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Houston’s own Giftiki blogs about Brandery experience

Bryan Jowers, the CEO of Houston-based startup Giftiki has (reluctantly) started a blog at bryan.giftiki.com about his experiences in the new Seed Accelerator Brandery in Cincinnati, which is supported by Houston VC firm, DFJMercury. Follow him and his business partner Justin Stanislaw to gain some insight into the process and be ready to welcome [...]

BMC buys DFJMercury Funded Phurnace

While it’s neither of the two companies involved are actually ‘Houston Startups’, BMC is far from its startup days and Phurnace is based in Austin -  it was funded by DFJ Mercury – making it the Houston-based early stage Venture Capitalists first exit. It nice to see a win for the hometown team and this [...]

DFJMercury Funds Electronic Health Records Startup

Houston’s favorite venture capitalists are at it again, funding an Austin/Houston startup company in the very hot bio-informatics industry that marries software and healthcare.

Cgate Health creates software to provide simple, flexible and cost effective Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions. Unlike the current landscape of complex, incomplete and expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, [...]

Austin Ventures Office Hours - December 15th @CoffeeGroundz

Dan Doman the Director of Business Development at Austin Ventures is bringing his team down from Austin to hold the first ‘AV Entrepreneur Hours‘ in Houston on December 15th. He’s setting up shop at the Houston Startup scene’s favorite meeting place:

CoffeeGroundz 2503 Bagby Houston, Texas 77006 in Mid Town.

Dan is a very accessible guy [...]

Managers, not Engineers is what Houston needs

Aziz Gilani, a local VC writes on his personal blog http://texvc.com/2009/08/02/what-houston-really-needs/about what he thinks Houston needs to compete and the main conclusion he comes up with is that we are suffering from a relative lack of engineering research at our universities. I consider Aziz a personal friend, and I helped plan the party that got [...]

Not All Angels Are Created Equal

An entrepreneur’s worst funding nightmare is to take money from someone who is an inexperienced angel investor.

Capital Factory launches to help Startups

Capital Factory (http://www.capitalfactory.com) is a collection of successful high-tech entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts who are banding together to provide cash, services and most importantly, mentorship to qualified startup companies.

Next Houston Startup Happy Hour is this Thursday, June 5th

Startup Houston and the Houston Technology Center are proud to present
The June Houston Startup Happy Hour.

Open Call for Demos! Show up and Show Off!

The June Houston Startup Happy Hour features an open call for any startups who want to demo their sites to just show up and demo. We will have an area in [...]

Join us for the next Houston Startup Happy Hour on Thursday May 1st

Startup Houston and the Houston Technology Center are proud to present
The May Houston Startup Happy Hour.

Demo by Strongroom Solutions

 

The May Houston Startup Happy Hour features a live presentation of StrongRoom Solutions. StrongRoom Solutions offers a B2B service called the Payables Lockbox that is an online bill-pay service that lets business customers [...]

April Houston Startup Happy Hour Jams with JamsBio

 

 We had a great time at the April Houston Startup Happy Hour this past Thursday with the JamsBio launch.  The turnout was greater than we expected and filled the entire bar area (see photos and video below).  We went with a different venue (The Tasting Room) and format (Demos + Networking) for this [...]