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Dallas-Based Buff City Soap Gets New Funding From Equity Firm General Atlantic

by | Jun 3, 2021
The fast-scaling company with a vision of becoming a $1B "Starbucks of soap" will use the investment to support more store openings, product category expansion, and growth in e-commerce.
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Jeff Osburn
Pay for Coffee With Your Face
by | Jun 3, 2021
Jeff Osburn, founder of Fort Worth-based Canopy Point Coffee, developed the ultimate "smart" coffee shop that lets customers be their own barista. The intelliCafé has a tech-enabled platform with facial recognition and a smartphone app to keep it simple.
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The NTXIA and Marketplace.city Announce Call for New Models to Accelerate Innovation
by | Jun 2, 2021
By helping the public sector unlock revenue sources, the NTXIA hopes to realize its mission: to create the most connected, smart, and resilient region in the U.S.
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Dallas’ Mass Luminosity Is Raising Capital for Its Next-Gen Communication and Streaming Platform
by | Jun 2, 2021
Beacon is a video and voice platform that aims to bring security, quality, and simplicity to video and voice communications. Created by Mass Luminosity Founder and CEO Angel Munoz and his team, the technology promises a new era of simple and feature-rich communications when it launches this fall. Munoz even proved its capabilities earlier this year when integrating the platform into his Tesla—and using it to complete a videoconference.
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Dallas-Based 7T Offers a Virtual Fit for Apparel Shoppers With Its Sizini App

by | Jun 2, 2021
The app turns your smartphone into a "virtual fitting room" with machine learning and AR tech.
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Dallas Invents: 128 Patents Granted for Week of May 18
by | Jun 2, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple’s adaptive multiplexing and transmit/receive diversity, Flypsi’s telephone network system, Micell Technologies’ coatings containing multiple drugs, Polte’s multi-path mitigation in tracking objects using a distributed antenna system, rewardStyle’s affiliate link generation, Tesla Laboratories’ mobile device as an input device for surveys at a live event, TMGCore’s liquid immersion cooling, Twitter’s swipe-to-like, and USAA’s biometric authentication on push notification.
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Three Dallas Innovators You Need To Know Right Now—and Why
by | Jun 1, 2021
BioNTX, Catalyze Dallas, and StackPath all tapped new senior leaders this week.
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Robin Autopilot Is Robot-Mowing its Way to a New McKinney HQ
by | Jun 1, 2021
The fast-growing robot tech company acquired N.C.-based Mowbot in April. Now, with a grant from the MEDC Innovation Fund, it's consolidating both by relocating to a new HQ in McKinney. The EDC's Danny Chavez says it's the largest fund relocation to date.
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AI Startup Aiotics Opens Its Headquarters With a Grant From the McKinney EDC

by | May 27, 2021
The young startup, which makes scalable artificial intelligence solutions, is using a grant from the McKinney Economic Development Corporation’s Innovation Fund to establish a headquarters in McKinney and drastically add to its team.
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Accelerate Real Asset Management Launches Renewable Energy Infrastructure Venture With $500M in Capital
by | May 27, 2021
Plano-based Accelerate Real Asset Management, a growth-oriented real asset platform, sees a significant renewable transformation happening in the United States economy. That's why the team plans to capture attractive, risk-adjusted returns in an emerging asset class of sustainable infrastructure royalties.
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Recuro Health’s At-Home COVID Rapid Test Platform Featured at Census Bureau and HHS’s TOPx Solutions Showcase
by | May 27, 2021
The new Richardson-based digital health startup, led by several leaders from Teladoc, aims to offer consumers a "personalized digital medical home." It recently closed a $2.9M funding round and acquired telehealth startup SupDoc.
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Dallas-Based Fund Night Ventures Is Making Moves in the Creator Economy
by | May 26, 2021
Backed by Night Media's lineup of YouTube superstars, Night Ventures has a mission: taking concepts from the VC world and investing in individual creators and their businesses.
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Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of May 11

by | May 25, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven’s event trigger based on region-of-interest near hand-shelf interaction, American Airlines’ monitoring/alert system for airline gate activities, Danco’s smart water system, Dell’s method to manage file access rights in an information handling system, Discourse.AI’s training of chatbots , Fresh Innovations’ avocado tray, Lintec of America’s tear-resistant nanofiber sheet, IBM’s managing transparent windows, Rain Bird’s volumetric budget based irrigation control, and RFCyber’s payments between two mobile devices.
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Frisco PropTech Elm Street Technology Expands With New Senior Leadership, Aggressive Acquisition Strategy
by | May 25, 2021
The provider of residential real estate technology and digital marketing strategies is continuing to scale with two acquisitions this year so far (and eight in total). It's all aimed at boosting the company's productivity and lead-gen platform for agents, brokers, and teams.
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Plano-Based Auto Crypto Company Carnomaly Partners With National Motor Vehicle Title Information System
by | May 25, 2021
Carnomaly, which is bringing the power of blockchain and cryptocurrency to the automotive industry, wants to change the way we buy, sell, shop, report, and finance new or used vehicles. The local company plans to do so with new application launches and a partnership with NMVTIS, which protects people from fraudulent and unsafe vehicles.
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Dallas-Based Snipitz Wants to Let You Choose Your Own Live Broadcast POV
by | May 25, 2021
With the Snipitz web and mobile app mixed with sharable clips and social media, "you have YouTube marrying Facebook on steroids," the company says.
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