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News on capital raises, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and grant funding across Dallas-Fort Worth. From early-stage funding to public exits, here’s a look at deals making business news in the region.
Amazon Seller and Amazon Shopping app icons on an iPhone. [Image: Tada Images/Shutterstock]
Threecolts Acquires McKinney-Based DimeTyd to Enhance Profit Recovery Solutions for Amazon Business Clients
by Lance Murray | Feb 14, 2023
DimeTyd has developed an advanced FinOps platform designed to help Amazon vendors and sellers recover lost profits from complex accounting errors.
by Lance Murray |
Feb 14, 2023
Alkegen moved its corporate headquarters from New York to Dallas as it rebranded in January 2022. Its latest deal aligns with the company's long-term strategy to advance its growing portfolio of innovative technologies dedicated to sustainability and human health.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 13, 2023
Las Colinas-headquartered Voz Media has bought the Mega TV business from Miami-based Spanish Broadcasting System Inc. for $64 million.
Voz Media, a conservative Spanish-language news startup, was founded in 2022 to serve the “growing and increasingly influential Hispanic community” in the United States....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 13, 2023
Check out these 31 deals—and North Texas newest unicorns. Last month, two of the three newly minted unicorns in the U.S. were from Dallas.
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Andrew Rosen, managing partner, Kainos Capital [Photo: Kainos Capital]
Kainos Capital Closes its Partners III Fund with $1B in Commitments
by Lance Murray | Feb 10, 2023
The Dallas-based PE firm—whose Fund II portfolio includes North Texas pet food company Muenster Milling and Dallas' BeautyBio—says its newest fund is the largest investment vehicle in Kainos' history.
“Our bench of seasoned investors and operators within the food and consumer sectors helps drive financial and operational performance by working hand-in-glove with management teams,” added Andrew Rosen, managing partner of Kainos.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 9, 2023
The announcement by Atlanta-based Graphic Packaging International is Waco's largest economic development announcement to date. CEO Mike Doss says his company is investing in a recycling pulper for the facility that can transform '15 million paper cups a day" into "high-quality, low-cost coated recycled paperboard."
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by David Seeley |
Feb 8, 2023
We caught up with Batiz, one of Forbes’ richest self-made women, who has a new course on how to “master the game of life”—AliveOS.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 8, 2023
Half the funding came from the Department of Labor, with the other $500K coming from the Department of Education. The innovative teacher residency apprenticeship program is designed to help solve teacher shortages by building a steady pipeline of well-trained teachers. Open to students enrolled in Dallas College’s bachelor’s degree in education program, it allows educators of tomorrow to begin earning while still training.
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Lincoln Property Company Co-CEOs David Binswanger and Clay Duvall. [Photos: Lincoln Property, LinkedIn]
Lincoln Property Co. Announces New Co-CEOs, Major Investment
by Lance Murray | Feb 6, 2023
Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company Commercial has announced the appointment of "a new generation of executive leadership" along with a major investment by funds managed by Stone Point Capital as part of Lincoln's international growth and succession plan.
David Binswanger and Clay Duvall will serve as co-CEOs, succeeding Lincoln Property founder and Chairman Mack Pogue and CEO and President Bill Duvall—both of whom will continue to have an ownership stake in Lincoln.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 2, 2023
The move comes several weeks after Dallas-based Drive Shack—whose portfolio consists of American Golf, Drive Shack, and Puttery—voluntarily delisted from the NYSE.
“We are excited to trade on the OTCQX market to allow efficient, cost-effective access to the U.S. capital markets and transparent trading for our investors as we drive to increase shareholder value in the public markets,” said Hana Khouri, the company's president and CEO.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 25, 2023
McKinney-based bakery and dessert manufacturer Cookies-n-Milk has been acquired by Ohio-based JTM Foods, a portfolio company of Tenex Capital Management, a New York City-based investment firm....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 23, 2023
Caris Life Sciences, the Irving-based biotech company, announced Thursday that it closed a senior secured term loan providing up to $400 million in capital from OrbiMed and Braidwell, bringing its funding total since 2018 to roughly $1.7 billion....
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Frisco’s Blue Star Innovation Partners Invests in Atlanta Telecom Software Provider
by Lance Murray | Jan 20, 2023
Blue Star Innovation Partners, a Frisco-based growth focused investment firm that partners with leading software and payments companies, has invested in Sonar Software, an Atlanta-based provider of BSS & OSS solutions for internet service providers, Blue Star announced.
“We view Sonar as a leader in the telecommunications technology market and believe there are attractive opportunities to accelerate growth and to better serve our existing customers,” Jeff Gardner, partner at Blue Star Innovation Partners, said in a statement....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 19, 2023
Newly renamed from Morningstar Partners LP, TXO Energy Partners has applied to list its common units on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TXO.” The initial public offering price is expected to be between $19 and $21 per common unit.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 19, 2023
Plano-based IT services firm Improving said the deal is expected to increase its annualized revenue exceeding $275 million and will further its geographic reach throughout the U.S. and Latin America. In addition to its Plano HQ, Zigatta has offices in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 17, 2023
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