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Qount CEO Peter Miele (left) and CMO Greg Pope [Photos: LinkedIn]
Plano Accounting Practice Software Firm Qount Raises $17M, Gets New CEO and CMO
by Lance Murray | Feb 5, 2025
Along with the addition of CEO Peter Miele and CMO Greg Pope—both former Thomson Reuters executives—the funding round will accelerate Qount’s growth and its investments in AI to continue automating practice management and service delivery workflows, the company said.
by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
The creator of the AI-led intelligent automation platform Krista had announced a $15 million equity round in 2022 tied to its Series A. The new funding is slated for R&D, advancing Krista’s AI capabilities, and strengthening its market position globally, the company said.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
Ready to get physical? National outdoor family entertainment franchise Launch Entertainment is making a foray into North Texas with locations in Arlington and Lewisville. The Arlington location will feature a Krave restaurant and bar to help satisfy play-fueled appetites.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 5, 2025
Appearing in lifelike, life-size 3D realism on your next Grapevine Mills mall visit: an interactive encounter with characters like Sonic the Hedgehog, comedian Howie Mandel, a velociraptor, and more.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AT&T's autonomous aerial vehicle projection zone selection
- Blue Yonder's price-demand elasticity as feature in machine learning model for demand forecasting
- BNSF Railway's multi-objective systems for optimally assigning train blocks at a railroad merchandise yard
- Gemini IP's universal core blockchain wallets for accelerated network additions
- Kepler GTL's systems for producing sustainable aviation fuel
- McKesson's methods for automated prescription preparation
- Meta Platforms' remote radio unit with reduced volume and increased thermal efficiency
- PrivacyChain's peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed data management system
- T-Mobile's machine learning monitoring of wireless network infrastructure application servers
- Toyota's knowledge transfer for early unsafe driving behavior recognition
- USAA's self-charging unmanned vehicle
- Verily Life Sciences' intraocular micro-display system with intelligent wireless power delivery
- Wells Fargo's systems for determining a next action based on entities and intents
Patented: USAA’s Detection Systems for Fake Voice Commands to Smart Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 5, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 31 with a total of 163 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
McKesson said it will acquire an 80% interest in the provider of general ophthalmology and retina management services. PRISM Vision physicians will continue to retain a 20% interest in their company.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
With the relocation, Globe Life said it retains more than 2,000 jobs in McKinney and plans to continue growing its workforce over time to support its growing policyholder base.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
PepsiCo's free Party Pack—which will include Doritos, Tostitos dips, and Pepsi Zero Sugar—will be delivered to eligible Frisco residents by Wing drones Feb. 8-9, in time for the Super Bowl matchup of the Chiefs vs. the Eagles.
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Trez Capital Co-Chief Executive Officers John Hutchinson and John Maragliano [Photo: Business Wire]
Trez Capital Announces New Co‑CEO and More C‑Suite Moves
by Lance Murray | Feb 4, 2025
Fintech veteran John Maragliano joins current chief executive John D. Hutchinson in the co-CEO roles, the investment firm announced. Founded in 1997, Trez Capital offers private and institutional investors strategies to invest in a variety of opportunistic, fully secured mortgage investment funds, syndication offerings, and real estate joint-venture investments.
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by David Seeley and Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
SuperOps—which opened its U.S. office in Dallas last May—said it intends to use the new funding to expand its AI research and development, scale its offerings for mid-market and enterprise MSPs, and further extend its global reach.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 4, 2025
Fort Worth has taken off like a rocket in population growth (it had the largest numeric population gain of any city in America in 2022). Now there's speculation that actual real-life rockets could be launched into space from near the Panther City, according to a 2025 Tarrant County Commercial Real Estate Forecast discussion between Corriente Advisors CEO Mark Hart and Robert Allen, president and CEO of the Fort Worth Economic Development Partnership.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 31, 2025
The Reserve will feature a series of "one-of-a-kind water features" including a half-mile canal loop, a boardwalk plaza, and a six-acre lake, Stillwater Capital said. A new city hall and adjacent hotel, restaurant/retail, and entertainment spaces are also part of the mix.
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Mike Cohen, head of acquisitions at Dalfen Industrial; Park 309, Quakertown, PA [Photos: Dalfen Industrial]
Dallas-Based Dalfen Industrial, Goldman Sachs Partnership Snaps Up 21 Properties for a Reported $293M
by Lance Murray | Jan 30, 2025
The companies have worked together in the logistics real estate sector since 2020, focusing on last-mile industrial properties and distribution centers. The newly acquired portfolio with strategic assets across Dallas, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, and Pennsylvania is 92% leased to 68 tenants, including prominent names such as Amazon, Red Bull, and Packaging Corporation of America.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 30, 2025
The Dallas maternal-fetal medicine practice calls Samsung's Hera Z20—which uses advanced AI and other features to enhance diagnostic accuracy—a "pre-natal game changer for women's health."
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 30, 2025
DataBank—a data center company providing edge colocation, interconnection, and managed services—said the new funding resulted from "excess investor interest" in its recent $2 billion primary equity round. Total debt and equity raised by DataBank in the past 18 months: nearly $5 billion.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 30, 2025
Ready to channel your inner Oliver, Charles, and Mabel from Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building"? You'll get the chance starting Feb. 8 when Nashville-based The Escape Game debuts its escape room experience in North Texas.
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