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Emergent Connext CEO Mike Roudi [Photo: Emergent]
Aiming To Be America’s ‘Rural IoT Network,’ Plano’s Emergent Connext Closes $5M Seed Round
by Lance Murray | Jul 15, 2025
Emergent said its seed round attracted a group of more than 20 agriculture and telecom investors who share its vision to digitally connect underserved industries of rural America and unlock "a new era of profitability, sustainability, and operational efficiency across agriculture, climate, energy, utilities, municipalities, and the broader rural economy."
by David Seeley |
Jul 15, 2025
The California-based clinical-stage biotech startup is developing therapies to treat serious immunological diseases like atopic dermatitis and vitiligo.
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![Venture capitalist Tim Draper and NVCA President and CEO Bobby Franklin are the first speakers announced for the 2025 Venture Dallas Conference. [Images courtesy Venture Dallas]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tim-Draper-Bobby-Franklin-Venture-Dallas-2025-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
Jul 15, 2025
The 2025 conference, backed by J.P. Morgan and Perot Jain, has become an established annual event for connecting capital to companies built in North Texas.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 14, 2025
TCU’s CREATE cross-campus accelerator program helped seed student startups in AI education, food technology, and lab automation after a year-long development process.
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TestFit Co-Founder and CEO Clifton Harness [Photo: LinkedIn]
The Last Word: TestFit CEO on What’s Different About Founders
by David Seeley | Jul 9, 2025
Eight years after his first day at TestFit—a Dallas-based real estate development feasibility platform that's helped clients speed up site planning by as much as 10 times—Harness took to LinkedIn to share "8 things about founders." His insights include "We will work 80 hours a week for fun"; "We will not accept defeat, even at a 97% casualty rate"; and "Motivation is our own. No carrot. No stick. Just manic intent."
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by David Seeley |
Jul 9, 2025
With 500-plus founder applications flowing in each year, Dallas-based seed accelerator Health Wildcatters needed more room to help startups grow. On Thursday, it will cut the ribbon on its newly expanded headquarters— and launch its new HW Venture Center—before a busily networking crowd of startup founders and investors.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 8, 2025
The Arlington-based autonomous shuttle startup is plugging its electric, AI-powered fleet into Dallas’ “carrier’s carrier” to help tackle first-mile, last-mile headaches in city centers. 46 Labs’ platform could even help its shuttles double as roaming mobile hotspots.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 8, 2025
Just months after Dallas' Spark Biomedical announced a $15 million Series A round, the company has launched OhmBody, its "science-forward" women's wellness division. OhmBody's newly released device is said to help reduce cramps, reduce unhealthy amounts of menstrual blood loss, and provide support for other disruptive effects of periods.
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Fort Worth’s Pro-Forma Launches $100K Texas AI Challenge, Bringing Statewide Talent to SMU During Dallas Startup Week
by Quincy Preston | Jun 26, 2025
Texas' first statewide AI pitch competition is open to early-stage founders, with selected teams to pitch live at SMU on August 7. Applications close July 11.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 26, 2025
While TIME put Maximum Effort and Waymo on its 2025 worldwide covers, Dallas future-shaping companies are in the mix. Two are Dallas-based. Another Texas company—now a $2B brand—got its start here, too.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 26, 2025
Founded in 2024, DataBahn.ai said it's "setting a new benchmark" for how modern enterprises manage and operationalize telemetry across security, observability, IOT/OT, and AI ecosystems.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 25, 2025
Little Elm's Sachchit Balamurugan, an incoming senior at TOPS, flew to Japan Friday to present his ACC cancer detection app at the International Young Researchers’ Conference. He's also won first place at a BPA national mobile app competition, won an award at the NASA Space App Challenge, started a nonprofit called Youth Opportunities in Tech Innovation—and done lots, lots more.
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![Dani Austin, above, and her husband, Jordan Ramirez, co-leaders of Dallas-based Divi, are among the 18 winners of EY’s 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year Southwest Award. Austin launched the brand in 2021 with a focus on science-backed scalp and hair health, growing it into a national name now backed by Norwest and carried by Ulta Beauty, Target, and Amazon. [Photo: Divi]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Dani-Austin-founder-of-Divi-940x436.jpg)
Among the 18 winners of EY’s 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year Southwest Award is Dani Austin (pictured), founder of Dallas-based Divi, and her husband Jordan Ramirez, who served as CEO and now chairs the company. Together, they’ve grown Divi into a national brand focused on scalp and hair health, backed by Norwest and sold through Ulta Beauty, Target, and Amazon. [Photo: Divi]
These 18 Founders and CEOs Just Won the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Southwest Award from EY
by Quincy Preston | Jun 24, 2025
The leaders behind 15 high-growth companies ranging from energy to electronics and hair health to quesadillas are now in the running for national honors this fall.
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Black Founder Weekend 2025 to Drive $100K+ in Economic Impact for Black Entrepreneurs in North Texas
by Lance Murray |
Jun 22, 2025
The inaugural three-day event lands in Dallas June 27–29 at Paul Quinn College, bringing together more than 40 speakers, curated activations, and a bold agenda built to move capital, spark deals, and support Black founders.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Jun 18, 2025
The North Texas-based precision oncology firm raised $494 million in its IPO. Founder David Halbert is now a newly minted biotech billionaire worth an estimated $3.3 billion, Forbes reports.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 17, 2025
The NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant is expected to help Alva Health scale its AI-powered, wrist-worn wearable as it expands technical and clinical validation and prepares for a 510(k) submission.
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