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Fort Worth’s Pro-Forma Launches $100K Texas AI Challenge, Bringing Statewide Talent to SMU During Dallas Startup Week
by Quincy Preston | Jun 26, 2025
Texas' first statewide AI pitch competition is open to early-stage founders, with selected teams to pitch live at SMU on August 7. Applications close July 11.
by Quincy Preston |
Jun 26, 2025
While TIME put Maximum Effort and Waymo on its 2025 worldwide covers, Dallas future-shaping companies are in the mix. Two are Dallas-based. Another Texas company—now a $2B brand—got its start here, too.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 26, 2025
Founded in 2024, DataBahn.ai said it's "setting a new benchmark" for how modern enterprises manage and operationalize telemetry across security, observability, IOT/OT, and AI ecosystems.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 25, 2025
Little Elm's Sachchit Balamurugan, an incoming senior at TOPS, flew to Japan Friday to present his ACC cancer detection app at the International Young Researchers’ Conference. He's also won first place at a BPA national mobile app competition, won an award at the NASA Space App Challenge, started a nonprofit called Youth Opportunities in Tech Innovation—and done lots, lots more.
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![Dani Austin, above, and her husband, Jordan Ramirez, co-leaders of Dallas-based Divi, are among the 18 winners of EY’s 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year Southwest Award. Austin launched the brand in 2021 with a focus on science-backed scalp and hair health, growing it into a national name now backed by Norwest and carried by Ulta Beauty, Target, and Amazon. [Photo: Divi]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Dani-Austin-founder-of-Divi-940x436.jpg)
Among the 18 winners of EY’s 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year Southwest Award is Dani Austin (pictured), founder of Dallas-based Divi, and her husband Jordan Ramirez, who served as CEO and now chairs the company. Together, they’ve grown Divi into a national brand focused on scalp and hair health, backed by Norwest and sold through Ulta Beauty, Target, and Amazon. [Photo: Divi]
These 18 Founders and CEOs Just Won the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Southwest Award from EY
by Quincy Preston | Jun 24, 2025
The leaders behind 15 high-growth companies ranging from energy to electronics and hair health to quesadillas are now in the running for national honors this fall.
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Black Founder Weekend 2025 to Drive $100K+ in Economic Impact for Black Entrepreneurs in North Texas
by Lance Murray |
Jun 22, 2025
The inaugural three-day event lands in Dallas June 27–29 at Paul Quinn College, bringing together more than 40 speakers, curated activations, and a bold agenda built to move capital, spark deals, and support Black founders.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Jun 18, 2025
The North Texas-based precision oncology firm raised $494 million in its IPO. Founder David Halbert is now a newly minted biotech billionaire worth an estimated $3.3 billion, Forbes reports.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 17, 2025
The NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant is expected to help Alva Health scale its AI-powered, wrist-worn wearable as it expands technical and clinical validation and prepares for a 510(k) submission.
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Signify Bio co-founders, from left: CEO R.A. Session II and Chief Scientific Officer Daniel Siegwart, Ph.D., of UT Southwestern. {Photos: Taysha Gene Therapies/UTSW]
Dallas’ Signify Bio Launches With Oversubscribed $15M Financing, Partnership With UT Southwestern
by Lance Murray | Jun 5, 2025
Co-founded by Chief Scientific Advisor Daniel J. Siegwart of UT Southwestern and CEO RA Session II, Signify Bio said it harnesses the human body for the production of in situ protein therapeutics. The round was led by Actium Group with participation from the Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund, Danaher Ventures LLC, Eli Lilly and Company, and BrightEdge, the American Cancer Society's VC arm.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 5, 2025
In one of his first deep interviews since Colossal's dire wolf debut made global noise, Ben Lamm joins the TechStuff podcast to talk mammoths, backlash, and why he's not here to play it safe.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 4, 2025
“Gifting is about more than passing down wealth—it’s about passing down purpose.”
Susan Hirshman
Director of Wealth Management
Schwab Wealth Advisory and Schwab Center for Financial Research
…on the motivations behind high net worth gifting, via Schwab’s latest HNW Client Pulse Survey....
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 3, 2025
The accelerator's first cohort is charting unknown entrepreneurial territory—with up to $100K investment potential.
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Jamie Potecha, Take Command's new Chief Operating Officer, joins at a critical growth moment for ICHRAs. [Photo: Take Command]
Richardson Health Benefits Scaleup Names New COO to Drive Enterprise Growth
by Lance Murray | May 23, 2025
Take Command’s new COO will sharpen operations as the company builds on national momentum around Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs), with advancing legislation that could codify the model into federal law.
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by Lance Murray |
May 23, 2025
Former execs from Salad and Go and Taco Bell join the Fort Worth-based iced-tea franchise as it eyes continued expansion.
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by Lance Murray |
May 21, 2025
The young entrepreneurs will present their innovative business ideas at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship national finals in New York on Oct. 8 to compete for the National Champion title and cash prizes.
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by David Seeley |
May 20, 2025
On May 6, "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg shared some of her "favorite things" on a Mother's Day gift edition of the ABC show. One of her favorites? Jam Vino, a line of wine-infused jams from Dallas-based Founder and CEO Chef Lori Rogers.
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