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• Three Southern Dallas Projects Awarded $21M in Federal RAISE GrantsNov 23
• ‘Gaming’s Biggest Night’: Plano‑Based Cinemark Will Screen The Game Awards Live December 9Nov 23
• Fort Worth Is One of Two U.S. Cities to Host Acclaimed ‘Attack on Titan’ Manga/Anime ExhibitNov 22
• I-35 Deck Park by Dallas Zoo Will Have Major Wow Factor—and a Driving MissionNov 22
• Dallas Mayor Releases Major ‘Upskilling Dallas’ Report to Help Drive Workforce DevelopmentNov 19
• McKinney-Based Autix Wins CodeLaunch DFW Competition with Auto Enthusiasts PlatformNov 18
• 14 Dallas-Area Companies Make the Deloitte 2021 Tech Fast 500 ListNov 17
• Texas Will Get Billions for Environmental Projects from $1.2T Infrastructure Bill, from Clean Water to EV Charging to Public TransitNov 16
• Fort Worth-Founded Booster Partners With Renewable Energy Group to Deliver Carbon-Cutting Fuels to FleetsNov 15
• Dallas’ CyrusOne Data Centers Acquired for $15B in Cash by KKR and Global Infrastructure PartnersNov 15
• Who’ll Be the Big Winner? CodeLaunch DFW Startup Event Will Feature Three Dallas-Area FinalistsNov 12
• $11.5M NVIDIA Collaboration Will Put SMU ‘in the Fast Lane for Artificial Intelligence’Nov 11
• Two Dallas VCs Make First Three Investments in Food and Beverage ‘Disrupters’ from $15M CPG FundNov 10
• Walmart Is Building Two Dallas-Area Facilities That Are So High Tech, 400 New Jobs Will Require STEM SkillsNov 9
• Dallas Mayor Names Pinnacle Group CEO Nina Vaca as Dallas’ First Entrepreneur-in-ResidenceNov 8
• Dallas-Based Vaxxinity Prepares for $100M IPO; Aims to Turn Immune Systems Into ‘Antibody Factories’Nov 8
• Global Entrepreneurship Week Fort Worth Offers Pitch Competition, Investor Forum, UTA Events, and More Nov. 7-12Nov 4
• Dallas-Fort Worth Ranks No. 3 in the U.S. in Metro-to-Metro MigrationNov 4
• Pudu Robotics Offers Free Trials of Its Food Delivery Robot to Dallas RestaurantsNov 3
• New Texas Instruments Converter Can Double Battery Power Output, Extend Battery Life Up to 20 PercentNov 3
• UTA Team Develops Device That Can ‘Read the Blood Through the Skin’Nov 2
• Dallas-Based CONTI Capital Launches New Fund to Raise $150M to Acquire and Develop Multifamily Properties—Vertical and HorizontalNov 2
• Dallas-Based Jacobs Acquires BlackLynx to Strengthen Its Cyber and Intelligence OfferingNov 1
• Irving-based Fluor Gets $1.16B Contract Extension for Navy Nuclear Propulsion WorkNov 1
• New Bank of America Platform Helps Women-Owned Businesses Find Funding SourcesOct 29
• The DEC Network Awarded $1M Grant from SBA’s Community Navigator Pilot ProgramOct 29
• Champion Impact Capital Launches Investment Platform to Match North Texas Tech Entrepreneurs with Potential FundersOct 28
• Hall Group Begins Work on a $7B Reimagining of Frisco’s Hall ParkOct 28
• Two Celebrated Golf Course Architects Are Turning a Frisco Landscape into PGA MasterpiecesOct 27
• Mark Cuban, Drug Czar: Mavs Owner Is Launching an Online Pharmacy to Help Solve Skyrocketing Prescription CostsOct 26
• Tech Titans Releases List of the 22 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies in North TexasOct 26
• North Texas’ Grandscape Named World’s ‘Most Innovative Retail and Entertainment Project’ at London’s RLI AwardsOct 25
• OncoNano Caps $68.4M Series B Round With $18.4M Equity Investment From CPRIT for Cancer-Fighting Tech and TherapiesOct 25
• UT Southwestern Team Awarded $8.8M to Participate in Genomic Variation ConsortiumOct 25
• TCU Neeley School of Business Wins Major GCEC Award for Third Straight YearOct 25
• MilkSpace, Mama Moore’s Gourmet Popcorn Win Top Prizes at VWEC’s 4BUSINESSRECOVERY PitchOct 22
• North Texas Companies Make Newsweek’s List of America’s 100 Most Loved WorkplacesOct 22
• LinkedIn Report: Dallas-Fort Worth Is One of the Top 5 ‘Fastest Growing Cities for Entrepreneurs’Oct 21
• Dallas Nonprofit Launches ‘Camp Connections Respite’ for Caregivers of Kids and Teens with DisabilitiesOct 20
• Dallas Fintech Names Industry Heavyweights to Advisory Board After Oversubscribed $3.5M Seed RoundOct 20
• Richardson Launches New Office of Innovation & Placemaking InitiativesOct 19
• Dallas’ Vigilant Software Launches Verify Labeling Platform for Hospital ICUs Overwhelmed by COVIDOct 19
• Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance Raises $10M for Historic ‘Rapid Rehousing’ ProgramOct 18
• Plano-Based Toyota North America Will Build a $1.29B Battery Plant in the U.S. Could it Be Coming to Texas?Oct 18
• Red Bull Racing Show Run Roars Into Downtown Dallas’ Harwood DistrictOct 15
• Will Dallas-Fort Worth Get Its Own HyperLoop or Bullet Train Line? Open Houses Take Us One Step CloserOct 14
• Dallas’ Sole Source Capital Raises $555M for Its Second Industrial-Focused FundOct 13
• Texas-Based GP Capital Partners Launches $275M Small Business Fund—With a Key Focus on Texas CompaniesOct 13
• Texas Instruments Unveils Breakthrough 3D Position SensorOct 12
• A New 24-Story, Class AA Office Tower Is Coming to Plano’s Legacy WestOct 11
• High-Tech U.K. Bar Concept Electric Shuffle Is About to Slide Into Deep EllumOct 8
• Former RedBird Capital Partner Launches Braemont Capital, a New ‘Relationship-Driven’ Equity FirmOct 8
• Plano-Based Frito-Lay Invests in Its Manufacturing Sites, Hiring Nearly 15,000 Frontline Workers in 2021Oct 7
• UNT Health Science Center Gets $50M to Use AI to Rectify Health DisparitiesOct 7
• Fort Worth’s Elbit Systems of America Wins $76M U.S. Army Contract for Apache Helicopter Sight SystemsOct 6
• Dallas-based Adyton Launches Mustr App to ‘Revolutionize’ How Critical-Mission Military Teams OperateOct 6
• Follow the Money: Dairy.com Acquires Mr.Milkman; Takkion Acquires Airway Services; Events Planning Startup Fêtefully Receives $1.3M Seed RoundOct 5
• GM Is Investing $55M in a ‘State-of-the-Art’ Renovation of Its Arlington Assembly PlantOct 5
• The Texas Blockchain Summit Will Feature Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and Other Cryptocurrency BoostersOct 5
• Republic Services Opens $18M Technical Institute in Southwest Dallas to Train Diesel TechsOct 4
• Dallas ‘DocStars’ on COVID and Pregnancy, Cancer and Spine Studies, and Working Till Midnight on Early-Stage ResearchOct 4
• Reimagining Communities: CPAL’s Alan Cohen Wants to Cut Dallas Childhood Poverty in Half Within a Single GenerationOct 1
• Plano-Based Tentacle Launches Tech Platform To ‘Transform the Information Security Space’Sep 30
• Thermal Packaging Tech Innovator PTG Expands to Fort Worth with New Manufacturing CenterSep 30
• Dallas’ Esposure Teams Up with Cryptomining Startup Salad to Help Gamers Earn Rewards By ComputesharingSep 29
• Dallas-Area Startup ASD.ai Gets $1M Angel Investment for its Rootines App, a “Digital Diary” for the NeurodiverseSep 29
• GMC and General Motors Team Up With Dallas-Based Marcus Graham Project To Increase Diversity in Media, Marketing, and AdvertisingSep 28
• Report: Dallas Makes List of Top-Ranked Global Startup Ecosystems for Second Straight YearSep 28
• ClubCorp CEO on Dallas as a ‘Golf Mecca,’ the $100M BigShots Golf Expansion, and How Tech Is Changing the GameSep 27
• Trive-Backed Karman Systems Acquires Systima Technologies, Speeding Its Push Into Space and Hypersonic MarketsSep 24
• Raytheon Intelligence & Space Opens a New Intelligent Manufacturing Center at Its McKinney CampusSep 24
• Changemakers Will Explore Transformational Leadership and Innovative Strategies at Virtual SummitSep 23
• OncoNano Expands Research Collaboration With UT Southwestern to Advance New Cancer TherapiesSep 22
• Aurora Will Test Its Fleet of Self-Driving, Ride-Hailing Toyota Robotaxis in DallasSep 21
• Dallas-Based Arcis Golf Acquires Prosper’s Gentle Creek CC, Its Sixth Acquisition in Two Months and 66th Property OverallSep 21
• Gov. Greg Abbott Meets With Small Business Owners at Dallas Farmers MarketSep 20
• Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Small Businesses Fellows Internship Program in DallasSep 17
• Governor’s Commissioner for Women Pitch Winners Include a Human Trafficking Scholar and a 10-Year-Old Fashion CEOSep 16
• DFW Goes LEGO Crazy: From the Perot Museum to a 12-Year-Old Cedar Hill NASA Intern to a STEM-Loving Dallas Tech Star and MoreSep 16
• Stacy’s Pita Chips Partners with Reese Witherspoon to Amplify Female Founders and Announces the 2021 Stacy’s Rise Project FinalistsSep 15
• Dallas’ Ben Lamm and Harvard’s Dr. George Church Plan to “De-Extinct” the Woolly Mammoth With Their Colossal New StartupSep 13
• Amazon Is Investing $1.2B to Provide College Tuition and Skills Training for Its EmployeesSep 9
• Southwest Airlines Launches New Cargo Booking Portal for Coast-to-Coast ShippingSep 9
• LibDib—’The Airbnb of Alcohol Distribution’—Partners With Grand Prairie’s RNDC To Give Craft Spirits Makers Access to Texas-Wide MarketSep 8
• Galaxy Vets Is Launching an Employee Co-Owned Vet Healthcare System in North TexasSep 7
• Global EV Charging Firm Wallbox Selects Arlington for Its First North American PlantSep 1
• Bank of America Set a Company Record for Patents Granted In the First Half of 2021. One Big Reason? Addison’s Manu Kurian.Sep 1
• First Look: Drive Shack Opens Its Debut Puttery Location Friday at Grandscape in The ColonyAug 31
• Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Raises $85M and Expands Operations in AllianceTexas, With 500+ New Jobs Planned by 2025Aug 31
• Why Apple Chose Plano’s Argent Associates for Its Impact Accelerator ProgramAug 30
• The [email protected] Offers BIG iDEA DALLAS Program for Black FoundersAug 27
• Dallas’ MyndVR and Healing HealthCare Systems Offer Virtual Escapes for Seniors and Care Home ResidentsAug 27
• Fort Worth’s Skeeter Hawk Is Out to Conquer Mosquitoes For Labor Day Weekend and BeyondAug 26
• Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott Is Leading 7- Eleven’s ‘Superfan Influencer Team’ With Juju Smith-Schuster and Erin AndrewsAug 25
• More Than 1,300 Dallas County Nonprofits Sign Up for North Texas Giving Day, Coming September 23rdAug 24
• Dallas’ Trive Capital Forms Thriving Brands, Acquires Right Guard and Dry Idea From Germany’s HenkelAug 24
• Irving-Based Nexstar Media Acquires Digital Political News Platform The Hill for $130MAug 23
• If Rivian Builds Its $5 Billion Plant in Fort Worth, It Would Be “A Huge Economic Generator for the Region”Aug 20
• UK’s Quorn Grows Meatless Presence in U.S. with $335M Investment and a New Culinary Development Center in the Dallas AreaAug 19
• Fort Worth’s Jeff Bond Didn’t Like What He Was Finding On Job Staffing Sites. So He Launched His Own.Aug 19
• Infrastructure Giant AECOM Is Moving Its HQ From L.A. to DallasAug 18
• Rural College Promise Program Launches with $3.1M Grant from the Greater Texas FoundationAug 18
• BioNTX Will Hold Its 2021 IC3 Life Science Summit Sept. 30-Oct. 1 with a “Reignite” ThemeAug 17
• Lewisville’s Overhead Door, Innovator of the Modern Garage Door and Garage Door Opener, Celebrates 100th BirthdayAug 17
• Westlake’s Virbac Announces Availability of New Dog Cancer Treatment Across the U.S.Aug 16
• Dallas-based Pursuant on 2020’s Record Fundraising and Strategies for the ‘Great Resumption’Aug 16
• Dallas’ Flite Golf and Century Golf Pair Up As a Driving Range and Entertainment TwosomeAug 13
• Kainos Capital and Two Family Partners Acquire Innovative Pet Food Makers Muenster MillingAug 12
• Oatly Chooses Fort Worth For Its Newest and Largest North American Oat Milk FacilityAug 12
• Amazon Has Invested $15B in North Texas—And a Total of $29B Across the State—since 2010Aug 11
• 7-Eleven Sends Slurpee Into Space, Achieving Ultimate Triumph of Humankind’s Attempts to Conquer the CosmosAug 11
• UT Dallas and Fullstack Academy Launch Four Bootcamps for Tech ProfessionalsAug 10
• Follow the Money: MODE Global and Integrity Make Acquisitions, Twenty20 Merges With SkyhawkAug 10
• Eddie Bernice Johnson on the Importance of STEM Education in Underserved CommunitiesAug 6
• Dallas Founder Wes Cummins Sells 272 Capital to B. Riley Financial, Secures Energy Source for His Crypto Hosting BusinessAug 6
• Celina’s Housing Boom Heats Up With a Planned 11,000-Home DevelopmentAug 5
• Smart Solution: Jacobs Launches Cloud‑Based App to Help Maximize Infrastructure PlanningAug 4
• Rent-A-Center’s FinTech Arm Acima Releases Digital PlatformAug 4
• Dallas Mobile Vet Startup ReadiVet Raises $2.5M To Bring New Vets and Services to Pets at HomeAug 4
• Get a Grip: Two State-of-the-Art Climbing Gyms Are Opening in DallasAug 3
• Frisco-Based Tijoh Launches Auto Brander, Its Fifth Digital Business Since 2020Aug 3
• FedEx Office Teams With Accenture and River Logic To Optimize Print Production and DeliveryAug 3
• Dallas Cowboys and AT&T Select MatSing Lens Antennas for AT&T StadiumAug 2
• Topgolf Names New COO of U.S. Venues, New CMO, and New Chief People OfficerAug 2
• Dallas-Based Applied Blockchain Launches Crypto Hosting BusinessJul 31
• Former Topgolf COO Craig Kessler Named New CEO of Dallas’ Buff City SoapJul 30
• The Man Factor: Dallas-Based Reproductive Solutions Inc. Offers “First At-Home Solution” For Filling The IVF CupJul 29
• Watch Out Wyoming: Could the Texas Blockchain Council Turn Texas Into America’s Blockchain and Crypto Capital?Jul 28
• TPG Rise Climate Raises $5.4 Billion To Help Build Climate Solutions WorldwideJul 27
• A Slice of Fashion: Plano-Based Pizza Hut Drops Tastewear LineJul 27
• RedBird Capital’s Andrew Lauck On Recent Deals, the Firm’s Deep Texas Footprint, and Playing the Long GameJul 26
• Dallas’ Granite Properties and Other Local Firms Make the List of “2021 Best Workplaces for Millennials”Jul 23
• Amazon Goes Electric in Fort Worth, Delivering With Rivian EVsJul 22
• Bart Weiss Looks Back at 35 Years of Dallas VideoFest, Before Its Last Hurrah This FallJul 22
• Opendoor Survey Shows 78 Percent Believe Dallas Is a Home Seller’s MarketJul 21
• Dallas-Based Preston Hollow Community Capital Launches $200M IPOJul 21
• Jacobs Named Program Partner for $3.47B DISD 2020 Bond ProgramJul 20
• Grapevine’s 82-Year-Old Wally Funk Joins Jeff Bezos In Space, Makes History As Oldest AstronautJul 20
• Smart City: Irving Wins ‘What Works Cities’ Silver CertificationJul 19
• Dallas Veteran Launches Laundry On Demand Platform, Raises Funds With SMBX Small Business Bonds Jul 19
• Check This Out: Walmart Tests All-Self-Checkout Supercenter in PlanoJul 16
• Frito-Lay CMO Tells Brands to “Innovate or Die” With 10 Tips for Making Innovation Your Secret WeaponJul 15
• Texas Central Signs Up Spain’s Renfe As Early Operator of High-Speed Dallas-Houston RailwayJul 14
• Urban Air Adventure Park Forms Unleashed Brands, Acquires Snapology, a Creative Play CompanyJul 14
• Dallas-Fort Worth Continues To Grow As a Tech Talent Leader, Says CBRE’s ‘Scoring Tech Talent’ ReportJul 13
• Is Your Pet Family? SMU Sociologist Says “Multispecies Families” Impact Birth Rates, Job Location, Disasters, and MoreJul 13
• Flex in Demand: Venture X Partners with Standing Desk Innovator VariJul 12
• Rory McIlroy Invests in Dallas-Based Drive Shack’s PutteryJul 12
• The Future of Mobile: Ericsson Will Collaborate With MIT On ‘Fully Cognitive’ Networks and ‘Zero-Energy’ DevicesJul 12
• AllianceTexas’ Mobility Innovation Zone Partners With Texas A&M Transportation InstituteJul 8
• Frisco-based Powerhandz Partners With LaMelo Ball, Announces MergerJul 8
• Safer Air, Safer Streets: North Texas Center for Mobility Technologies Announces First Two FundingsJul 6
• Texas Offers Women Entrepreneurs a Cash-Prize Pitch CompetitionJul 1
• Bell Textron Will Build a Lab In Arlington With $2.5M from the AEDCJul 1
• A Gen Z Willy Wonka Is Incubating At Dallas’ Envy Gaming—And His Golden Tickets Have a TwistJun 30
• The Citizenry Raises $20M To Grow Its Dallas-Based Artisan Home Décor BrandJun 29
• Capital One Will Become a Hybrid Work Company, Impacting All 5,000+ DFW Associates and 52,000 OverallJun 29
• Stars Do Dallas: How 11 Celebrity Deals and Endorsements Are Building Local BrandsJun 28
• Dallas-Area Belluscura Breathes Lighter Life Into $23B Respiratory Care Devices MarketJun 24
• After Battling Nike in the Supreme Court, Dallas-based YUMS Relaunches Its Streetwear BrandJun 23
• Bedford Biotech Restores “Meaningful Vision” in Blind Patients With Gene Therapy—and May Soon Go PublicJun 22
• Gov. Abbott Signs Teledentistry Bill, Ending Ban and Allowing Virtual Dentistry in TexasJun 22
• North Texas’ Qarbon Aerospace Will Assemble LIFT’s HEXA Flying CarsJun 21
• As Texas Builds a ‘Hempire’ and Cannabis Laws Ease in Baby Steps, Lucky Leaf Expo Returns to Irving July 9-10Jun 17
• Insurtech Firm Integrity Marketing Group Bucks Suburban Trend, Moves to Downtown DallasJun 16
• Solar Panel Breakthrough: UNT Researchers Inkjet-Print 2D Perovskites for Better Flexible PanelsJun 15
• A $4B Giant: Dallas-Based Worldwide Express Merges With GlobalTranzJun 15
• Get the Signal: Texas Instruments Unveils Industry-Leading Breakthrough in High-Speed Data ConvertersJun 14
• Electric Gamebox, an Immersive Group Gaming Platform With Locations in The Colony and the U.K., Raises $11M in Series A2Jun 10
• Waymo Via Partners With J.B. Hunt to Run Robotically Driven Freight From Houston to Fort WorthJun 10
• DRC Launches COVID Vaccine Awareness Campaign (Free Cowboys Tickets, Anyone?)Jun 9
• Kimberly-Clark Partners With Biotech Innovator RWDC To Develop Sustainable Plastic AlternativesJun 8
• EdTech Startup Language Learning Market Expanding Its Corporate HQ in McKinneyJun 8
• ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Stars Eugene and Sarah Levy Appear in Ad Campaign for Capital One Auto NavigatorJun 7
• Immersive Van Gogh Opens at Lighthouse Dallas, a New Arts Venue in Downtown’s East QuarterJun 7
• NACD North Texas Names New Chapter Officers and Board Members for 2021–2022Jun 4
• Good Boy! AT&T’s FirstNet Sends Labradoodles to the Front Lines for First Responder SupportJun 4
• Dallas-Based Buff City Soap Gets New Funding From Equity Firm General AtlanticJun 3
• El Peso Hero Comic Book Series Surpasses 10th Anniversary Kickstarter Goal; Movie In WorksJun 3
• The NTXIA and Marketplace.city Announce Call for New Models to Accelerate InnovationJun 2
• Dallas-Based 7T Offers a Virtual Fit for Apparel Shoppers With Its Sizini AppJun 2
• Robin Autopilot Is Robot-Mowing its Way to a New McKinney HQJun 1
• Recuro Health’s At-Home COVID Rapid Test Platform Featured at Census Bureau and HHS’s TOPx Solutions ShowcaseMay 27
• Dallas-Based Fintech Apex to Speed Equity Trade Settlements with No Two-Day WaitMay 26
• Dallas-Based Fund Night Ventures Is Making Moves in the Creator EconomyMay 26
• American Heart Association’s Precision Medicine Platform and Hitachi Vantara Announce New AllianceMay 25
• Dallas-Based Snipitz Wants to Let You Choose Your Own Live Broadcast POVMay 25
• Mickelson Wins Historic Golf Major at 50: It’s Gotta Be the Shirt!May 24
• Dallas-Based AR Startup ARKH Signs 50/50 Joint Venture With UK-based LithoMay 24
• Tech Titans Will Host a Reverse Pitch Virtual Event June 10thMay 21
• Dallas-Based Synerzip and Merger Partner Prime Technology Group Launch Globally as ExcellarateMay 20
• Stillwater Capital Gets Zoning Approval for The Link, a $1B Mixed-Use Addition to PGA FriscoMay 20
• Hybrid Learning Is Here To Stay, Says AT&T’s 2021 Future of School ReportMay 20
• Dallas Startup Rhithm Raises $4M for Emoji-Based Student Wellness PlatformMay 19
• Tele-tech Firm Dubber Leases Dallas Offices, Launches New Call Recording SolutionsMay 18
• Solera Acquires DealerSocket and Omnitracs, Fueling Public Offering RumorsMay 18
• Innovative Spaces: Hari Mari Opens Flagship Store in Dallas’ Knox DistrictMay 18
• UTD 3D Printing Spinoff Acquired by Desktop MetalMay 17
• Apple Invests $410M in II-VI Inc., Supporting 700+ Jobs in Sherman and Other U.S. CitiesMay 5
• Toyota Just Parked Its Insurance Agency in Plano with First TIMS HQMay 3
• The Dallas Cowboys Are About To Get Thumped — By $700M Recovery Tech Firm HypericeApr 30