Houston

Bottom-up Analysis of the Houston Ecosystem

Methodology

These people were found using Dr. Egan's Slack account under the team directory in the group Houstontech. They were then googled to find linked-in, twitter, or other sites which provide information on the people and their roles in the Houston entrepreneurship ecosystem. Most recent entry is from Joseph Marhee.

Table of Key People

Name	Organization	Type
E.J. Thompson	Softlayer - IBM	Entrepreneur aids
Emily Keeton	Station Houston	Entrepreneur aids
Gina Miller	Poetic Systems	Entrepreneur aids
Gira Desai	Aleberry Creative	Entrepreneur aids
Apurva Sanghavi	START Houston	Entrepreneur aids
Ari Diozon	Tippit & Moo Advertising	Entrepreneur aids
Gaurav Khandelwal	START Houston	Entrepreneur aids
Adam Presley	PCSGroup	Entrepreneur aids
Chris Gallo	Softlayer - IBM	Entrepreneur aids
Angela Shah	Xconomy	Entrepreneur aids
Mohammad Azam	AzamSharp Consulting	Entrepreneur aids
Clayton Spivey	Softlayer - IBM	Entrepreneur aids
Unknown	everbodyinhouston.com	Entrepreneur aids
Chris Black	Softlayer - IBM	Entrepreneur aids
Damien Franco	DTF marketing	Entrepreneur aids
Dane Witbeck	Lean startup circle	Entrepreneur aids
James Van Dyne	Sugoi Software	Entrepreneur aids
Hesam Panahi	UH, 3DS	Entrepreneur aids
Grace Rodriguez	WITHouston	Entrepreneur aids
Jeff Reichman	Startup America	Entrepreneur aids
Jenny Li	Surge Ventures	Entrepreneur aids
Jessica Fleenor	Owlspark and Rice Alliance for technology and entrepreneurship	Entrepreneur aids
Joe Martin	Houston Business Journal	Entrepreneur aids
John Goodman	Poetic Systems	Entrepreneur aids
Astrid Countee	Prenovate	Start-ups
Gaurav Khandelwal	ChaiOne	Start-ups
Chris Gallo	Rex Animal Health	Start-ups
Anderson Ta	Open Factory	Start-ups
Benjamin Lipson	Sports Tradex	Start-ups
Dane Witbeck	Meshify	Start-ups
Danielle saadia	Makeable Tech	Start-ups
Emily Keeton	Flavour	Start-ups
Jason Kaminsky	BeautyNow	Start-ups
Jim Foreman	coconnect	Start-ups
Jonathan Hartman	Sandbox	Start-ups
Andrew Douglass	Dark Water Creative	Other
Brian Dorton	The Iron Yard	Other
Brady Morowitz	SpaceJet Media	Other
Bryan Wood	Reality Engineering Enterprises, LLC	Other
Chung Nguyen	MC2 Architects	Other
Chad Parks	NASA Johnson Space Center	Other
Iggy	pathosgrin.pub	Other
Erik Hitchcock	MBA candidate at Rice	Other

Details on Key People

Important Institutions to Research

• Houston Technology Center (HTC)
  • serves in 5 industry sectors: IT, Life Sciences, Energy, Nanotechnology, Aerospace
  • see excel file for list of HTC graduates
• Mercury Fund
• enventure
  • life sciences hub
• Texas Medical Center Innovation
  • TMCx
  • TMCx+
  • TMCbiodesign
  • Jlabs
• bioHouston
• Platform
• Surge
• Poetic Systems
• RED Labs