New Houston
I lived in every big city in Texas. Everything is great! But there's something in Houston that draws me in. After living in Austin and other cities, we finally returned to the Houston area in December 2011, and in the short time we were away, I noticed a new Houston.
In the 70s, Houston was the undisputed oil capital of the world and the claim that it still dominates the sector today, and through its dominance in oil and gas, Houston reaches every corner of the global economy. And this is what led to WalletHub calling Houston the most diverse city in the United States, even more so than New York. The city is also home to a variety of airlines and aerospace, healthcare and Fortune 500 services. Houston is home to 23 Fortune 500 companies.
Houston is also home to the Texas Medical Center, which has 106,000 employees, 61 institutions, thousands of volunteers and more than 160,000 patient visits a day, and is the world's largest destination for life sciences. Houston can boast that this is "where the whole world goes for treatment."
The Houston area is also home to more than 8,200 technology-related companies, including more than 500 start-ups backed by entrepreneurs. The Houston Exponential (HX) was founded in 2017 to help grow the city's digital startup system.
Companies in Houston have received more than $ 1.9 billion in venture capital funding across 522 deals since 2014, according to the PitchBook funding pool. Nearly half of the funding is channeled to health-related life sciences and technology companies, a developing sector in Houston's innovation ecosystem. Through the $ 25 million HX Venture Fund, HX plans to make investments that will foster digital innovation in Houston and strengthen the region's technology sector.
A strong network of more than 30 greenhouses, accelerators, art spaces and shared workspaces has helped strengthen the ecosystem in recent years. These centers of innovation have created momentum and critical mass of support for additional startups.
Rice University is now developing a new innovation district in Midtown. The center will bring together the entrepreneurial, organizational and academic communities in the area. The core of the Central Innovation District in the south will be The Ion, a 270,000-square-foot structure that will serve as a collaborative space that serves businesses at all stages of the innovation life cycle.
WhenHewlett Packard It recently announced a move down from Silicon Valley to Houston, which further strengthened Houston's progress toward innovation and also leveraged the pool of local digital talent and corporations to drive their success.
Houston was once a city focused primarily on oil and gas, and today is the fourth largest city in the country and is a vibrant and vibrant metro filled with talented people, a dynamic quality of life and a variety of emerging industries, from healthcare and digital technology to manufacturing and commerce. Our 11 districts offer a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals with an active approach of doing. There is still something to be said for Houston's good boy feeling that you will never die, and that like fine wine, you will only get better with age with more variety that will continue to permeate this great city.
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