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Blockit Gets a Grant From McKinney EDC’s New Innovation Fund to Support its HQ Expansion
by Maddie Preston | Feb 12, 2020
With the funds, the health tech company plans to grow its headquarters at the Cotton Mill near downtown McKinney and add 18 new highly technical software engineering jobs.
by Quincy Preston |
Feb 12, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Frito-Lay's potato chip that has more oil near its outer surfaces, American Leather's seat convertible to a bed, Capital One's authorized data sharing using smart contracts, Google's dynamic digital certificate updating, IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems, Raytheon's shadow mask generation using elevation data, and ROCA Medical's therapeutic treatment kit for allergies based on DNA profiles.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2020
The Series A funding will help the Security Operations Center-as-a-Service provider address the challenges enterprises currently face in protecting their data.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2020
The $8.7 million will allow iDonate to create an SaaS/payments solution that supports new tender types like Apple Pay and Google Wallet as well as international payments.
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DI People: Jacobs, Caris Life Sciences, Infogroup, and One Network Enterprises Make Leadership Moves
by Lance Murray | Feb 11, 2020
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive moves by companies and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from AspireHR, Rent-A-Center, Jones|Carter, and Kane Russell Coleman Logan.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 10, 2020
Dallas joins New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco among the cities showing the largest month-over-month growth in January tech job postings.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 7, 2020
The new funds bring the total funding for the Addison-based cybersecurity and threat detection technology provider to more than $40M.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 7, 2020
The pharmaceutical company, which raised $505 million through the sale of shares last year, has already leased 327,400 square feet of space in the under-construction tower.
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AI-Powered: Tricolor Reports $30M Investment for Affordable Car Loans
by David Kirkpatrick | Feb 6, 2020
Tricolor uses an AI-powered model that takes into account nontraditional attributes for no-credit and low-income subprime auto loan customers.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 6, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Worlds, Tricolor, Puration, Atos, Kriya Capital, Kofile, and more.
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by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
Feb 6, 2020
With three successful exits from startups under his belt, and Worlds launching from stealth with $10 million in funding, Copps knows a thing or two about how to build a company. We also found out his "walk on" song is Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 6, 2020
The startup, spun out of Hypergiant Sensory Sciences, plans to use the funding to power its "first-of-its-kind" Extended Reality environment, which can be used to build AI-models to give businesses and organizations a new way to view their physical world.
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Dallas Invents: 116 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 28
by Quincy Preston | Feb 5, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's methods for determining the correct pronunciation of dictated words, Dolby Laboratories' optical system for image projectors, Fujitsu Limited's efficient message forwarding for distributed resource orchestration, Garrity Power Services' wireless headset, Lynntech's undersea vehicle and method for operating a reactor, Plano Molding's flexible wildlife feeder and closure, SecurityProfiling's real-time vulnerability monitoring, and Texas Instrument's crosstalk calibration for multi-channel systems.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 4, 2020
Jamie's BeautyBio and Melbourne's Bestow are two Dallas-based startups in the cosmetic and life insurance industries, respectively. But while they both hold the same job—CEO and co-founder—the power couple, dubbed MOJO, makes it work by operating as a team.
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by Kathryn Chavez |
Feb 4, 2020
iJustOrder's mobile engagement and e-commerce platform allows event attendees to place orders, make in-app payments, and get orders delivered directly to them.
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by Maddie Preston |
Feb 4, 2020
Pledging to Stuhoundious' campaign at the $100 level—it ends in three days—means your dog could be illustrated into a new card game created by the pair behind Dallas' defi SOLUTIONS.
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