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Dallas-Based Highway Raises Strategic Growth Investment to Accelerate Growth, Fight Freight Fraud
by Lance Murray | Aug 21, 2025
FTV Capital leads the round, with participation from Lead Edge Capital, to help the logistics tech company expand its carrier identity platform and combat growing fraud in freight brokerage.
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Aug 21, 2025
Data scientist Anmolika Singh put Dallas on the global AI Tinkerers map. At the first meetup, more than 30 pros—founders to Fortune 500 technologists—showed up to trade ideas, projects, and solutions.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 20, 2025
NTXIA, Frisco, McKinney, Plug and Play, and Curiosity Lab are teaming up again for the 2025 Smart Cities Global Startup Challenge. Five international startups will pitch live for a shot at funding, U.S. pilots, and real-world deployment opportunities. Applications are open now and close Sept. 10.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 20, 2025
Aiming to serve as a "virtual power plant" to bolster the Texas grid, Base—co-founded by CEO Zach Dell, son of billionaire Dell founder Michael Dell—offers residential customers an all-in-one energy plan including a whole-home backup battery that can power homes during a blackout.
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![FieldPulse founder and CEO Gabe Pinchev (center) celebrates with his Dallas team after announcing the company’s $50 million Series C funding round, led by Fulcrum Equity Partners with Catalyst Investors joining as a new backer. [Photo: FieldPulse]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FieldPulse-Series-C-940x436.jpg)
FieldPulse founder and CEO Gabe Pinchev (center) celebrates with his Dallas team after announcing the company’s $50 million Series C funding round, led by Fulcrum Equity Partners with Catalyst Investors joining as a new backer. [Photo: FieldPulse]
Dallas-Based FieldPulse Scores $50M Series C as Trade Service Management Market Heads Toward $11 Billion
by Quincy Preston | Aug 15, 2025
Founded in 2015, the company reports fourfold growth in 21 months while rolling out new AI-powered management tools for trade businesses. Fulcrum Equity Partners returns to lead the round, joined by new backer Catalyst Investors.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 14, 2025
Verily Storyworks has deployed a crowdfunding model to develop "THORPE," a planned 3-season scripted drama series about the life of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe. The studio and IP company's founder is working with Thorpe family members on the project—and is inviting the public to become "capital ambassadors" for the series.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 13, 2025
The Fort Worth City Council unanimously approved $15 million in incentives Tuesday night as founder John Lauer commits to making Fort Worth home for what he calls the world's first cloud-connected electronics prototyping facility. "This is going to completely revolutionize the electronics industry," he says.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 12, 2025
Batbox said this latest capital injection allowed it to secure full ownership of its core technology and IP, including key patents and software rights.
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John Lauer (left) and members of the Adom Industries team gather around the company’s “workcell”—the core of its cloud-connected electronics prototyping factory. Lauer likens the system to “compute for atoms,” much like a server in a data center enables “compute for bits,” calling it the Amazon Web Services of electronics prototyping. The photo was taken shortly after a major presentation to a leading electronics company, following months of preparation. [Photo: Adom Industries]
Shenzhen Speed, In the Cloud: North Texas’ Adom Industries Plans $229M Robotics-Driven Electronics Factory
by Quincy Preston | Aug 11, 2025
The stealth-stage startup, led by tech entrepreneur John Lauer—who sold his last company for nearly $1 billion—is developing what it calls the world's first cloud-connected electronics prototyping factory. "This will be one of the most high-tech factories in the world," said Lauer.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 6, 2025
With two complementary businesses—Eider Creek Development and Eider Creek Partners—the firm will focus on "ground-up" industrial development and targeted acquisitions across "key U.S. logistics markets."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 5, 2025
Everyone’s talking about AI. But what do companies actually need to hear? Here’s what one veteran exec thinks startups and leaders really need to focus on—straight from the front lines at DSW25.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 5, 2025
House of Tangram’s 30-acre slice of the North Texas city's 100-acre Staybolt Street District includes AI-driven hotels, programmable convention space, two next-gen residential communities, and immersive retail. Its tech layer? Powered by Dallas startup NuStudio.AI.
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Humancore Co-Founder and CEO Mike Dolen (left) and Chief Product Officer Dr. Ken Lahti [Photos: LinkedIn]
With $4M Pre-Seed Funding, North Texas’ Humancore Launches ‘Multiplayer AI Advisor’ Platform
by David Seeley | Jul 30, 2025
Plano-based Humancore describes its Multiplayer platform as an AI advisor that goes beyond traditional coaching and generic prompts by understanding not just the manager, but also their team.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 30, 2025
This year, the annual pitch competition is open to women entrepreneurs from around the United States who have been in business for three years or less.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 30, 2025
Backed by "significant committed capital" and led by CEO Max Katzenstein, Greylane partners with management teams to scale and strengthen specialized component businesses, including AirCare, a leading provider of components for cleanroom control and monitoring.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 24, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth is the second metro to receive investment from the new $10M fund, as Flock and Homegrown bet on local entrepreneurs to grow jobs, storefronts, and economic momentum with flexible, non-dilutive capital.
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