Mayor Turner reaffirms the city’s vested interest in an innovative ecosystem with the establishment of Houston Exponential, a new nonprofit that merges the Houston Technology Center with the Greater Houston Partnership’s technology innovation roundtable and the Mayor’s Technology & Innovation Task Force.
This new organization will focus on creating a hub to nurture tech-driven startups with a potential to attract venture capital and to scale quickly.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Barbara Burger, Houston Technology Center executive committee member and Chevron Technology Ventures president; Greater Houston Partnership Innovation Roundtable Chair Gina Luna; Station Houston co-founder JR Reale and GroupRaise.com founder and CEO Devin Baptiste.
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