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The Last Word: The DRC’s Jarrad Toussant on the New DFW Health Care and IT Talent Pipeline Portal

To help fill those jobs, the DRC—with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies—recently launched a new workforce development tool called the DFW Health Care and IT Talent Pipeline Portal. The online tool provides "expansive, up-to-date data on the supply of and demand for talent for middle-skill jobs."
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Trive Capital Invests in Dallas-Based Formula Wellness, Which Gains New CEO and CFO
by | Mar 21, 2024
Formula Wellness takes a personalized approach to wellness, with key services across nutrition, hormone balance, and aesthetics with the goal of "improving patient longevity inside and out."
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Sweet Expansion: Wow! Donuts & Drips Unveils New Shop in Plano, Brews Up Plans for Richardson
by | Mar 21, 2024
The Sim family's gourmet donut and coffee shop expands its unique blend of artisanal fried dough and innovative brews to more of North Texas with a grand opening of its third location this weekend.

The first-generation immigrants' journey to entrepreneurship is marked by culinary creativity, from small-batch donuts to a coffee menu that will soon include rare, premium brews costing up to $35 per serving.
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Japanese Life Insurance Co. Acquires Nearly 20% of Dallas Global Investment Manager Canyon Partners
by | Mar 21, 2024
Canyon Partners said that all of the net proceeds from the transaction will be retained on its balance sheet and reinvested in the business, providing funding to seed new products and optimally scale existing products.
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Founder and CEO of Frisco-Based Complexity Gaming Buys Esports Franchise Back from GameSquare for $10.36M

by | Mar 21, 2024
Complexity Gaming founder and CEO Jason Lake reacquired his company through the Lake-led investment group Global Esports Properties. The deal, signed earlier this month, is expected to close shortly. GameSquare had acquired Complexity for $27 million in June 2021.
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Dallas’ ParkHub and U.K.’s JustPark To Merge Alongside Strategic Growth Investment
by | Mar 21, 2024
The merger will create a full-service parking software and payments solution for customers across North America and the U.K. Together, ParkHub and JustPark serve more than 20 million drivers and more than 500 B2B customers, representing more than $1 billion in booking volume.
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NTXIA Partners with UTA and UTD To Launch Urban Resilience Fellowship
by | Mar 21, 2024
Through the program, the North Texas Innovation Alliance will connect university students with community and industry partners to develop "innovative solutions to improve the everyday lives of the public." They'll do this across a wide range of sectors, from mobility to cybersecurity to sustainability and more.
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Jerry Jones Makes Additional $100M Investment in Frisco-Based Natural Gas Producer Comstock Resources
by | Mar 21, 2024
Jones, who's already the majority shareholder in Comstock Resources, has agreed to make an additional $100.45 million equity investment in the company via two entities he controls.
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Shop Happy: Dallas-Fort Worth Named the No. 8 U.S. Metro for ‘Retail Therapy’

by | Mar 20, 2024
Sure, you could lie on a couch in a shrink's office for 10 years to deal with your fears and anxieties. But why not just go shopping at one of the region's countless shops, stores, and malls?
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Governor Names Inaugural Members of Texas Semiconductor Innovation Consortium Committee at UTD
by | Mar 20, 2024
The executive committee will govern the work of the consortium and work with industry stakeholders to ensure Texas’ place as a national leader in advanced semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing. "We now lead the nation as the No. 1 state for semiconductor manufacturing," Gov. Abbott said.
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Patented: USAA’s Unmanned Vehicle Morphing and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 27, 2024. 169 patents granted include: Adaptive 3D Technologies' use of occluding fluids to augment additive manufacturing processes, Apptricity's flexible radio beacons and flexible delivery structures, Intellective AI's unusual score generators for a neuro-linguistic behavioral recognition system, Micell Medtech Inc.'s polymer coatings containing drug powder of controlled morphology, Microsoft Technology Licensing's autonomous operation of edge-based deployments, and nMetric's cascading notification system.
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Irving’s OnAsset Intelligence Launches Dedicated Aircraft IoT Gateway for Air Cargo
by | Mar 19, 2024
Aircraft gateways deliver a multitude of benefits for shippers, logistics providers, and airlines, OnAsset says—and its Sentry 600 FlightSafe device now extends "real time visibility" for shippers to the aircraft itself, turning it into "a virtual connected warehouse."
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Fresh Meals Platform FreshRealm To Relocate HQ from California to Dallas Area

by | Mar 19, 2024
FreshRealm says its new HQ and facility in Lancaster will enable it to produce "superior short shelf-life meals at a scale and solidify its position in the high-growth fresh meals category." In the last year, FreshRealm has acquired the operational assets of two leading meal kit companies for around $74 million.
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Out of This World: A McDonald’s ‘Test and Learn’ CosMc’s Location Opens Today in Dallas
by | Mar 19, 2024
McDonald's second-ever CosMc's location opened in Dallas Tuesday, offering customizable drinks like Sour Cherry Energy Burst and Churro Cold Brew Frappé, signature sandwiches, sweet-stuffed "McPops" donut holes, and more "out of this world" menu items. More locations are on the way across the Dallas metro area.
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The Last Word: Live Happy’s Deborah Heisz on Wednesday’s International Day of Happiness
by | Mar 19, 2024
Wednesday March 20 is the International Day of Happiness. Established by the United Nations in 2012, the day promotes happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings, in their families, and in their communities. But for Heisz's Dallas-based media company Live Happy, that's the goal 365 days of the year.
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Spinning Success: Dallas Startup Tuned In Grading Acquired by Music Mogul Steve Aoki Just Two Years Post-Launch
by | Mar 18, 2024
With bootstrap funding of less than $500,000 and a passion for vinyl, Rogers Healy and his co-founders at Tuned In Grading revolutionized music collectible authentication. Now, the beat goes on as the company prepares to merge with Steve Aoki's Audio Media Grading
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