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North Texas’ Tech Exits of 2018

by | Feb 20, 2019
Here are some of the notable deals from last year.
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Dallas Invents: 104 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 12
by | Feb 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Groupchatter's wireless group alerting or messaging • Match Group's profile matching • Toyota's methods for adjusting vehicle parameters according to merging lanes • Verizon and Redbox's system for a media-on-demand-based programming channel • TXU Energy's analyzed energy usage and home automation • An unassigned patent for an alarm that could prevent a passenger from being left in a vehicle
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Texas Rangers Golf Club: High Tech Becomes Par for the Course
by | Feb 19, 2019
The golf carts being used at the new course have a high-tech system with GPS, the ability to summon a beverage cart, and even a feature to shut down your cart if you venture too close to a hazardous boundary.
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DI People: Sabre, Ryan, SpotSee Announce Leadership Moves
by | Feb 19, 2019
Also, you’ll find news from GDC Technics, HPY, and Medical City Fort Worth in this roundup of leadership and personnel activity involving companies in North Texas.
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Texas Healthcare Challenge Recap, StackPath Helps Form Kinetic Edge Alliance, Topgolf Moves Into Esports

by | Feb 16, 2019
From tech bytes (IBM, UTD, Physmodo) to accolades (Masergy, McKinney, and more) to our weekly top 10 (Angie's List parent acquires Fixd Repair), here's your rundown on ideas and innovation in North Texas.
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Health Wildcatters Hacks Healthcare with First Texas Challenge
by | Feb 16, 2019
The first Texas Healthcare Challenge was a hackathon aimed at solving some of the largest problems plaguing the modern healthcare industry. Great minds of diverse education, careers, and social backgrounds came together in ad hoc teams to solve some of healthcare's largest challenges. Here are the winners and finalists of the 2019 Texas Healthcare Challenge.
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Startup Funding: Who Got the Money in 2018
by | Feb 15, 2019
Regardless of what type of funding it is—seed, venture capital, angel, or corporate—here are 17 North Texas companies that successfully pulled in capital to back their ventures.
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Look Inside: VITAS Healthcare Opens New Hospice Care Facility in Dallas’ Southern Sector
by | Feb 15, 2019
The state-of-the-art wing at Methodist Dallas Medical Center attends to the spectrum of patient needs, whether medical, emotional, social and spiritual. The care model includes massage and music therapy, pet visits, and a veterans’ program. Take a look inside the 13,000-square-foot Inpatient Hospice Unit with a photo tour.
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Follow the Money: ReCode Nets $1M, Monarc Gets $700K, PanOptis Makes Exit
by | Feb 14, 2019
You’ll also find news about Kanarys, Trend Forward Capital, Pegasus Resources, TPG Capital, SWK Holdings Corp., Lone Star Funds, and U.S. Renal Care in this roundup of investment, merger, and acquisition activity involving investors and businesses with ties to North Texas.
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Meet the Innovators:
Corey Clark, BALANCED Media Technology
Collectively, Clark and his team have started a number of tech and gaming companies in the region, have strong ties to SMU, and see Dallas-Fort Worth as primed to be the next big technology center in the country. They want to be leaders in that mission.
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Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 5
by | Feb 13, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Medhab's fall detection system • Qantu Therapeutics' vaccine formula to prevent and treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's • Sirius XM's vehicle telematics • Skycam's method of classifying and transmitting data from an event • Tango Network's control of mobile device calls, text messages and data usage while operating a motor vehicle • UT and UNTHSC's iron garnet nanoparticles for cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy
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Look Inside: 2019 Dallas Innovates Magazine Reception

The region's most innovative minds join Dallas Innovates to celebrate North Texas' 'Breakout Moment.'
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Q+A: Stackpath Takes Users Closer to the ‘Edge’
by | Feb 12, 2019
The experts in edge at Stackpath—Lance Crosby and Ben Gabler—explain how their new platform will allow for a faster and more seamless end user experience, where everything will be simplified.
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Meet the Innovators: Brig. Gen. Michael W. Miller, Viziz Technologies
For Miller, Viziv's mission to “Power the Planet and Bring Light to the World” has more to do with improving the quality of life for people everywhere than it does with any specific aspect of our technology.
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DI People: OrderMyGear, Modo, Compass Datacenters Make Leadership Moves
by | Feb 12, 2019
You’ll also find news from 7-Eleven, Riata Capital Group, Adeptus Health, the Amynta Group, and Momentus Institute in this roundup of personnel and leadership news by companies and organizations with ties to North Texas.
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