Startup
Showcase
As part of the 2nd Annual Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week, the Ion Open House on Wednesday, September 17 is your passport to explore Houston’s innovation hub, powered by Rice University. This page supplements your digital passport which maps for all the activities throughout the building.
Lower Level
Meet startups for the Energy Tech Venture Forum and Class 5 Clean Energy Accelerator in the Lower Level startup exhibitions. Startups are in alpha order around the bottom floor.
| Startup | Table Numbers |
| Active Surfaces | 1 |
| Aeromine Technologies, Inc. | 2 |
| Airworks Compressors Corp | 3 |
| AlumaPower | 4 |
| Aqua Cell Energy | 5 |
| Aquora Biosystems | 6 |
| Arculus Solutions | 7 |
| Artemis Production Solutions, Inc. | 8 |
| AtmoSpark Technologies | 9 |
| AtoMe | 10 |
| ATS Energy | 11 |
| Badwater Alchemy | 12 |
| C+UP | 13 |
| Cavern Energy Storage, LLC | 14 |
| Deep Anchor Solutions Inc. | 15 |
| Direct-C Limited | 16 |
| DirectH2 Inc. | 17 |
| Emerald Battery Labs, Inc. | 18 |
| Fathom Storage | 19 |
| FieldMesh, Inc. | 20 |
| Fluidsdata | 21 |
| Flyscan Systems Inc. | 22 |
| GeoKiln | 23 |
| GS VORTEX SYSTEMS | 24 |
| Hive Autonomy | 25 |
| Hydrogenious LOHC Maritime AS | 26 |
| Innowind Energy Solutions | 27 |
| Iron IQ | 28 |
| Kanin Energy | 29 |
| KEWAZO | 30 |
| Lukera Energy | 31 |
| MacroCycle Technologies | 32 |
| Metal Light | 33 |
| Modular MOPU, LLC | 34 |
| Moonshot | 35 |
| NANOBORNE LLC | 36 |
| NetForwards | 37 |
| PHNXX | 38 |
| PolyQor | 39 |
| Precision Additive | 40 |
| RenewCO2 Inc. | 41 |
| Resollant | 42 |
| Safety Radar | 43 |
| SeaStock Pty Ltd | 44 |
| Stratos Perception, LLC | 45 |
| Tancredi | 46 |
| Terraflow Energy | 47 |
| Teverra | 48 |
| Think Energy Holdings Inc. | 49 |
| Utiltyx Inc. | 50 |
| Xplorobot | 51 |
| Zenthos Energy | 52 |
First Floor (Lobby)
- Meet a fast-growing humanoid robotics company that’s raised $25M+ in seed funding: Persona AI (Suite 170)
- Check out tech on display in the Rice Nexus Showroom + meet AI startup BeOne Sports
Third Floor
Throughout the building, in different suites, are clusters of startups! Head to the elevators to meet these exciting ventures:
| Atolla Tech | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Biosimo | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Brightlight Photonics | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Deep Anchor Solutions | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| EarthFlow AI | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Elysium Robotics | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| FAST Metals | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| KIRA | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Lumistrain | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Newfound Materials | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Semion | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Solidec | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Sunchem | Third Floor – Activate – 360-E |
| Ammobia | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| Aquanta Vision | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| BioSelexis | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| Brint Tech | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| Haliferro | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| M1 Catalyst | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| Orea Lithium | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| Petric Company | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| SolarMantle | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| Stalagmite | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| TCCS: Tubo Compression Cooling System | Third Floor – Chevron Studios – 350 |
| PHNXX | Third Floor – Rice Nexus – Woodside Startup Exchange – Suite 325 |
| Seastock | Third Floor – Rice Nexus – Woodside Startup Exchange – Suite 325 |
| SpiroPak | Third Floor – Rice Nexus – Woodside Startup Exchange – Suite 325 |
| HEXASpec | Third Floor – Rice Nexus – Rice Startup – 325 |
| Aikynetix | Third Floor – Rice Nexus – Rice Startup – 325 |
| Ubiosis | Third Floor – Rice Nexus – Rice Startup – 325 |