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San Antonio Startup Week attendees interact and join panel discussions on a variety of topics on Monday.

Business & Development

San Antonio to startups backed by federal grants: Please stay and grow here

by Tracy Idell Hamilton March 7, 2024March 7, 2024

The city is set to approve a grant program that would encourage nine companies in bioscience, IT and aerospace to keep innovating in San Antonio.

Sam Ximenes stands near what he calls his “Frankenbot” - a robot that is capable of excavating the lunar surface and create bricks from the moon dust - at the Boeing Tech Port, Area 21 SAMSAT Museum on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Ximenes is a pioneering Mexican-American space architect and educator. In 2007, he founded Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) to serve the commercial space market. Ximenes is helping to devise equipment that will build material from moon dust and create habitats on the lunar surface. Ximenes is also using his extensive experience in the aerospace industry and started the WEX Foundation which bolsters science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs to middle and high school students. His vision is to have robotics that he created be in use on the moon’s surface to build human habitats on future missions.

Sam Ximenes is a pioneer of the new, foreign world of architecture in space

by Raquel Torres December 25, 2023December 26, 2023