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Redfin Announces DFW Expansion, Launch of RedfinNow Cash Purchase Service

by | Feb 12, 2019
Redfin plans to open a new office in Frisco this spring and begin hiring engineers for its Dallas-based lending arm, Redfin Mortgage, and staff in Dallas for its title and settlement arm, Philadelphia-based Title Forward. 
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SMU-LIFT Game Design Team Wins $2.5M in Adult Literacy XPRIZE Competition
by | Feb 11, 2019
SMU-LIFT's People ForWords, a game design team focused on promoting literacy, won $2.5M for its app, 'Codex: The Lost Words of Atlantis,' which helps tackle the pressing problem of adult illiteracy in North Texas and beyond.
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Angie’s List Parent Acquires Dallas-based Fixd Repair
by | Feb 11, 2019
ANGI said that Fixd's home warranty business was an attractive feature that made the company pursue an acquisition.
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Trend Micro’s Venture Capital Arm Plans Startup Event in Dallas
by | Feb 8, 2019
On the heels of its CES Forward Thinker Award, the Irving-based cybersecurity company says it's looking for promising technology startups in North Texas.
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26 North Texas Innovators Who Are The Future Today

Here are the men and women forging the future of tech that has the potential to change the world.
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Q+A: Five Questions With Alyce Alston
by | Feb 6, 2019
As she wraps up her first six months as head of the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, we ask CEO Alyce Alston to give us the view from her office.
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Follow the Money: Adaptive3D Secures Series A Funding; Vinli, Perennials and Sutherland Get Investments
by | Feb 6, 2019
You’ll also find news about TPG Capital, Lone Star Funds, Phoenix Capital Partners, RumbleOn and AZZ Inc. in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity affecting investors and businesses in North Texas.
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Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 29
by | Feb 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Sensogram Technologies’ finger tip scanner • Phazr’s 5G radio system • Rain Bird’s volumetric budget-based irrigation control • Samsung’s video editing using contextual data and content discovery using clusters • V-Moda’s method of identifying authentic vs. counterfeit products
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DI People: Neiman Marcus, Pier 1, Crayon, Neos Therapeutics Make Exec Moves

by | Feb 5, 2019
You’ll also find news from Nuvectra, Zimperium, ON2IT, Nifty Method, Dynata, the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and Calise Partners in this roundup of executive and leadership moves by companies and organizations with ties to North Texas.
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Pivot Power: Vinli Closes $13.5M Series B, Partners With European Utility
by | Feb 5, 2019
Vinli’s Era platform emerged out of stealth last October.
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Hypergiant Launches AI Into Space With New Division, Acquisition of SEOPS
by | Feb 5, 2019
The real benefactors from the intersection of space and AI are industries like oil and gas, energy, defense, and more, says Hypergiant founder Ben Lamm.
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New On-Demand App Brings Bartenders and Servers to Dallas Events
by | Feb 4, 2019
Sásta, which bills itself as "Dallas' first on-demand bartender and server app," provides a network of trained service industry professionals available for hire to work in-home, corporate, and personal events.
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A (Dallas) Founder’s Story

by | Feb 1, 2019
Lance Crosby launched a startup in Dallas that sold for $2.1 billion. And then he launched another. In Dallas.
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TRED’s Online Car-Selling Marketplace Brings Savings to Dallas
by | Jan 31, 2019
Used car sales startup TRED went live in Dallas last week. The online market aims to help users save money and skip the line at their local DMV.
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Hedera Hashgraph: Going Beyond Bitcoin
by | Jan 31, 2019
North Texas-based Hedera Hashgraph has built an alternative distributed ledger technology that corrects a lot of the problems that have plagued better-known blockchains, founders say. That could revolutionize smart contracts, cryptocurrency, file storage, and more—as well as help protect people's privacy on social media platforms.
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