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Follow the Money: Align Capital Closes Second Fund at $450M, AWH Capital Raises $129.8M, VitalTech Makes Acquisition
by Lance Murray | Feb 20, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from TPG, Dean Foods, Caregiver Inc., Blue River Partners, Neuro-Pro Monitoring, and StarRFoam.
by Lance Murray |
Feb 19, 2020
Downtown Dallas Inc. has signed a lease as the first tenant in the 52-story building formerly known as First National Bank Tower. The revamped building is being called "the largest-ever adaptive, historical use development in Texas." Developers used new technologies to meet their aggressive deadline for completion this year.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 19, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AiBUY's dynamic binding of supplemental content to video, Samsung's method for 360-degree video navigation, Daifuku Co.'s automatic tire loader/unloader, DFB's treatment of skin malignancies using nanoparticles of taxanes, and Toyota's assessment of human driving performance using autonomous vehicles.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 18, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership moves by companies and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from the American Heart Association, Comerica, North Texas Angel Network, Sundt Construction, and Hilltop Securities.
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Toyota has issued its fifth green bond to help finance environmentally friendlier vehicles such as the Prius. [Photo: Courtesy Toyota]
Toyota’s $750M Green Bond Backs Buying, Leasing Environmentally Friendly Vehicles
by Lance Murray | Feb 14, 2020
Toyota sees green bonds—this one being their fifth—as an important tool to fund the sale of environmentally friendly vehicles, while providing an attractive option for sustainability investors.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Feb 14, 2020
In Dallas, Opendoor has worked with around 12,000 home buyers and sellers and infused more than $74 million into the small business community.
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![Founded in 2016 by Chief Executive Officer Chris Keaveney (right) and Chief Credit & Analytics Officer Phillip Stegner, the fast-growing education lender has raised a total of $23.4 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. [Photo via Meritize]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Meritize-Co-founders_-Phillip-Stegner-Chris-Keaveney-970-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
Feb 14, 2020
Meritize Connect—launched in a statewide pilot—aims to bridge the gap between job-seekers, training providers, and employers.
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by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
Feb 13, 2020
Tyler Technologies has a workplace culture dedicated to employee well-being, whether that be through its fitness center, collaborative workspaces, or YMCA facility-turned-office building.
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[Image: Andrey Tolkachev via iStock]
Follow the Money: Gas-to-Liquids Developer Greenway Nets $118K, FlyLine Pre-Seeds $500K
by Lance Murray | Feb 13, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Cysiv, Integrity Marketing, iDonate, DocSynk, Varsity Brands, Cushman & Wakefield, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 12, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Frito-Lay's potato chip that has more oil near its outer surfaces, American Leather's seat convertible to a bed, Capital One's authorized data sharing using smart contracts, Google's dynamic digital certificate updating, IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems, Raytheon's shadow mask generation using elevation data, and ROCA Medical's therapeutic treatment kit for allergies based on DNA profiles.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2020
The Series A funding will help the Security Operations Center-as-a-Service provider address the challenges enterprises currently face in protecting their data.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2020
The $8.7 million will allow iDonate to create an SaaS/payments solution that supports new tender types like Apple Pay and Google Wallet as well as international payments.
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[Images: Courtesy The DEC/Common Desk]
The DEC Teams Up With Common Desk Through Events and Office Space
by David Kirkpatrick | Feb 10, 2020
Through the partnership, The Dallas Entrepreneur Center will get around $30K in office and coworking space in Common Desk locations across North Texas.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 10, 2020
Dallas joins New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco among the cities showing the largest month-over-month growth in January tech job postings.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Feb 10, 2020
The developers of Frisco Station envision a day not too far in the future when people have many more transportation options and own fewer cars. They’re not waiting for some solution to just show up in a few years; they’re actively working to accommodate and test new modes of mobility....
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by Sandra Engelland |
Feb 10, 2020
Long before tollways, office parks, upscale neighborhoods, high-volume retailers, and major league sports complexes, a large open field in south Frisco produced one thing. High quality hay....
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