one of the most diverse cities in America, and that diversity is seen across its business communities as well, which includes its innovation ecosystem.
The InnovationMap Awards presented by Techwave announced its ... |
| 31.08.2021 | Collaborative organization launches to support minority and female founders | A group of organizations — consisting of entrepreneurs, investors, chambers of commerce, business support organizations, and small business advocates — have teamed up to bridge the gap in resources for women- and minority-owned businesses.
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| 31.08.2021 | Houston expert: Corporations can help level the playing field for BIPOC-owned businesses | There were times when I wasn't sure what to do next.
When I started Connect the Dots PR in 2012, I wrote out detailed business plans, saved startup dollars, and leaned heavily on people in the PR industry to guide me in terms of pricing and... |
| 25.08.2021 | Report: Venture capital funding, tech jobs up in Houston | In just a five-year span, Houston's annual haul of venture capital has skyrocketed by nearly 200 percent.
Startups in the region raised $283.8 million in 2016, according to Pitchbook data cited in the Greater Houston Partnership's newly rel... |
| 25.08.2021 | InnovationMap names 28 Houston startup finalists for inaugural awards | Who are Houston's rising stars across energy transition, sports tech, health, and more? InnovationMap set out on a quest to discover that for its inaugural awards. Ahead of the September 8 event, we're revealing the finalists across all cat... |
| 25.08.2021 | Halliburton company raises $10M, gBETA opens apps, Houston coworking space expands, and more innovation news | It's been a busy summer for the Houston innovation ecosystem, and for this reason, local startup and tech news may have fallen through some of the cracks.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, a Halliburton Labs member... |
| 24.08.2021 | Houston logistics SaaS company makes strategic acquisition | A Houston company that has created software to automate logistics at terminals, plants, and warehouses has announced the acquisition of a California-based startup.
Houston-based Velostics Inc. has acquired Terusama, a logistics tech company... |
| 23.08.2021 | AI-backed SaaS company based in Houston secures $30M series B funding | Houston-based Imubit, whose AI-powered technology provides process optimization for refiners' and chemical operators' manufacturing plants, has raised $30 million in venture capital.
Zeev Ventures led the $30 million Series B round alongsid... |
| 19.08.2021 | Daily funding roundup - August 19th, 2021 | Postman raised $225M, MobileCoin secures $66M, One landed $40M; Rapid Robotics picks up $36.7M
Postman: Postman is a San Francisco-based collaboration platform for API development. Postman has raised $225 million in Series D funding led by ... |
| 18.08.2021 | An important takeaway from Maven Clinic’s $1 billion valuation | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 17.08.2021 | Imubit : Announces $50 million in Total Funding to Expand its AI Process Optimization Platform | HOUSTON, Aug. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Imubit, the leader of artificial intelligence (AI) process optimization for refiners and chemical operators, has raised $50 million to bring its Closed-Loop Neural Networks to every process manufacturi... |
| 16.08.2021 | Imubit Announces $50 Million in Total Funding to Expand Its AI Process Optimization Platform | Recent $30M Growth Round Led by Zeev Ventures and Insight Partners, with Participation from Spider Capital and UpWest
Imubit, the leader of artificial intelligence (AI) process optimization for refiners and chemical operators, has raised $5... |
| 16.08.2021 | Imubit Raises $30M In Funding | Imubit, a Houston, TX-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) process optimization solutions for refiners and chemical operators, raised $30m in funding.
The round, which brings the company’s total funding to $50m, was led by Zeev Ve... |
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| 22.06.2016 | How will Israeli innovation play into the global robotics industry? | Mor Assia Contributor
Mor Assia is the founding partner of iAngels.
In the last few months, a Singaporean University hired Nadine as a secretary, a Boston Dynamics employee pushed over his colleague Atlas who was moving boxes at a factory a... |
| 02.04.2016 | Deep learning will be huge — and here’s who will dominate it | Artificial intelligence* is developing much faster than we thought. Just last month, Google’s DeepMind AI beat Lee Sedol, a legendary Go player, at his own game in a defining moment for the industry. What enabled this win is a relatively ne... |
| 02.04.2016 | Deep learning will be huge — and here’s who will dominate it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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