Thursday, 7th of January 2010 at 10:25:51 AMWhile 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 [...]
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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, [...] December 30th, 2009 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
 Leave a comment 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 [...] November 16th, 2009 | Tags: vc events | Category: Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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 [...] August 2nd, 2009 | Category: Conversations, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
11 comments An entrepreneur’s worst funding nightmare is to take money from someone who is an inexperienced angel investor. May 13th, 2009 | Category: General, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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. March 28th, 2009 | Category: Events, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
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Startup Houston and the Houston Technology Center are proud to present 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 [...] June 3rd, 2008 | Category: Events, Houston Startup Happy Hour, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
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Startup Houston and the Houston Technology Center are proud to present 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 30th, 2008 | Category: Conversations, Houston Startup Happy Hour, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
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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 [...] April 8th, 2008 | Category: Events, General, Houston Startup Happy Hour, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding, Video |
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I found out today via Marc Nathan and also via Dwight Silverman’s TechBlog that Guy Kawasaki is coming to the Houston Technology Center to speak about The Art of The Start on Thursday, April 24th at 7pm. I can’t tell you how excited I was to hear this news as this is obviously the type of speaker that [...] April 2nd, 2008 | Category: Conversations, Events, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, VC and Angel Funding |
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