That's a wrap on the 2023 Houston Innovation Awards — and boy did the event deliver on networking, award wins, and plenty of celebrating Houston's tech and entrepreneurship community.

With a crowd of around 600 attendees, the Houston Innovation Awards, which took place on November 8 at Silver Street Studios in partnership with Houston Exponential, celebrated over 50 finalists and a dozen winners across categories. Click here to see who won an award.

Learn more about this year's honorees in InnovationMap's the editorial series:

• Overheard: Houston Innovation Awards finalists share top advice for fellow founders
• Top Houston-based sustainability startups share their 4 biggest challenges
• Meet the 4 corporations best supporting Houston's innovation ecosystem
• Houston's innovation leaders weigh in on community's growth, progress
• Looking for a job? These 2023 Houston Innovation Awards finalists are hiring
• 2023 Houston Innovation Awards finalists announced
• Houston Innovation Awards names longtime Rice leader as 2023 Trailblazer

See below for photos from the event.

The People's Choice: Startup of the Year Finalists

  

Photo by Emily Jaschke/InnovationMap