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Milagro CEO: How AI Is a Key Ingredient in the Recipe for Restaurant Success

by | Jun 26, 2023
Milagro Corp. is readying for the transformation. Its latest move adds an OpenAI's ChatGPT integration for data access and enhanced user interactions. In the next 12 months, the CEO said, "the entire restaurant industry will change as we know it." Milagro its proprietary restaurant software captures actionable data that allows restauranteurs to maximize customer data through personalized messaging, turning data into a direct increase in revenue.
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SPL Consulting Makes Associate Director Promotion, Names Him Employee of the Year
by | Jun 23, 2023
The company said Prabhakara Srinivas Malladi's promotion and award acknowledge his significant expertise in enterprise project management, focused on designing and implementing Oracle- and Cloud-based technologies to improve business functions and enhance efficiency.
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Founders Arena WealthTech Accelerator Coming to Arlington in September
The Founders Arena WealthTech Accelerator—a 10-week program aimed at early- to growth-stage startups—will be offered beginning September 4. It aims to connect participants with potential customers and investors while supporting "the creation of innovative products that banks and wealth management companies can use to better serve their clients." Broderick Green, executive director of the Arlington EDC, calls the accelerator "a first of its kind not only for Arlington but globally."
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The Last Word: UTSW’s Brad Phelan on the Rise of North Texas’ Biotech-Plus Ecosystem
by | Jun 22, 2023
The Health Supernova conference at Dallas' Pegasus Park gave the stage to innovators in Texas (and beyond) who are shaking up the status quo in biotech. From neurotechnology to mental health therapies, AI to robotics, the conference highlighted how these fields are intersecting and pushing boundaries.
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Press the Green Button: Frisco‑Based Tango Networks Enables Easy Microsoft Teams Calls on Mobile with Dual Personas

by | Jun 21, 2023
In a "bring-your-own-device" world, Frisco-based Tango Networks is turning fixed-line phone numbers into mobile ones. Tango Extend lets users make and receive Microsoft Teams calls directly through the standard dialer on their mobile phones. With Tango Extend, businesses can manage an eSIM in a multi-SIM personal phone for a clear and secure separation between work and personal communications.
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Meet the North Texas Cos. on the 2023 TIME100 Most Influential List
by | Jun 21, 2023
Featuring "a diverse group of businesses helping chart an essential path forward," the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list features five companies that are either headquartered in North Texas or have a strong presence here. See who they are—and what they're doing to disrupt the status quo and innovate for the future.
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Dallas Fintechs MoneyGram and Zirtue Partner to Serve Unbanked, Underbanked Borrowers
by | Jun 21, 2023
Money-transfer heavyweight MoneyGram and startup Zirtue are teaming up. Uniting the giant's scale with the startup's relationship-lending tech, they aim to give more people around the world a 'hand up' in securing loans.
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TatumTek Opens New Modular Home Building Facility in Dallas
by | Jun 20, 2023
Led by founder and CEO Edwin Tatum—a former pro basketball player—Dallas-based TatumTek says its new facility will be equipped with "advanced manufacturing technologies, robotics, and a dedicated team of skilled professionals to streamline the construction process."
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Plano’s Reata Pharmaceuticals Appoints EVP/Chief R&D Officer

by | Jun 16, 2023
In a pivotal year, which saw Reata Pharmaceuticals halt research for a kidney disease treatment and receive FDA approval for its first-to-market degenerative disease treatment, the company welcomes Dr. Rajiv Patni as Chief R&D Officer. Patni marks this as an "inflection point to become a global, commercial-stage company with an expanding pipeline in both rare and common serious diseases."
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Gearlinx Taps Industry Veteran as President of Global Sales and Marketing
by | Jun 16, 2023
Frisco-based Gearlinx said Todd Rychecky’s role is a key strategic leadership position aimed at speeding its growth and introducing cutting-edge innovations to the edge compute, network resilience, and business continuity market.
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Bridge Labs at Pegasus Park Aims to Boost the Region’s Burgeoning Life Sciences Ecosystem
by | Jun 15, 2023
The $110 million, 135,000 square-foot expansion at Pegasus Park—a regional hub for life sciences and biotechnology in North Texas—will offer prebuilt lab suites with the tools and flexible space needed for growth-stage life sciences entrepreneurs and companies. Demolition is underway and construction on Bridge Labs is set to begin soon, developers said.
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The Last Word: RecNation’s Gary Wojtaszek Drops a Hint About Things to Come
by | Jun 15, 2023
In the wake of Dallas-based RecNation's securing a $500M debt facility to supercharge its national expansion of its recreational storage and rental service, founder and CEO Gary Wojtaszek gave a playful hint of things to come on LinkedIn. 
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From Candles to Eyewear, Tech to Fashion: Impact Ventures Names 10 Businesses To Dallas Growth Accelerator

by | Jun 14, 2023
Hailing from Dallas to Houston to Atlanta, founders from 10 diverse businesses will unite in the Summer 2023 Impact Growth Accelerator. Participating companies—tech or tech-enabled, consumer goods, or growth-oriented service-based—must be in business for at least two years with $50,000 to $250,000 in revenue.  
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Swiss American CDMO and BioNTX To Launch the Biotechnology and Healthcare Industry Alliance of North Texas
by | Jun 14, 2023
The alliance's first event will be held June 22 in a bid to champion a next-generation, industry-led workforce partnership for North Texas. The alliance seeks to bring together industry trade and manufacturing ecosystems, the organizations said—and it will be working with Dallas College and other partner institutions to help make it happen.
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‘Flocksitting’ Startup Coop Expands to DFW to Babysit Backyard Chickens
by | Jun 14, 2023
When the chickens come home to roost, who'll look out for them? North Texans who've pecked into the backyard chicken trend face that quandary whenever they go on vacation, hit the road, or otherwise skedaddle. But luckily, one startup actually gives a cluck—and it's coming to Dallas-Fort Worth to help.
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Major League Cricket Announces 2023 Season Schedule, With First-Ever Match in Grand Prairie July 13
by | Jun 13, 2023
The Texas Super Kings are getting ready to swing their bats, bowl their best, and take some wicked wickets. In other words, what North Texans hope will be the top team in Major League Cricket is poised for play on the league's premier cricket venue in Grand Prairie. And now they know their whole 2023 schedule—and the league's as well. See why July 13 will become a famous date in DFW sports history—and why July 30 will make headlines worldwide.
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