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Revision as of 19:29, 24 October 2016
, 19:29, 24 October 2016→Station Houston (Hub)
===Fannin Innovation Studio (Co-Founder)===
===Station Houston (Hub)===
Emily,
Looking forward to seeing you this evening. Stats below. Also, copying in Brad and Mary Lynn from the Rice Alliance who mace have interesting Data, as well as Ed Egan from the Baker Institute at Rice.
Provided some data points from an array of angles below; hope this is helpful.
JR
- 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
===START Houston (Co-Working Space)===
==Non-Houston Comparative Institutions==
