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Follow the Money: Mercado Labs Gets $3.2M, PLH Group Raises $25.7M, Three Agencies Merge to Form $500M Firm

by | Jan 30, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving businesses and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Hilltop Opportunity Partners, On the Road Lending, Mindstream Media, Southwest Media Group, Digital Addix, TPG Growth, Novaria Group, and Trilogy Circuits.
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Q+A: Rent My Wardrobe’s Rachel Sipperley Talks Company Culture and Female Empowerment
Sipperley's designer clothing rental app had a star-studded launch last year with the Real Housewives of Dallas in attendance (and with one as an investor). Since, she’s created a podcast called “The Female Founder” that encourages other women to take the entrepreneurial plunge.
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The IQ: Richardson Innovation District Unveils New Name and Branding
by | Jan 29, 2020
In December, the Richardson City Council approved rezoning for higher density development and a variety of uses to provide a foundation for an innovation-focused, urban mixed-use environment.
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McKinney EDC Launches Innovation Fund for Tech Startups
by | Jan 29, 2020
Startups in a variety of sectors, from cybersecurity and fintech to SaaS and life sciences, are invited to apply online for the McKinney Economic Development Corporation's new Innovation Fund.
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Dallas Invents: 111 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 21
by | Jan 29, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's narrow band awareness for in-device coexistence, Capital One's ground plane detection for placement of AR objects, CareView Communications' method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Dell's time-based local authentication in an information handling system utilizing asymmetric cryptography, Genband's denial-of-service protection for IP telephony systems, Texas Instruments' data encoder for power line communications, and FedEx Supply Chain Logistics Electronics' apparatus for picking products.
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DI People: Match Group, MoneyGram, AVIO Consulting, and Comerica Make Leadership Moves
by | Jan 28, 2020
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive moves, you’ll also find news from PrimeLending, RealFoundations, Higginbotham, Ryan, Women’s Foodservice Forum, and more.
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Match Group’s Longtime CEO Mandy Ginsberg Steps Down, New Chief Executive Named
by | Jan 28, 2020
Match Group also named Gary Swidler as chief operating officer, in addition to his role as chief financial officer.
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These Are the 7 Trends That Could Shape Our Future

by | Jan 27, 2020
Anurag Jain of Dallas' Perot Jain says there are seven societal trends ripe with investment opportunity, where tiny disruptors can change industries. Here are the trends, along with North Texas companies that play in each space.
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Follow the Money: DoctorLogic Raises $7M; Geoforce, TPG Growth Make Acquisitions
by | Jan 23, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Match Group, On the Road Lending, Oakview Capital, Sales Benchmark Index, TPG Capital, Mark Cuban, P10 Holdings, Cloudvisory, Metro Energy Savers, and Trudela Partners.
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13 Companies and Organizations Spawned by Alcon Alumni
by | Jan 22, 2020
Here are notable organizations that veterans of the eye care giant have started or hold executive positions in.
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Dallas Invents: 109 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 14
by | Jan 22, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's vehicle data sharing with interested parties. Dolby Laboratories Licensing's high contrast discrete input prism for image projectors, Doskocil Manufacturing's destruction-resistant pet toys, Mobile Equity's mobile payment station system and method, Motive Drilling Technologies' automated slide drilling, rewardStyle's location-based dynamic redirection of advertiser affiliate links for online advertising, and Texas Instruments' ultrasound color doppler imaging.
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Plano’s DoctorLogic Announces $7M Series A Round

by | Jan 21, 2020
DoctorLogic works with more than 330 medical practices and its software includes a proprietary “Content Creation Engine” that showcases customers’ online presence, helps them acquire new patients, and measures their marketing efforts.
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DI People: Toyota North America, Sally Beauty, Allie Beth Allman, Bottle Rocket Make Leadership Moves
by | Jan 21, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership moves by companies and organizations in North Texas, you'll also find news from Stryve, Transplace, RKD Group, Conifer Health Solutions, Comerica Bank, Tenet Healthcare, and Civitas Capital Group.
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It’s Tyme: Local Organizers Apply to Form a New Bank in Dallas
by | Jan 17, 2020
The de novo applications have been filed for the Farmers Branch-based community bank that its founders—who have, until recently, been operating in stealth—say will serve startups, enterprises, and regular folks who want a locally owned bank.
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Meet the 46 Winners and Finalists from Dallas Innovates’ and D CEO’s 2020 Innovation Awards
by | Jan 17, 2020
Here are the companies and leaders driving innovation in North Texas.
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