Startup

Fitness Startup StudioHop Ramps Up Workout Options With New Subscription Packages

by | Nov 6, 2018
StudioHop, a Dallas-based subscription service that offers all-in-one fitness memberships, is responding to requests by offering more classes a month than ever before.
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Facebook’s Dantley Davis: ‘The hustle that accounts for making your goals a reality is a universal thing’
by | Nov 6, 2018
TELL YOUR (STARTUP) STORY | The Facebook Director of Product Design was in town for the inaugural DFW Black Restaurant Week. He explains how Facebook Stories is an easy tool to help business owners and entrepreneurs.
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ICYMI: Toyota and Pizza Hut Team on Robotic Pizza-Making Truck, Dallas Startups, Prop Tech, and Mobility
by | Nov 3, 2018
From tech talk (OnRobot, Sam's Club, Aurora) to our weekly Top 10 (DreamHack), here's your briefing on innovation, ideas, and impact in North Texas.
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Knock currently operates in five markets, with plans to expand and grow moving forward. [Photo: Courtesy Knock]

Knock-Knock: Real Estate Startup With a Trade-In Platform Expands To Dallas-Fort Worth

by | Nov 1, 2018
Co-founder Sean Black says Knock has found its niche in residential real estate because it's the only company doing a trade-in—and, it'll do everything for you.
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Follow the Money: $1M Grant for Luminant Battery Project, Playful Nets $5M, NTT Data Makes Acquisition
by | Nov 1, 2018
From BoodsKapper to Ulterra Drilling and CyrusOne to Thursby Software Systems, here are some of the deals made by investors and companies with ties to North Texas.
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Fort Worth-Based Aviation Firm Offers Turn-by-Turn Directions—for Pilots
by | Nov 1, 2018
There's an app for that. Aviation Mobile Apps has pilot solutions for flight calculations, aviation weather alerts, converting numbers, or flying the 'perfect' holding pattern — the company's latest patent-pending solution.
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Meet Sally: A New Salad-Making Robot Has Landed in Dallas
by | Oct 31, 2018
Sally, the world's first fresh-food making robot, can create customized salads in under two minutes. She's now available in Dallas at cafeterias in Lockheed Martin and Alcon Labs.
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McKinney Game Developer Playful Corp. Raises $5M in Venture Round

by | Oct 30, 2018
The most recent funding round brings Playful’s total capital raised to $30 million for the 6-year-old company.
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‘So Cute, it Hurts’: Blingsting Founder Wants to Keep Women Safe With High-Fashion Pepper Spray
by | Oct 29, 2018
Dallas-based Blingsting takes aim at attackers with a line of safety products turned fashion accessories.
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Last-Mile Tech: Click-to-Door Service Delivers for Total Wine & More
by | Oct 29, 2018
With the Delivery Solutions 'last mile delivery management platform,' Total Wine & More employees will be able to deliver right to your door.
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Dallas To Host National Restaurant Innovation Summit
by | Oct 29, 2018
Robots. Gamification. UX. CX. Blockchain in the kitchen. Tech trends of all kinds are on the radar for the National Restaurant Association's first summit in Dallas.
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Health Wildcatters Ranks Among Nation’s Top Accelerators for 3rd Year

by | Oct 26, 2018
The SARP evaluation is based mostly on the accelerator’s portfolio and the performance of companies that have successfully completed its program. Health Wildcatters has grown to 57 health startups in its portfolio, collectively raising over $50 million in investment.
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Follow the Money: Impact Shares Gets $1M from Rockefeller Foundation, Phynd Adds $4M in VC round
by | Oct 25, 2018
You'll also find news from WiredScore, Jacobs Engineering, BNSF Railway and GE Transportation, as well as Bay Capital Ventures and Eyevance. Here are notable funding and acquisition deals with North Texas ties.
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Dallas’ MAG Impact Collective: Disrupting the Traditional Agency Model with Social Impact
by | Oct 24, 2018
The geographical diversity of the collective is by design to place a distributed team in influential markets—such as Dallas—allowing it to stay on top of innovation nationally, and even internationally.
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Artificial Intelligence: Experts Tackle Challenges, Ethics — and What Is It, Anyway?
by | Oct 24, 2018
Here's why businesses should have a strategy around AI.
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