Author: Jishnu Nair

Motif Neurotech, one of the first startups to emerge from Rice University’s new biotech accelerator, has closed its first significant funding round.

DarkPulse Inc., a Houston-based technology company that relocated to the Bayou City in 2022, is terminating a merger with a special purpose acquisition company that would have uplisted it to the Nasdaq.

Welligence Energy Analytics, a Houston-based energy data firm, landed the funding from investors including Maynard Holt’s Veriten.

HPE struck the largest deal since it came to Houston this month, and the software giant has promoted new leadership as well.

Kodiak Robotics, a California-based autonomous trucking company, partnered with Miami-based Ryder System Inc. (NYSE: R) to launch its first infrastructure installment in Houston with an eye on moving to fully driverless trucks by the end of the year.

Michael Lee, CEO of Octopus Energy’s Houston-based U.S. arm, said that the energy retailer is ready to expand outside Texas — if the right opportunity presents itself.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott named the Public Utility Commission’s executive director to the post of commissioner — and to the role of chair — filling one of the vacancies on the commission.

Nearly eight years after relocating to Houston, Aravive is delisting and liquidating after terminating all of its clinical trials.

Axiom Space launched its third mission to the International Space Station, which it’s hoping to one day replace.

Alpha Generation LLC, the newly formed Houston-based owner and operator of ArcLight Capital Partners LLC’s power infrastructure portfolio, has named its team of C-level executives, including both a permanent and interim CEO. Click through to the story …