Houston Innovators Podcast

This week, Meagan Pitcher, CEO and co-founder of Bairitone Health, shares her journey into health tech entrepreneurship and the bright future for her company.

Vibhu Sharma is the CEO of InnoVent Renewables LLC, a Houston company that has the potential to revolutionize the automotive industry and make a huge impact on sustainability. InnoVent has created a proprietary...

On this episode, host Natalie Harms is looking back at some of her favorite episodes of 2024 — featuring guests from across the Houston innovation landscape.

Anwar Sadek is the CEO and founder at CORROLYTICS, a tech company that has designed a way to better detect microbial corrosion. Anwar joins the show today to discuss his entrepreneurial journey, how he’s bootstrapped...

In this episode, listeners get a chance to revisit an episode from last year with Ayse McCracken, the founder of Ignite Healthcare Network, an organization that accelerates female-founded businesses within health care...

Reginald DesRoches was named president of Rice University in 2021. He joins the show to discuss the unprecedented growth the university has had under his first two and a half years of leadership — from growing the...

Samina Farid is the managing director of Golden Seeds and co-lead of the national angel investing group’s Houston chapter. Samina joins the show today to discuss her own entrepreneurial journey and how she got into...

Dianna Liu is the CEO and founder at ARIX Technologies, a Houston hardtech and software startup that’s created a robot to help industrial companies enhance efficiency and safety when it comes to pipeline corrosion...

Aileen Allen has recently joined Houston VC firm Mercury as venture partner. A native Houstonian, Aileen has spent the bulk of her career in the tech ecosystems of the Bay Area and Austin as an operator at tech...

Sarah Hein is the co-founder and CEO of March Biosciences, a cancer-fighting cell therapy company that recently closed a $28.4 million series A round and is getting ready to launch its phase II trial. Sarah joins me...

Chris George is the US Co-Lead at Octopus Electric Vehicles, a spinout of the UK-based energy retail provider Octopus Energy, which expanded to the US by way of Houston. Octopus EV provides customized EV leases paired...

This week, InnovationMap announced the finalists for the 2024 Houston Innovation Awards, and I'd like to take this episode as an opportunity to introduce you to the incredible batch of startups, organizations, and...

This week, we are revisiting a conversation I had earlier this year with Scott Gale, who passed away two weeks ago after a years-long battle with cancer. As executive director of Halliburton Labs, he was instrumental in...

Zimri T. Hinshaw is the CEO and founder of Rheom Materials, a bio-based materials company that’s creating sustainable materials for the fashion, automotive, and other industries. Originally founding his company as Bucha...

Ana Amicarella is the CEO of EthosEnergy, a Houston-based energy technology developer and provider that’s helping its customers find the right tech for the energy transition. Ana joins the show today to discuss the...