Texas Innovates is a non-profit promoting a science, education, and entrepreneurship “hard-tech” innovation ecosystem in Houston, focusing on solving major industry energy challenges, and paving the way for resilient smart urban neighborhoods. Texas Innovates brings together a committed and passionate group of technology entrepreneurs, business leaders, and long-time community members partnered with experts and solutions providers throughout the United States.  We all have worked on creating solutions to energy, environmental, and commercial challenges in respective fields.

The planned downtown Velasco Campus, which we are promoting as a key part of Houston’s Energy Innovation Future, features an Innovation Center, alongside a micro-apartment and retail center that integrates:

1. A new high density live-work-play community, based on a healthy lifestyle and green low impact living/mobility, with up to 500 residents onsite
2. The existing local community with open green public spaces, high quality services, affordable housing, and a growing base of new-collar technology jobs