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Global Entrepreneurship Week North Texas Returns November 13-20 with Dozens of Sessions and Events
by David Seeley | Nov 9, 2022
Held mostly in Fort Worth but also in cities across DFW, GEW North Texas will feature everything from a kickoff party to an "urban farm crawl" to fireside chats, pitch competitions, revealing sessions, and a wrap party. Along the way, you can learn how to access capital; how to go global; how to master cybersecurity; how to leverage free e-commerce tools; how to start up from scratch with a branded website; and much more.
It's just part of what's happening simultaneously worldwide during Global Entrepreneurship Week, with 40,000 activities planned in nearly 200 countries.
by Quincy Preston |
Nov 9, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AC Avalanche's smart chip housing, AT&T's detection and use of mood-condition affinities, Digital Seat Media's delivery of dynamic content based on predetermined thresholds, Discovery.com's asynchronous group consumption of streaming media, Inmar Rx Solutions' pharma transport system including RFID-based lock operation, and RealPage's concept based searching or recommendation.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Nov 7, 2022
At last week's Venture Dallas conference, more than 400 VCs, angel investors, startups, and business leaders gathered for a showcase of North Texas' entrepreneurial and venture ecosystem. Here's a look at the highlights—from Troy Aikman saying "There are no shortcuts" to Alto Founder Will Coleman on the power of doing "the opposite" to Mark Cuban's "ready, fire, aim" approach.
“Regions like Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth, we’re the model for the rest of the nation on how to get things done," Ross Perot Jr. said at the conference kickoff.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Nov 7, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about automated payment solutions startup UPAY raising new funds; Fort Worth’s Star Castle Ventures' $5.25M raise; Carlyle Group acquiring a majority stake in Dallas’ Aspen Power Partners; CenterOak Partners selling Wetzel’s Pretzels for $207M; and other deals.
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D CEO and Dallas Innovates have announced the 2023 Innovation Awards Finalists
Meet the Finalists: The Innovation Awards 2023, Presented by Dallas Innovates and D CEO
by Lance Murray | Nov 3, 2022
Now in its fourth year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 68 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
Finalists will be recognized in the January/February issue of D CEO magazine and online at DallasInnovates.com. Winners will be revealed at an exclusive awards event in January.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 3, 2022
Collectively, the 100 privately held companies contributed $9 billion to the Dallas-Fort Worth economy from 2019 to 2021—creating over 12,000 jobs with average sales growth of 141%.
Irving-based ShiftKey, which connects healthcare professionals with healthcare facilities that have immediate shift vacancies, took the top spot in the annual rankings. Here's the complete list.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Nov 2, 2022
Focused “almost exclusively” on the multifamily space, Aerwave’s patented tech provides communities with internet access across a property without the need for individual routers in each unit. “Today, we're deploying 10,000 units at the same time. Our goal is to be able to do that at 50,000 units simultaneously," says founder and CEO Alex Wey.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 2, 2022
Via the StadiumDrop App, fans order food and beverages straight from their seats. Runners then deliver food directly to them, ensuring they never miss a moment of the event they're attending. Venues and events using the app include AT&T Stadium, Concacaf, Oklahoma State University, Goodyear Cotton Bowl, the Dallas Cowboys, the University of Oklahoma, Nissan Stadium, and Wrestlemania.
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RCS Secure Completes Series A Round, Rebrands as Third Wave Innovations
by Lance Murray | Nov 2, 2022
The fresh funding will allow the cybersecurity company to expand its customer base and invest in new parts of its core products and services, which include managed security, data, and IT services.
Third Wave Innovations is eying growth. As the company puts it, "data security is no longer a luxury."
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by Kevin Cummings |
Nov 1, 2022
Co-Founders Sophia Karbowski and Austin Patry launched Rollin' n Bowlin' as a food truck offering healthy smoothie and açaí bowls at TCU in Fort Worth. Now it's grown to brick-and-mortar locations at multiple U.S. universities and products on store shelves, leading to its latest new CPG brand launch: realsy nut butter-filled dates.
“We're so excited to disrupt the better-for-you snacking industry with an actually good-for-you snack,” Karbowski wrote on LinkedIn.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 31, 2022
Dunnu Devulapally has faced his own struggles with identity issues as a first-generation American as well as with substance abuse. Now he aims to help people facing these and other mental health-related issues by launching NRVE, a Dallas-based research nonprofit. Targeting younger generations, NRVE will focus on awareness in youth, support for veterans, support for homeless people, and research for substance abuse, domestic violence, and suicide prevention.
With the information it collects, NRVE plans to become the “Google” for the mental health space, Devulapally told Dallas Innovates.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 31, 2022
Some of the top players in the North Texas technology ecosystem were honored Thursday at the annual Tech Titans awards gala. Fujitsu North America CEO Doug Moore was inducted into the Tech Titans Hall of Fame, and Charlie Vogt, CEO of telecommunications firm DZS, won the Corporate CEO Award. The fastest-growing tech company award went to Fort Worth's TimelyMD.
"The need to come together as an industry, reconnect with friends, and build new business connections were really what this year’s awards gala was all about," said Tech Titans' Paul Bendel. See the full list of winners here.
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U.S. Patent No. 11,473,569 (Plasma engine with leptonic energy source) was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Dallas Invents: 137 Patents Granted for Week of October 18
by Quincy Preston | Oct 30, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's machine-learning algorithm trained to identify algorithmically populated shopping carts as candidates for verification, AT&T'S Quantum tampering threat management, Bank of America's real-time processing distributed ledger system, Care View Communications's patient video monitoring systems and methods having detection algorithm recovery from changes in illumination, GE Precision Health Care's motion correction systems and methods of propeller magnetic resonance images, Lockheed Martin's plasma engine with leptonic energy source, Prilenia Neurotherapeutics, UT System use of pridopidine to improve cognitive function and for treating Alzheimer's disease, Texas A&M's hybrid bluegrass named DALBG 1201, and TMGCore's external robotic system for liquid immersion cooling platform
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 28, 2022
DFW-based Francis says he helps tech founders launch their digital products "with clarity and confidence while increasing success raising capital and reducing risk in execution."
He's been putting some interesting advice up on LinkedIn. Last week he shared this: "I have two kids, and a phrase you will NEVER hear me say to them is, 'Second place is first loser.'"
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 28, 2022
Two months after acquiring Fuzse, a payment processing integrator, Dallas-based ParkHub has scooped up Smarking to broaden its product suite and expand into new end markets. Founded in 2014, San Francisco-based Smarking is a SaaS-based solution that enables customers across North America to effectively manage their parking assets through access to real-time data and analytics.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 28, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Taysha Gene Therapies landing a $50M investment; music tech startup MAX’s Series B raise; Dallas Venture Capital’s latest investment; Tyler Technologies’ $68M acquisition of Rapid Financial Solutions; NaturalShrimp hitting the Nasdaq Capital Market; and more.
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