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Dallas Invents: 112 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 4

by | 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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He Sent Israel’s First Spacecraft to the Moon—Now His Flytrex Drones Will Deliver Burgers to DFW Back Yards
by | 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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Dallas-Based Island Emerges from Stealth with Nearly $100M in funding, 100+ Employees
by | 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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Dallas Startup Talkmap Raises $8M to Extract Data from Customers’ Voices
by | 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 | 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.
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Chakri Gottemukkala, co-founder and CEO, o9 Solutions, Inc. [Photo: Business Wire]
Dallas Unicorn o9 Solutions Announces $296M in New Funding and a $2.7B Valuation
by | 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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Hillwood and TuSimple Expand Collaboration with Million-SF TuSimple Facility in The MIZ at AllianceTexas
by | 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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Dallas Invents: 134 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 28
by | 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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Seed Accelerator Health Wildcatters Is Moving to Dallas’ Pegasus Park

by | Jan 25, 2022
The accelerator will move this summer from its downtown Dallas location to 6,000 square feet of collaborative and flexible office space in Pegasus Park's 18-story tower. Just weeks ago, Pegasus Park landed one of its biggest tenants to date: UT Southwestern‘s Office for Technology Development and other UTSW entities will be leasing six floors in the tower. 
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Fort Worth Entrepreneur Launches ‘The FoundHers Club’ Podcast to Feature Women Entrepreneurs
by | Jan 24, 2022
CreateHers. BuildHers. DisruptHers. Risk-TakHers. InventHers. InvestHers.

Texas women trailblazing new paths are the subject of a new podcast that features innovators disrupting their industries, building movements, and creating positive social change.
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Starship Technologies Launches Robot Food Deliveries at SMU
by | Jan 24, 2022
A fleet of 16 autonomous robots from San Francisco-based Starship is now rolling across the SMU campus, delivering food from nine campus eateries. The app-controlled, on-demand robots have Mustang branding and can deliver up to 20 pounds of food in "minutes." Starship, co-founded by a former Skype founding engineer, has made over 2.5 million autonomous deliveries worldwide.
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DI People: Comerica, CMI Group, Cyber Defense Labs, Energy Transfer, CASPR Group and More Make Moves
by | Jan 21, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from Polte, Commercial Metals, Ben E. Keith, Trademark Properties, Catalyze Dallas, TechFW, DFW*ATW, and others.

Plus, Dallas Mayor Johnson names the city council liaison to the Mayor's Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Advisory Council and Fluor Corporation's Tricia Thibodeaux was named vice chair of The Construction Industry Institute.
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Hedera Will Open-Source Its Hashgraph Code to ‘Capitalize on Growing Demand for Public DLT’

by | Jan 20, 2022
The Hedera Governing Council will buy the IP from Swirlds, a startup co-founded in 2015 by the inventor of the Hashgraph algorithm. Dallas mathematician and computer scientist Leemon Baird created the distributed ledger technology to outperform other protocols in power, security, and speed.  This could be a breakout moment.  
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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Dallas Deep Ellum
Mark Cuban Launches His Online Cost-Plus Pharmacy, Takes on Big Pharma with Low-Cost Generics
by | Jan 19, 2022
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company aims to "disrupt and disable big pharma" by offering more than 100 generic drugs "at striking savings" direct to consumers on a cash-pay basis. As a pharmaceutical wholesaler, MCCPDC says it can "bypass middlemen and outrageous markups" by simply charging a flat 15% margin and pharmacist fee. With an $11M plant going up now in Deep Ellum, Cuban clearly means business.
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Dallas Invents: 71 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 21
by | Jan 19, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's multi-camera image tracking on a global plane, Amazon's active safety systems for item sortation equipment, Brain Games' electronic all-in game, Fashion For Globe's searching and obtaining clothing designs while discouraging copying, IBM's data analytics and insights brokerage service, McAfee's detection and mitigation of fileless security threats, State Farm's facilitating real estate transactions by analyzing user-provided data, TazKai's real-time progressive examination preparation platform , TI's low-power wakeup pattern detection of multiple data streams, and UniWell's pharmaceutical compositions.
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TechFW Ushers in New Board Chair, New Secretary, and Two New Board Members
by | Jan 18, 2022
The TechFW board has named its 2022 leadership.
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