Welcome to Houston Inno, a new digital media, events and data company focused on local innovation.
We’re part of a growing network of sites — we’re in Boston (launched in ’08), D.C. (’12), Chicago (’14), Austin (’15), the Twin Cities (’17), Rhode Island (’17), Cincinnati (’17) Atlanta (’18), Wisconsin (’18), Richmond (’18), Colorado (’18), Tampa Bay (’19), Charlotte ('19) and North Texas ('19) — committed to covering, connecting and catalyzing the people, companies, trends and topics that are driving and defining local startup and tech communities.
American Inno is owned by the American City Business Journals, making us a sister publication to the prestigious Houston Business Journal.
Inno aims to help strengthen Houston's ecosystem through four core products — a fun, twice-a-week newsletter — sign up for The Beat! — authoritative, insightful and original editorial, engaging events and meetups, and comprehensive directories and data (take a tour of our startup, careers and events directories now).
While we're focused solely on the region, we'll be able to cull intelligence and context from the American Inno network, working to connect Houston entrepreneurs to venture capital, peers and resources in our other markets to help these enterprises grow locally. We will also be collaborating with our properties in Austin and Dallas to provide you with the premiere destination for Texas innovation. You can learn more about leveraging the American Inno network here.
Houston Inno will be led by our reporter Chris Mathews; you can hit him with pitches, questions, feedback and more at: CMathews@BizJournals.com.
We love to tell stories about the people behind the companies, ideas and organizations that are shaping the present and future of a region's business landscape. Know a startup or entrepreneur we should we be in touch with? Shoot us a note.
On Inno, you’ll find longer looks into the trends and topics that are impacting and influencing the region's reputation as an emerging tech hub, as well as resource-driven lists, multimedia and much, much more.
And, along with daily news and analysis that will help those in the community stay informed and plugged in, Inno will also serve as an onboarding tool for people and businesses that are new to the ecosystem. Inno’s Guides — you check out our first one here — are designed to offer comprehensive looks at resources that are available to the community, from accelerators to incubators, VCs to angels, and beyond. If it’s local and innovative, it’ll be in Houston Inno.
We also have several directories to help you further navigate and discover this burgeoning ecosystem. On the Inno Pages, you’ll be able to filter through hundreds of local startups by funding, stage, size, industry and more. And on the Events and Careers directories, you can browse through upcoming events and recent job postings respectively.
The best way to stay connected to Inno is to sign up for the newsletter (The Beat) and we’ll see you in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. (Also, be sure to bookmark this site and pass it along to anyone that you think may be interested in tapping into the city's ecosystem). But the Beat will be your life raft to Inno and everything happening in and around the Houston innovation economy; start there!
We’re going to be hosting our inaugural event in June and you can learn more here. Throughout the year, Houston Inno will be hosting a variety of events, from focused meetups to big award celebrations.
Finally, thanks to our Founding Partners Accenture, the University of St. Thomas and The Ion for supporting both the launch of Houston Inno and the city's entrepreneurs and startup and tech communities.
