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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.
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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DI People: DRC, TDIndustries, Rent-A-Center, Cariloop, Axxess, Giving DNA, and More Make Moves
by Maddie Preston | Jan 28, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from the Fort Worth Chamber, Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce, Lewisville ISD, Texas Women's Foundation, Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS and Two Roads Consulting.
Plus, Gov. Abbott Appoints Two North Texans to Independent Living Council.
Plus, Gov. Abbott Appoints Two North Texans to Independent Living Council.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 26, 2022
o9 Solutions, an enterprise AI software platform provider, today announced $296 million in equity investments from a group including General Atlantic and its climate investing venture BeyondNetZero; Generation Investment Management; and existing o9 investor KKR.
The company—which had a 400% increase in annual recurring revenue in Q4 2021—is now valued at $2.7 billion. "We have an unprecedented opportunity in front of us," says Co-Founder and CEO Chakri Gottemukkala.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 26, 2022
TuSimple has been running operations from its 2.5-acre logistics hub at AllianceTexas since last June. Its huge new MIZ facility will serve as an origin and destination facility for TuSimple's L4 autonomous trucks, with two-way launch and landing pads.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 26, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros. Patents granted include.
Adobe's depicting humans in text-defined outfits, Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems' dual-mode spectral dimming lighting system, Bulletproof Property Management's digital camera zoom control facility, CareView Communications' documenting patient procedures, CommScope Technologies' small cell antenna and cable mounting guides, Rolls-Royce's turbine engine fleet wash management system, and Xtenti's modular and configurable spacecraft attachment and deployment assemblies.
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