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Atul Varadhachary is the managing partner of Fannin, a Houston organization that’s commercializing early stage life science innovations by optimizing capital efficiency for these promising health tech treatments and medical devices. Life science innovation takes a significant amount of time and money to accelerate, and Atul shares how the Fannin model approaches these challenges while also cont...
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Denise Hamilton is the founder and CEO of WatchHerWork and author of Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future. She joins the show today to discuss the book, which comes out February 6, and how she hopes it inspires current and future leaders to move beyond how they think of diversity and inclusion and to move toward a better, more indivisible world. Denise also shares ho...
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Sunny Zhang is the founder of TrueLeap, an edtech platform, and founding partner of Born Global Ventures, an early-stage startup studio focused on immigrant founders. Sunny joins the show today to talk about all the various hats she wears within Houston innovation, as well as to re-introduce Houston Women in VC, a monthly meet up for female investors.
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On this episode, host Natalie Harms is looking back at some of her favorite episodes of 2023 — featuring guests from across the Houston innovation landscape.
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Samra Nawaz is the CEO and Co-founder of WellWorth, a financial modeling and analysis software platform for upstream oil and gas finance teams. Samra recently won the Ion’s annual startup showcase and she joins the show today to share how she plans to use the momentum to grow her bootstrapped company in the new year.
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Peter Rodriguez is the dean of the Rice University Jones School of Business, which has had a lot of news to celebrate this month. The school was ranked the number one for graduate entrepreneurship programs for the fifth consecutive year. Dean Rodriguez also shares more about two impactful initiatives the school has announced this month in energy business and beyond.
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Andrew Chang is the managing director of United Airlines Ventures, the investment arm of United that’s focused on deploying capital to new technologies from sustainable aviation fuel to digital technologies across the air travel spectrum. Chang, who’s based here in Houston, explains some of the challenges to innovating in the massive, global industry that is aviation — as well as tackling the a...
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Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore are the co-founders of Hello Alice, a tech platform designed to help small business owners navigate their path of entrepreneurship. Now serving 1.4 million small businesses across all 50 states, Hello Alice has reached a new milestone — one they’d likely rather live without. The company, which has helped facilitate equitable grant finding to thousands of founders...
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Wogbe Ofori is the founder and chief strategist of WRX Companies. Wogbe has helped coordinate the last few podcast interviews regarding space innovation here in Houston. Now, today on the show, we continue our discussion on Houston’s role in the developing space economy, but also dive deeper into what’s happening within Houston innovation as a whole, what value mentors bring to startups, and ho...
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In this week&#39;s episode of the Houston Innovators Podcast, InnovationMap Editor Natalie Harms gives a preview of the 2023 Houston Innovation Awards taking place on November 8 at Silver Street Studios. The program will honor over 50 startups, companies, and individuals within the Houston innovation ecosystem, as well as the growth and development of the community as a whole. Tune in to learn more...
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Nick Skytland is the Chief Technologist at NASA Johnson Space Center. He joins the show today to talk about space innovation. In today’s conversation, we’re diving deeper into the evolution the space industry has had from NASA’s perspective, as well as the future of space exploration, development, and travel. Nick also weighs in on the important role Houston — including its innovators and entre...
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Tim Crain is the co-founder and CTO at Intuitive Machines, a Houston space tech business that’s evolved from a think tank to a scaling space exploration, infrastructure, and services company in the 10 years of its existence. Tim shares the IM story on the show today, as well as how he has observed the evolution of the space industry and why he believes it’s only the beginning for Houston as the...
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CS Freeland is the co-founder of the Texas Venture Alliance, a Texas-sized venture capital network and nonprofit group for investors. She joins the show today to discuss her goals in starting the organization as well as to share details about the Texas Venture Crawl, a statewide happy hour on Oct. 6 that’s hoping to connect founders, investors, and more. 
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Berkley Luck and Pedro Silva are the co-founders of of Milkify, a Houston-based startup that’s providing a breast milk freeze-drying service for customers across the country. Earlier this year, the company pitched its unique service on Shark Tank and secured investment from two sharks on the show. Now, a few months down the road, the company has raised additional funding, grown its customer bas...
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Patrick Sullivan is the president and CEO of Oceanit, a Hawaii-based company that’s had an increasing presence in Houston as it works with energy companies to use science-backed technologies to solve their biggest problems. Patrick joins the show to discuss his company’s wide range of innovations, and why he’s built out an innovative Hydrogen-focused lab here in Houston. 
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Ayse McCracken is the founder of Ignite Healthcare Network, an organization that accelerates female-founded businesses within health care. Ayse is a powerful connector who started Ignite to better connect women in the health care industry. Now, she’s accelerated around a hundred startups and female founders with an ongoing cohort that concludes with a pitch event on Nov. 9. She shares more abou...
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Michelle Stansbury is vice president of innovation and IT applications at Houston Methodist. She joins the show today to discuss the newly opened Houston Methodist Tech Hub in the Ion, which unveiled last week to better connect with Houston innovators in and outside of health care innovation. She also shares more about some of the many other innovation efforts coming out of Houston Methodist.
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Sahir Ali is the founder and general partner of Modi Ventures, a new investment firm focused on the intersection of data and AI and health tech innovation. Sahir joins the show today to discuss how his firm operates a bit different from traditional VC entities, as well as how he raised an oversubscribed $32 million initial fund in less than a month.
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Allie Danziger is the founder of Ampersand Professionals, a young professionals upskilling platform, that was recently acquired by Ascent Funding. With the acquisition, Allie joins Ascent as senior vice president and general manager of student success. On the show today, she pulls back the curtain on the acquisition process and how the combined business will help grow the platform to better hel...
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Tim Boire is the president and CEO of VenoStent, a medical device startup that’s designing a unique material for hemodialysis patients. The company just closed its series A at $16 million dollars and is gearing up for a 200-patient clinical trial. Tim shares how he’s grown his company since moving it to Houston in 2018 to tap into the local innovation ecosystem. He also outlines where VenoStent...
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Anshumali Shrivastava is the founder and CEO of ThirdAI Corp. and a professor at Rice University. ThirdAI was founded on the mission of democratizing artificial intelligence and meeting data where its housed. Anshu shares how this founding principal has translated to specific AI tools ThirdAi has developed for its customers. He also shares what he’s most excited about when it comes to the futur...
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Donald Frieden is the president and CEO at P97 Networks, a Houston-based fintech company that’s developing a cloud technology for secure and convenient payments at gas stations and convenience stores. With over $100 million in investment raised, P97 has expanded across industries over its decade in business, and Don shares the new technologies he’s most excited about — like voice and biometric-...
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Dr. Joseph Rogers is the president and CEO Texas Heart Institute. For over 60 years, THI has been a leader in cardiovascular health care and innovation. Around two years ago, Dr. Rogers took the helm of the organization and is particularly interested in preventative care. He shares more about THI and some of the innovative work its team is doing — from stem cell research to drug development and...
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Grant Watkins and Keely McEnery are the co-founders of Earn Your Freedom, a Houston startup that’s gamifying financial education for students. EYF launched Money Quest earlier this year, and is now seeking crowdfunding support with the help of Impact Hub Houston. The funding will go toward continuing to develop the program and support local high school students to help them reach financial lite...
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Erik Ibarra is the founder and CEO of ORDRS, a digital health platform for optimized lab testing. Erik is a serial entrepreneur and active mentor within the Houston innovation ecosystem, and today on the show, he shares details of his latest venture as co-founder and investor at Magnolia Fund, a new investment opportunity that supports Houston’s east end community. 
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Jason Ethier is the senior director of membership at Greentown Labs and the co-host of the EnergyTech Startups podcast. Jason’s background in energy innovation has spanned from corporate to startups and from Boston and Houston. He shares some of his thought leadership in the space as well as his passion for Houston’s future as a hub for energy innovation on the show today.
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Emily Keeton, a familiar name to Houston’s innovation ecosystem, recently joined New York-based investment firm Loeb.nyc as operating partner and investor. She joins the show today to talk about how she’s seen the ecosystem evolve over the past decade and how she’s tapping into Houston startups now.
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Jim Gable is the vice president of innovation at Chevron and president of Chevron Technology Ventures. Jim has held various leadership roles across Chevron for the past 24 years and has recently relocated to Houston to lead CTV, which is based in the Ion. Jim explains some of the unique opportunities within Chevron innovation and also weighs in on the role incumbent energy companies play in the...
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Rob Schapiro is Microsoft’s Energy Acceleration program director and site leader for the company’s Houston office. He has transitioned his career from being a geologist in the oil and gas sector to being a leader within Houston’s innovation ecosystem and energy transition. He joins the show today to discuss that journey as well as his passion for making sure Houston has equitable opportunities ...
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Ramanan Krishnamoorti is the vice president of energy and innovation at the University of Houston. UH has always been a hub for invention, entrepreneurship, and innovation, but Ramanan’s role is to help better connect the dots — both on campus and within Houston as a whole. He joins the show today to share how he plans on doing that, from growing the awareness of the UH Tech Bridge to supportin...
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Youngro Lee is the founder and CEO of Brassica Technologies, a fintech company that’s creating a more modern and holistic approach to investing and alternative assets. Youngro has spent over a decade on a mission of democratizing investment, first as founder and CEO of NextSeed up until that company was acquired by Republic. Now, he oversees Republic’s expansion in the Asia market as well as le...
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Jason Bock is the founder and CEO of the Cell Therapy Manufacturing Center, or CTMC, a joint venture between National Resilience and MD Anderson Cancer Center that hopes to serve as an engine for advancing cell therapy therapeutics for cancer patients. Formed just over a year ago, CTMC has expanded its footprint and already worked on a handful of innovative treatments. Jason shares a bit on how...
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Josh Teekell is the founder and CEO of SmartAC.com, a software and hardware technology platform that works with contractors to lower energy cost and waste in residential HVAC systems. SmartAC.com has recently secured fresh funding to continue its growth and supercharge sales and deployment of its system. Josh explains on the show how his fundraising experience went as well as how he managed to ...
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Thomas Vassiliades is the CEO of BiVACOR, a company that’s developing a medical device that can take over the complete function of a patient&#39;s heart. The company, which is headquartered in Houston but has the majority of its operations divided between California, Australia, and even parts of Europe, recently closed $18 million in funding to support its FDA clearance and pathway to clinical tria...
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Sarah “Sassie” Duggleby is the co-founder and CEO of Venus Aerospace, an early-stage hardtech company that’s developing hypersonic space places that can enable high speed international travel. Sassie, who was recently named to Inc. magazine’s top 200 female founders list, shares how she co-founded the company with her husband Andrew after an idea they had in 2018. They moved the company from th...
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Paul Cherukuri is the vice president for innovation at Rice University. Paul is the first to hold his position at the brand new office of innovation at Rice. He joins the show today to talk a little bit about the reason Rice has zeroed in on advancing and promoting innovation, and why the university has a goal to collaboratively advance the city’s future in the space.

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Lydia Davies is the CEO and founder of the Teamates app, a sports meet up platform that connects people by way of athletic activities. Lydia joins the show to discuss her entrepreneurial journey, which includes everything from international pop star to realtor and now startup founder. She also shares what people can expect from Teammates, which has evolved from focusing on golf to adding more a...
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Veronica Wu is the founder and managing partner of First Bight Ventures, an investment firm focused on early-stage synthetic biology startups. Veronica joins the show today to discuss some of the milestones she’s accomplished since she started her firm and moved to Houston around a year ago. She also shares her vision of The BioWell, an initiative that hopes to bring together engagement, suppor...
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On Monday at Houston House, a SXSW activation put on by the Greater Houston Partnership, InnovationMap editor and Houston Innovators Podcast host Natalie Harms moderated a panel called “Demystifying the Startup Journey.” Panelists included three Houston founders: Ted Gutierrez, co-founder and CEO of SecurityGate.io, Simone May, co-founder and CTO of Clutch, and Gaurav Khandelwal, founder and CE...
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Susan Davenport is the senior vice president and chief economic development officer for the Greater Houston Partnership, which has two activations at major conferences. Currently, the GHP’s Houston Energy Transition Initiative, or HETI, is hosting its HETI House at CERAWeek, and later today, March 8, will feature a startup pitch competition. Next week, on Monday, March 13, the GHP returns its H...
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Mike Francis and Carrie Horazeck of Nanotech, a Houston-based materials science company, join the show today. Years ago, Mike founded the company around a unique and durable material. He’s grown the technology into fire proofing and energy loss-reducing coatings, but that’s just the beginning. Now with Carrie, the company’s chief commercial officer, leading the way, Nanotech’s flagship product ...
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