Here's a look inside the Texas-sized micro-amusement park.
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Brent Bushnell, Co-Founder and Chairman of Two Bit Circus. [Photo: Dallas Innovates]
The Last Word: Co-Founder Brent Bushnell on Engineering Entertainment and Social Fun at Dallas’ New Two Bit Circus
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.
by Lance Murray |
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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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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Tom Ellis, founder and CEO of ShiftKey [Photo: LinkedIn]
With New Funding, Irving Healthcare Staffing Platform ShiftKey Gets Double Unicorn $2 Billion Valuation
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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by Lance Murray |
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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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.
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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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From left: Worlds co-founders are CTO Ross Bates, CEO Dave Copps, and President Chris Rhodes, shown in front of their new company logo. [Photo: Michael Samples]
Dallas-Based Worlds Raises $21.2M to Help Build the Industrial Metaverse
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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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Dec 28, 2022
Meet the 10 promising startups that took the stage to demonstrate their potential to disrupt healthcare.
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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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[Video still: Mosaic Makers Collective]
The Last Word: Mosaic Makers Collective’s Katy Sensenig Schilthuis on Showcasing Talents of 80 Texas Women Makers
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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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 21, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Aon Risk Services' digital property collateral protection, Capitalogix's advanced systems and methods for allocating capital to trading strategies for big data trading in financial markets, Dell Products' detection of indicators of attack, Nallen Holdings' paint removal unit, USAA's appliance monitoring sensors, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 20, 2022
Aurora Innovation is already hauling freight with its self-driving trucks from Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston and El Paso, for customers including FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner, and Schneider.
The release of its Aurora Driver Beta 5.0 adds detection and appropriate response to emergency vehicles like ambulances, fire engines, and law enforcement vehicles, along with other enhanced capabilities.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 20, 2022
The early-stage startup's QmTRIAGE software platform uses AI and machine learning to detect early breast cancers with a "high rate" of accuracy, MedCognetics says. The company has worked with UT Southwestern and UT Dallas to ensure its AI improves outcomes for "all ethnicities," at a time when racial disparities in AI have become a growing concern.
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