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TCU and Cowtown Angels Win Global Entrepreneurship Award

by | Oct 18, 2019
The yearly awards honor the top entrepreneurship centers and programs in the world—this year, excellence in entrepreneurial and innovative teaching went to the Cowtown Angels Fellows program at TCU’s Neely Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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Galaxy Unmanned Systems Chosen for Research Contract with the Army
by | Oct 17, 2019
Fort Worth-based Galaxy Unmanned Systems LLC might be the first ones to use autonomous airships for military surveillance after it was awarded the U.S. Army's Small Business Innovation Research Contract.
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Follow the Money: Actuate Raises $3.9M, TPG Closes $14B in Funds; Sabre Acquires Radixx
by | Oct 17, 2019
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies and investors with ties to North Texas, you’ll also find news from Solovis, Traveller Capital, SSE Holdco, Sanara MedTech, Bios Partners, Mark Cuban, Nebula Healthcare, HMS Holdings, The Living Company, Sun Holdings, BBG, and Eyevance Pharmaceuticals.
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FieldMed Launches as the First Patient-Focused Software for Community Healthcare
by | Oct 16, 2019
Graphium Health, a Plano provider of software that better manages anesthesia practices, has launched FieldMed. The new company builds on the popular trend of community-based healthcare, which uses certified paramedics to help give non-emergent response resources and treatments to patients.
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DI People: Value Creed, Catapult Health, and Sendero Make Leadership Announcements

by | Oct 15, 2019
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive activity involving companies and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Method Architecture, Sundt Construction, Alliant, Goodnight Midstream, and JLL.
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Dallas-Based FinTech Zirtue Raises $1M in Seed Round
by | Oct 11, 2019
Zirtue offers a peer-to-peer lending platform that creates a more formal payment process for the lender and the borrower. Think Venmo, with a twist: Zirtue adds a layer of accountability to loaning money between friends and family.
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Dallas Innovates—The [Tech] Talent Issue
Have a company where culture and people are top priority? A workplace that inspires office envy? A dream team? Tell us about it.
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Follow the Money: TPG Commits $500M to Collabnet, Razberi Gets $5.8M, Kibo Acquires Monetate
by | Oct 10, 2019
You’ll also find news from Satori Capital, AT&T, Goodnight Midstream, Tailwater Capital, Topgolf, and more in this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity.
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CyberTech: Razberi Technologies Raises $5.8M to Fuel Growth and Roll Out New Products

by | Oct 9, 2019
The Dallas cybersecurity and IoT company intends to use the Series B funding to build out its market coverage and continue to deliver its current products, among other plans.
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‘It’s Not Complicated, It’s Tutoring’: Dallas Startup Takes a Holistic Approach to Education
by | Oct 9, 2019
Minority-owned INC Tutoring has found success in its holistic, prescriptive approach to education. The results? Students—mostly students of color—have earned 95 percent As and Bs in more than 48 subjects.
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Toyota's patent granted for a Smart necklace for social awareness for people with impaired vision or on the autism spectrum.
Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 1
by | Oct 9, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's smart necklace for social awareness, Apple's adaptive multiplexing and transmit/receive diversity for wireless devices, Arch Holdings' method for media destruction using a kiosk, AT&T's system for grouping users to different speed tiers for wireless communication, Bank of America's electronic security keys for data security based on quantum particle states, Capital One's vehicle location system, SMU's method for privacy preserving disclosure of a shared, identity-linked secret, and Wells Fargo Bank's biometric electronic signature tokens.
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Reimagine Communities Summit: How Human-Centered Design and Digitalization Drive Innovation
by | Oct 8, 2019
Get our full recap of Capital One's fourth annual Reimagine Communities Summit, which provided a platform for conversations around development in the digital age.
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DI People: Infogroup, MeshTek Labs, GIACT Systems, and MediaKind Make Executive Moves

by | Oct 8, 2019
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership moves by businesses and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from MedeAnalytics, New Era Partners, DFW Hospital Council, EPIC Insurance, Revint Solutions, and Polsinelli.
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Lantern Pharma Teams Up with National Cancer Institute to Predict Drug Effectiveness on Tumors
by | Oct 7, 2019
This alum of Dallas startup accelerator Health Wildcatters is working with the National Cancer Institute's Developmental Therapeutics Branch on precision research and treatments.
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Tech to Table: OneDine’s App-Based Restaurant Solution
by | Oct 7, 2019
Plano-based OneDine seeks to create a seamless experience for restaurants as well as their guests through its app 'designed by people in the restaurant industry, for people in the restaurant industry.'
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Apogee Semiconductor picked as NASA partner. The Artemis program: NASA’s “Tipping Point” technology funding is part of the space agency’s push to land humans on the moon by 2024. [Image: Screenshot/NASA.gov]
To the Moon: NASA Awards North Texas Firm $2M for ‘Tipping Point’ Technology
by | Oct 7, 2019
Apogee Semiconductor's technology could help enable the space agency’s exploration of the Moon—and beyond. It's one of 14 U.S. companies picked in the fourth round of NASA's 'Tipping Point' partner program.
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