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FieldPulse founder and CEO Gabe Pinchev (center) celebrates with his Dallas team after announcing the company’s $50 million Series C funding round, led by Fulcrum Equity Partners with Catalyst Investors joining as a new backer. [Photo: FieldPulse]
Dallas-Based FieldPulse Scores $50M Series C as Trade Service Management Market Heads Toward $11 Billion
by Quincy Preston | Aug 15, 2025
Founded in 2015, the company reports fourfold growth in 21 months while rolling out new AI-powered management tools for trade businesses. Fulcrum Equity Partners returns to lead the round, joined by new backer Catalyst Investors.
by Lance Murray |
Jul 29, 2025
New Jersey-based NiCE’s $955 million acquisition comes just months after Cognigy, a leader in agentic AI, relocated from San Francisco to Plano.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 23, 2025
Under the initiative, government agencies nationwide can now rapidly deploy vetted, competitively awarded AI solutions and services, covering more than 70 individual use cases, without the need for new RFPs and with built-in options for supporting small and local companies, NCTCOG said.
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Jul 17, 2025
From oil spill experiments to AI-powered avatars, GEMS Camp gives girls hands-on experiences that build skills and a path to STEM. The camp, founded by a former teacher, has reached more than 1,300 participants—and 85% have pursued science, technology, engineering, or math in college.
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STEMuli Founder and CEO Taylor Shead [Image: Kathy Tran, Daniel Rockey, and Vicky Boudta]
Stemuli and Heartland Forward Launch ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ AI Training Platform in Central U.S.
by Lance Murray | Jul 1, 2025
Dallas edtech startup Stemuli and Heartland Forward, a “think-and-do tank” for the central U.S., are teaming up to bring AI-powered, gamified learning tools to rural students and entrepreneurs.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 30, 2025
With support from UTA’s Research Enhancement Program, assistant professor Mahmoud Bayat is developing a digital twin platform to help officials adjust evacuation routes on the fly. The platform could inform future systems across cities, counties, and states for what he calls “truly resilient communities.”
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 24, 2025
Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—said many companies are demanding that their technology vendors remove the burden of "DIY security" by delivering pre-validated and co-engineered security and infrastructure offerings.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 10, 2025
Most people are getting AI all wrong—asking random questions and getting mediocre results, say Babar Bhatti and Masood Khan. Their new guide shows how to prompt like a pro and turn AI into your strategic team.
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Frisco Teen Builds AI App to Tackle Global Youth Mental Health
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | May 22, 2025
When a hotline failed her, 16-year-old Bhuvika Tripuraneni built her own answer. Meet the Frisco teen using AI to help Gen Z cope—and coding toward a future in bioinformatics.
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by Lance Murray |
May 7, 2025
The Dallas-based provider of cloud-based real estate and facilities management software solutions has appointed veteran executive Jon Elliott to succeed Pranav Tyagi, who founded Tango and served as its leader for 17 years.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 27, 2025
JennyAI is designed for businesses like plumbing and HVAC companies looking to drive immediate revenue growth. It leverages generative AI to streamline prospect outreach, optimize engagement, and deliver near-term revenue lift.
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Mar 12, 2025
Set for April 30–May 1, the expanded 2025 conference—backed by Google and Accenture—will focus on applied AI, feature top corporate leaders, and unveil the second annual AI75 list of innovators.
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Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned Data Centers [Photo: Thaddeus Harden]
Aligned Data Centers Expands DFW Footprint as It Races to Serve AI/Cloud Workloads
by Lance Murray | Feb 25, 2025
With more than a decade of innovation in cooling technologies and 5,000+ MW of future capacity, Plano-based Aligned plans to open a new data center on a 27-acre site in Mansfield.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
Yum! Chief Digital & Technology Officer Joe Park will serve as president of Byte by Yum!, a tech platform enabling easy-to-manage operations across the company's Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Habit Burger & Grill brands.
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by David Seeley and Lance Murray |
Feb 4, 2025
SuperOps—which opened its U.S. office in Dallas last May—said it intends to use the new funding to expand its AI research and development, scale its offerings for mid-market and enterprise MSPs, and further extend its global reach.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 29, 2025
Backed by SYN Ventures, Picus Capital, and others, Conifers.ai says its CognitiveSOC platform enables customers to use agentic AI as a "force multiplier" to rapidly investigate security incidents at scale with the tools and portals they already have.
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