The Cannon established an necessary function within the Houston startup neighborhood 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 worldwide 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 know-how 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 traders, in a sector they know and love, mitigates dangers that creators should undertake as they modify the world. Area, purposeful area, reduces these dangers whereas connecting individuals who assist each other thrive. We do 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 financial system,” says John Zozzaro, President and Founder, MediaTech Ventures.
Right now, Houston’s largest entrepreneurial neighborhood closes ties with groups in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin, bringing MediaTech Ventures’ startup incubators and media platforms to The Cannon neighborhood along with the launch of The Cannon Sports activities + Media.
Leveraging their rising neighborhood of startups, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, advisors, and traders, The Cannon works to democratize entry to the sources innovators have to succeed. This new area has been designed to construct a neighborhood of innovators centered 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, traders, and developed corporations, in media, to gasoline entrepreneurship and the rise of the inventive class of the financial 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 know-how to attach the neighborhood worldwide, whereas main with a curriculum instructing founders with an emphasis in media, the advertising, and the neighborhood and content material growth that permits founders to start out a enterprise extra more likely to succeed.
The Cannon and MediaTech Ventures have shaped a strategic partnership to higher serve the media business and entrepreneurs via MediaTech Ventures’ incubators and know-how.
“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 will probably be an enormous driver of this sort of neighborhood in Houston.”
Zozzaro states, “The Cannon’s neighborhood and property developments caught our consideration instantly as a crucial 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 sources that cities and entrepreneurs want fell proper in keeping with our dedication to doing the identical in schooling and capital growth. As Texas booms as an epicenter of innovation, Houston’s superb tradition, historical past in know-how, and impression within the arts is unparalleled; aligning with The Cannon’s imaginative and prescient means much more entry and sources to creators, and the introduction of The Cannon Group to our startup applications all through the world.”
“And all through could be essentially the most notable of what we’re constructing collectively. From right here in Chicago, I’m working carefully with our associates within the 2112 music neighborhood to assist Italian startups become the US via the Italian Commerce Company. ITA’s different notable location in the US? Houston, TX, working carefully with Mass Problem and different startup applications captivated 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 financial system, the shut collaboration crosses the chasm between two of the most important and rising cities in the US whereas enabling entrepreneurs and traders to entry, be taught from, and get linked all through way more of what has the area within the highlight of the world.
“Let’s do extra of this, collectively, from property to programming that centered on innovation, having a social impression on the world is reasonably straightforward – we assist individuals grow to be creators who thrive.”