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Left to right: Conflixis Co-Founders Aaron Narva, Vincent Wan, and Joseph Bergen [Photos: Conflixis]
Dallas- & NY-Based Conflixis Raises $4.2M Seed Funding to Transform Healthcare Conflicts-of-Interest Management
by Lance Murray | Nov 12, 2024
Conflixis said the funding will advance its mission to improve the healthcare ecosystem by ensuring every financial relationship is known, contextualized, and its influence on procurement, operational, and medical decisions understood.
by Glenn Hunter |
Nov 6, 2024
Rosy Wellness and Kindly Human took top honors in Early Stage and Growth Stage categories, respectively, edging out expanded finalist fields showing Dallas' "great ecosystem of companies that are going to do great things."
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 4, 2024
The event is the culmination of four previous CodeLaunch competitions held earlier this year across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Winners from the previous competitions will pitch and compete for $50,000 in funding in front of a live audience, judges, and angel investors—amid a "venturetainment" blend of live music, comedy, panels, and networking.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 4, 2024
Babies and herbs are sprouting up daily in North Texas—and two local companies have come up with innovative ways to monitor, nurture, and care for both. Now Dallas "smarter" baby monitor startup Harbor and Cleburne-based vertical farming company Eden Green Technology have had their tech honored in TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024.
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Stan Golubchik, CEO and co-founder of ContraForce [Photo: ContraForce]
North Texas Security Service Delivery Platform ContraForce Closes $3.25M Seed Round
by Lance Murray | Oct 31, 2024
The oversubscribed investment round, which included participation from angels and strategic partners, brings a total of $5.25 million in investment to ContraForce. It said it will use the funding to accelerate the release of new product features and invest in sales and marketing in preparation for a future Series A round.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 31, 2024
If you saw a robot clambering down the side of 17Seventeen McKinney in Uptown Dallas this week, don't worry—it wasn't WALL-E escaping from Pixar Studios. It was an AI-powered, camera-scanning robot named Ibex, demonstrating what could be the future of high-rise window cleaning and digital-twin-mapping "predictive maintenance."
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 30, 2024
With offices in Dallas, Tel Aviv, and London, Verax AI develops enterprise-grade software solutions that provide visibility and control of AI in production. Its newly launched Verax Control Center aims to enable "trustworthy and responsible AI," mitigating factual errors and hallucinations in real time.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 29, 2024
Wednesday's event will feature more than 150 students from 8 North Texas high schools pitching 32 business ideas at SMU's Student Business Incubator Showcase.
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Panelists at the BioNTX summit family office discussion included, from left, Timothy Morris of Aacolade Pharma, Vic Stone of Alloy Therapeutics, Justin Yang of GHIC, and Yizhen Dong of Echo Investment Capital. The discussion was moderated by Weaver’s Tyler Ridley. [Photo: BioNTX]
Keys to Tapping Family Office Money: Pinpoint Their Passion, and ‘One Meeting in Person Equals 1,000 Emails’
by Glenn Hunter | Oct 24, 2024
Fundraising has slowed and valuations are down, but biotech founders could have a lifeline in family office investments, panelists at the recent BioNTX summit in Arlington agreed. They said succeeding with these investors can take time, a lot of education, and a compelling, well-crafted story that connects emotionally with the family.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 24, 2024
Oncology companies seeking seed-stage through Series A funding are invited to apply to the Golden Ticket Pitch Competition, which will be held on March 11, 2025.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 24, 2024
Cx Precision Medicine—a diagnostics company founded on research by Dr. Sid O’Bryant at UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth—spun out from HSC to advance O’Bryant’s pioneering work on blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. The company recently gained higher visibility—and an even greater opportunity for impact—by being selected to join the prestigious StartUp Health’s Alzheimer’s Moonshot community.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 24, 2024
"I embarked on this journey of creating a blood test for Alzheimer’s detection in primary care because of my own clinical and personal experiences," said UNT HSC's Dr. Sid O’Bryant, founder of Cx Precision Medicine. Now, by joining the Moonshot community, CxPM has gained "invaluable access to a network of investors, collaborators, and strategic partners" that could help drive its mission forward.
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Venture Dallas announced its 2024 Startups of the Year finalists.
Venture Dallas Announces 2024 Startup of the Year Awards Finalists, Expands Field to 20 After Record Nominations
by David Seeley | Oct 21, 2024
Winners will be revealed in a live announcement at the George W. Bush Presidential Center during the Venture Dallas Summit on October 30.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 16, 2024
The competition, which seeks to support female-led businesses in Texas, will award the top winners $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000 prizes, plus an additional $5,000 People’s Choice prize.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Oct 16, 2024
CEO Dave Copps says Worlds is delivering AI for the real world, in real time. Spotlighted by Gartner, Worlds’ breakthrough tech for enterprise creates a dynamic “index of everything” from any camera or sensor. The goal? To radically transform how organizations monitor, measure, and automate their operations.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 16, 2024
Sara Blakely founded Spanx shapewear in 2000, achieving the perfect fit for a massive success. In August—three years after Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Spanx, valuing the company at $1.2 billion—Blakely launched her next big idea: Sneex—a $500-plus luxury shoe line that mashes up high heels with sneakers. Reviews have been decidedly mixed, the Wall Street Journal reports—and it reached out to Dallas-based personal stylist Molly Hudson to help explain why.
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