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AllOY Reveals Design of Its First Electric-Powered Autonomous Recreational Boat

by | Dec 8, 2022
The Dallas-based marine tech startup will take preorders in 2023 and set sail with production boats in 2024. Warbird Holdings CEO John Dorton—a veteran in both boat building and leadership—is joining the startup’s board to help AllOY make waves in the $57 billion recreational boat market.  AllOY emerged from stealth this summer to bring electric power and autonomous tech to boating.
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Fort Worth ISD Makes Rhithm Bio-Social Testing App Optional
Rhithm, a Dallas social-emotional learning and mental health startup, raised $4 million in a seed round last year for its emoji-based bio-social assessments app, which is now used by over 2,400 schools in 29 states, according to the company. One district that adopted the app is Fort Worth ISD—and it recently announced a change in how the app will be used.
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Evolon and ZeroEyes Partner on Long-Range AI Gun-Detection Technology

by | Dec 6, 2022
With the partnership, Dallas-based Evolon Technology will unite the long-distance object detection of its analytics with ZeroEyes' proprietary AI gun detection technology. The result: The ability to detect and track someone with a firearm more than a football field away. "Current events point to the need for a partnership like ours," Evolon President and CEO Kevin Stadler says.
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Dallas-based Alto Rolls Out Another ‘Art Car’
by | Dec 6, 2022
Alto, the Dallas-based luxury rideshare startup, is known for rolling out "art cars" in Dallas and the six other U.S. cities where it operates. Now it's introduced a new one in Dallas with its newest partner, Wildlike. Wildlike founder Alysa Teichman mashed up the tattoo/piercing culture with an "elevated jewelry experience" when she launched her company last year.
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Australian PropTech Intelligence Platform Archistar Is Beginning Its U.S. Launch in Dallas
by | Dec 6, 2022
Archistar says it offers real estate developers "faster, smarter land acquisition" via its all-in-one platform. "Within a few minutes," the startup says, developers can "complete deep analysis that would take dedicated specialists weeks to finish." The company raised $11 million in June to help fuel its U.S. expansion, and acquired Snaploader to add interactive 3D experiences to its platform.
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Dallas Invents: 157 Patents Granted for Week of November 8
by | Dec 5, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's intraocular lens insertion device, Balanced Media Technology's task completion using a blockchain network, BioBrand's target online advertising using biometric information, BNSF Logistics' long rail transport train, Brius Technologies' orthodontic treatment and associated devices, Design Science Technology's safe transport and storage of energy storage devices, Entrust's identity management for software components using one-time use credential and dynamically created identity credential, Northrop Grumman Systems' spacecraft servicing pods , Omnitracs' locating wireless devices, Price Setter's transaction arbiter system, Redmon Jeang's mobile legal counsel system, and Toyota's artificial muscles.
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ReCode Therapeutics Appoints New Member to Board of Director

by | Dec 2, 2022

Dallas-based life science company ReCode Therapeutics has appointed Patricia “Trisha” Millican to its board of directors, bringing with her more than 20 years of experience in the life science industry.

ReCode Therapeutics is a genetic medicines company using superior delivery to power the next wave of mRNA and gene correction therapeutics....

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Techstars’ Demo Day Brings Health Tech Pioneers to Historic Fort Worth Stockyards
10 startups will make history themselves as part of the world’s first physical health accelerator. Techstars Demo Day is the culmination of Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator. It signifies more than a year of planning and a lifetime of dreaming, innovating, and disrupting industries for the 10 startups.
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Frisco-based XR Sports Joins Mastercard Start Path, Aims for the Future of (Social) Commerce
by | Nov 30, 2022
“Mastercard has an interest in the future of commerce, specifically at the intersection of "Creator Economy" and "Fintech" and that’s where XR Sports lives,” said XR Sports founder and CEO Kedreon Cole.

XR Sports is one of five startups added to the fintech giant's program.
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Plano’s CharaChorder Releases Dongle That Lets You Type at ‘the Speed of Thought’

by | Nov 29, 2022
The startup launched CharaChorder X, a new USB dongle which "transforms any keyboard into a chording enabled device," November 22 on Kickstarter. It reached 100% funding within two hours of its release. 
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Dallas’ Alto Hits 1 Million Mark in U.S. Rideshares
As the tech boom began declining earlier this year, Coleman says his startup took "adaptive and agile" steps, "making cutbacks early on." In a statement, he added that the costs to be headquartered in Dallas "allows his company to stay ambitious and aggressive, and acquire top-tier talent."
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Kanarys’ Mandy Price Featured in Docuseries from HubSpot for Startups and LinkedIn
In the episode, which debuted last week, Price talks about her own journey while sharing the mission and vision of Kanarys, detailing how the company is transforming DEI in the workplace using data. 
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Allied Electronics Seeks Applicants for New RS DesignSpark Accelerate Program
by | Nov 28, 2022
The company is looking for entrepreneurs specializing in hardware and software solutions engineered for digital factories, smart buildings and facilities, energy management and efficiency, Industry 4.0, or supply chains.
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