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Join over 500 of your friends and colleagues for a day of networking and fun at the 2008 Chili Cook-Off. Our Chili Cook-Off is more than just chili – it brings the attendees together as a life science community. All individuals welcome – team participation is not required to enjoy the chili. With door prizes, activities, [...] The Rice Alliance has gone and outdone themselves again by nearly doubling the amount of funds that will be awarded at this year’s Business Plan Competition. They will be awarding over $600,000 dollars in funds for approximately 36 different graduate teams from around the world, which enables them to lay claim to hosting “the largest and [...] February 7th, 2008 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, NanoTech, VC and Angel Funding |
 One comment Santé Ventures, an Austin based venture capital group focused on medical technology, health services and health care IT raised $130 million for its debut fund. Although the fund is new, the group has been investing in companies for some time now. Santé is not stranger to Houston having invested in two local companies: Tyrell and [...] CBS Channel 11 News KHOU – TV aired a story last night on the use of video games for serious purposes. Archimage was featured as an innovative Houston-based company that is creating video games designed to improve the health of children, specifically obesity and type 2 diabetes prevention. Archimage’s president, Richard Buday, was interviewed along [...] December 7th, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Gaming, General, IT and Web 2.0 |
Leave a comment When I first met Walter Ulrich at a Houston Technology Center event, what I gathered most about him was that this guy was the real deal: a true “pocket protector” geek in the most admiring sense of the word. Ulrich has been a pioneer in the information technology sector for almost 40 years. In the [...] November 3rd, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, NanoTech, VC and Angel Funding |
5 comments Today is the 5th Annual Rice Alliance Energy & Clean Technology Venture Forum held at the Jones School (McNair Hall) , Rice University. Here is an overview of the event: One of the largest energy venture forums in North America September 27th, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment Houston based life science startup, ThromboVision announced today the closing of a $4 million Series A round of financing from National Health Care Services and a group of private investors. The company plans on using the funds to build an infrastructure and fund clinical trials of their ThromboGuide product towards FDA approval. The [...] September 14th, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, General, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment  From the Rice University News Desk: Entrepreneurs interested in taking technology from the research lab to the marketplace now have a new certificate program from Rice to show them the way to success. “From Lab to Market: How to Build and Grow a Successful Life Science Business” is the new life science entrepreneurship certificate program produced [...] I had breakfast this morning with Stuart Page, CEO of Houston-based startup, GloriOil. I first noticed GloriOil after they announced an infusion of capital from their investors (see blog post from last week). Turns out that Stuart and I have some mutual friends so we met up today to chat. GloriOil is very interesting to me [...] Get ready to mark your calendars because the Rice Alliance has just announced their schedule of events for the rest of 2007 and 2008.  We have the quick reference version for you below and you can get additional details on all the latest Rice Alliance goings-on at the events section of their web site. Rice Alliance Entrepreneurship and [...] July 11th, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
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