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DI People: Tuesday Morning, Complexity Gaming, Caris Life Sciences Make Moves
by Alex Edwards | Sep 24, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from Braniff Airways, Ryan, Westmount Realty Capital, Reserve Construction, Santander Consumer USA, Oaklins Capital Alliance Corp., Omneky, Pursuant, and more.
by Alex Edwards |
Sep 22, 2021
Fêtefully, Safer Management, Inc. and XR Sports Group received a total of $300,000 in funds as three of 50 founders chosen for the program focused on boosting Black entrepreneurs leading high potential startups.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 21, 2021
The "S-AM" hybrid electric minivans—short for "Sienna Autonomo-MaaS"—will be tested in a six-month pilot program in Dallas, Pittsburgh, the San Francisco Bay areal, and other locations. Aurora intends to deploy the vehicles on ride-hailing networks in late 2024.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 21, 2021
Celebrate those who impact tech for the better at the Tech Titans Awards Gala, now rescheduled to Jan. 19. Here's the list of the companies and innovative leaders who could take home awards.
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Alex Snodgrass of The Defined Dish [Photo: Thryv Organics]
Dallas-Based CBD Brand Thryv Organics Finds Its First Investor in Local Author and Food Blogger The Defined Dish
by Alex Edwards | Sep 20, 2021
Alex Snodgrass—the voice behind popular healthy food and recipe blog, The Defined Dish—will help Thryv's female founders in growing the new luxury CBD company as its first investment partner.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 20, 2021
The roundtable—which took place Friday during National Small Business Week—was part of a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Voices "Road to Recovery” tour. The biggest challenges conveyed to Gov. Abbott: difficulty in hiring workers; rising costs; and dealing with the Delta variant.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 17, 2021
The cutting-edge razor brand introduced a new shaving system last year, after a decade-plus of R&D, more than 150 global patents, and legal battles with Gillette. Now Shavelogic plans to expand innovation and market reach to upgrade the shave.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 17, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from GivingDNA, Hospice Source, Simmons Bank, Kimberly-Clark, Salesmanship Club of Dallas, Improving, Vinli, Independent Bank Group, and more.
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Left: Madison Potts, 10 year old founder and CEO of Esined; Right: Vanessa Bouche, co-founder of Savhera PBC
Governor’s Commissioner for Women Pitch Winners Include a Human Trafficking Scholar and a 10-Year-Old Fashion CEO
by David Seeley | Sep 16, 2021
The North Texas regional winners include 10-year-old Madison Denise from Waxahachie, the founder and CEO of Esined tween fashions; and Hurst's Vanessa Bouche, co-founder of Savhera, a line of wellness products that impact the livelihoods of human trafficking survivors.
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by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
Sep 15, 2021
"It’s just cool that a Texas-based AI and robotics company can help a Texas-based burrito company expand in ways we could only imagine just a few years ago," says Alex Eagle, Chief Executive Officer for Freebirds World Burrito.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 15, 2021
Oscar-winning actress and producer Witherspoon and the media company she founded, Hello Sunshine, will work with Plano-based Stacy's Pita Chips to help support the visibility and success of female founders. Stacy's is also growing its Rise Project legacy by launching FoundedByHer.org, a nationwide directory of female business founders.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 15, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's virtual store shelf that emulates a physical store shelf, Air Distribution Technologies' HVAC scrubber unit with building management system integration methods, ProBiora Health use of hydrogen peroxide-producing bacteria for tooth whitening, Recognition Concepts' digital signage and content manager, Rovi Guides' methods for content rights portability, Salesforce.com's object detection and image classification-based OCR recognition, Toyota Motor North America's use of sensors to detect hazard from another vehicle while driving, Varidesk's motorized adjustable height table, and Zixcorp System's harvesting and distributing a certificate based on a DNS name.
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Joe Beard and Joel Radtke, co-founders of CollateralEdge [Photo: CollateralEdge]
‘The Next Fintech Unicorn’: Dallas-Based CollateralEdge Emerges From Stealth With $3.5M and a Stellar Investor Group
by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards | Sep 14, 2021
VC-turned-entrepreneur Joe Beard and financier Joel Radtke co-founded the new fintech to solve a "massive problem" in middle-market lending. CollateralEdge aims to help community and regional banks overcome collateral shortfalls, improve credit risk management, and drive profitable, long-term customer relationships. Capital partners include VC firm Perot Jain, Capital Factory CEO Josh Baer, and Kneeland Youngblood, the founding partner of Pharos Capital Group.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 14, 2021
The Bedford-based biotech will use the capital from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to advance its gene therapy that treats age-related macular degeneration.
Earlier this summer, Nanoscope Therapeutics announced it successfully treated 11 patients who were blinded by advanced retinitis pigmentosa.
Earlier this summer, Nanoscope Therapeutics announced it successfully treated 11 patients who were blinded by advanced retinitis pigmentosa.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 14, 2021
Tipalti, a payables automation company that handles accounts payable and mass pay workflows, plans to hire around 100 employees in Plano by the end of 2022. North Texas is its second location in the U.S. and the fourth globally.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 13, 2021
It's not "Jurassic Park," but it's almost as amazing. Hypergiant founder Ben Lamm is launching a new biosciences and genetics startup—Colossal—with $15 million in private funding. The goal: Use genomics to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth and re-wild it on the Arctic tundra. Lamm's co-founder, Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church, says this "grand vision" could lead to big opportunities in conservation, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and more.
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