Month: January 2021

Meet the 13 Winners of Dallas Innovates’ and D CEO’s 2021 Innovation Awards
by | Jan 22, 2021
Here are the companies and leaders driving innovation in North Texas.
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DI People: United Way Dallas, North Dallas Bank & Trust, Texan by Nature, and More Make Moves
by | Jan 22, 2021
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from Sentrics, Summit Off Duty Services, TimelyMD, Calloway's Nursery, Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS, and more.
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10 Inspiring Female Founders in Dallas-Fort Worth
by | Jan 22, 2021
Enjoy living vicariously through these incredible women, writes TechFW's Lauren Acton. Meet 10 female entrepreneurs who share practical advice on launching a company.
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Dallas Diagnostics Lab Partners With Baylor University for On-Site COVID-19 Testing Lab and Research Facility

by | Jan 21, 2021
Dallas-based My Labs Direct, which offers a 'hassle-free direct-pay alternative to lab testing,' will become the official research lab and COVID-19 testing partner for Baylor University. Baylor will open a molecular PCR lab at its Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative, allowing for three on-campus testing sites to open for operation.
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Female Funders: Investor and Advocate Margot Carter on ‘Paying It Forward for the Next Generation’
by | Jan 20, 2021
"As women—any entrepreneurs, for that matter—are successful, if they pay it forward, there will be more of us," Carter says.
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Female Funders: 7-Eleven Ventures’ Marisa Bertha on the Need for Financial Education, Diverse Talent, and ‘Collective Responsibility’
by | Jan 20, 2021
Marisa Bertha is an expert on how brands succeed within the 7-Eleven ecosystem. The senior director of New Business Development and 7-Ventures at 7-Eleven is responsible for selecting the portfolio of brands in which 7-Eleven invests.
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Getting Ahead of the PPP Curve: This Dallas-Based Bank Is Helping Businesses Outlast the Pandemic
by | Jan 20, 2021
"Most people have no idea the risk business builders take," says Texas Security Bank CEO and Co-Founder Craig Scheef, who is inspired by working with entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses.

His team reengineered the bank's processes to help customers with "lifeline loans" in 2020. Now they're starting to process the next round of PPP applications.
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Fort Worth’s M2G Ventures and Austin-Based Pennybacker Buy Tuesday Morning’s Entire Industrial Portfolio

by | Jan 20, 2021
The two real estate firms are calling the deal one of the largest single market urban industrial plays in recent news.
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Dallas Invents: 137 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 5
by | Jan 20, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's scalable position tracking for large spaces, Adobe's AI for enhanced digital content and improved campaign design, American Airlines' method for optimally managing aircraft assets, Avegant Corp.'s relative position-based eye-tracking system, Bell Textron's multidirectional airspeed detection system, Bentley Motors' movement-based comfort adjustment, Siemens Healthcare's deep image-to-image network learning for medical image analysis, and Zinwave's multi-range communication system using RF and millimeter wave signals.
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Gig Wage Raises $2.5M Follow-On to Its Recent $7.5M Series A Round
by | Jan 19, 2021
The latest round brings the Dallas-based fintech's total Series A funding to approximately $10 million, the startup told us. Founder and CEO Craig J. Lewis plans to quadruple his team by the end of 2021.
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Southern Dallas County’s IPTMA Appoints an Executive Director
by | Jan 19, 2021
Laura Freeland will lead the membership organization that works to address transportation issues affecting employers and employees in the Southern Dallas County Inland Port.
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DI People: GameStop, Vari, MediaKind and More Make Moves

by | Jan 15, 2021
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from Mohr Partners, Ignite Sales, BBG, Tenet Healthcare, OneDay, Tech Titans, and Kainos Capital, among others.
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Mayor Eric Johnson Names the Members of His Task Force on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by | Jan 14, 2021
The 15-member Task Force, dedicated to strengthening Dallas as a hub for entrepreneurs, represents a diverse, experienced group of local investors, founders, education leaders, tech experts, and major employers.
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Atos, RingCentral Launch Unified Communications Solution for Remote Work in the U.S.
by | Jan 14, 2021
Atos and RingCentrals' co-branded Unify Office is an enterprise solution that aims to bring the benefits of cloud communications to businesses everywhere.
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Meet the Future 50: Dallas-Fort Worth Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know in 2021
These standouts—entrepreneurs, leaders, inventors, creatives, and educators—are disrupting industries, solving challenges, and making Dallas-Fort Worth (and beyond) a better place in a year like no other.
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