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Last May, Triplemoon Founder Lauren Gage was one of the winners of the Golden Ticket North Texas pitch competition at Pegasus Park in Dallas. L to R: Margo Harrison, Founder & CEO of Wave Bye Inc.; Danguole Altman, Founder & CEO, Cx Precision Medicine; and Gage. [Photo: Ignite Health]
Three Healthcare Founders Win Pitch, Advance to Ignite Health’s National Accelerator
by David Seeley | May 15, 2025
The May 8 Golden Ticket North Texas pitch competition at Pegasus Park in Dallas featured seven female-led healthcare startups tackling some of healthcare’s most pressing challenges.
by Lance Murray |
May 14, 2025
The accelerator said the six companies in its new cohort—AssetLink, Investipal, MDOTM, Sequence, Quorus, and YourStake—represent a diverse set of solutions designed to streamline financial advisory workflows, enhance investment performance, and deliver more personalized client experiences through automation and data intelligence.
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by David Seeley |
May 13, 2025
In 2022, the New York Giants drafted Oregon edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux No. 5 overall in the 2025 NFL draft. When he rushes Dak Prescott this fall, he'll be wearing a concussion-preventing balaclava from Dallas-based startup G8RTech.
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by Lance Murray |
May 6, 2025
TechFW called Caitlin McMinn a "results-driven executive" with a successful record in sales enablement, operations, and strategic growth.
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UTD Big Idea winners Orikeda Trashi (left) and Ikeda Trashi. [Photo: UTD]
Twin Chemistry Students Win First Prize at UTD’s Big Idea Competition
by David Seeley | May 6, 2025
Ikeda and Orikeda Trashi took home $12,000 in the Big Idea student competition for Biodelivera, a platform that delivers cancer therapy directly to tumors. In the alumni track, the top prize went to Brice Sokolowski for his sweat-evaporating Vaucluse Backpack Ventilation Gear.
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by Lance Murray |
May 1, 2025
The live pitch competition will provide entrepreneurs the opportunity to win a share of $500,000 in non-dilutive funding—along with expert mentorship, increased visibility, and access to a powerful network of industry leaders and peers.
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by David Seeley |
May 1, 2025
With its first autonomous robotics-powered munitions factory and initial line "underway" in Dallas, UNION Technologies has a big goal: "Reforge the West's backbone" and win wars "without firing a shot." It aims to do this with software-driven "super-factories" that can eventually build themselves—"anywhere on this planet or any other."
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 30, 2025
The startup, which emerged from stealth in January, is an agentic AI platform designed to transform security operations. Based in Dallas and Tel Aviv, it's now actively hiring in Dallas after more than doubling its headcount in recent months.
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Who Made This Year’s AI 75 List? Meet the North Texans Leading the Pack in Artificial Intelligence
by Glenn Hunter | Apr 30, 2025
Dallas Innovates, in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber, once again is recognizing the most innovative leaders in AI in Dallas-Fort Worth. From visionaries and mavericks to transformers and academics, AI 75's class of 2025 are the AI pacesetters you need to know now.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 29, 2025
"It's an incredible honor to partner with Wilks Development and steward such a beloved Fort Worth landmark, being part of its next chapter," said Chef Jenna Kinard, the former executive chef of Max's Wine Dive, Hotel Drover's 97 West, and Jellico's at the Westin Southlake.
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by Quincy Preston |
Apr 24, 2025
Dallas biotech GenrAb is developing an antibody therapy that aims to protect brain cells under stress—the kind of damage that leads to disability in diseases like MS and ALS. The therapy, found in the spinal fluid of real patients, is now showing promise in animal models and moving toward human trials.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 24, 2025
Southlake-based Aerolane aims to use the same technique that delivered U.S. troops on D-Day to deliver cargo across the country. But its towed cargo glider, the Aerocart, comes with a 21st-century autonomous edge.
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Ron Gaver, co-founder and CEO of Tapcheck [Photo: LinkedIn]
On-Demand Pay Provider Tapcheck Raises $25M Series A Extension, $200M Debt Funding
by Lance Murray | Apr 15, 2025
Founded in 2019, Plano-based Tapcheck partners with brands like Hilton, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Jiffy Lube, and more to enable workers to access their earned wages seamlessly before payday.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 10, 2025
Moderated by Highlander Health Co-Founder Brad Hirsch, next Wednesday's free public event will feature two former FDA commissioners and a former FDA acting chief information officer. The focus: "how the FDA has evolved across four presidential administrations."
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by Quincy Preston |
Apr 7, 2025
“Game of Thrones” made them famous, but the prehistoric dire wolves were real—and, according to Colossal Biosciences, have now returned after 12,500 years in what it calls the world’s first successful de-extinction. The work goes beyond headlines: It could change how we save endangered species.
Meet Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi in a video—and hear dire wolf howls for the first time in more than 12 millennia.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 4, 2025
Hollywood's "A Minecraft Movie" killed it with a record $163 million opening weekend. Meanwhile, UT Dallas researchers have created their own world in Minecraft to develop educational games embedded in the blocky "digital sandbox"—and launched a new startup to advance their efforts.
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