The Houston Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Houston Spring 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 6 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Houston's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Houston program:
- Nuroverse - An AI-powered wellness companion that helps therapy-goers and behavioral health providers coordinate care and receive 24/7 emotional support, solving the lack of ongoing mental health support with adaptive, human-augmented intelligence.
- TraceWrap Inc. - Providing disposable GPS smart labels that give logistics companies real-time visibility into high-value shipments beyond warehouse checkpoints, reducing lost inventory, theft, and costly chargebacks.
- RentLad - Building a mobile rental management app that helps independent landlords save up to 90% in costs by dropping their property manager and using a manager copilot to take control.
- Prophub - Offering a subscription-based platform that simplifies property tax protests for single-family homeowners and small business owners, saving them time and money by automating the process, identifying exemptions, and increasing affordability.
- Custom Tailord - Helping high-achieving women aged 35-55 effortlessly find stylish, perfectly tailored pants that fit their unique body shape, style, and color palette - saving time, reducing stress, and boosting confidence with every outfit.
- PDC Remote Care - Empowering hypertension care providers with real-time patient data and communication tools to deliver personalized, evidence-based treatment, improving health outcomes and increasing practice profitability.
The Houston Spring 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
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Houston Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Houston Founder Institute: James Phelan (Investment & Growth, The Cannon), Martín Martinez (Executive Director, Founder Institute Texas), Mery Ramirez (Founding Partner, DataNexum Consulting), Natasha Gorodetsky (Founder & CEO; Head of Product, Product Pursuit). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Houston that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Houston Spring 2025 program was supported by some of Houston's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Houston’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over $1.85BN.
After Graduation, the new Houston Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Houston Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/houston.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.85BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
