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Here Are the Winners of The Innovation Awards 2023
by | Jan 17, 2023
Dallas Innovates and D CEO celebrated 68 honorees and revealed the winners of our fourth-annual Innovation Awards at an event held at On the Levee in the Dallas Design District. Here's a full list of winners and finalists.
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At 19, She Became the First Female Dickey’s BBQ Franchisee. Now She’s Opening This Bistro at The Star
by | Jan 17, 2023
Texas-born Mondi Tag was just 19 when she and her mother became the first female franchisee owners and operators for Dickey’s BBQ in Dallas. Now she's about to open something a little swankier: La Parisienne Bistro & Bar, coming to The Star in Frisco this spring. The 4,325-square-foot bistro was designed by Dubai-based Mayavian Creative Studios to offer an "elegant Parisian feel."
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Dallas’ Amperage Capital Launches to Create Assigned EV Parking Spots for U.S. Apartment Residents
by | Jan 17, 2023
Backed "by a number of large Dallas family offices," the infrastructure investor and operator will focus on supporting residential electric vehicle charging solutions in apartment communities. "We believe that apartment residents should have access to designated home charging spaces, rather than relying on shared charging stations" says CEO Farrukh Malik.
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Rogers Healy [Photo: RHA]

Dallas Real Estate Entrepreneur Rogers Healy Launched a VC Fund in September. Here’s What He’s Done With a $5M Raise

by | 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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Fort Worth-Based HTeaO Gets Growth Investments from Two Dallas PE Firms
by | 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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The Last Word: Co-Founder Brent Bushnell on Engineering Entertainment and Social Fun at Dallas’ New Two Bit Circus
by | 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.
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Nanoscope Therapeutics Names New Vice President of Quality
by | Jan 11, 2023

Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc., a Dallas-based clinical-stage biotechnology company developing gene therapies for retinal degenerative diseases, has appointed Massoud Motamed, Ph.D., as vice president of quality.

Motamed brings nearly a decade of CGMP quality and compliance experience, including extensive experience in manufacturing and regulatory review of gene therapy products....

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Chef Pii enjoying Pink Sauce. [Photo: Dave's Gourmet]

Pink Sauce Is Hitting 4,300 Walmart Stores With Help from Dallas’ Dave’s Gourmet

by | 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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Irving’s Lightbeam Health Solutions Releases First Free Health Equity Strategy ‘In a Box’
by | 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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Gearbox acquires Captured Dimensions
Gearbox Entertainment Acquires Fellow Frisco Company Captured Dimensions
by | Jan 10, 2023
Gearbox is an award-winning creator and distributor of transmedia entertainment, including hit video games and franchises like Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Brothers in Arms, and Borderlands. Captured Dimensions has done 3D capture and scanning for numerous Hollywood movies, and produced video game titles for 2K Games and Electronic Arts. Captured Dimensions founder and president Jordan Williams called the merger "an incredible runway for growth an opportunity."
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Addison’s Medix Infusion Nets $35M Series B Funding for Growth, Acquisitions

by | 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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Pilot Point ISD Is First in U.S. to Use ‘Go-To-Green’ Active Shooter Tech
by | 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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From ‘Smart’ Exercise Bands to Glasses That Monitor Your Heart: Demo Day at the Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator
by | Dec 28, 2022
Meet the 10 promising startups that took the stage to demonstrate their potential to disrupt healthcare.
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