Part 10: Calculating Share Price
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The Shadow CEO:
A Founder’s Guide to Calculating Share Price
by Dennis Cagan | Sep 21, 2022
Entrepreneur, investor, and corporate governance authority Dennis Cagan shares insights on seldom-taught things an entrepreneur needs to know about equity and governance—before making needless mistakes—in The Shadow CEO series.
Part 10: Calculating Share Price
Part 10: Calculating Share Price
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 21, 2022
Dallas' Hoque Global plans to build a $50 million mixed-use development in downtown Mansfield, the DFW suburb south of Arlington, with 249 residences, nearly 12,000 square feet of retail, office, and restaurant space, and a nearly 8,000-square-foot civic plaza, the DBJ reports.
In a conversation with Moore and Todd Tonore, Mansfield's Mayor Pro Tem and Chairman of the Historic Downtown Mansfield Revitalization Subcommittee, the DBJ explores how "one of the oldest historic downtowns" in North Texas is about to get rebuilt.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 20, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's wearable device for operational compliance, Bridge To Life's organ preservation system with automatic priming and air removal, NTT Data's bot-on-bot optimization, Siemens Logistics' automatic unloading of parcels, SpeedChain's systemized blockchain reconciliation in a hybrid distributed network ecosystem, TD Ameritrade's string processing of clickstream data, Verizon's managing unmanned aerial vehicle flight data, Visual Shot Recognition Gaming's live fire gaming system, and more.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 20, 2022
It's easy to get from A to B. But what if you have to go from A to B to C to D to E? Finding the fastest way to complete all the stops can be daunting. But now a UT Dallas computer science student has co-founded Routora—a free Google Maps extension tool that reorders your stops for the fastest, most efficient trip. While still in beta, the tool has already attracted around 3,000 users from 70 countries.
“By creating more efficient routes, not only are they saving money on gas, but they're also emitting less carbon into the atmosphere," says Routora Co-founder and CEO Tom Vazhekatt.
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MLTPLY Founder and CEO Gloria Guntiñas [Photo: MLTPLY]
Local Accelerator and Investment Platform MLTPLY Launches Insurance Tech Startup Proxima
by Kevin Cummings | Sep 19, 2022
Dallas-based MLTPLY launched late last year with the goal of helping seed-stage insurtech startups get to market up to 18 months sooner than they would on their own. Today it announced the launch of its third portfolio company, Proxima—which helps clients develop "highly complex" insurtech projects while providing back-office support via "operations hubs" in Latin America.
“This partnership also allows MLTPLY to expand our footprint into Latin America, where extraordinary talent is already yielding impressive results for the insurance sector," MLTPLY Founder and CEO Gloria Gutinas says.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 19, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Pathway Healthcare’s Texas expansion via Innovation360 acquisition; NEW A.G.E Inc’s $2.5M deal with Healing the Earth; donor software firm NPact's acquisition of products from Blackbaud; and Irving-based Commercial Metal Company’s acquisition of Advanced Steel Recovery among other deals.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 16, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Jacobs, HF Sinclair and Holly Energy Partners, Caris Life Sciences, Fossil Group, Deloitte, TRG, Invited, Instil Bio, RealPage, Critical Start, Genuine Article, and others.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 16, 2022
The once-a-year summit on September 22 and 23 is an innovation multiplier for capital, collaboration, and commercialization. Experts in the field will discuss strategy and exchange insights—and what's driving life science success across the region.
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Gamified Exercise, Medical Devices, and More: 10 Startups Bring Their Ideas to Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator
by Kevin Cummings | Sep 15, 2022
The inaugural Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator is kicking off with 10 startups who come from all over the map—from Dallas to cities across the U.S. as well as Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. They'll be taking up residence in Fort Worth for an "intensive" 13-week mentorship program that makes each eligible for $120,000 in seed funding from the UNT Health Science Center and Goff Capital.
“We believe that Fort Worth can become the physical health innovation capital of the world, and this is an incredible next step to making that vision a reality,” says Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams, president of UNT HSC.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 15, 2022
Confer, whose app platform lets mortgage shoppers compare multiple mortgage offers, has found a new home in the Serendipity Labs coworking space in McKinney's Craig Ranch. It aims to open its platform to brokers, banks, and lenders in order to help them provide a plug-and-play model to give more options to borrowers. It's now looking to raise a $4 million seed funding round.
“The end goal is to guide buyers in making a conscious and intelligent decision,” says Yatin Karnik, Confer's founder and CEO.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 15, 2022
The 27,500-square-foot new HQ—in partnership with UT Dallas—anchors Richardson's 1,200-acre Innovation Quarter. A masterwork of vision planning years in the making, it's a catalyst to spark innovation and nuture collaborations—and attract hundreds of entrepreneurial businesses. Six new UT Dallas research centers will initially launch at the IQ HQ, helping to build businesses and commercialize research coming from the nearby university.
“We are a global presence," Richardson Mayor Paul Voelker said at the event. "And the vision that we have here is that we will be a global influencer of technology and innovation."
“We are a global presence," Richardson Mayor Paul Voelker said at the event. "And the vision that we have here is that we will be a global influencer of technology and innovation."
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 14, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Botsitter's remote monitoring, care and maintenance of animals, Socrates Health Solutions' blood glucose trend meter, Kyndryl's prioritization for charging electric vehicles while driving on the road, BNSF Railway's train simulator test set and method therefor, Alliance for Sustainable Energy's perovskite materials , TI's accelerated decision-tree execution, USAA's authentication in a virtual reality environment, JPMorgan Chase Bank's gamification-based engagement, Polara Enterprises' integrated accessible pedestrian system, and more.
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IgniteConnex co-founders Rob Palacios (left) and Sebastian Labrador [Photos: IgniteConnex]
Plano-Based CG Infinity Launched Its First Spinout in IgniteConnex; Here’s How Its ‘Drag-and-Drop’ Platform Is Transforming Businesses
by Kevin Cummings | Sep 13, 2022
Earlier this year, Plano-based IT consulting firm Cyber Group rebranded as CG Infinity, launching a new innovation lab and investing in a new 33,000-square-foot Plano HQ and innovation lab. Now we look behind the scenes of its first startup spinout, IgniteConnex—whose low-code, drag-and-drop platform connects and integrates businesses' legacy technology.
"Our mantra behind this is you shouldn't have to redo all of your infrastructure," IgniteConnex President and Co-founder Rob Palacios tells Dallas Innovates.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 9, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Dallas startup VRGL raising $15M six months after launching, S2 Capital’s $400M multifamily investment fund, CBRE leading $125M Series E for proptech firm VTS, CVS Health acquiring Signify Health for $8B, BenefitMall’s latest acquisition, and more.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 8, 2022
Two Dallas companies have been awarded $100,000 each by the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, which aims to help close racial disparities in VC funding given to diverse founders. The startups will also receive Google Cloud credits and hands-on support from Google. They join several other North Texas companies that received earlier grants from the fund.
“Across the U.S., there are amazing Black startup founders who are building great companies yet are locked out of access to the funding that's critical to their success,” Google wrote in a blog post.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 7, 2022
The startup found early traction in 2021 as part of the Comcast NBCUniversal SportTech Accelerator. Its predictions are now displayed on two MLB games per week on Apple TV+’s Friday Night Baseball.
That work with broadcasters is "helping get the market used to the type of real-time analytics," says Co-Founder and CFO Drew Williams. nVenue innovates in the watch-and-bet market and aims to turn prediction displays into actionable betting items for fans, "providing operators almost a million markets that they can take today."
That work with broadcasters is "helping get the market used to the type of real-time analytics," says Co-Founder and CFO Drew Williams. nVenue innovates in the watch-and-bet market and aims to turn prediction displays into actionable betting items for fans, "providing operators almost a million markets that they can take today."
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