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Catapult Health Founder and CEO David Michel [Photo: LinkedIn]
Teladoc To Acquire Dallas-Based Catapult Health for $65M Cash
by Lance Murray | Feb 12, 2025
Founded in 2010 by CEO David Michel, Catapult Health offers an at-home wellness exam featuring everything members need to collect a blood sample, check blood pressure, and provide other health screening information, followed by a virtual visit with a licensed nurse practitioner.
![From left: Co-founder and CEO Mike Fey and co-founder and chief technology officer Dan Amiga. [Image: Islands]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Islands-co-founders-Mike-Fey-Dan-Amiga-360x203.jpg)
by David Seeley |
Feb 12, 2025
New funding led by New York-based Coatue Management has turned Island—a pioneering category leader in cyber-secure enterprise browsers—into a quadruple unicorn. The move comes just three years after Island emerged from stealth with a game-changing browser, over 100 employees, and nearly $100 million in funding.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 12, 2025
Advanced Therapies Week 2025—a conference focused on the latest innovations in cell and gene therapies, regenerative medicine, and other biotechnologies—attracted industry leaders, researchers, and visionaries to Dallas' Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in late January. Organized by London-based Phacilitate, the 4-day conference acted as a "collaborative hub" showcasing the intersection of cutting-edge science, transformative healthcare solutions, and dynamic regional collaboration.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 12, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 7 with a total of 156 patents granted.
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Joe Park [Photo: Business Wire]
DFW-Based Yum! Brands Exec Named President of ‘Byte by Yum!’ SaaS Platform
by Lance Murray | Feb 11, 2025
Yum! Chief Digital & Technology Officer Joe Park will serve as president of Byte by Yum!, a tech platform enabling easy-to-manage operations across the company's Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Habit Burger & Grill brands.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
Marvin Harris Jr. was a foundry engineer for TriQuint Semiconductor for 17 years until it merged with Qorvo, where he has served for nearly nine years.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
Most recently, Tom Doxey was president of Breeze Airways, where he led the airline through a successful transformation from a startup to profitability in under two years, Southwest said.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
DART's modernization program will focus on five core elements: vehicles, stations and passenger facilities, resiliency, a unified signaling system, and operating facilities.
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Mandy Price [Credit: Lori Wilson]
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Names Kanarys Co‑Founder and CEO as a Managing Director in Dallas
by Lance Murray | Feb 10, 2025
Mandy Price, who will be based in the foundation’s Dallas office, will play a lead role in sourcing new investments for the foundation’s portfolio organizations and will work as an operating partner and board member for those organizations. DRK is one of the largest global venture philanthropy firms dedicated to supporting early-stage, high impact social enterprises.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 9, 2025
Dallas-based distribution company Building Controls & Solutions has been acquired by Platte River Equity, a Denver private equity firm. The seller was Fort Worth-based LKCM Headwaters Investments, which founded BCS in 2019.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Platte River makes control investments in North American industrial companies.
BCS, which has 24 branches across the United States and Canada, is a value-added distributor of building controls, automation, gas detection, and energy management solutions for commercial buildings....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 6, 2025
Plano-based Aligned is a leading technology infrastructure company offering innovative, sustainable and adaptive scale data centers and build-to-scale solutions for global hyperscale and enterprise customers.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 6, 2025
Bestow said its hiring of CPO David Malenoir-Evans and VPs Doug Brewster and Pete Schiller reinforces its ability to "unlock digital transformation and growth across the life insurance industry."
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Drew Walk, co-founder, president, and CEO of Soleo Health [Courtesy photo; DI]
Frisco’s Soleo Health Sold by H.I.G. Capital to Two PE Firms
by Lance Murray | Feb 6, 2025
Soleo provides high-touch specialty pharmacy and infusion services to over 22,000 patients annually nationwide via a network of specialty home infusion pharmacies and ambulatory infusion suites.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 6, 2025
Selerix said the addition of The Benefits eXpert will enable it to create a cutting-edge, all-in-one SaaS benefits platform to help employees learn more about their benefits and drive deeper engagement for employers.
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Fort Worth’s Rainwater Charitable Foundation Awards $600K to 2 Neurodegenerative Disease Researchers
by David Seeley |
Feb 6, 2025
The foundation's annual Rainwater Prizes honor researchers worldwide who are advancing discoveries for diseases caused by tau protein accumulations in the brain. This year's winners include a professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and an Early-Career Scientist honoree at Brown University.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
Dr. Kirk Calhoun was named interim president following the resignation in January of UNTHSC President Sylvia Trent-Adams.
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