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North Texas’ Point Blank Tequila Wins Top Honors at Las Vegas PR%F Awards
by Sandra Engelland | Jan 12, 2026
All three varieties—Añejo, Blanco, and Reposado—won medals for both taste and bottle design at the competition in Las Vegas. Point Blank's bottle is inspired by the pachita—an old-school Mexican bottle once carried in saddlebags and satchels.
by David Seeley |
Jan 8, 2026
"For decades, cybersecurity has been a race against ever-more powerful computers," says Amera IoT CTO Tony Valentino. "AmeraKey Encryption fundamentally changes that equation." With its solution in place, the company says, "there is nothing for a hacker to steal."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 7, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 2, 2025, with a total of 134 patents granted.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Jan 2, 2026
Scott Bramble joins the newly launched pet services marketplace as it begins expanding beyond initial market launches in Dallas and Denver.
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The Fort Worth oncology company tapped former Salarius Pharmaceuticals CEO David Arthur to lead its push toward commercialization, including a planned IND for a rare pediatric brain cancer program.
NanOlogy Names CEO as Its Tumor-Targeted Cancer Drugs Near Key Regulatory Milestones
by Sandra Engelland | Dec 30, 2025
The Fort Worth oncology company tapped former Salarius Pharmaceuticals CEO David Arthur to lead its push toward commercialization, including a planned IND for a rare pediatric brain cancer program.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 29, 2025
Plano’s KYRO AI is the only Texas technology company in EPRI’s Open Power AI Consortium, joining tech leaders and utilities working to develop open-source AI models for the power sector. The effort is backed by major energy companies, including Exelon, whose CEO recently warned the grid’s “check engine light is on” as electricity demand surges.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 26, 2025
Founder Rex Kurzius has spent more than a decade bootstrapping his Frisco-based asset management platform to 4,000 organizations tracking more than 20 million assets. This fall, he rolled out Asset Panda Pro with Ursa AI to speed configuration work that traditionally slows enterprise deployments.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 24, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 18 with a total of 159 patents granted.
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Ribbon-cutting ceremony for the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing satellite campus [Photo: UTA]
UTA, Texas A&M TEES Open Biomanufacturing Training and Research Hub at Pegasus Park
by Maddie Preston | Dec 23, 2025
A new satellite campus is adding hands-on training, lab capacity and startup support to Dallas’ growing life sciences ecosystem.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Dec 18, 2025
"Our residents are thrilled to travel the world, revisit childhood memories, and improve their mental and physical health, all from the safety of their chair," said Angie McWhirter, program director at Umphress Terrace in Southeast Dallas. "This is more than technology—it's hope, healing, and connection."
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by David Seeley |
Dec 18, 2025
HL Energy Ventures-backed DirectH2 is developing "game changing" modular direct solar-to-green hydrogen technology based on an invention by its co-founder and chief scientific officer, Rice University's Dr. Aditya Mohite. The startup closed its seed round funding last spring.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Dec 18, 2025
Eight North Texas startups were honored as 2025 BioNTX Rising Stars, in a program designed to elevate emerging companies by providing visibility, credibility, and direct access to investors, industry leaders, and strategic partners.
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Wolf howling in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. [Photo: Greg Meland/istockphoto]
Colossal Foundation Reaches $100M as Its 2025 Impact Report Spans AI-Decoded Wolf Howls to Keeping Species Off the Extinction List
by Quincy Preston | Dec 17, 2025
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences’ nonprofit arm has doubled its funding to $100 million and released its first Impact Report as it puts technology to work from Yellowstone to the Texas Gulf Coast—and beyond.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Dec 16, 2025
Competing against four global startups at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Omniflow won funding, travel, piloting, and business development opportunities in the United States, along with the NTXIA Champion Texas Belt Buckle.
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Reports: Texas Stock Exchange Settles Trademark Dispute Over ‘TXSE’ as Backing Grows to $270 Million
by Quincy Preston |
Dec 16, 2025
The Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange has resolved a trademark dispute with the Toronto Stock Exchange over its “TXSE” branding, The Texas Lawbook reported. Separately, Bloomberg reported that total funding for TXSE Group, the exchange’s parent company, has reached $270 million with new backing from Goldman and Bank of America.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 16, 2025
Fort Worth’s Advanced Intralogistics and Dallas-based AlphaOne Robotics — founded in 2020 and 2023, respectively — are partnering to deploy AI-powered robotic unloaders designed to modernize inbound receiving. It can cut labor and processing time by as much as 85% compared with traditional methods, according to the companies.
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