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Houston venture capital & startups
Houston energy transition, industrials, and space/medical-center spinouts — honest map of what VCT covers.
Houston is where energy buyers, NASA Johnson Space Center adjacency, and Medical Center spinouts meet industrial scale. A full-text pass of our startup JSON finds no Houston / The Woodlands / Sugar Land HQ fields. Texas hard-tech names we do cover (Base Power, CesiumAstro, Saronic, Apptronik, RigUp/Workrise, NinjaOne) are Austin HQ or Austin-cited — not stolen here. SpaceX and Castelion appear only as category/ops adjacency.
Aliases: houston, the woodlands, sugar land. Curate startups only with clear Houston public HQ or dual-city evidence. Austin-only companies stay on /vc/austin.
Venture firms in Houston
Matched from fund headquarters in our directory (alias-based). Dual-HQ firms may appear in more than one city.
No fund HQ matches yet for Houston. Use the national directory and related reading below.
Startups we cover in Houston
Matched from startup hq fields. Many profiles still lack HQ — curated lists in editorial notes fill gaps when verified.
No startup HQ matches yet. Browse all startups or see coverage gaps.
Coverage gaps
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Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines, and other Houston commercial-space operators
Core NASA JSC / commercial space thesis; high search demand; not yet in our startup JSON
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Fervo Energy, Solugen, and energy-transition hardware/software
Energy-transition fundraising narrative for Houston; missing structured profiles
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Medical Center digital health / device spinouts
Texas Medical Center density is a real cluster; thin in VCT
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Houston-HQ energy VC / growth firms
No fund HQ match in directory; founders use national energy/climate funds plus offline local lists
Related reading
Houston FAQs
Practical answers for founders researching this investor.