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Dallas Invents: 123 Patents Granted for Week of March 8

by | Apr 5, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Advanced Custom Engineered Systems Equipment Co. apparatus for monitoring waste removal, Amera loT's apparatus for imprinting private key on IoT, Bank of America's network security system for rogue devices, Baylor Research Institute's nucleic acids encoding anti-CD40 antibodies, D4D Technologies' intra-oral scanning device with active delete of unwanted scanned items, Halliburton's autonomous tractor using counter flow-driven propulsion, IBM's electronic messaging display optimization, Lenovo's presentation of AR content based on identification of trigger accompanying video content, Toyota's creating a valuable video clip using metadata flagging, and Wells Fargo Bank's ATM bill pay.
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Dallas Fintech Gig Wage Helps Freelance and Contract Workers Find Financial Stability
by | Apr 4, 2022
“Our mission is economic empowerment, period.” says Craig Lewis, Gig Wage founder and CEO. The Dallas 1099 payroll solutions company collaborated with Green Dot and nonprofit Commonwealth on a study of what types of 'financial interventions' help provide financial security to a fast-growing non-traditional workforce in the gig economy. Empowerment starts with understanding, Lewis says. "We want to get involved to start to set the tone on what that understanding should be, so that we can replicate it at scale.”
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From Dumpling Makers to VR Job‑Trainers, Impact Ventures Welcomes its Newest Startups
by | Apr 4, 2022
Dallas-based nonprofit accelerator Impact Ventures has unveiled the lineup of its latest cohort, made up of nearly 20 companies that span from Nepalese dumpling makers to virtual reality job-training platforms.
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Ice Cream, Pet Meds, and First Aid Kits are Coming by Wing Drone Delivery to Frisco and Little Elm
by | Apr 4, 2022
Wing—the drone delivery unit of Google parent company Alphabet—is partnering with Blue Bell Creameries, easyvet, and Texas Health Resources on the launch. Wing calls the service "the first in a major U.S. metro area," and aims to offer "6 miles, 6 minutes, free delivery." Wing's test deliveries from Walgreens stores in Frisco and Little Elm graduate to their official launch Thursday as well.
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DI People: American Airlines, Mizzen+Main, Appspace, Copart, Island, Clear Street, and More Make Leadership Moves

by | Apr 1, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from Recreational Realty, Island, The Food Hall Co., McKesson, TCU's Ralph Lowe Energy Institute, ClubCorp, Lone Star Analysis, Island, North Dallas Bank & Trust, Ranger Investment Management, Susan G. Komen, and Texas Security Bank.
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EVERY LAST WORD 2022: The Q1 Archive
These quotable North Texans inspire, inform, motivate, or simply make us laugh.
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Fort Worth’s AyuVis Is One Step Closer to Protecting Pre-Term Babies from a Leading Cause of Death
by | Mar 31, 2022
Fort Worth-based AyuVis just received its second patent in three months for its immunotherapy treatments that protect pre-term babies from a debilitating chronic lung disease that affects many pre-term infants on ventilators.

The startup's lead drug candidate—AVR-48—is scheduled for clinical trials this summer.
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UT Dallas Researchers Study How Crowdfunding Campaigns Succeed (and Fail) With Social Media
by | Mar 31, 2022
UT Dallas marketing professor emeritus Brian Ratchford and his team explored the effects of social media on crowdfunding across nearly 440 GoFundMe campaigns.  They found that social media is most helpful in the first 10 days of a campaign. “If a campaign doesn't do well at the outset, it is unlikely to succeed,” Ratchford said.
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Dallas Invents: 119 Patents Granted for Week of March 1

by | Mar 29, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Baxter International's home renal therapy machine, Capital One's techniques to deploy an application as a cloud computing service, Digital Seat Media's digital record verification, Frito-Lay's heat seal jaws with asymmetric teeth, Kyndryl's enhanced multi-workspace chatbot, Neurolens' integrated progressive lens simulator, Poly-America's scented drawstring bag, RO5's automated pharmaceutical research utilizing context workspaces, Sortera Alloys' identifying coins from scrap, Texas Instruments' system-on-chip for smoke alarm, and Toyota's health advisory alert systems.
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Dallas Cybersecurity Company Acquired by Former U.S. Secretary of Treasury-Owned Firm in a $525M Deal
by | Mar 29, 2022
Dallas-based Zimperium, a mobile security platform, is set to be acquired by Washington, D.C.’s Liberty Strategic Capital, a firm led by former Goldman Sachs CIO and Trump Administration appointee Steve Mnuchin.
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Flytrex and Brinker Are About to Drop Wings by Drone Into DFW Back Yards
by | Mar 29, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he's partnering with Dallas-based Brinker International on drone deliveries of chicken wings to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards and businesses. The launch begins today in Granbury, 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, with potential plans to expand to "a suburb east of Dallas" as Flytrex' footprint grows.
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Network Automation Startup BackBox Eyes U.S. Growth from New Dallas-Area HQ
by | Mar 29, 2022
Andrew Kahl says that “when companies grow up and figure out what business problem they’re solving, they come to Dallas.”

The Israeli startup's move to the U.S. is fueled by a $32 million Series A funding round it closed in late October—the same time the company announced its relocation plans.
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Frisco EDC’s First Director of Innovation Will Focus on Startups, Tech, and Venture Capital

by | Mar 25, 2022
Entrepreneur Jasmin Brand will take on the newly created role. The goal? To make Frisco a “major national hub” for venture capital and innovation.
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Dallas-Based Bike.com Goes Live With Its Own Line of E-Bikes
by | Mar 25, 2022
The new startup, led by founder and CEO Dave Duecker, is launching with two versions of its own Denago comfort e-bikes. But it aims to expand its models and offerings and be a one-stop shop for a "vast array" of direct-to-consumer bikes.
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DI People: Frisco’s EDC, Vistra, Lennox International and More Make Moves
by | Mar 25, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from Cicis, Complexity Gaming, Digit7, Design Connect Create, Vaxxinity, and more.
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From left: Co-founder and CEO Mike Fey and co-founder and chief technology officer Dan Amiga. [Image: Islands]
Island Becomes Dallas’ Newest Unicorn Weeks After Emerging From Stealth
by | Mar 23, 2022
Island says it's creating the “desktop of the future" with its enterprise-focused browser built upon Chromium. Today it unveiled a $115 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, giving the startup a $1.3 billion valuation just weeks after it emerged from stealth.
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