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There’s a new player in the Houston investment scene and they launched in a big way last Thursday night. RedHouse hosted a party at their offices at 802 Lovett that featured beer, food, Lemonade Day (they raised $7000 from the party-goers, that was split with a group supporting Navy SEALS), and more beer along with over [...] November 14th, 2011 | Category: Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, Incubators, Startup Mentors, VC and Angel Funding |
 Leave a comment http://techcocktail.com/surge-accelerator-joins-techstars-network-startup-america-2011-10 SURGE ACCELERATOR JOINS THE TECHSTARS NETWORK AS PART OF STARTUP AMERICA by: Monika Jansen Houston-based SURGE, the country’s first and only seed accelerator that focuses excluusively on efficient energy software startups, has joined the TechStars Network in support of Startup America. Kirk Coburn, Managing Director and co-founder of SURGE Accelerator, had this to say: SURGE Accelerator was created to [...] October 19th, 2011 | Category: Houston Venture Capitalists, Incubators, Surge, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 9th Annual Information Technology & Web Venture Forum September 23rd, 2011 | Category: Events, IT and Web 2.0, Rice Alliance, VC and Angel Funding |
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It’s finally here. A seed accelerator (similar to ycombinator, TechStars and Capital Factory) in Houston, Texas – the Energy Capital of the World, the program is designed to help emerging businesses accelerate their growth through an infusion of seed capital, an intense mentoring program and direct connections to industry insiders. Startups [...] September 15th, 2011 | Category: Energy, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Incubators, Startup Mentors, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment BlackLocus, one of this years winners from the Rice Business Plan Competition raised $2.5m led by DFJMercury (who awarded the company $100,000 at the competition as the Tech winner) and Silverton Partners. The company also received support funding from InnovationWorks in Southwestern Pennsylvania where the company was founded and will be splitting their offices between [...]
There are still two weeks left to register to attend what has become Houston’s single most important event for the technology startup community – the Rice IT/Web 2.0 Venture forum. This is where startups pitch deals and VC’s from all over the state come to tell us what they want to see. It’s [...] November 27th, 2010 | Category: Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Rice Alliance, Support Local, Grow Together, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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 [...] August 31st, 2010 | Category: Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment Houston-bred startup founders Mark Schmulen and David Lyman sold their web-based aggregation tool, NutshellMail to email giant Constant Contact: Press Release I’ve spoken with Mark and he named a few Houston-based advisors and investors, specifically Phil Fraher, a seasoned CEO and now a special advisor to the Houston Technology Center, Andrew Clark also an Executive-in-Residence [...] 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 -Â 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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