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Reata Pharmaceuticals Extends 122K Sublease as it Awaits New HQ Tower in Plano

by | Feb 7, 2020
The pharmaceutical company, which raised $505 million through the sale of shares last year, has already leased 327,400 square feet of space in the under-construction tower.
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Tricolor auto
AI-Powered: Tricolor Reports $30M Investment for Affordable Car Loans
by | Feb 6, 2020
Tricolor uses an AI-powered model that takes into account nontraditional attributes for no-credit and low-income subprime auto loan customers.
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Follow the Money: Shiftsmart Raises $16.3M, Alto Scores $6M, BG Staffing Makes $21.6M Acquisition
by | Feb 6, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Worlds, Tricolor, Puration, Atos, Kriya Capital, Kofile, and more.
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ThinkWhy Launches its Flagship Labor Market Data Platform
by | Feb 6, 2020
LaborIQ pulls from U.S. labor market data to help businesses stay competitive and plan for employment costs.
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Worlds Raises $10M in Series A Funding as Dave Copps’ AI Startup Launches From Stealth

by | Feb 6, 2020
The startup, spun out of Hypergiant Sensory Sciences, plans to use the funding to power its "first-of-its-kind" Extended Reality environment, which can be used to build AI-models to give businesses and organizations a new way to view their physical world.
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Hilti fasteners
High-Tech Nuts and Bolts: Hilti Brings IoT-Enabled ‘Smart’ Fasteners to Construction Industry
by | Feb 5, 2020
Each connected fastener has a unique identifying code to ease the digital documentation of anchors, screws, and bolts installed on a job site.
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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 28
by | Feb 5, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's methods for determining the correct pronunciation of dictated words, Dolby Laboratories' optical system for image projectors, Fujitsu Limited's efficient message forwarding for distributed resource orchestration, Garrity Power Services' wireless headset, Lynntech's undersea vehicle and method for operating a reactor, Plano Molding's flexible wildlife feeder and closure, SecurityProfiling's real-time vulnerability monitoring, and Texas Instrument's crosstalk calibration for multi-channel systems.
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American Airlines Fort Worth headquarters
The Eagle Has Landed: American’s New $350M HQ is 300 Acres of Opportunity
by | Feb 4, 2020
Here's the story behind American Airlines' massive Fort Worth corporate campus that unified 12,000 team members on one site. A project five years in the making, the airline prioritized mobility, connectivity, and wellness in its $350 million, 90-acre expansion.
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Ryder Expands Peer-to-Peer Truck Sharing Platform COOP to North Texas
by | Feb 3, 2020
Ryder allows people to safely share and rent trucks through its peer-to-peer truck sharing platform COOP by Ryder.
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Hedera Hashgraph Joins the Fight Against Coronavirus by Powering a Data Visualization Tool
by | Feb 3, 2020
Dallas' Hedera Hashgraph, which has an enterprise-grade distributed public ledger, is teaming up with blockchain-enabled app developer Acoer to provide useful information on the coronavirus outbreak to scientists, researchers, and journalists.
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Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in January
by | Feb 3, 2020
Take a look back on the stories that grabbed our readers' attention last month.
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Atmos Energy Commits to Methane Emission Reduction by Joining ONE Future

by | Jan 31, 2020
Dallas-based Atmos has become part of a voluntary alliance of natural gas supply chain companies called Our Nation’s Energy Future Coalition.
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Engines, FinTech, Video Games: Dallas-Fort Worth Has Plenty of Growth Markets
by | Jan 30, 2020
Well-known or under the radar, these are technologies and companies that could become household names in our region.
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funding
Follow the Money: Mercado Labs Gets $3.2M, PLH Group Raises $25.7M, Three Agencies Merge to Form $500M Firm
by | Jan 30, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving businesses and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Hilltop Opportunity Partners, On the Road Lending, Mindstream Media, Southwest Media Group, Digital Addix, TPG Growth, Novaria Group, and Trilogy Circuits.
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Matthews
International Developers: Meet Jack Matthews From London (Ontario), Canada
by | Jan 30, 2020
The developer behind South Side on Lamar and the Omni Dallas Hotel is continuing to plan new projects in Dallas.
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