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Dallas Bill Payments Platform Emerges From Stealth With $4.5 Million in Funding
by Kevin Cummings | Feb 9, 2022
Highline's platform reimages "the broken bill payment system." To avoid customers' overdrafts and build their credit, the fintech links bill payments directly to their payroll platforms, rather than their bank accounts.
by Quincy Preston |
Feb 9, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ATT's automated equipment tracking for service technicians, Gemmy's wall lamp with lighting effect resembling peacock feather spreading, IBM's response collaboration among multiple artificial intelligence (AI) systems, Securus' virtual reality services within controlled-environment facility, State Farm's method for identifying locations with lifestyle preferences, Swirlds' distributed database that enables deletion of events, TI's power-efficient LIDAR, and Verizon's traffic monitoring systems and methods.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 8, 2022
Two former SMU golf teammates hated paper straws—and got to work. In 2020, the duo launched PlantSwitch, a B2B business offering plastic alternative products with just three clients. Since then, the company has grown fast, adding D2C business and hundreds of clients that include distributors such as Sysco and Ben E. Keith.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 8, 2022
Jaunt is one of only 11 companies out of 200 entrants to get a next-stage investment from the High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing Concept Challenge. Its solution, the MAV 55, uses a patented slow rotor technology that delivers a lift-to-drag ratio up to five times better than a helicopter—and ultra-low noise that's "practically imperceptible" when flying.
Beyond defense, the startup founded in 2019 is also building commercial eVTOL aircraft that can move both people and packages.
Beyond defense, the startup founded in 2019 is also building commercial eVTOL aircraft that can move both people and packages.
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Corey Clark, Ph.D. is the CTO of BALANCED Media | Technology. [Photo: Courtesy Corey Clark]
Local Startup Aims to Save Peoples’ Sight with Video Games
by Kevin Cummings | Feb 7, 2022
McKinney-based BALANCED Media|Technology, SMU, and the Retina Foundation of the Southwest are collaborating to commercialize technology to fight age-related macular degeneration.
Using a crowdsourced video game, players help the team create new data sets out of captured retinal images, helping to lead to potential breakthroughs in detection and treatment.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 7, 2022
Hover designs, develops, and deploys wind-powered, "islanded" microgrids that combine both wind and solar energy generation—enabling companies to reduce their carbon footprint by generating green energy onsite.
"Solar, wind, and storage in a distributed microgrid installation is really the key structure for changing the way we think about power," says Hover's president and co-founder, Christopher Griffin.
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by Maddie Preston |
Feb 4, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from My Possibilities, YMCA, Catalyze Dallas, Balfour Beatty, KAI Design, BBG, and UTD esports.
Plus, long-time Tech Titans and Richardson Chamber leader Bill Sproull resigns.
Plus, long-time Tech Titans and Richardson Chamber leader Bill Sproull resigns.
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by Maddie Preston |
Feb 4, 2022
As inaugural Satori Capital honorees, each of five female-led startups has been awarded $1,000 that will allow them to participate in TechFW’s spring cohort of ThinkLab, a non-seed accelerator program.
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Rendering of exterior view of TOCA Social, coming to the Design District in early 2023. [Image: TOCA Social]
UK Soccer Experience TOCA Social Coming to Dallas Design District
by David Seeley | Feb 3, 2022
The first TOCA Social launched last August in London, attracting cast members from "Ted Lasso" and top Premier League players. The Dallas location, slated to open in 2023, will offer a three-floor, 56K-SF experience of dining, drinks, and interactive soccer games in 34 "TOCA boxes." The top two floors and their huge decks will offer "bonkers" views of the Dallas skyline—and may be a magnet for corporate events.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 2, 2022
Women entrepreneurs—especially those in the tech world—have something to keep them warm at home Thursday during tomorrow's winter storm: The DEC Network’s inaugural, all-virtual Women X Tech event, from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., is designed to help women founders from all tech industries connect, learn, and grow their businesses.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 2, 2022
PlayersTV, the TV streaming division of Dallas-based sports media and entertainment firm Players Media Group, landed the investment from ReachTV, which has been distributing it since 2020. Now its presence on ReachTV's network could put PlayersTV on 2,500+ airport screens and in 1 million hotel rooms.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 2, 2022
Krista Software, a Dallas-based business automation platform, landed the $15 million in a funding round led by Denver’s Grotech Ventures. The company describes its software as a “conversation” among people, IT assets, and apps.
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U.S. Patent No. 11,213,672, Wound healing electrode set, was assigned to DJO, LLC.
Dallas Invents: 112 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 4
by Quincy Preston | Feb 2, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alixa Rx’s Automated medication dispensing unit, American Airlines’ virtual automated real-time assistant, BMIC’s liquid applied roofing system with improved moisture barrier layer, The University of Texas’ collaborative distributed agent-based traffic light system and method of use, DJO’s wound healing electrode set, Flypsi’s telephone network system and method, Intellective AI’s alert volume normalization in a video surveillance system, KPMG’s converting table data into component parts, ModoPayments’ COIN operated digital payments hub, o9 Solutions’ plan modeling visualization, and USAA’s detecting items at a property.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 1, 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 has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 1, 2022
Island, an enterprise browser platform company, has landed nearly $100 million in funding from early-stage investors Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and Stripes. Its goal: to be "where today’s hybrid workforce lives."
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 1, 2022
Talkmap, a conversational intelligence platform, uses AI and machine learning technology to analyze and extract data and insights from customer calls. It landed the $8 million raise in a Series A funding round led by Massachusetts-based firm Stage 1 Ventures.
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