Houston-founded blockchain startup raises $15M series A to increase international impact - Link
- InnovationMap's Natalie Harms
- Topl Gets $15M to Advance Blockchain That Tracks ESG Efforts - Link
- Built in Austin
- Topl blockchain raises $15M to help track social impact initiatives - Link
- TechCrunch
"A blockchain technology company that was founded out of Rice University has closed its latest round of funding.
Founded in 2017, Topl is a blockchain-as-a-service company that's developing a purpose-built blockchain ecosystem to empower impact and sustainability within its userbase of businesses. The company's $15 million series A round was co-led by Houston-based Mercury, Republic Asia, and Malta-based Cryptology Asset Group." - InnovationMap's Natalie Harms
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9th Annual Bayou Startup Showcase
Join us for the Ninth Annual Bayou Startup Showcase on Wednesday, August 3, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Saint Arnold Brewing Company. This annual event is a celebration of entrepreneurship, the newest startups and small businesses from Rice University and University of Houston accelerators, and the community that champions them.
The showcase features 24 companies from our four accelerators: RED Labs, OwlSpark, RED Launch and BlueLaunch. You will be able to engage with these businesses, sign up for pre-orders, and buy products at their booths. Teams have recorded their pitches for you to learn about them in advance, watch during the event, or review afterwards. RSVP now to receive updates and get early access to pitch videos.
9th Annual Bayou Startup Showcase
Wednesday August 3, 2022 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Saint Arnold Brewing Company
2000 Lyons Avenue Houston, TX 77020
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Softeq Demo Day Roadshow and Happy Hour
The Softeq Venture Studio invested $125,000 in cash and services in each of the fourteen early-stage startups to help them refine their business model, build their technology, and prepare them to scale. With 14 startups, the Q2 2022 cohort is the largest yet and brings the total portfolio to 27 companies!
In this Austin roadshow, founders will give their 1 minute elevator pitch, and then we'll have a networking session where you can demo their product, and ask any questions. We need you there to evaluate them for investment (or at least support them)! Afterward, happy hour.
Softeq Venture Studio Austin Investor Preview and Happy Hour
Softeq Venture Studio Public Demo Day - Q2 2022
Monday, August 15, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM CDT
Driskill Hotel 604 Brazos Street Austin, TX 78701
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Softeq Venture Studio Public Demo Day - Q2 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
The Ion
4201 Main Street #Suite 120 Houston, TX 77002
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Dallas Startup Week
August 7th - 11th
This year, Dallas Startup Week is going hybrid from August 7-11, offering both in-person events at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business and also live-streamed to the comfort of wherever you want to watch.
Disrupt Dallas | August 8
Disrupt Dallas celebrates the champions that are disrupting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and talent pipeline, as well as providing expert education and programming for entrepreneurs of color to help support and grow their business through a combination of speakers, discussions and networking opportunities. Disrupt Dallas will take place in person at SMU and will be streamed online.
Women of Innovation | August 10
Women of Innovation is a daylong slate of seminars and speakers to recognize, encourage and advance women leaders who have the courage and passion to transform their ideas and ambitions into a reality. Featuring a dynamic group of leading visionaries, Women of Innovation will celebrate, inspire and connect change-makers across markets and industries to provide all women in business with greater insights and knowledge into the trends and possibilities of the future. Women of Innovation will be held in person at SMU and online.
Corporate Startup Innovation Summit | August 11
Corporate Startup Innovation leverages and unites the breadth and diversity of DFW’s corporations and dynamic startup ecosystem. The summit will mobilize these groups by featuring DFW’s best and brightest innovators who will share how their companies are shaping our future – resulting in new ideas, business models, investment trends, connections and opportunities for business growth and acceleration. Corporate Startup Innovation Summit will be held in person at SMU and online.
Dallas Startup Week
August 7th - 11th
https://dallasstartupweek.com/
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- High Tech’s Impact on Austin - Link
- Austin Startups
- GroundBreakers Austin: Pitch competition with John Deere and ATI Apply by August 5th - Apply
- Austin Community College fashion incubator funding extended three years - Link
- Community Impact
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- The Austin Monitor
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- Austonia
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- Austin Monthly Magazine
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- Built in Austin
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- The American Genius
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- University of Texas
- Time running out to recognize Austin's fastest-growing companies - Link
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- AustInnovation Day 2022: A celebration of innovation, Austin and Texas - Link
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- Here is the latest on Austin's plan to preserve music venues, creative spaces - Link
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- Q&A: Austin Chamber CEO Laura Huffman shares insight after two years on the job - Link
- Austin Business Journal & Austin Inno's Brent Wistrom
- New Uber option brings Tesla, high-end electric vehicles to Austin - Link
- Austin renter services startup Spruce shifts into growth mode - Link
- Mixed bag for Texas economy: Retail slumps, manufacturing holds steady - Link
- Austin inventor for Cirrus Logic reaches 500-patent milestone - Link
- Taylor residents grapple with idea of huge Samsung expansion - Link
- Samsung expansion would elevate Austin area as global tech hub - Link
- Austin American-Statesman
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- 2022 Geekdom Pre-accelerator Application - Link
- H-E-B is testing a futuristic 'run your basket through' check-out device - Link
- Tesla filed a trademark for Texas-shaped logo. Now what is Elon Musk doing? - Link
- DeLorean unveils legacy behind new electric car engineered in San Antonio - Link
- San Antonio Express-News
- For David Mongeau, UTSA school’s founding director, data science is poetic - Link
- New UT School of Public Health names its inaugural dean - Link
- Fast-growing Austin logistics firm moves into San Antonio, bringing jobs - Link
- San Antonio Report
- Best of San Antonio 2022 - Link
- San Antonio's Spurs Give and Frost award $200,000 in grants to local nonprofits to fund repairs - Link
- San Antonio Current
- Nearly $1.7M shipping container vacation rental planned for Canyon Lake - Link
- Vecino Energy receives $200M from local VC company - Link
- Usio reports growth in payments processed with $2.4B in Q2 - Link
- Gigpro enters SA market as restaurant industry embraces gig economy - Link
- Girl Power: A snapshot of local women in the skilled trades - Link
- Dominique Liu named chairwoman of Global Chamber SA - Link
- Austin supply chain company expanding to San Antonio - Link
- Greater:SATX program launches initiative aimed at growing employment in key industries - Link
- Harvey Najim to exit as president of foundation he launched - Link
- Against the odds: Rudy Garza's unlikely path to CPS Energy's top executive position - Link
- Alamo City unemployment hits lowest level since 2017 - Link
- Behind the win: How San Antonio swayed the XFL - Link
- Virginia Beach company acquires SA's Foundation Support Specialists - Link
- SA's Stirista buys New York digital branding firm - Link
- Bill Miller adds new policy to pay employees at end of their shifts - Link
- XFL brings pro football back to San Antonio for 2023 relaunch - Link
- San Antonio Business Journal
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- Self-funded 3rd venture to a big exit in 18 months - Steve Gelley - Podcast
- Practical Founders Podcast's Greg Head
- Goldman Sachs-Backed Startup Slync.io Suspends CEO Chris Kirchner - Link
- Business Insider’s Emma Cosgrove
- Nitrile glovemaker Rhino Health gets $58M to expand facilities in Fort Worth - Link
- Schwab Corporation CEO Bettinger appointed co-board chairman - Link
- ‘We’re No. 5!’ Texas slips again in ranking of best states for business - Link
- Stocks? Jobs? Prices? How do we know if we’re in a recession? - Link
- Report: Fort Worth agency wins Nike’s North American media business - Link
- Training program helps put Fort Worth on the map as tech hub for women - Link
- TCU medical school to be renamed Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine - Link
- Government backs $2.5 billion loan for GM to build electric vehicle battery factories - Link
- Fort Worth Business Press
- Real Estate Startup Nada Closes $8.1 Million Seed Round - Link
- First Look: Inside Neiman Marcus’ New Dallas Headquarters - Link
- Meet the Dallas 500: Dupree Scovell - Link
- The TCU School of Medicine’s New Name - Link
- A Dallas Chef May Have Faked His Biography. But Will Diners Care? - Link
- The Future of Texas Energy Is More Expensive - Link
- The Three R’s of Commercial Real Estate - Link
- D Magazine
- Junior League of Dallas Appoints New Board, Kicks Off Its ‘Next 100 Years’ - Link
- The Last Word: Strategic Partnerships’ Mary Scott Nabers on Modernizing Our Infrastructure - Link
- DI People: Sabre, Charles Schwab, Successive Technologies, CG Infinity, and More Make Moves - Link
- Frisco Startup Homz Launches to Address Housing Shortage With Urban Communities Across the U.S. - Link
- The Last Word: The Modern’s Andrea Karne on ‘Women Painting Women’ - Link
- Activate Games Is Bringing Its Live‑Action Indoor Experience to Plano This Fall - Link
- Canadian Chocolate Maker Brings Tech, 120 Jobs to New Rockwall Production Facility - Link
- UT Dallas Is Merging Two Schools To Bring Arts, Humanities, and Tech Together - Link
- Dallas Invents: 127 Patents Granted for Week of July 19 - Link
- Dallas-Based Nada Closes $8.1M Seed Round to Make Real Estate Investments More Accessible to All - Link
- The MIZ: A Central Hub for Supply Chain Innovation - Link
- See What’s in Store at Dallas Startup Week’s Corporate Startup Innovation Summit - Link
- The Last Word: Rings Donuts’ Bill Hennessey on Keeping It Old School - Link
- The Shadow CEO: Explaining the Common Metrics - Link
- The Last Word: Ecologist Brandon Hall on the New Forest by Texas’ Newest Reservoir in Fannin County - Link
- Innovative Spaces: Turning Offices into Luxe Multifamily Residences in Dallas’ Iconic 50‑Story Santander Tower - Link
- Dallas Real Estate Startup TestFit Lands $20M to Make Construction More Efficient - Link
- Aviation ‘Time Machine’ Takes Wing in Southern Dallas - Link
- SoCal Pharma Company Buys Mid-Cities Building to Relocate HQ, Operations to North Texas - Link
- The Last Word: Joey Grisham on the Factors Driving Anna’s Growth - Link
- Follow the Money: BILT Gets $1.7M Air Force Grant for 3D Instructions App; Medical Device Startup Lands $1.64M to Restore Hearing, PGA of America Invests in Golf Innovation, and More - Link
- Bank of Montreal Taps North Texas for its Newest Tech Hub - Link
- XFL Selects Arlington, Choctaw Stadium as its Football Operations Hub - Link
- Dallas Innovates
- Form D Friday: Grey Rock Investment Partners files to raise $600M - Link
- FC Dallas focuses on creating space for North Texas minority-owned businesses - Link
- Texas M&A dealmaking hits another record in first half of 2022 - Link
- Digital twin: The technology revolutionizing the construction industry - Link
- Frisco-based POWERHANDZ Inc. receives multimillion dollar capital funding - Link
- Independent Financial adds middle market bankers one year after strategy launch - Link
- Neiman Marcus confirms corporate hub location in Uptown Dallas - Link
- Celebrate our 40 Under 40 class of 2022 - Link
- Get to know our 40 Under 40 class of 2022 - Link
- Q&A with Sudeep Shah, CEO, Travel King International - Link
- Q&A with Prasanna Singaraju, co-founder and CEO, Qentelli - Link
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- Q&A with Benjamin Vann, CEO & founder, Impact Ventures - Link
- Q&A with Scott Goldstein, Chief of External Affairs & Government Relations, Downtown Dallas, Inc. - Link
- Dallas Business Journal & NXT Inno
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- Liftoff Houston Business Plan Competition - Link
- Allison Wood Ventures Invests Additional $4 Million in Property Management Software Firm Innago - Link
- Houston-founded blockchain startup raises $15M series A to increase international impact - Link
- Texas named No. 2 worst state to live, but one of the best for business - Link
- Serial Houston entrepreneur's latest venture combines his passions for startups and software - Link
- Here's what Houston startups snagged fresh funding last quarter - Link
- Houston expert: How to scale your startup team quickly and efficiently - Link
- Houston physical therapist designs medical device to better treat joint injuries - Link
- Houston high school students step into STEM thanks to UH program - Link
- Houston EV charging tech company raises $6M series A - Link
- 3 Houston innovators to know this week - Link
- InnovationMap's Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
- Pokatok Labs Demo Day | July 2022 - Link
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- Pokatok Podcast
- Interns bring innovative design to health technology engineering challenges - Link
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- Bayou Startup Showcase 2022: Tech-focused OwlSpark to debut 10th cohort, BlueLaunch presenting first class of small businesses - Link
- Rice engineers get a grip with ‘necrobotic’ spiders - Link
- Rice University
- XFL set to return to TDECU Stadium - Link
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- University of Houston
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- Australia's Lynas Rare Earths considering Texas Gulf Coast for $200M processing plant - Link
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- Houston Business Journal reveals honorees of fourth-annual Innovation Awards - Link
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- Survey: 93% of small business owners fear a recession in the coming year - Link
- Growing Houston tech co. sees market for flywheel energy storage for EV charging - Link
- Houston Business Journal
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- How Kevin Ryan of AlleyCorp Incubates So Many Successful Startups - Michael Girdley - Link
- Building Your Business on the Regret Minimization Framework—Yes or No? - Kirk Coburn - Link
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- 8 fintech VCs discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022 - TechCrunch - Link
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