Startup

First Look: Drive Shack Opens Its Debut Puttery Location Friday at Grandscape in The Colony

by | Aug 31, 2021
Puttery's "modern spin" on putting features 20,700 square feet of entertainment—with four wildly creative 9-hole "golf courses" on two floors, three bars, an outdoor terrace, and multiple lounges and seating areas.
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Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Raises $85M and Expands Operations in AllianceTexas, With 500+ New Jobs Planned by 2025
by | Aug 31, 2021
Gatik's new autonomous trucking facility at the "MIZ" in Fort Worth's AllianceTexas will serve as a hub for its middle-mile operations in Texas. The company's $85 million Series B funding will scale its fleet of Class 3-6 autonomous box trucks across new North American markets.
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Dallas-Based Digital Health Solutions Company Recuro Raises $15M Series A Round to Build Its Growth
by | Aug 30, 2021
Led by the founder of Teladoc, Recuro Health aims to disrupt the traditional healthcare delivery system with its population health outcomes approach.
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Dallas’ Prebiotic Pop Brand Raises $13M From CAVU Ventures and Celebs Like Halsey, Russell Westbrook, and More
by | Aug 30, 2021
Poppi continues to get the Hollywood treatment after signing a deal with Rohan Oza on "Shark Tank" in 2018. Some big pop culture names—The Chainsmokers, 24kGoldn, Kygo, Kevin Love, Ellie Goulding, Olivia Munn, and Nicole Scherzinger—are joining in the beverage brand's latest funding round, along with Oza's CAVU Ventures and a group of social media influencers.
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DI People: Kimberly-Clark, Cyber Defense Labs, Signify Health, and More Make Moves

by | Aug 27, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from Hilltop Securities, RealFoundations, Mohr Capital, Aimbridge Hospitality, HOYA Vision Care, GlobalStep, Instant Power, and eIVF.
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Dallas’ MyndVR and Healing HealthCare Systems Offer Virtual Escapes for Seniors and Care Home Residents
by | Aug 27, 2021
Dallas-based MyndVR, a leading provider of virtual reality solutions for seniors and “active agers,” has partnered with Healing HealthCare Systems to offer Continuous Ambient Relaxation Environment VRx (C.A.R.E.) to residents who use the MyndVR system at senior and memory care communities, assisted living centers, hospice care, and in the home. 

Using gaze-based navigation with VR headsets, users can interact with the immersive C.A.R.E. VRx app, which blends voice-based, guided imagery with 360-degree visuals of forests, lakes, beaches, and more.
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Fort Worth’s Skeeter Hawk Is Out to Conquer Mosquitoes For Labor Day Weekend and Beyond
by | Aug 26, 2021
Skeeter Hawk's Brandon Roach has never met a mosquito he liked. So he's out to zap, fry, swat, sizzle, repel, electrify, and dehydrate all he can. Here's how you can too— in a all-natural, chemical-free, patent-pending, relentlessly mosquito-destroying way.
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Dallas-Based BreachQuest Emerges From Stealth With $4.4M in Seed Funding From the Founders of Tinder and Other Leading Investors
by | Aug 25, 2021
The newly launched cybersecurity firm is taking a re-engineered approach to incident response and recovery. With big-name backers, BreachQuest is developing a proprietary platform to solve security issues quicker and at a lower cost.
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Dallas VC RevTech Wants to Launch the Next Great Retail Startup with its New ‘Brand Launchpad’

by | Aug 24, 2021
RevTech is now accepting applications for the program. With a new, state-of-the-art production studio and mentorship, it's offering a six-month program with workshops, a $50K pitch prize, and resources from experts for startups with the next emerging retail technology concept.
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The Keller-Based Startup That Wants to ‘Revolutionize Charter Travel’ Goes Live
by | Aug 24, 2021
Charter and Go, which says it offers the "world’s first real-time price quoting engine," is planning to disrupt the aircraft charter industry by ensuring operators are both competitive and profitable.
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Rosy Continues Its Pandemic Momentum, Raising $1.3M of a $2M Seed Offering
by | Aug 23, 2021
During the last 12 months, Rosy's revenue has increased by 55 percent each quarter. That's largely due to the rise in digital health amidst the COVID-19 pandemic—and the Dallas-based startup's timely telehealth launch.
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DI People: Wingstop, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Robin Autopilot, and More Make Moves
by | Aug 20, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from RumbleOn, Valify, Kibo, Duane Morris, Credera, Safe Conversations, Employer Direct Healthcare, Elevate Credit, Unitek, Ryan, and ReCode Therapeutics.
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EV Fintech Xcelerate Auto Relocates Headquarters to McKinney

by | Aug 18, 2021
Xcelerate is a sustainable transportation company that offers funding support and ancillary products to EV manufacturers like Tesla. With the move, the team hopes to "put McKinney on the EV map."
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Rollin’ n Bowlin Co-Founders Sophia Karbowski and Austin Patry
Dallas-Based Health Food Brand Rollin’ n Bowlin’ Launches Grant Program for College Entrepreneurs
by | Aug 18, 2021
TCU alums Sophia Karbowski and Austin Patry opened their own healthy food truck on TCU's campus. Now, the business that became smoothie and açaí brand Rollin’ n Bowlin’ is paying it forward with a mentorship and grant program designed to boost student founders.

Meet the three picks for the first cohort for "Bowls n Goals."
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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of Aug 3
by | Aug 18, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AirWatch's remotely restricting client devices, Allied Bioscience's antimicrobial coatings for medical implements and devices, Anametric's system for quantum coherence preservation of qubits, Capital One's behavioral data analytics platform, Golabs' hoverboard, Lintec of America's hook and loop artificial muscles, Smurfit Kappa North America's cold chain packaging, Solar Hardscapes' landscape pavers for ground installation of photovoltaic panels, and Ventamatic's climate smart fan ventilation,
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BioNTX Will Hold Its 2021 IC3 Life Science Summit Sept. 30-Oct. 1 with a “Reignite” Theme
by | Aug 17, 2021
The eighth annual IC3 Summit will be a forum for leaders from startups to large multinationals in the biotech, pharma, healthcare, and academic communities. A key summit speaker will be Admiral Brett Giroir, M.D., the former White House COVID-19 "testing czar."
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