“In my personal life with training for nine marathons, I’ve seen limitations with wearables, they don’t actually track running form while running. “Runners spend a lot of time, energy and money to run better,” says Denis Akhiyarov, CEO and co-founder. While traditional treadmills are limited in training feedback and wearables are not designed to track elevation, Houston-based AiKYNETIX uses real-time technology to provide a new option for runners on treadmills. With the Houston Marathon only five months away, a new application using human motion insights could help a runner refine their form to reach peak performance – all from the convenience of their smart phone. The two entities are collaborative - HTX TechList's data is even involved in the Tech Map. This summer, Houston Exponential launched the HTX TechList to virtually connect startups, mentors, investors, and other movers and shakers in Houston.
This year has been one for digital tools focused on better portraying Houston's innovation ecosystem. "The biggest challenge for most people is you really don't know where to start." We wanted this to be a resource for an individual starting point," says Chris Taylor, executive director for the Tech Bridge. "For us, it was a balance between trying to show the story of Houston and where innovation is happening and aggregating, but what we didn't want to do was be a replacement. The Tech Map isn't meant to rock the boat of what any other organization is doing, rather just visually represent the goings on. The tool isn't designed in Cougar Red or predominantly feature UH-based startups or anything. Lewis stresses the importance of creating the tool in a collaborative way, which is why bringing on partners and their databases was so key. To be represented on the map, click here.
It's comprised of data submitted by startup development organizations, self-submitted information, and research by the Tech Bridge's team.
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The tool, which is free to embed and available to anyone, is already live on Houston Exponential's homepage and the city of Houston's Innovation Portal. "It's amazing to see that it's happening all over the city." "This kind of tool - it really tells you where innovation is happening, it's not just in the startup development organizations," says Lindsay Lewis, executive director of communications for the UH Division of Research.
The Tech Map - an interactive, embeddable visualization that takes data about startups and other innovation players and compiles it into a map of entrepreneurial activity in the Houston area - has officially launched with hundreds of startups represented already. The latest of which has launched out of the University of Houston's Technology Bridge.
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The greater Houston area spans 9,444 square miles - an area larger than the entire state of New Jersey - and the question was never if Houston's sprawl was going to affect interaction between startups, resources, and opportunities, but how to overcome these physical challenges with digital solutions.
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