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==About==
<onlyinclude>Station Houston is a Houston-based, for-profit incubator hub institution founded in 2016. It advertises a wide array of services, including access to mentors, experts, networking, office space, and start-up services. Station Houston has three directors, all three of whom have direct entrepreneurship experience as established entrepreneurs. Of the 54 startups which have enrolled in the very new Station Houston program, two have already received venture capital funding. One company which participated in the Station Houston program have been acquired and none have exited in an IPO.
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|http://fannininnovationstationhouston.comorg/
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|Address
|3900 Essex Lane, 1301 Fannin St. | Suite 575 2440 | Houston, Texas 77027|-|Phone|713-966-5844TX 77002
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! colspan=“1”| Station VC Backed
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! coname || datefirstinv || datelastinv || founddate || totinv || city || nation
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| BrainCheck Inc || 8/30/16 || 8/30/16 || || 2/19/00 || Houston || United States
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| Graylog Inc || 9/9/15 || 2/4/15 || || 3250.1 || Houston || United States
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! colspan=“1”| Station Acquired
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! target || acquirorname || enterprisevalatannouncementmil || enterprisevaleffectivedatemil || equityvalatannouncementmil || dateannounced || dateeffective || acquirorind || targetind || status || acquirorcity || targcity
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| CBRE Inc || Investor Group || np n || p || || 5/31/89 || 5/31/89 || Investment & Commodity FirmsDealersExchanges || Real Estate; Mortgage Bankers and Brokers || Completed || || Los Angeles
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|Leo Linbeck III Emily Keeton|Chairman and Co-Founder, Fannin Innovation StudioStation Houston|NoneD1
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|Dr. Atul Varadhachary MD, PHD John Reale|Managing PartnerChief Executive Officer, Fannin Innovation StudioStation Houston|D2D1
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|Mark WorschehBlair Garrou|Chief Financial OfficerManaging Director, Fannin Innovation Studio Mercury Fund |D2D1
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|Experts
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|DirectorsMentoring|-|Office Space
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|Start-up Services
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|Co-FoundingNetworking
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==Provided Information==
- Station member companies have raised just under $20 M in funding since March 2016
- Station now boasts over 75 members
- Station member Arundo Analytics recently clothes on a $4.9 million funding round
- Station closed its seed round of funding
- there are other companies currently going through diligence to exit, but I can't provide any details regarding any of those deals
- TMCx posted that Johnson and Johnson is making a larger investment in the digital health space in the city
- the Texas Workforce Commision has recently made changes to their requirements for coding academies which has resulted in most platforms halting their recreational platforms. I can expand on this as needed
- you may want to take a look at what's going on with HP enterprise as I believe they recently had a restructuring if you want to comment on one of the larger enterprise companies here in town
- Alert Logic filed their S1 earlier this year towards going public in 2017
- Meshify acquisition in the news
- Houston launched company Virtuix raised over $7 million in crowd funding recently, however the team relocated to Austin earlier this year
- Kemal Farid, founder of Merrick systems which was one of the Larger software exits in the O&G industry some years ago closed on his first fund which is a Houston/Silicon Valley investment vehicle - $160 M fund
- You can search Joe Martin articles for recent funding activities
[[Category:Ecosystem]]
