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Month: February 2022
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North Texas Video Game Developer Worldspark Studios Lands $3M for Metaverse Platform
by Kevin Cummings | Feb 28, 2022
The blockchain gaming studio's first title is Edenbrawl, a tech fantasy-style online multiplayer battle game. Within the game, players will be able to purchase and trade NFTs tied to things like character skins and weapons skins.
by David Seeley |
Feb 28, 2022
GreenPath uses only vehicles powered by alternative fuels to haul freight for Amazon, UPS, the USPS and more. Now it's ordering 50 Hypertruck ERX units from Texas-based Hyliion. The Hypertruck's electric powertrain is recharged by an onboard natural gas generator.
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by Dave Moore |
Feb 28, 2022
Jorge Varela has spent decades building startups in Silicon Valley, San Antonio, and even in Central America—his place of origin.
Now his efforts will center on North Texas' innovation economy.
“The shift from Silicon Valley and the East Coast to Texas and DFW is real,” Varela says.
“The shift from Silicon Valley and the East Coast to Texas and DFW is real,” Varela says.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 28, 2022
The Dallas Foundation—the first community foundation in Texas—says it awarded over $1.3 million in Community Impact Fund Grants in 2021. The grants were given to 25 local organizations and initiatives that are "driving meaningful results for children and families."
"Each of these awards represents an investment in some of Dallas’ most important needs and most impactful organizations," said Matthew Randazzo, the foundation's president and CEO.
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Techstars Seeks Physical Therapy-Focused Startups for Its First North Texas Cohort in Fort Worth
by Kevin Cummings | Feb 25, 2022
Applications opened to startups everywhere on Tuesday.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 24, 2022
Plano-based PICKUP has named Brian Kava, who joined the company in September of last year, as its new CEO. He takes over from Brenda Stoner, who founded the company and has led it since 2014.
One of his goals is to continue to grow PICKUP, which serves 80 U.S. markets with a more than 200-person team.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 24, 2022
The research team recently unveiled an imaging microchip that can see through low-visibility environments like fog, smoke, and snow. The product of more than 15 years of research, it could one day help drivers and autonomous vehicles detect objects in low-visibility conditions, assist manufacturers in package inspection, and help firefighters navigate through smoke and fire.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 24, 2022
Last week, Dallas-based BaCo Tech—whose accounting platform turns redundant CPA tasks into "touch-it-once" solutions—rebranded itself as Once Accounting Technologies. Today, it became one of two Dallas-area startups selected for the 2022 Startup Accelerator, sponsored by the American Institute of CPAs and CPA.com.
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The Metroplex Civic and Business Association (MCBA) recently welcomed Dallas-based property tax advisory firm RETC Group to its growing list of partner companies. [Image: Courtesy MCBA]
Metroplex Civic & Business Association, Building Partnerships Today for A Better DFW Tomorrow
by The Metroplex Civic & Business Association | Feb 24, 2022
The MCBA helps businesses and their employees become more connected to their communities, so both they and the region continue to thrive.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 23, 2022
Emerging from stealth this quarter, Deposits.com, a platform that Co-Founder and CEO Joseph Akintolayo describes as the “Shopify of banking," is looking to add financial literacy and wellness tools to its technology. It plans to do that in a partnership with Utah-based MX, a financial data platform valued at $1.9 billion.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 23, 2022
McKinney-based CourMed, a concierge health care services delivery company, has expanded with a regional office in Miami Beach and a growing presence in several Western states.
“There's an opportunity for us to really create something new in the marketplace that doesn't exist,” its founder and CEO Derrick Miles tells Dallas Innovates. “This is a totally different type of care. We call it the antithesis of seven-minute medicine.”
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by David Seeley |
Feb 23, 2022
The spinout from Trend Micro has grown fast since its launch within that company in 2018. In 2021, the Security Operations Center (SOC)-as-a-Service startup doubled its client base with global revenue up more than 100%. Cysiv also won Tech titans' 2021 Fast Tech Award with 1,848% three-year revenue growth.
Its CEO and co-founder, Partha Panda, tells us how Cysiv helps clients detect and respond to the "needle-in-a-haystack true threats" they worry about most.
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The banner above is being presented again as a tribute to its designer, the late Norman Dean Williams, who was a founder and owner of Elm Street Tattoo. [Photo: Deep Ellum Foundation]
Deep Ellum Celebrates Its Tattoo Artists With New Streetlight Banners
by David Seeley | Feb 23, 2022
The Deep Ellum Foundation has installed new streetlight pole banners showcasing the work of local Deep Ellum tattoo artists. Here's a gallery of the designs you'll see if you walk or drive through the neighborhood.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 22, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Accenture's virtual objects in 3D environments, American Security Products' physical article exchange using a smart safe, Arm Ltd.'s tracking events of interest to mitigate attacks, Bank of America's interbot communication, BNSF's railroad virtual track block system, Capital One's payment card with removable insert and identification elements, Intellective AI's anomalous stationary object detection and reporting, Reliant Immune Diagnostics' code trigger telemedicine session, Siemens Healthcare's next-gen MRI spine evaluation, and Textron Innovations's stowable wing aircraft with dual, fuselage-mounted engines.
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by Capital One |
Feb 22, 2022
Takeaways from the latest Capital One Business Survey, capturing the sentiment among small business owners experiencing burnout and their enduring optimism for the year ahead.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 22, 2022
Trey Bowles, a longtime startup champion in DFW, will helm Fort Worth's Techstars physical therapy-focused accelerator. "It's a big win for the region," Bowles says. "Customers and capital are the things that help startups grow."
Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth is the first accelerator for Techstars in North Texas—and the "first true accelerator in Fort Worth," says HSC's Cameron Cushman, a key player in attracting the program.
Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth is the first accelerator for Techstars in North Texas—and the "first true accelerator in Fort Worth," says HSC's Cameron Cushman, a key player in attracting the program.
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