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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jan 17, 2023
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by David Seeley |
Jan 13, 2023
An active VC investor for nearly 15 years, Healy went in full-bore in September by founding Morrison Seger Venture Capital Partners. With $5 million raised since its launch, the"MoSe" fund has focused on Tiff's Treats, Siempre Tequila, laundry and dryer fragrance startup Laundry Sauce, and Catch'N Ice Cream.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 12, 2023
Fort Worth-based HTeaO is quenching thirsts with "ultra-premium" iced teas and coffee at 68 locations in five states, with 93 units currently under construction. This week, Dallas-based Crux Capital and Trive Capital both decided to have a taste—by getting a minority stake in the company. HTeaO currently offers 26 flavors of fresh-brewed iced tea, from Root Beer to Sweet Blueberry Green to Sweet Turbo Citrus Energy Tea and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 11, 2023
After a soft open two months ago, Two Bit Circus officially launched yesterday at Dallas' Shops of Park Lane, featuring 35,000 square feet of tech-enhanced entertainment. Attractions include arcade games; VR, AR, and "extended reality" experiences; "story rooms"; reimagined carnival games; and more.
We talked to the co-founders about how playing in groups is a big part of the fun, why their VR games prove "humans are hackable," and more.
Here's a look inside the Texas-sized micro-amusement park.
Here's a look inside the Texas-sized micro-amusement park.
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Dallas-Based Conversational AI Platform Inbenta Rakes in $40M Investment
by Lance Murray | Jan 11, 2023
Requiring virtually zero data training and achieving a 90% correct answer rate, Inbenta's solutions are fully configurable, deployable within seconds, interoperable across multiple platforms, and perpetually advancing through billions of customer interactions across 35 languages, the company said.
"Inbenta's conversational AI is a game changer for any business that has to handle customer inquiries, whether simple questions or more complicated tasks," says CEO Melissa Solis.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 11, 2023
Last August, we told you all about Pink Sauce—how Miami influencer Chef Pii invented it and celebrated its shockingly pink wing-drizzling in TikTok videos that quickly went viral. That caught the radar of Dallas-based CPG company Dave’s Gourmet, which refined the recipe and packaging and launched it on a commercial scale. Well, today Dave's announced a major Pink milestone. Walmart has become the exclusive retailer to carry Pink Sauce until July 2023. The rosy-colored sauce will be available in over 4,300 Walmart store locations nationwide and on walmart.com in mid-January, Dave's said.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 11, 2023
Called Radian, the solution is powered by Lightbeam’s health equity AI engine and requires only a ZIP code to aggregate clinical and social data across more than 4,500 factors. It gives providers an executive-level view of health disparities within a community.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 11, 2023
ShiftKey raised $300 million in the funding round, according to Axios, making the company North Texas' newest double unicorn. ShiftKey's platform enables healthcare professionals to browse, bid on, and work nearby shifts to cover for absentee workers—helping to grow a strained healthcare labor pool nationwide.
"What a way to kick off 2023!" Founder and CEO Tom Ellis said on LinkedIn today. "Growth—not for the sake of growth, but IMPACT."
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Telecom Supplier Tango Networks Makes Leadership Moves
by Lance Murray | Jan 10, 2023
Telecom equipment supplier Tango Networks announced leadership and adviser changes that the company said positions it for future growth.
Andrew Bale has been promoted from executive vice president to president. Glenn Etherington has joined Tango Networks as chief financial officer. Lathan Lewis has joined the company as chief technology officer for business development....
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 10, 2023
Medix Infusion creates access to infusion therapy for patients in rural, suburban, and other underserved markets. The company says it will use the funds to support organic growth and acquire the infusion operations of the Center for Neurology and Spine, a national leader in the treatment of neurological disorders that serves patients across five infusion suites in Arizona.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 9, 2023
Last June, we told you about Go-To-Green, a Dallas startup that aims to help people get to safety in an active shooter situation, while also ensuring law enforcement can isolate the threat. Starting last week, the Pilot Point ISD north of Dallas-Fort Worth became the first district in the U.S. to put the technology to use.
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by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray |
Jan 9, 2023
Worlds' platform brings AI-based automation directly into the ground-floor operations of large industrial companies—with IoT sensors, people, and processes all coming together inside a live digital twin. Companies can then reimagine their operations in ways that were previously impossible, co-founder and CEO Dave Copps says.
"We're fortunate because what we built is the right thing to have at the right time," Copps told us. "I think we're really in the catbird seat right now."
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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of November 29
by Quincy Preston | Dec 28, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Akamai Technologies' device discovery for cloud-based network security gateways, Amazon's identity-aware filtering proxy for virtual networks, BMIC's asphalt shingle waste coatings in roofing materials, Capital One's sorted parallel processing of a large dataset, EarthSystems Technologies' predictive monitoring geological and meteorological effects on subsurface infrastructure systems and reporting emergency conditions, Google's methods and computer program products for providing data use options, Halliburton's sealing apparatus with swellable metal, Toyota's managing drones in vehicular system, USAA's voice synthesis for virtual agents, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 23, 2022
Plano-based Fortress Solutions has appointed John Shelnutt as its chief executive officer, replacing Brendon Mills, who resigned to pursue other opportunities.
Fortress Solutions is a global provider of critical infrastructure management and support services for telecommunications carriers, wireless networks, electronic vehicle charging stations, and IoT devices.
“Fortress has an incredibly deep bench of talent that has gained the respect of the largest telecom companies in the world and other providers of critical infrastructure for many years,“ Shelnutt said in a statement....
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 22, 2022
As New Year's Eve approaches, thoughts are turning to holidays, fireworks, and—yes—business plans for a whole new year. That may be why December is National Business Plan Month, and TWU's Tracy Irby has the perfect way to celebrate it—by avoiding 5 key business plan mistakes.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 21, 2022
If you walk into Mosaic Makers Collective—a 2000-square-foot store at 8th Street and Bishop in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District—you can find everything from watercolor paintings to kitchen magnets shaped like sushi to casual fashions, wall hangings, jewelry, and more. And a sign on the wall—FEMALE DESIGNED LOCAL GOODS—tells it all.
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