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Barrios Technology
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Technology

Barrios Technology

Houston, TX

For more than 45 years, Barrios Technology has helped humanity reach farther into space. We are an award-winning, woman-owned and operated small business headquartered near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, delivering high-quality engineering, software, and technology integration solutions to government and commercial space flight programs in the United States and around the world. A long-standing prime contractor to NASA since 1980, we have contributed to nearly every era of American human spaceflight, from the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and today's Artemis missions returning astronauts to the Moon. Our teams provide space mission integration and operations, systems engineering, software engineering and integration, program integration, flight planning, ground operations, and data and analytics solutions. We partner with the industry's leaders, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Space, Intuitive Machines, KBR, and Amentum, to keep complex missions on schedule and mission-ready. Our strength is our people. More than 700 talented engineers, analysts, planners, and specialists bring vast experience and deep technical expertise to every program we support. We have earned recognition that reflects that commitment, including the NASA Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year Award, the NASA/JSC Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award, SBA Region 6 Prime and Subcontractor of the Year Awards, and a Boeing Supplier of the Year Award. We believe the future of space belongs to everyone, and we invest in building the workforce that will get us there. Barrios actively supports STEM-focused educational initiatives and industry and community associations, opening doors for the next generation of explorers, engineers, and innovators. As a woman-owned small business, inclusion is not a slogan for us; it is part of how we have grown and how we operate every day. From our corporate office on Space Center Boulevard in Houston to our operations in Huntsville, Alabama, Barrios Technology remains focused on one goal: providing the trusted engineering and integration expertise that helps our customers explore, discover, and expand what is possible beyond Earth. When missions cannot fail, partners turn to Barrios.

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LAMIK Beauty
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Beauty & Personal Care

LAMIK Beauty

Houston, TX

LAMIK Beauty was born in Houston, Texas in 2004, when Kim Roxie founded the brand at age 21 out of her college apartment with her own savings and a small investment from her mother. LAMIK stands for Love And Makeup In Kindness, and that name has guided everything the brand does. What began as a makeup counter in a Houston mall grew into a mission that is bigger than beauty. That mission took shape when Kim discovered how many everyday cosmetics were made with parabens, talc, and other known carcinogens. Women of color have long been underserved and overexposed by the beauty market, and Kim set out to change that. LAMIK became a clean, vegan makeup line crafted with natural and organic ingredients, made intentionally for multicultural women who deserve products that are both safe and beautiful. The brand's philosophy is simple and powerful: Beauty is Revealed, Not Applied. LAMIK products are designed to work with your skin, not to cover it up. From the signature brow collection that Kim first created for herself while navigating hair loss, to foundations, cleansers, and moisturizers, every formula is built to celebrate what is already there. Kim Roxie's leadership has earned wide recognition. She became one of the youngest African American women to launch a full cosmetic line inside a major department store, and LAMIK made history as one of the first Black-owned certified clean beauty brands to reach a national clean beauty retailer. Ebony Magazine named Kim one of five Black cosmetics entrepreneurs to know, and she was honored on the Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list in 2019. After closing the original storefront in 2018 to focus fully on clean formulation, LAMIK relaunched as an e-commerce brand in 2020, bringing its values to customers everywhere. Today LAMIK Beauty remains a proudly Black woman-owned company rooted in Houston, still led by the founder who started it all. It stands as proof that a beauty brand can be clean, inclusive, purpose-driven, and kind at every step, revealing the beauty that was there all along.

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Michael's Cookie Jar
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Restaurants & Food

Michael's Cookie Jar

Houston, TX

At Michael's Cookie Jar, we bake happiness daily, one cookie at a time. From our shop in Houston's Weslayan Plaza, we have grown into a neighborhood favorite for gourmet cookies that cover the full range, from warm, soft-baked chocolate chip to delicate hand-decorated shortbread. Our Oven Fresh Cookies are exactly what they sound like, baked throughout the day so there is always something warm and ready when you walk in. Cookies are all we do, and we love the variety. Our regulars come back for signatures like The HTX Cookie, the snickerdoodle, and our loaded peanut butter cookie packed with peanuts, Reese's Pieces, and caramel popcorn. We bake to the season too, with fresh flavors and themes that rotate through the year, so the case always has something new to discover. Beyond the everyday case, we are proud of our custom and decorated work. Our decorators hand-ice shortbread into wedding cakes, bridal dresses, baby onesies, birthday cakes, and cupcakes, and we love a Texas theme, from spring bluebonnets to Houston Texans and Rodeo cookies. We create custom decorated cookies, custom logo cookies for businesses and events, and custom cookie cakes that make a birthday or celebration feel special. Many of our decorated designs can be ordered straight from our gallery, usually with about two weeks of lead time so we can get every detail right. Everything is baked with love, and that is not just a saying. Walk through our door and you are met with the smell of cookies in the oven and a team that genuinely wants to help you find the perfect treat, whether it is a single cookie for the road, a dozen for the office, or a showpiece cookie cake for a big day. We offer takeout and delivery, plus online ordering, so it is easy to get your favorites however you like. You will find us Monday through Saturday at our Weslayan Plaza bakery, with a second location serving downtown Houston. Come see why so many Houstonians keep their cookie jar full with us. However you take your cookies, warm and simple or decorated and dressed up, we would love to bake them for you.

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The Breakfast Klub
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Restaurants & Food

The Breakfast Klub

Houston, TX

Welcome to the breakfast klub, Houston's home for the best breakfast in the city. Since founder Marcus Davis opened our doors in Midtown in September 2001, we have been serving up great home-style breakfast with the kind of superior service and genuine hospitality that turns first-time visitors into family. We are a proud Black-owned Houston institution, and everything we do starts with the community that raised us. Marcus built this place on a simple idea: give people soulful, savory food made the way it ought to be made, and treat every guest like they belong here. More than two decades later, that idea still defines every plate that leaves our kitchen. You already know what we are famous for. Our Wings & Waffles is the dish that put us on the map, golden wings alongside a light, crisp waffle that keeps folks coming back and keeps the line moving out the door. Right next to it on the wall of legends is our Katfish & Grits, seasoned and fried the way the South intended, served over creamy grits that taste like Sunday morning. Whatever you order, it comes with our signature seasoning, the soulful and savory blend that carries a little bit of Houston in every bite. We serve breakfast and lunch, so there is no wrong time to pull up a chair. Breakfast runs all through the morning, and lunch is ready when the midday crowd rolls in. Come by yourself, bring the whole family, or let us cater your next event. We also offer to-go orders, gift kards, and family meal packages so you can take a little of the klub home with you. Over the years the breakfast klub has grown into more than a restaurant. We have become a top Houston tourist stop and a hometown favorite, a place where visitors, regulars, neighbors, and celebrities all share the same tables. That is exactly how Marcus wanted it. When you walk through our doors at 3711 Travis Street, you are not just a customer. You are part of the klub. Come hungry, leave full, and bring somebody with you next time.

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