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Follow the Money: P10 Acquires California Investment Firm, SmartMoving Lands $41.5M, and More
by Kevin Cummings | Aug 29, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Biotech Renibus Therapeutics raising $8.48M to fight cardio-renal disease; Deposits raising $5M for its plug-and-play financial services platform; Lion Real Estate Group targeting multifamily properties in the Sun Belt with a $200M fund, and more.
by Lance Murray |
Aug 26, 2022
Johnson launched the ‘Mayor’s Franchise Initiative’ to foster economic growth earlier this week. Carlos White’s goal will be to make Dallas “a global hub for franchising” by forming partnerships that can help teach city residents how to create, systematize, and scale successful businesses.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 26, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from the cities of Dallas and Plano, the North Texas Commission, TPG, ParkHub, Vistra, CyrusOne, Van’s Kitchen, ROBOAMP, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 24, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: American Airlines' predictive sensor system for aircraft engines with graphical user interface, Astrapi's spiral polynomial division multiplexing, B.YOND's self-intelligent improvement in predictive data models, Barefoot Networks' packet header field extraction, Belaj Innovations' compositions of marine botanicals to provide nutrition to aging and environmentally damaged skin, Boston Scientific Scimed's artificial sphincter system and method, Edible Garden AG's greenhouse agriculture system, FlyingTee Tech's multiplayer, multisport indoor game system, Hewlett Packard's watermark for manufacturing authenticity, Huawei Digital Power Technologies' high efficiency power regulator, Intuit's document classification using signal processing,
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Dallas-Based SmartMoving Raises $41.4M to Help Automate the Moving Process
by Kevin Cummings | Aug 23, 2022
SmartMoving—a software solutions startup that aims to streamline the moving services business—landed the investment from Austin- and San Francisco-based growth equity firm Mainsail Partners. Its platform automates the entire operations process from estimates to sending out crews to handling payroll and payments.
“Our mission is to build the best software to help moving companies create growth and run their businesses smoothly,” says SmartMoving founder and CEO Tobe Thompson.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 22, 2022
Dallas-based ParkHub—which manages parking operations and payments for businesses, municipalities, and venues like AT&T Stadium and American Airlines Center, while delivering analytics and insights—has acquired Dallas payment processing integrator Fuzse for an undisclosed amount. It's the latest in a string of deals struck by ParkHub.
The move comes after ParkHub raised around $100 million in January in a growth investment round aimed at driving "complementary acquisition opportunities."
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by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 22, 2022
Plus, bidding war looms for Dallas-based Signify Health; Fort Worth-based Harvest Returns raises $780K for new fund; Dallas property consulting firm Masterplan is acquired by New York company; Washington D.C. PE firm adds to its Fort Worth architectural platform; Pharos Capital sells stake in diagnostic testing company; and more North Texas deals.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 20, 2022
Brannon Morisoli will join the team at a time when life science is booming in North Texas. Most recently, Dallas-Fort Worth ranked for the first time in the "Top 20 U.S. metros for life science" 2022 report by CommercialEdge.
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DI People: Toyota, ERCOT, Bank of Texas, Comerica Bank, LERMA/, and More Make Leadership Moves
by Lance Murray | Aug 19, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from UTD's Center for Brainhealth, DART, Enseo, LiquidAgents/StaffDNA, Alpine Advanced Materials, Runway Growth Capital, Optic Gaming, Dallas Thrives, Downtown Dallas Inc., TechGenies, Kainos Capital, Texas Motor Speedway, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 19, 2022
The "Transforming Communities"-themed event on October 6 features America’s most decorated track and field athlete, Allyson Felix. While the athletic legend may be retiring from competitive athletics, she's amplifying her voice for women’s rights.
She'll also talk about launching her new brand for women, led by women.
She'll also talk about launching her new brand for women, led by women.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 18, 2022
Are you or your company a leader in innovation? The Innovation Awards celebrates trailblazers and innovators in North Texas.
Nominate your organization, a colleague, peer, or yourself—by September 22.
Nominate your organization, a colleague, peer, or yourself—by September 22.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 17, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AITAX's tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and AI, Alcon's dissolvable polymeric eye inserts with a biodegradable polymer, Amgen's electronic drug delivery device, Frito-Lay's vending machine for foodstuffs, Ironwood Cyber's generating upsampled signal from gyroscope data, OmniMax USA's smart desk and chair, Pavestone's random linear paving slab, SanDisk's vertical mapping and computing for deep neural networks in non-volatile memory, and Toyota's ramp merging assistance.
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The Tasmanian tiger went extinct due to human hunting nearly 100 years ago. Now Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences aims to bring it back with the help of "marsupial biobanking." [Image: Colossal Biosciences]
Dallas-Based Colossal Is ‘De-Extincting’ the Tasmanian Tiger
by David Seeley | Aug 16, 2022
Colossal is already working to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth via a mammoth-elephant hybrid project. Now the Tasmanian tiger—which went extinct nearly 100 years ago due to human hunting—is the second species Colossal is seeking to bring back.
"We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Andrew Pask and the University of Melbourne to restore this amazing animal to Earth," said Ben Lamm, Colossal's co-founder and CEO.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 16, 2022
Gary Wojtaszek turned Dallas-based CyrusOne public and grew it into a leading global data center firm. It recently sold for $15 billion. Now—instead of storing computers and data—he aims to store America's RVs, boats, and other "toys" with his new startup, RecNation. With funding secured from Centerbridge Partners, he aims to grow his company by 75 locations a year—and build another multi-billion-dollar business.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 15, 2022
The last day of Dallas Startup Week offered a competitive edge—the Capital One Accelerator Pitch Competition. Eight startups from across the U.S. who'd completed the accelerator program took part. The big winner: Autix, which won the CodeLaunch DFW pitch competition just last November.
Taking second place was California-based nonprofit-branded credit card startup Higher Rewards, while the Crowd Favorite prize went to Atlanta's Simple Money Academy.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 12, 2022
Hundreds packed the Granada theater to watch the gloves-off "fights" to cap off Dallas Startup Week. Tech types duked it out verbally amid cheering, hooting, and generally raucous reactions from the audience.
Check out what you missed—or relive it here.
Check out what you missed—or relive it here.
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