Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Houston.
Founder and CEO of @farmplicity. Strong business background (@shutterfly , Best Buy Europe). Wash U BSBA.
Co-founder of three global cleantech startups (two acquired), CXO of two more (one acquired). @imd-1 MBA, @rice-university CS/EE, and ex @uunet
Diggin' big ideas, start-ups, and entrepreneurs. Dir of Corp Dev at a Texas startup. Wife of a Texas entrepreneur.
Auto Industry Expert. SVP, @carquest; VP of Operations at WorldPac; Founder - @myrepairshop.com
2 startups in Afghanistan; US Air Force comms & recon satellites; Stanford MBA, MSE; Princeton BSE; manage complex engr programs; int'l structure & finance
CEO of Microcinema Intl. Strong international business background. MBA @university-of-chicago.
Founder @no-chains as my 4th company. With over 15 years experience in sales and marketing.
Co-Founder Omnipaste
2 Turnarounds and Exits ; Over $200million in revenue generation; International Experience ; Board Member, Angel Investor; " RainMaker "
@cubit-planning. Advisor to Giftiki, @storymix-media.
http://www.startuphouston.com
Sales and Marketing Consultant. Always on the lookout for fun, life changing products, that want to grow big and tall :)
Founded @whatsbusy. I execute like the Spanish Inquisition. Passionate about value. Conservative business models.
Founder @gripeo • Founder @simple-apply • Studied at @state-university-of-new-york-at-buffalo
Created, put together, managed and grew Seagate/Seagate Software, McAfee, Openwave, Sybari Software( acquired by MSFT), Netforensics, OPG Tech in the U.S., LATAM and Europe.
Product Marketing Manager for @tendenci CMS.
http://blog.tendenci.com
Founder of @social-meter-inc
Founder, Navigation Partners LLC; Global Marketing Strategist & Entertainment Consultant
Founder @noble-iron
Project Coordinator. Entertainment background. Skilled at building teams, anticipating needs, and implementing new technologies into existing workflow.
Founder: Big Vision Advisors, Tops Global, Inc., Alliance Media Group. Advisor: Mach10Ventures, Moolala.com. Former CSO, Flippen Group & CEO, Joel Osteen Min.
Adam Helsinger
An innovative global executive with a successful track record in developing new business, marketing, managing projects, commercializing technology, and raising capital.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamhelsinger
https://sites.google.com/site/adamhelsinger/
Manage portfolio of $8M of environmental remediation projects across four states, $1.6M of break-in work, $400k of structural improvements
Worked at @hp-software, @bmc-software, @idf
Founder A Advantage Safe & Lock, LLC • Worked at @continental-airlines, @cutting-edge-closets
Investment professional with significant experience in Business Development, Financial Analysis, Sales & Trading for large merchant energy trading companies, O&G producers and start-up energy companies. I’ve been involved and added value to different busi
Entrepreneur, Advisor and Project Manager. Work at Uber Opearations. Co-founded BCMPros. Founded @gonzalez-loumiet-group and FuseTank.
http://blog.eduardogonzalezloumiet.com/
Current Management Consultant at Deloitte, Texas MBA. Looking for challenging opportunity to drive growth, sales and marketing effectiveness. Extremely driven...right team and environment is key!
Recognized thought leader and visionary who leads through the conveyance of desired outcomes and creating strategic advantages through people and technology
Technology Marketing Manager, recent grad from Tech Commercialization degree, launched Pushr for iPhone App, looking to be part of the next big thing.
http://madebymoxi.com
Co-founded nonprofit. (www.spaceacad.org), organized two international conferences, self-learned web development for own projects, worked/s at two startups
http://thoughtful2.blogspot.com/
Founder and President of IntegratePR, social media PR agency.
http://integratepr.com/blog
Stanford STS; Innovator; Stanford football player; Worked at Accenture; Launched Successful marketing and design firm
Chief Operating Officer/Co-founder at @solspot-systems Inc.
Founder, VP Sales & Marketing @medical-informatics-corp-1. Healthcare software company designing clinical decision support solutions. MBA from Rice University and software consulting background.
Project Management background (@accenture). Experience with technology startups. Joining Berkeley-Haas MBA program Fall 2012. B.S. Biomedical engineering.
Head of Sales and Marketing at Forbes' 22nd Most Promising Company 2013. Decision scientist and architect, technophile, hater of salespeople, sales 2.0 journeyman, value generator. Site of the moment: http://picard.ytmnd.com/
MIT MBA, IT and Gen Mgmt in Corp & High Growth - Looking to Make a Change to Product Marketing, Roadmap, Mgmt, Cross-Industry Experience- Media, Energy, Network
Content strategy and writing are two of my favorite things. Fan of SXSW, ACL Music Fest and other entertainment/marketing events.
co-founder | sales & marketing at The MobiSolution | Serial entrepreneur.
Worked at @systematix-infotech
SEO Specialist at Forthea in Houston, Texas. Recent graduate from Univ. of the Ozarks (AR).
http://zldoty.tumblr.com/
Account Manager | Client Services | Luxury Brands | Ray of Sunshine
Licensing/Business Development Consultant & PT Talent Recruiter
All-around busy body
Full fellowship to CCA; Core Program Fellow; Created and taught university level classes; Visiting Artist at SMU; Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship and Jurors Award.
Senior Analyst at the Yale Investments Office. BA in Economics and Math from Yale. Harvard MBA student beginning fall 2013. Prior internship experiences at Lehman Brothers and Citi.
coming soon
President of Rice Entrepreneur Club; Synthetic Biology Researcher at Rice University with First Author Publication; Biotech Equity Research Experience
Individual focused on business development & market penetration.Founder of Philkens Consultant Group.MS Finance at Thunderbird School of Global Mangement
Rice MBA whose only experiences are with startups; intimately familiar with culture and environments focusing on flexibility and sweat equity.
I am looking for a career. Not many people can say that they worked for the Pittsburgh Steelers, coached a soccer team, and been an extra in movies.
Texas Business Lawyer. Health Information Exchange Leader.
Worked at @ingrain, @s2s-systems-international-llc • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1, @university-of-houston
Rice MBA, M&A experience acquiring 2 companies, Energy Commodity Marketing with Logistics Experience
Head of Houston Business Development for @loop-and-tie; M.S. in Global Health and Public Policy from the @university-of-edinburgh; Former junior lobbyist.
Led U.S. Marketing at @home-away-inc, Marketing and Distribution @starwood-hotels-and-resorts • Studied at @university-of-virginia
Founded Ternion CrossFit, Engineer at Shell, Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Rice University BIOE, interested in biological solutions to food/energy scarcity and medical device development/maintenance
Fulbright scholar, UCLA PhD and international award winning communications researcher with multi-year social media and market entry strategy experience.
Business-minded front end developer and UI/UX designer who loves using design and technology to solve problems and do good since 2007.
business development
Experienced Technology Marketing Executive
Worked as Marketing Director at Maykah, Inc. Facebook and Google Advertising expert. Diverse background (Unilever and Applied Materials+ start ups and strong marketing+technical skills). University of Florida MBA 2011.
Digital Marketing Guru, Food and Wine Enthusiast
http://justaddcheese.com
Louisiana State University student, Writing/Finance enthusiast, 2-time published author, 2-time intern at Gregg & Valby, LLP
CFO/Owner at Bread and Fish, LLC. A diverse background, with a combination of legal knowledge as well as significant understanding of marketing strategies...I am currently learning certain programing languages (javascript, ruby, python)
http://www.breadxfish.com
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Texas A&M EET, Engineer at Texas Instruments, L-3 Communications, and Cisco Systems. Strong entrepreneur aspirations. Experience in Sales, EE, marketings, Software, etc.
Marketing, Sales, and Entreperneurship
Studied at @university-of-texas-austin
Marketing, advertising and sales for NRG Energy and AT&T. Co-Founder Kelly Hughes Designs. Investor and marketing advisor to start-ups and SMB's.
University of Texas at Austin; Masters in Accounting. 5 years spent in a combination of public accounting and operations analysis. Passionate and ready to translate corporate competency to a startup.
I have designed 30 apps using Patented User Interface technologies, I have launched 3 apps, working on the next 5.
Founder @enventure, @brightwork-coresearch • Worked at @baylor-college-of-medicine-1 • Studied at @baylor-college-of-medicine, @augustana-college
Strategy and Finance professional looking to work in Banking tech.
Engg Product Line Manager. EE/CE PhD.
Strong business mind focusing on financial analysis, modeling, forecasting, sales and marketing.
Experience in operations & product mgmt. 6 Sigma black belt. Baylor entrepreneurship BBA. Advanced project mgmt, process improvement, & negotiation skills.
Worked at @SoftwaySolution @heatwaveint @ILIOSLighting • Studied at @universitat-autonoma-barcelona, @saint-edward-s-university - CSM & MBA in Digital Media Management
Innovative education specialist looking to branch out into the evolving technological era.
Creativity + Analytics = Modern Marketing
http://damienfranco.com
Mother, Loves to play, Sees the world as a cartoon
Owner of Infiniti Graphics. Strong graphic design and web design background as well as photography and photo editing/manipulation.
Founder @mykelarry @ Urbflix • Studied at @full-sail-university-1 University Worked as a 3rd party with Google
BS in Econ and BBA from #1 Entrepreneurship Program. Interned in finance, worked on team that got a book to NYT bestsellers list, also not an asshole
I am a web developer, designer, musician, and student. I also help run @UHREDLabs, University of Houston's tech startup accelerator.
Experience in searching for opportunities, seeing technological trends and evaluating novel product offerings for potential commercialization.
Strong business background. Brought several new technologies to market.
Proven community organizer, event planner and educator. Worked at award-winning non-profit organization. High energy, fast learner, passion for sustainability.
Founder Aleedex Inc • International Technology Consultant worked in five diverse countries with Off Shore development house in US and Pakistan.
Successful at building large high-performance sales teams and leading sophisticated sales and marketing organizations to new levels of success.
Co-founder of SyncReel. Supply Chain Analytics for Sysco. High level of Supply Chain, Finance, and Customer Service background.
Small business, high growth experience
Entrepreneur, Brand Chemist, Web Developer, Graphic Designer, Photographer, Integral Theory & Cryptocurrency Enthusiast.
Creative professional with extensive background in branding and product dev for luxury, games, tech and media. 20 yrs/exp
Expert in digital, online, social and mobile marketing strategies and platforms, as well as data collection and analytics
Internet Professional / Technology Specialist, specialization in networking
Founder of Media Gearbox. Current UHD student majoring in EIS. Strong business background with advanced technical skills.
Worked at @zara • Studied at @sam-houston-state-university
Studied at @saint-edward-s-university
Creative, motivated, and skilled Graphic Designer with experience in sports graphics, marketing and print design.
Founder of Vermont Print Recycling. B.S. in e-Biz Mgmt. Focused on Agile Development, Marketing, Media industry disruption
Real Estate Broker with techincal background
Founder @express-legal-service, @onsite-transport • Worked at @terrapetro-llc
Working as SEO for Shop Cheap Energy
http://blog.shopcheapenergy.com
Entrepreneur, Mobile Computing Enthusiast, Customer Relationship Manager
http://jacobhines.com
Vendor Consultant of 1800Registry.com; Strong Sales and Negotiation background. Worked for Cbeyond as a top sales producer .
Management Consultant from Deloitte and now Supply Chain Manager at Air Liquide; served JPMC, Walmart, ConocoPhillips, BP, UMDNJ looking for a new challenge
Successfully raised visibility for B2B & B2C brands.Worked at Entrust Energy, Reliant/NRG, Hafele America, and Gilbarco Veeder-Root
http://www.robainbinder.com
Business Growth and Innovation Executive
Project manager at Snooplo.com
Houston's Hottest Hostess - The Entertainment Startup Consultant, CEO of Sirens Promo, Radio Personality for Dirtbag Radio, DJ Manager, Host on The Ruben Stunner Show, Content Coordinator for Voodoocru Mag - Houston
Commercial Pilot and Top Graduate MBA, Diversified business background, 2 startups pending patents.
Tufts University 2013. Engineer. Passionate about technology, management, and innovation.
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Phlebotomist
Experienced in ramping up start-ups with minimal resources to go-to-market across enterprises, smbs.
VP Partnerships AMEX, Worked across Europe, US Markets, Three Industries (Payments, Travel, B2B Card)Strong Marketing/.Bus Dev Background(Univ of Chicago MBA, Physics Undergrad)
Multi-talented project manager with a strong drive for self-improvement and setting ambitious goals.
15+ years of experience in Sales, Marketing, Leadership and Organizational Efficiency. Owned, operated and consulted for multiple orgs. in various industries
Creating opportunities. Entrepreneur, full-stack marketer, product.
MBA Student
Simulation, well test analysis, ms project, matlab, excel, vba,
Jesus Believer, UX Designer. Brand Strategist.
Passionate about entrepreneurship, education and books. Impresario of Africa.
http://freshwordsinspired.tumblr.com