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Left to right: Happy Herman (Bakame AI), Rocco Williams (Accelerating Success), and Amaris Arellano (ARÈ Vegan Beauty) [Photos: TCU/LinkedIn]
Eight TCU Student Ventures Split $50,000 in University Accelerator Program
by Lance Murray | Jul 14, 2025
TCU’s CREATE cross-campus accelerator program helped seed student startups in AI education, food technology, and lab automation after a year-long development process.
![Cynthia Nevels (third from left) with the winners of the last Start.Pivot.Grow. Pitch Competition. The winners pitched their businesses to the UPS Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation and Dallas College Foundation for cash prizes, as a result of their participation in the Accelerator program. [Photo: Start.Pivot.Grow.]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Start-Pivot-Grow-Nevels-Round-6-Pitch-Group-360x203.jpg)
by Sandra Engelland |
Jul 23, 2024
Now welcoming its ninth cohort, Start.Pivot.Grow. is a 10-week accelerator to help retail, e-commerce, and franchise businesses "reach their maximum potential." The deadline to apply is July 26.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 25, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from the Richardson Chamber, PICKUP, BPS Technology, the Frontiers of Flight Museum, UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, and Giving DNA.
Plus, Governor Abbott appoints three North Texans to the Governor's Commission for Women.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Feb 8, 2021
Zajicek, the CEO and Co-Founder of Health Wildcatters, is a champion of startups. Recently honored as the Innovation Advocate of the Year in North Texas, he's also credited for raising life science research awareness.
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![Entrepreneurs celebrate a 2019 Impact Ventures' cohort, photographed in the time before COVID. [Photo: Impact Ventures]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Impact-Venture-2020-cohort-ben-vann-welcome-19_970-940x436.jpg)
Entrepreneurs celebrate a 2019 Impact Ventures' cohort, photographed in the time before COVID. [Photo: Impact Ventures]
Apply to Accelerate: Diversity‑focused Impact Ventures Opens Applications for Fall 2020 Program
by Quincy Preston | Sep 15, 2020
Founder and CEO Benjamin Vann says the startup accelerator aims to create more diverse and inclusive ecosystems.
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by Riley Farrell |
Aug 3, 2020
The new accelerator program that's part of a $175 million initiative to support economic opportunities for Black business owners, startup founders, job seekers, and developers.
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![Dallas-based fintech Exgratias co-founders Emanuel Green and Thomas Langehennig [Photos: Courtesy Exgratias]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exgratias_ImpactVentureCohort-360x203.jpg)
by Alex Edwards |
Jul 16, 2020
Dallas Innovates is highlighting startups in Impact Ventures' accelerator program, which aims to assist the underrepresented startup community. First up is Exgratias, a first-of-its-kind financial platform for the entertainment industry that helps contractual workers get paid quickly and effortlessly.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jul 16, 2020
Founder and CEO Benjamin Vann was motivated by the opportunity gap: "As of 2018, just 2 percent of minorities received venture capital funding and 2 percent of minorities were represented in the tech industry workforce,” he says. A Dallas Innovates series highlights startups in Impact Ventures' first spring program.
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PepsiCo Searches for North American Startups in Expanded Nutrition Greenhouse Program
by Alex Edwards | Sep 10, 2018
The accelerator, which launched in Europe last year, guarantees $20,000 in grant funding and a six-month business optimization program.
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by Katie Kelton |
Apr 16, 2018
BBVA will select 35 social entrepreneurs to participate in this year's five-month program, which includes professional training, networking, and opportunities to win cash awards.
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![Erica Kosemund, Chief Brand Officer, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Gillian Breidenbach, Chief Partnership Officer, North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; Chief Gary Batton, Chief of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Monica Paul, Executive Director of Dallas Sports Commission and President of North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; John Hobbs, Senior Executive Officer of Communications, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; and Heidi Grant, Senior Executive Officer of Commerce Administration, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, celebrate Choctaw Casinos & Resorts becoming an Official Dallas World Cup 2026 Host City Supporter. [Photo: North Texas FWC Organizing Committee/Choctaw Casinos & Resorts]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FIFA-Choctaw-dec-2025.jpg)
