{"id":2037,"date":"2018-03-08T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T22:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcnair.bakerinstitute.org\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2020-10-15T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:41:03","slug":"read-houston-growth-vs-transactional-vc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edegan.com\/articles\/read-houston-growth-vs-transactional-vc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Houston Growth vs. Transactional VC Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2044 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mcnair.bakerinstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dxnwap4wkaedq0j-400x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edegan.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dxnwap4wkaedq0j-400x269.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.edegan.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dxnwap4wkaedq0j.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Houston&#8217;s high-tech ecosystem can only flourish if it attracts more growth venture capital investments, according to the latest McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation issue brief, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerinstitute.org\/research\/growth-vs-transactional-venture-capital-houston-texas\/\">Growth vs. Transactional Venture Capital in Houston, Texas<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A realistic, but aggressive, goal for Houston would be around a 15 percent year-on-year increase in growth venture capital. This would allow Houston to reach roughly $170 million in growth venture capital by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, &#8220;Houston would then likely become a top 25 U.S. city for high-growth, high-technology startups, though its ecosystem would still be emerging and startups would remain a very small part of Houston&#8217;s economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston&#8217;s high-tech ecosystem can only flourish if it attracts more growth venture capital investments, according to the latest McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation issue brief, &#8220;Growth vs. Transactional Venture Capital in Houston, Texas.&#8221; A realistic, but aggressive, goal for Houston would be around a 15 percent year-on-year increase in growth venture capital. 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