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Get Shift Done: New North Texas Fund Puts Hospitality Workers Hit by COVID-19 Back to Work—at Nonprofits

by | Mar 18, 2020
The initiative is the brainchild of business leaders Anurag Jain and Patrick Brandt.
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Dallas Invents: 104 Patents Granted for Week of March 10
by | Mar 18, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include Linear Labs's method and apparatus for power generation, ATT Mobility's adaptive rate of congestion indicator to enhance intelligent traffic steering, Bank of America's augmented reality dynamic authentication, D4D Technologies'dental CAD/CAM application with real-time detail highlighting on 3D models, Geodynamics' preventing downhole airlock device and method, Good Sportsman Marketing's reconfigurable hunting blind, Rain Bird's volumetric budget-based irrigation control, Siemens Healthcare's deep learning-based bone removal in computed tomography angiography, and Swipejobs' job matching application, method, and system.
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DocSynk’s First Quarter Milestones Propel it Toward Series A Funding
by | Mar 18, 2020
The Irving-based AI healthcare provider has signed a flagship customer and announced a new member of its leadership team.
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Lance Crosby, Stackpath , Dallas, Texas
Q+A: Here’s What an Edge Computing Startup is Doing in the Wake of Coronavirus
Coronavirus is changing the way people do business. But for companies like Dallas-based StackPath, they can make a difference for those that are struggling to start working remotely.
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Lance Crosby, Stackpath , Dallas, Texas

StackPath’s New Series B Round Lifts Its Total Equity Raised to $396M

by | Mar 17, 2020
The new funding will be used to accelerate StackPatch's burgeoning product development, engineering, and go-to-market activities. StackPath is a Dallas-based startup that provides secure edge computing resources.
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Dallas Startup Week 2020 Postponed to August Over Coronavirus Concerns
by | Mar 16, 2020
Organizers say that the safety of the entrepreneurial community was their biggest concern.
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Vivify Health Launches COVID-19 Mobile Solution for Providers to Screen and Monitor Patients Remotely
by | Mar 16, 2020
The Plano-based remote patient monitoring startup is now offering providers a no-cost solution for low-risk patients or those with mild symptoms simply by answering a series of questions.
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Fort Worth Biotech Exact Diagnostics Offers Research Lab Standard for Coronavirus Testing
by | Mar 13, 2020
Exact Diagnostics, which develops and manufactures products to ensure test result validity, will now help more laboratories keep pace with the increasing demand for COVID-19 testing.
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Dallas Invents: 152 Patents Granted for Week of March 3

by | Mar 11, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's autonomous driving systems using aerial vehicles, Amazon's camera-level image processing, Futurewei's noise cancellation system, Intuit's lean parsing (a natural language processing system), Knightscope's autonomous data machines and systems, Philip Morris's emulsified flavorants in tobacco-derived lipids, SMU's method for machine learning and classifying data, and Walmart's automated vehicle loading.
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EnergyBot series B funding
AI-Powered Energy Broker EnergyBot Raises Series B
by | Mar 11, 2020
The "fiercely digital" online energy marketplace wants to help businesses make smarter energy decisions.
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Office Envy: These 15 Dallas‑Fort Worth Companies Attract Top Talent With Their Innovative Spaces
Take a look inside a few local companies giving us office envy. They're more than just a pretty space—these unique spaces work hard to reflect their company's culture, one of the most important tools for attracting top talent. 
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Apps for All: Woman-Owned AdaptivApps Launches to Make the Digital World More Inclusive
by | Mar 10, 2020
Launching with its first major client, the public benefit corporation—which was founded by the CEO of Dallas' C-Hear—will develop applications that assist people with visual, hearing, or physical impairments.
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A New App From Two Former SMU Football Players Connects Search With Social

by | Mar 9, 2020
Vuzag's location-based search engine provides short videos, communication tools, and photos for specific places around town. That gives users a personal guide for the city, while humanizing local businesses.
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The Innovation Ecosystem: Dallas-Fort Worth is a Big Place. It’s Also Remarkably Well Connected
Here’s where to meet the like-minded to talk tech and start stuff in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Motherboard: Richardson’s High-Tech Past, Present, and Future Honored in New UTD Art Installation
by | Mar 6, 2020
UT Dallas' School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) is unveiling its modular sculptural installation tomorrow. The 30-foot-long installation—made of steel, LED lighting, and projections—will be housed in the Richardson Innovation Quarter (aka The IQ).
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The ‘Airbnb of Storage’ Neighbor.com Launches in North Texas
by | Mar 5, 2020
Neighbor.com asks, 'Would you clean out your garage for $2,016?' The startup is jumping into the $5 billion Texas storage market through its peer-to-peer shared storage marketplace expansion.
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