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MedVentures Pitch Competition Goes Virtual, Dallas-based Ataia Takes Home the Top Prize

MedVentures' half-day virtual conference, organized by Dallas-based accelerator Health Wildcatters, kicked off the Polsinelli Healthcare Dealmakers Conference.
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Optym's Ravi Ahuja and Vic Keller
‘There’s More Opportunity in an Emerging Market’: Florida Tech Firm Optym is Relocating to North Texas
by | May 14, 2020
Optym, which uses optimization software solutions to make the transportation industry more efficient, plans to hire around 70 at its new HQ at Cypress Waters. Also located there will be the company's newly founded VC firm.
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Infogroup is Giving Government Agencies Data That Could Help COVID-19 Response
by | May 14, 2020
Through a partnership with Esri, Dallas-based Infogroup is providing business data that could help communities recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19.
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Economy in Brief: New Dallas Region Economic Report Shows Initial Impact of COVID-19
by | May 14, 2020
The report, released by the DRC and presented by Bank of America, offers data and analysis to help the business community make better-informed decisions and give the public a better understanding of more-vulnerable workers in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Amazon’s Hiring 1,500 at a New Site in Oak Cliff, the First to Open in Texas During the Pandemic

by | May 13, 2020
The hiring process for the new fulfillment center will take place over the next eight weeks, starting at the NYLO Hotel in Las Colinas.
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Space Innovation: Hypergiant’s New AI-Driven Remote Satellite Operations (aka H.I.V.E.) Keeps Eyes on the Sky
by | May 12, 2020
CEO Ben Lamm says the mission control software can operate entire satellite constellations from mobile phones in the field. That remote capability is particularly important for critical operations at government and commercial flight operation centers in a pandemic.
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Catapult Health Creates Return-To-Work Programs To Ease Employees’ COVID-19 Concerns
by | May 12, 2020
The Dallas-based healthcare provider hopes to help mitigate risks while easing employee uncertainty as people begin to return to work amid health and safety concerns.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of April 28
by | May 11, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Ahkeo Ventures' inhalable compositions comprising caffeine and apparatus, Alcon's augmented reality ophthalmic surgical microscope projection, AT&T's embedding interactive objects into a video session, DiscGenics' human disc tissue, Greenway Innovative Energy's syngas generation for gas-to-liquid fuel conversion, Halliburton's nano-particle reinforced well screen, and McKesson's methods for determining patient adherence to a prescribed medication protocol.
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Fort Worth’s ECI Software Solutions Opens to a New Market With Latest Acquisition

by | May 11, 2020
ECI, which provides cloud-based business management solutions, will now be able to reach smaller custom builders and home remodelers with the acquisition of BuildTools.
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Southwest Airlines Finds Ways to Support Customers and Communities in the Pandemic
by | May 11, 2020
From new cleaning technology to nonprofit support to flights for healthcare workers, the airline is working for the safety and peace of mind of its customers—and the greater good.
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top 10 most popular stories on Dallas Innovates in March 2020
Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in April
by | May 8, 2020
Take a look back on the stories that grabbed our readers' attention amidst the COVID-19 outbreak last month. We've got learning in the living room, mask makers, how Vari is 'work spacing' the workspace, Jacobs' response to the pandemic, and more.
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DI People: McKesson, Bell, Take Command Health, and More Make Moves
by | May 8, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from C-Hear, Ware Malcomb, WelCel, VertexOne, and more.
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How Dallas’ Travelocity (and its Roaming Gnome) Are Keeping Globetrotting Alive—and Your Zooms Interesting

by | May 7, 2020
You could win $250.
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To the Moon: NASA Johnson Space Center Awards Jacobs a $478M Contract Extension
by | May 6, 2020
As NASA's largest services provider, the contract—valued at more than $1.9 billion total—continues Jacobs' almost 20-year relationship with the NASA space center.
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Virtual Recruiter: Dallas’ Knack Launches a Free App for Job-Seeking Engineers
by | May 6, 2020
In an effort to help tech workers displaced by COVID-19, Knack for Engineers matches qualifications with remote jobs from leading companies.
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Startup Success: Dallas-based DartPoints Gets Majority Investment from Astra Capital Management
by | May 6, 2020
DartPoints will now be able to accelerate and expand its buy and build strategy, which involves acquiring existing data centers and building out edge colocation data centers.
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