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Houston’s Rebellion Photonics acquired by Honeywell — Link

- Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Lienfelder

• Honeywell Acquires Rebellion Photonics of Houston — Houston Business Journal — Link
  - Houston Business Journal’s Olivia Pulsinelli

“Houston-based Rebellion Photonics, a 10-year-old oil and gas technology company, has been acquired by Fortune 100 technology company Honeywell for an undisclosed amount.” — Andrea Lienfelder

Dallas Innovation Alliance Co-founders Launch InnoCity Partners

- Dallas Innovates’ David Kirkpatrick

Trey Bowles and Jennifer Sanders have announced InnoCity Partners, a new boutique consulting firm providing counsel to public and private organizations to design, build, and execute smart city programs.

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• Texas 2030 Inclusion Challenge — UT Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship — Link
• A Superhost’s journey from listing her home to own… — Airbnb Community — Link
• BlendedSense Tea with Abbie Podcast Episode 3: Always Learning, Always Growing — Link
• New Year, New City: Homads Can Hook You Up With Your Next Rental — Link
  - PCMag.com
• The Year In Review From the Austin Technology Incubator — Link
• Austin and Salt Lake City Are the Hottest Startup Hubs Today. Here’s How They Became Boom Towns — Link
  - Inc. Magazine
• Woodforest National Bank Holds First Woodforest Foundry Cohort Graduation in Austin, Texas — Link
• The 11 Most Important Tech Cities in the US — Worth — Link
• The Best States For Business 2019: North Carolina And Texas On Top — Forbes
  - Link
• Your first product is like your first relationship. — Link
• Boomers had Pet Rock — Now There’s the Knock Block — Link
• More About Biometrics at Airports — Link
  - Austin Startups
• Osano Picks Up $5.4M For Data Privacy Tools — Link
• Geoforce Acquired By LRR Partners — Link
• Terradepth Gets $8M For Robotic Ocean Mapping — Link
  - Texas Tech Pulse
• Austin’s opportunity zones expected to see increased investment, development in 2020 — Link
• Austin Transportation to set per-trip fee for dockless vehicles — Link
  - The Austin Monitor
• A Year of American Inno Events: The Best Pics from Inno Events in 2019 — Link
• Osano Raises $5.4M Series A From Austin Investors — Link
• Black Cape Emerges from Stealth with AI for Intelligence Analysis — Link
• A Cloud Guru Acquires North Texas-Based Linux Academy — Link
  - Austin Inno’s Brett Wistrom — Subscribe Here
• Verb Raises $6.4 Million to Bring Leadership Training to the Masses — Link
• WeWork and Sku Team Up to Launch WeWork Food Labs in Austin — Link
• Sense Corp. Moves Headquarters to Austin From St. Louis — Link
  - Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek
• Coworking spaces are still on the rise, regardless of WeWork mistakes — Link
• New Hulu advertising strategy aims to improve binge-watching — Link
• The ‘move fast and break things’ trend is finally over — Link
• Is belonging the next big (and ironic) marketing revolution? — Link
• Snapchat move normalizes, dismisses the dangers of deepfakes — Link
• How younger folks rejecting religion impacts your marketing efforts — Link
• An easy to use template for annual year-end reviews with your team — Link
• The most popular 2019 Google searches makes us all wonder what we were thinking — Link
• Burnout is not your staff’s fault, it’s your company’s fault — Link
• Mobile networks are upgrading to 5G, but it may lead to more dangers — Link
• The government want access to all of your messages (for your safety, of course) — Link
  - American Genius
• Take Look Back at the Last Decade of SXSW — Link
• SXSW at The Driskill Hotel [Video] — Link
• Sharpen Your Design Skills with Professional Development — Link
• How Can Artificial Intelligence and Human Creativity Share the Stage — Link
• How Can Immersive Experiences Elevate Our Daily Lives? — Link
• Let’s Move to Mars: Here’s How We’re Going to Survive in Space — Link
  - SXSW’s Hugh Forrest
• How These 6 Austin Tech Companies Give Back to Their Communities — Link
• Data Transparency Startup Osano Just Closed Its $5.4M Series A — Link
• How to Build a Great Software Engineering Team — Link
• Terradepth, Which Maps the Ocean With Deep-Sea Robots, Raises $8M — Link
• Ender Raises $7M in Seed Funding to Make it Easier to Be a Landlord — Link
• Weekly Refresh: Verb Raises $6.4M, LeanDNA Gains $15M, and More — Link
  - BuiltinAustin
• Move over tech, CPG starting to be a darling of Austin’s startup scene — Link
• Amazon in line to build massive distribution center outside Austin — Link
• Austin CPG accelerator SKU teams with WeWork — Link
• Consumer behavior research company in need of new leader — Link
• World Class accused of fraud in new lawsuit — Link
• Reporter’s picks: Austin’s biggest tech, startup stories of 2019 — Link
• ABJ’s most-read tech stories of 2019 — Link
• Robotics company raised $40M — Link
• Ubeo names new president as it eyes 28 companies to buy — Link
• 48 Austin-area companies nominated for Family Business Awards — Link
• Austin may charge scooter companies 15 cents per trip — Link
• Readers pick the coolest office in Austin — Link
• 70% of Texas companies in this report eyeing M&A in 2020 — Link
• In the money Dec. 16: Startups raise more than $30M, including a new Brett Hurt investment — Link
  - Austin Business Journal
• Austin jobless rate slips to 20-year low of 2.5% — Link
• Consulting firm Sense Corp moving HQ from St. Louis to Austin — Link
• Austin data security company Osano raises $5.4 million — Link
• For Texas aerospace sector, New Year will bring a new tax break — Link
• Austin startup Terradepth wants to use autonomous robots to explore the ocean — Link
• Austin IT company A Cloud Guru acquires Fort Worth-based tech firm — Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

SAN ANTONIO

• How BioMed SA President Ann Stevens Helped Bring FIRST Robotics to San Antonio — Link
• Enventure San Antonio To Connect Bioscience Students to Entrepreneurial Opportunities — Link
• San Antonio Startup Events for the Week of December 16, 2019 — Link
  - Startups San Antonio
• Amazon Fresh delivery, longer USPS hours and more San Antonio retail news — Link
• Feds extend deadline for healthcare.gov enrollment — Link
  - San Antonio Express-News
• Online Grocery Delivery Options Expand for San Antonio Shoppers — Link
  - San Antonio Current
• San Antonio Couple Finds Niche on Amazon’s Self-Publishing Platform — Link
• Census Data: San Antonio Metro Area Sees Nearly 11% Population Growth Through 2018 — Link
• UTSA Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Smart Bulbs — Link
  - The Rivard Report
• Executive Q&A: Ruben Castano, CEO of 6Connex — Link
• The ABCs of SABJ — Link
• Executive Q&A: Local adviser offers advice on SBA borrowing; looks forward to new year — Link
• Executive Q&A: USAA executive discusses future of automation in life insurance — Link
• 210 area code? Report says it’s one of the most impacted by robocalls — Link
• E-scooter company to offer SA riders first subscription pass — Link
• Ricos rolls out redesigned label — Link
• Amazon expands grocery delivery to San Antonio for Prime members — Link
• Digerati Technologies shows financial improvement in first quarter — Link
• TCEQ adds air quality monitors, hoping to quell quarry concerns — Link
• Young Professionals Countdown: San Antonio areas with affordable rent — Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• IT Provider Helps North Texas Food Bank Reach Goal of Providing 95M Meals by 2025 — Link
• NTX Inno’s Most Read Stories of 2019 — Link
• Cloud Computing Training Startup Acquires Linux Academy — Link
  - NTXInno’s Kevin Cummings
• Dallas entrepreneur gives away bikes at Fort Worth school, along with a lesson — Link
  - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
• Solar Co-op Launches in Dallas — Link
• Former Dallas City Council Member Indicted Over February Scooter Accident — Link
  - Dallas Observer
• Nominate: D CEO’s 2020 Mergers & Acquisitions Awards — Link
• DFW Airport Now Has Your Beauty Needs Covered — Link
• Kraft Heinz Food Company Makes Major Capital Investment in Garland — Link
• Dallas Might Just Be the Most Secretive City in Texas — Link
• DallasBuilders.com Is a Unique Resource for Homebuyers — Link
  - D Magazine
• Form-D Friday: TPG raises multiple funds, totaling more than $2 billion — Link
• This Dallas entrepreneur saw a major opportunity when the Wright Amendment was repealed — Link
• Dallas company fueling America’s infrastructure through innovation — Link
• Firm eyeing funding of $5M to $10M brings digital, modern tools to blowouts — Link
• Californication of Texas accelerates as companies, people hightail it to Dallas-Fort Worth — Link
• Roundup of recent deals and dollars: Dec. 19 — Link
• Cloud computing training startup acquires Linux Academy — Link
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram to end publication of 6 weekly newspapers — Link
• Dallas to gain independent multibillion-dollar company as Match Group separates from IAC — Link
• Woods Capital, Kaizen Development CEOs talk $1B Field Street District (Renderings) — Link
• This growing Dallas real estate firm points to tech as an enabler to compete — Link
• Bank of America: DFW small business owners feel optimistic heading into 2020 — Link
• Plano’s NTT Data Services unveils second acquisition in less than a month — Link
• Meet the 2020 Minority Business Leader Awards honorees — Link
• Growing Plano company sells to PE firm at time to ‘really expand in exponential ways’ — Link
• North Texas by the numbers: Companies, populations and jobs — Link
• Why this Dallas company launched an index focused on health care technology — Link
• BG Staffing spending $9.5M on acquisition to bolster cybersecurity — Link
• Data analytics provider with ties to Mark Cuban acquired by Atrium Sports — Link
• Dallas firm with 150 employees tackling wireless and fiber acquired by Chicago company — Link
  - Dallas Business Journal
• A Baker’s Dozen: Dallas Innovates’ Most Popular Stories of 2019 — Link
• Discovery: UTA Tracks Property Values Near Transit-Oriented Developments; Grant Backs UTD Floating Turbine Design — Link
• Arlington’s Entertainment District Receives $810M Expansion — Link
• Survey Seeks to Gauge DFW’s Interest in the Life Sciences Sector — Link
• Toyota Unveils Intellectual Property Licensing Program — Link
• Dallas Innovation Alliance Co-founders Launch InnoCity Partners — Link
• Businesses Must Lean In to Support Our Vibrant Region — Link
• Follow the Money: Crescent Raises $24.6M for Fund; Geoforce Sells Majority Stake; NTT Data Services Makes Acquisition — Link
• NASA Taps Jacobs for Architect-Engineer Services at Marshall Space Flight Center and Other Locations — Link
• NTT Data to Acquire IT Services Company in Federal Healthcare Sector — Link
• AT&T and Deloitte are Partnering on 5G to Transform the Future of Digital Corporate Learning — Link
• DI People: Lantern Pharma, Richards Group, and RKD Announce Leadership Moves — Link
• The Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier is Coming to Dallas — Link
• Communities Foundation of Texas Sees its Largest Year Yet With $118M in Grants in 2019 — Link
• Raise Your Glass: BuzzBallz Hits Milestone With 1M Cases Sold This Year — Link
• Axxess Places Corporate Citizenship at the Heart of the Company — Link
• Dallas Ranks in the Top 10 Best Cities for Startup Costs — Link
  - Dallas Innovates

• Briana Land — https://www.nowhiringmynewboss.com/
• Gentrification A Big Concern For Some, As Houston Builds Its Innovation District — Link
  - Texas Standard
• Officials: Space on Track to Become Trillion-Dollar Business Over 20 Years — Link
  - Greater Houston Partnership’s Maggie Martin
• Unlimiting Your Life Podcast with Denise Hamilton — Devi Brown — Link
• Houston apartments: City famed for sprawl bets on growing up — Curbed — Link
• How Houston Is Becoming America’s Next Dense City — Scott Beyer — Link
• With A New Concept And A New Store In Houston, Toys R Us Hopes To Make A Comeback — Link
  - Houston Public Media
• Favor reveals Houston’s most popular food and drink deliveries in 2019 — Link
• 8 gift ideas from Houston startups — Link
• HCC unveils new virtual reality lab through partnership with Houston company — Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
• Top 5 Houston innovation guest columns of 2019 — Link
• Local entrepreneur designs fashionable clothes with Houston’s heat and humidity in mind — Link
• See how Houston fairs on report on best college cities — Link
• Shell commits to $10M carbon initiative with Rice University, Houston startup acquired by Honeywell, and more innovation news — Link
• Pitch competition returns to Houston with cybersecurity-focused event — Link
• Meet the Houston entrepreneur revolutionizing maritime shipping with software and data analysis — Link
• These were Houston’s top energy innovation stories this year — Link
• Why this Houston entrepreneur stuck with startups over a corporate gig — Link
• Global education provider expands to Houston to address the city’s digital skills gap — Link
• Houston area drone company on track to revolutionize the agriculture industry — Link
• Houston sees a decline in innovation jobs, according to a new report — Link
• 3 Houston innovators to know this week — Link
  - InnovationMap’s Natalie Harms / Culture Map Houston
• Houston 2140 — Link
• Applications now open for Napier Rice Launch Challenge — Link
• Slam dunks and STEM: RUSMP challenges area students at School House Mania — Link
  - Rice University
• Mentoring Project Deepened Student Learning, Commitment — Link
• Developing Next-Generation Biologic Pacemakers — Link
• Viral Sensations: UH’s Viral Stories of 2019 — Link
• Information Technology Can Save Police Lives, According to a New Study — Link
  - University of Houston
• West Houston entrepreneur hub to break ground on $150M project in Q1 — Link
• Political speech in the workplace: Labor attorneys talk best practices — Link
• Politics vs. profit: Business owners challenged by tense political climate — Link
• Space Center Houston CEO focuses on giving back to the community — Link
• Humana expands ‘bold’ nonprofit effort to Houston, other cities — Link
• Houston commodity brokerage leaders sued over alleged lavish personal spending — Link
• Houston nonprofit moves into next phase of affordable housing development — Link
• The space industry could top a trillion dollars by 2040. Aerospace companies are hungry for their piece. — Link
• Exclusive: Energy waste disposal co. to keep growing in 2020 — Link
• Memorial Hermann regains title as Houston area’s largest health care system — Link
• Microsoft bringing hundreds of jobs to North Carolina town instead of Houston — Link
• Global coding, tech education firm expands into Houston — Link
• Houston’s Marketing & Communications Experts Discuss: Standing out in a sea of sameness — Link
• The week in bankruptcies: Trucking co., consulting firm, more file bankruptcy in Houston — Link
• Money Monday: Houston-based energy, corporate housing, security firms trade hands — Link
• Houston endodontics group receives PE funding, targets acquisitions — Link
  - Houston Business Journal
• Houston company creates social media platform for sales professionals — Link
• Battery storage on verge of changing Texas power grid — Link
• Houston Community College opens virtual reality lab — Link
  - The Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Lienfelder / Techburger Blog
• - McCallen Chamber of Commerce

• Hatch Pitch Summit 2020 — Apply
• Early Stage Board Composition — Shockwave Innovation’s Gordon Daughterty — Link
• “People are getting soft”: How the Away scandal exposed a Silicon Valley culture war — Fast Company — Link
• The Mental Health Burden of Entrepreneurship — SEO’Brien Paul O’Brien — Link
• Nebraska’s ‘Silicon Prairie’ Is Growing Into A Hub For Innovation — Crunchbase — Link
• Founder Institute 10 Year Report — Link — Link
• I’m fighting back against laws that could shut down my freelance business — Fast Company’s Gwen Moran — Link — Link
• Do more startups die of indigestion or starvation? — Techcrunch’s Alex Wilhelm — Link — Link
• Here comes 2020 (and what I’ve been up to for 3+ years) — Highline Beta’s Ben Yoskovitz — Link
• FckdEx 🚚 — Scott Galloway — Link
• The 84 Biggest Flops, Fails, And Dead Dreams of The Decade in Tech — The Verge — Link
• The Worst and Most Disappointing Gadgets of the 2010s — Gizmodo — Link
• Looking Back on a Decade of Investing — 1776’s Donna Harris — Link
• SEC Proposes to Update Accredited Investor Definition to Increase Access to Investments — Link
• In Praise of Thank-You Notes — Russ Stoddard — Link
• Is it Time for the U.S. Government to Drag Tech Jobs out of Silicon Valley and Into the Heartland? — IEEE Spectrum — Link
• Middle-Market Representation Grows on Capitol Hill — Middle Market Growth — Link
• Tracking More Than 430 Incubators And Accelerators Globally — Adam Zuckerman — Link
• Startup Equity and Compensation Models: What You Need to Know | AWS Startups Blog — Link
• Council Post: Getting Over A Toxic Boss: 12 Techniques Every Working Professional Should Know — Link
• What makes startup accelerator programs successful — Link
• Tech CEO Salaries at IPO — Sammy Abdullah — Link
• First Round State of Startups 2019 — Link
• Why is WeWork 2.0 trying to go public? — TechCrunch — Link
• Big tech and big checks: Seattle startups claim VC funding record — Pitchbook — Link
• So You Want To Raise a Venture Capital Fund… — Leadership Prevails — Link
• Preparing your financial model for seed-stage investment — Link
• Accelerating Tech Startups 2019 Archives — Raconteur — Link

Tech Events Network: Austin | Dallas | Houston | San Antonio

Wake Up! CPG Conversations over Coffee
Friday, December 27, 2019 at 8:30 AM — 10:30 AM
Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden
121 Pickle Rd, Ste 111, Austin, Texas 78704
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Austin Technology Council Presents
Women In Tech: Negotiating Your Salary
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 07:30 AM — 09:00 AM
Calavista
3700 N Capital of Texas Hwy #450, Austin, TX 78746
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Story Marketing: Your Message is in Your Mess
Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM CST
The Riveter Austin
1145 West 5th Street Austin, TX 78703
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Austin Fast Start: Consumer Packaged Goods Pitch Event
January 9, 2020 5:30 PM — 7:00 PM (CST)
H-E-B and Favor Eastside Tech Hub
2416 E 6th St, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
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Capital Factory Roadshow at DreamWeek with Accenture
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00 PM — 4:45 PM CST
Accenture
6415 Babcock Suite 100 San Antonio, Texas 78249
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Houston Day of Code
Saturday, January 18, 2020 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM CST
Improving
10111 Richmond Avenue #Suite 100 Houston, TX 77042
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AustinInno’s State of Innovation: Startups To Watch 2020
Thursday January 30, 2020 4:00pm — 6:30pm
Hotel ZaZa Austin
400 Lavaca Street Austin, TX 78701
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Top Tech Trends for 2020 (And Beyond)
The Austin Forum on Technology & Society
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 6:15 PM — 7:30 PM CST
Austin Central Library
710 West Cesar Chavez Street Austin, TX 78701
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Get It Together: Gain Compentency as a Startup Founder (ONLINE)
Hosted by Ada Ryland Consulting
Friday, January 10, 2020 at 9 AM — 12 PM
Impact Hub Austin
411 W. Monroe Street, Austin, Texas 78704
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WORK: A Conference For Creatives And Entrepreneurs
Hosted by BossBabes ATX
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 9:30 AM — 6 PM
Robert B. Rowling Hall
300 Martin Luther King Blvd W, Austin, Texas 78701
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Bunker Connect Austin: A Community of Resources for New Year’s Resolutions
Monday, January 13, 2020 5:00 PM — 7:00 PM CST
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street Voltron, 1st Floor Austin, TX 78701
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xTech 3.0 Accelerator — Defense Innovation Ecosystem Immersion Day
by FedTech
Thursday, January 16, 2020 1:00 PM — 8:00 PM CST
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street Austin Texas 78701
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MassChallenge Texas in Austin Launch 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 5:30 PM — 7:30 PM CST
South Congress Hotel
1603 South Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78704
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