The Cannon established an vital function within the Houston startup group only a few years in the past with their launch in 2017 to create an ecosystem to serve Houston’s entrepreneurs. This month, they’re opening their sixth Houston space location – The Cannon Sports + Media – as a world hub for Sports activities and Media Know-how, together with startup programming from MediaTech Ventures.
“From my viewpoint in Chicago and our work in media expertise right here, it’s clear that bodily infrastructure drives innovation. Significant use of area fosters communities, and the ensuing focus of consideration from professionals, mentors, and buyers, in a sector they know and love, mitigates dangers that creators should undertake as they modify the world. House, purposeful area, reduces these dangers whereas connecting individuals who assist each other thrive. We try this right here in Chicago, whether or not in Chicago’s notable startup area, 1871, or in Fort Knox Studios work with 2112 and our MediaTech programming, it’s evident that a lot of what’s inflicting Texas to growth is the funding in property that fuels the economic system,” says John Zozzaro, President and Founder, MediaTech Ventures.
At this time, Houston’s largest entrepreneurial group closes ties with groups in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin, bringing MediaTech Ventures’ startup incubators and media platforms to The Cannon group along with the launch of The Cannon Sports activities + Media.
Leveraging their rising group of startups, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, advisors, and buyers, The Cannon works to democratize entry to the assets innovators have to succeed. This new area has been designed to construct a group of innovators targeted on revolutionizing sports activities and media, in addition to anybody with the need to construct their enterprise in an area custom-designed and programmed for the sports activities fanatic.
Began in Austin, TX, MediaTech Ventures works with cities, buyers, and developed corporations, in media, to gasoline entrepreneurship and the rise of the artistic class of the economic system. Drawn from experiences all through the US main media hubs, from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles and New York, they developed a proprietary mannequin for startup incubators that leverages expertise to attach the group worldwide, whereas main with a curriculum educating founders with an emphasis in media, the advertising, and the group and content material improvement that allows founders to start out a enterprise extra more likely to succeed.
The Cannon and MediaTech Ventures have fashioned a strategic partnership to higher serve the media business and entrepreneurs by MediaTech Ventures’ incubators and expertise.
“We’re excited to be teaming up with MediaTech Ventures as a programming accomplice inThe Cannon Sports activities + Media area,” Lawson Gow, Founder and President of The Cannon. “The area intends to be a hub for all issues sports activities and media innovation and exercise. And MediaTech shall be an enormous driver of this type of group in Houston.”
Zozzaro states, “The Cannon’s group and property developments caught our consideration instantly as a essential piece of the Texas startup ecosystem and in MediaTech Ventures’ work with the area’s greatest and brightest founders and incubators. Lawson Gow’s imaginative and prescient of democratizing entry to the bodily assets that cities and entrepreneurs want fell proper consistent with our dedication to doing the identical in training and capital improvement. As Texas booms as an epicenter of innovation, Houston’s wonderful tradition, historical past in expertise, and affect within the arts is unparalleled; aligning with The Cannon’s imaginative and prescient means much more entry and assets to creators, and the introduction of The Cannon Group to our startup applications all through the world.”
“And all through is likely to be probably the most notable of what we’re constructing collectively. From right here in Chicago, I’m working intently with our buddies within the 2112 music group to assist Italian startups grow to be the US by the Italian Commerce Company. ITA’s different notable location in the US? Houston, TX, working intently with Mass Problem and different startup applications obsessed with working collectively for entrepreneurs. And now in MediaTech, we’re bridging the space much more, between Houston and Austin, Texas and Illinois, all through the US, and throughout the ponds to serve founders higher, all through the world.”
Among the many most impactful platforms and ecosystems in Texas’ innovation economic system, the shut collaboration crosses the chasm between two of the biggest and rising cities in the US whereas enabling entrepreneurs and buyers to entry, be taught from, and get related all through far more of what has the area within the highlight of the world.
“Let’s do extra of this, collectively, from property to programming that targeted on innovation, having a social affect on the world is fairly straightforward – we assist folks develop into creators who thrive.”