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Dallas’ nVenue Is Named One of 20 Sports Tech Ideas to Invest in Now

by | Feb 8, 2023
Sports Pro Daily is out with its 2023 list of 20 Sports Tech Ideas to Invest in Now—and local startup nVenue has made the list. Dallas-based nVenue's predictive analytics platform takes real-time data of what’s happening in a game and runs it through “millions” of models to show the predictive percentage of what could happen next. nVenue's tech is "helping bookmakers and broadcasters generate value from every moment in every game," Sports Pro Daily writes.
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Jim Lake Companies’ $14M Mixed-Use Project in Cedar Hill To Offer Storefronts for Entrepreneurs, Tiny Homes
Jim Lake and Amanda Moreno are turning 40,000 square feet of real estate in downtown Cedar Hill into a mixed-use development with offices, restaurants, residential, and retail space.

The $14 million project, which has yet to be named, builds on Jim Lake Companies' Bishop Arts success.
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Texas Governor Gives Agencies Deadline to Implement Plan Banning TikTok
by | Feb 6, 2023
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has put state agencies on the clock to implement policies that would prohibit the downloading or use of apps such as TikTok on state-owned devices. Abbott announced the statewide model security plan Monday for Texas state agencies to address vulnerabilities presented by the use of TikTok and other software on personal and state-issued devices. Each state agency will have until February 15 to implement its own policy to enforce this statewide plan. “The security risks associated with the use of TikTok on devices used to conduct the important business of our state must not be underestimated or ignored,” Abbott said.
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John Carmack’s New Holy Grail: Artificial General Intelligence

by | Feb 2, 2023
John Carmack, the iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR pioneer, is setting his sights on AGI. If successful, his moonshot effort would be a ‘change-the-world-level’ event.
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Exclusive Q&A: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
by | Feb 2, 2023
John Carmack, the iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR pioneer, is taking aim now at solving AGI. If successful, his moonshot effort would be a ‘change-the-world-level’ event.
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WomenXTech Summit: The DEC Network Aims to Unleash the Power of Women in Tech on Feb. 8
by | Feb 1, 2023

The DEC Network wants to help women take their tech game to the next level in a male-dominated industry. The 2023 WomenXTech Summit, a one-day, in-person summit for women, will be held Feb....

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Bear Robotics Added to US Foods’ Nationwide Business Tools Program
by | Feb 1, 2023
Bear Robotics makes table bussing, food running, and drink-serving hospitality robots that have wheeled meals to tables in Chili's restaurants and other eateries across the country. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with a second office in Addison, Bear was one of more than 20 restaurant tech companies that vied for entry in US Foods' incubator program. Bear's successful demos and operator interest led US Foods to add the company to its nationwide Business Tools program.
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Autonomous Vehicle Startup Aurora Appoints a Dallas-Based President as It Gears Up for Commercial Launch in 2024

by | Jan 31, 2023
Aurora Innovation—which is partnering on autonomous freight trucking runs between Dallas, Houston, and El Paso every day—has appointed Ossa Fisher as its president. Fisher joins the company from Istation, a Dallas-based e-learning company. Fisher will continue to be based out of Dallas near Aurora’s current center for vehicle operations, and "will play a pivotal role" as Aurora scales operations on its way toward commercial launch in 2024.
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Dallas-Based Enterprise Browser Unicorn Adds SVP of Strategic Partnerships
by | Jan 31, 2023

Richard Greene has joined the executive team at Dallas-based tech unicorn Island as senior vice president of strategic partnerships.

Island, a leader and pioneer in the enterprise browser market, said that Greene has decades of experience building and leading multimillion-dollar, fast-paced companies driving strategy, directing high-performance sales teams, scaling startups, and maximizing revenue....

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Three Months After Launching With Its g.nome Platform, Almaden Genomics Names CEO
by | Jan 30, 2023
Life sciences industry veteran David Gascoigne will lead the new startup, which was launched in October by Catalyze Dallas Holdings. Almaden's g.nome cloud-native platform offers "an advanced visual drag-and-drop workflow builder" and curated library of toolkits that can speed bioinformatic pipeline building "from what previously has taken months to mere hours," the company says.
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Annual EarthX E-Capital Summit on Tap for April at Fair Park in Dallas
by | Jan 30, 2023
EarthX is seeking innovators and investors to participate in its 2023 EarthX E-Capital Summit April 19-22 at Fair Park in Dallas. At the summit, early-stage climate tech companies will be able to make pitches for a chance at a cash prize. There will also be discussions on investment and industry trends by leading industry professionals, investors, startups, and policymakers, EarthX said, along with curated and self-selected one-on-one networking meetings between investors, dealmakers, and innovators.
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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Partners with OncoPower to Help Cancer Patients Save on Medications

by | Jan 30, 2023
Dallas' Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company announced a collaboration today with Houston-based OncoPower that will enable cancer patients using OncoPower to look up pricing and order less expensive medications. OncoPower offers a free app and website with a social media-style format where patients can access professionals including dietitians and behavioral therapists, as well as cancer education and meditation content, tools for treatment adherence, and clinical trial mapping.
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Mobile Security Platform Zimperium Adds Industry Vet as Chief Marketing Officer
by | Jan 30, 2023

Sammie Walker has joined Dallas-based mobile security provider Zimperium as chief marketing officer.

Zimperium, the only mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments, said Walker will be responsible for driving growth and awareness of Zimperium’s mobile security platform as it scales to provide organizations worldwide with protection against the increasing volume and severity of mobile threats....

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Frisco’s Greenwatt Lighting Launches Alert System for Schools with First Install in Southlake
by | Jan 27, 2023
The joint venture with Mark Cuban-backed IoT startup MeshTek has released a Kid-Centric lighting system that can communicate emergency safety protocols to students, teachers, and administrators with instant visual cues and immediate notification alerts. The company says its solution "is the only safety lighting system that utilizes a reliable Bluetooth mesh network." "With school safety being a top concern across the country, this innovation could not have come at a better time," Cuban says.
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Digital Edition: Dallas Innovates Magazine 2023
by | Jan 27, 2023
Welcome to the pulse of North Texas, where creativity and innovation converge to shape the future of business and beyond.
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