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Each weekday, Dallas Innovates brings you up to date on what you may have missed in the region’s innovation, technology, and impact news. From startup to enterprise, education to invention, and creative to social innovation, here’s our daily mix of what’s new and next in Dallas-Fort Worth.…
News travels fast. We’re here to help you keep up.
Each weekday, Dallas Innovates brings you up to date on what you may have missed in the region’s innovation, technology, and impact news. From startup to enterprise, education to invention, and creative to social innovation, here’s our daily mix of what’s new and next in Dallas-Fort Worth.…
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Event details courtesy of organizers.
Hosted by Red Bull
Harwood District
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
The Red Bull Racing Show Run will arrive in Dallas for the first time, taking over the Harwood District area for an unforgettable experience where the spectators’ hearts will race nearly as fast as an F1 car.…
The Water Cooler at Pegasus Park is becoming the gathering spot for high-impact nonprofits. The social impact hub, named after the proverbial water cooler collisions that foster community and ideas, has announced its “next 15” tenants.
The 15 nonprofits were picked after a competitive application process last summer.…
Industrial isn’t the sexiest of sectors—but it attracts many suitors who desire value and growth over flash and splash. Just look at Dallas-based Sole Source Capital. Today it announced it has raised $555 million for its second industrial-focused fund, a significant oversubscription from its initial $400 million target. …
Small businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth and across Texas just got a new potential funding source: Four Houston-based finance leaders have launched the $275 million GP Capital Partners fund.
The fund is structured as a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) through the U.S.…
Inc.’s 2021 list of founder-friendly investment firms shines a light on investors that support founder-led companies. This year—at 146 firms—it’s the biggest list yet.
The Inc. list recognizes firms that “entrepreneurs can trust and collaborate with while receiving the financial support they need to help accelerate growth,” Inc.…
Plano-based AmplifAI, an artificial intelligence startup dedicated to improving employee satisfaction, has closed on an $18.5 million round of Series A funding led by Greycroft, a seed-to-growth venture capital firm located in New York and Los Angeles.
The capital is comprised of $12.5 million in equity funding and $6 million in venture debt from Comerica Bank.…
Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. …
Irving-headquartered Signature Biologics, a regenerative medicine company, has joined the ranks of the Rare Disease Company Coalition.
The RDCC, formed in May 2021, aims to be a unified voice of life science companies committed to discovering, developing, and delivering rare disease treatments
Signature Biologics, which is currently pursuing several pre-clinical products aimed to provide new solutions to patients with rare diseases, manufactures perinatal-derived products that could improve the body’s natural healing processes.…
If golf can turn into gamified entertainment at venues like Puttery and BigShots, just imagine what you can do with a shuffleboard. Well, Electric Shuffle has—and it’s coming soon to Deep Ellum in Dallas.
The U.K.-based chain of bar-eateries “reimagines” shuffleboard with “unparalleled vision technology” for an immersive, highly social experience.…
A new investment firm has launched with offices in Dallas and New York City—and relationships will be a key driver of its growth investment strategy. Robert Covington, a former partner at RedBird Capital Partners, today announced the launch of Braemont Capital.…
MLTPLY, an investment and accelerator platform, wants to help insurtech entrepreneurs bring their ideas to market. Fast.
The Dallas-based platform, which launched this week, was created to help seed-stage companies “cut through red tape”—and get to market up to 18 months sooner than they would on their own.…
Across North Texas, companies are promoting and hiring people to take on leadership positions within their organizations.
Dallas Innovates covers prominent personnel moves in Dallas-Fort Worth from startups to big-name corporations. Here are six people you need to know right now—and why.…
Last week, BUiLT International celebrated its one-year anniversary as a non-profit organization working to advance the representation and participation of Black people in tech. Peter Beasley, the co-founder of the organization, was voted in as chairman of the board for another year. …
The Shadow CEO is an ongoing series with tips for entrepreneurs from serial founder and high-tech industry veteran Dennis Cagan, who has served on sixty-seven for-profit corporate boards, including ten publicly traded companies.
Many first, second, and even third-time founders get themselves into bad situations that could be avoided if they knew more about how corporate governance and equity distribution worked in early-stage companies.…
From commanding officers to soldiers on the ground, the U.S. military needs a way to ensure mission readiness, duty status, and more. Today Dallas-based Adyton launched its Mustr app, a new accountability tool it hopes will “transform the Department of Defense into a twenty-first century, mobile-enabled organization.”…
Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. …
⟫ GOT LOTS OF MILK? Frisco-based Dairy.com, the leading provider of tech, services, and intelligence platforms to the dairy industry, has acquired New Delhi, India-based Mr.Milkman, an SaaS platform that manages milk distribution subscriptions and deliveries. Financial terms were not disclosed.…
