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Q&A: The Pure Company Makes Cleaning Your Air Fashionable—and Portable

The Dallas women-owned company that wants to create products that are just as beautiful as they are powerful is a CES 2019 Innovation Award Honoree. Pure's Cortney Carrol...
Neighborhood Goods Raises $8M in New Funding Round

This latest funding round comes on top of a $5.75 million round in May for the retail startup that recently opened in Plano.
Sensory Sciences: Hypergiant’s New AI Startup Teaches Machines to ‘Learn How to Learn’

Hypergiant Sensory Sciences launched today as an independent company, but with connections to Hypergiant Industries. Founders Dave Copps and Chris Rohde say they intend t...
Dallas Tea Supplier Creates First‑of‑its‑Kind Brewing 'Game Changer'

TEAZZERS, a company that names innovation as its core value, recently unveiled the patent-pending SmartBrew machine, which features smart capabilities, a unique urn desig...
New Mobile App Helps Parents Prevent Medication Mistakes

A busy Dallas mom, struggling to remember the right timing for giving fever reducers to her child, created and developed OnCure—an iOS app that aims to provide parents ...

Follow the Money: AN Global Gets Acquisition Backing, Astrapi Receives Funding, Ryan Buys French Firm

by Lance Murray | Dec 13, 2018

Also, you’ll find RiskPro Global Partners, D.R. Horton, and Dunhill Homes in this roundup of funding, investments, mergers, and acquisition involving businesses and investors with North Texas ties.

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Safety-Minded ‘Once Kids’ Moving Production of Customizable Toys to North Texas

by Payton Potter | Dec 12, 2018

Child safe, environmentally friendly, and largely disruptive, the Dallas-based startup relies on innovative machines to create wooden bricks in six seconds. Next year, the Once Kids production facility—resembling 'Santa's Workshop'—will move to North Texas.

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Dallas Invents: 134 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 4

by Quincy Preston | Dec 12, 2018

Patents were granted for Match Group's method for matching using location information, Omnitracs' tire pressure optimization system, Raytheon's methods for sharpening multi-spectral imagery, and Speedgrocer's method for order fulfillment.

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Atmosphere’s Tech Helps Local Leaders Create and Monitor Air Quality Strategies

by Lance Murray | Dec 11, 2018

Understory's new technology, called Atmosphere, identifies high-pollutant zones and prescribes actionable remediation steps for air quality improvement. It's live now in Dallas.

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ICYMI: Dallas is 5G Hotspot, DFW has Jobs for Hackers, Texas as a Major Biotech Hub, and Voltea’s Water Tech Goes Smart for CES

by David Kirkpatrick | Dec 8, 2018

From tech bytes (Azpen Innovation, FindMe, Project Verte, Freebird Rides) to launches and expansions (Marley Spoon, Service Fusion, Deliveright) to this week's top 10 (‘Citi’ of Irving), here's your briefing on ideas and innovation in North Texas.

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Follow the Money: TPG Raises $12B for Flagship Fund; Pizza Hut Acquires Online Ordering Platform

by Lance Murray | Dec 8, 2018

Also, you'll find news about deals involving Cypress Growth Capital, D.R. Horton, Aspira, ECi Sofware Solutions, Ryan, and Accenture in this roundup of activity by companies and investors with ties to North Texas.

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Look Inside: Travel Startup The Guild is Creating Hotels of the Future

by Lauren Hawkins | Dec 7, 2018

The Guild will "bring the 200,000-year-old hotel industry into the new age" in Dallas, and will soon lease rooms in Uptown's new The Christopher tower and beyond. With amenities including innovative technology and smartphone application outsourcing, the boutique hotel creates specialized experiences for guests.

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