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A New App From Two Former SMU Football Players Connects Search With Social

by | Mar 9, 2020
Vuzag's location-based search engine provides short videos, communication tools, and photos for specific places around town. That gives users a personal guide for the city, while humanizing local businesses.
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Dallas Startups Represent at SoGal’s Global Pitch Competition
by | Mar 2, 2020
Following a $1 million seed round last week, Rosy was awarded $25,000 in investment capital from the SoGal Foundation. 60 finalist teams from around the world—including Rosy and Kanna from Dallas—pitched in San Francisco for a piece of $600,000.
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Dallas Flight Booking Startup FlyLine Launches Mobile App
by | Feb 14, 2020
After recently raising $500K in pre-seed funding, FlyLine is launching a mobile experience that includes automatic check-in, budget pricing on legacy carriers, and more.
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7-Eleven Pilots Cashierless Concept Store at its Irving Headquarters
by | Feb 7, 2020
The test store uses a mix of algorithms and predictive technology to separate individual customers and their purchases from others.
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Date Gone Wrong: Match Group’s New Safety Tech Gives Tinder a Panic Button, and More

by | Jan 23, 2020
Match Group, the parent company of Match, Tinder, OKCupid, Hinge and several other dating apps, is investing and partnering with Noonlight to offer online daters tools to feel and stay safe during dates. 
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Tech Startup Theatro Receives $20M Series C Backing from Sageview Capital
by | Dec 12, 2019
The funding is expected to help Theatro rapidly scale its offerings across retail, hospitality, manufacturing, and other markets with large hourly workforces.
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Autonomous Food Delivery Robots Hitting the Streets at UT Dallas
by | Dec 6, 2019
The app’s user experience includes an interactive map that tracks the robot, and once it arrives, the user gets an alert and can unlock the robot via the app.
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Take a Joyage: New App Addresses the Mental Well-Being of Employees
by | Sep 18, 2019
Through a partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, ACAP HealthWorks is offering nine video lessons designed for people struggling with mental health and for the people who are helping them.
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This Dallas Startup Uses Geolocation to Modernize the Home Services Industry

by | Aug 5, 2019
Home servicing app billyGO is cutting down the cost and time needed to complete clients' repair needs with its one-hour window guarantee.
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Happy? Sad? New UTD Study Uses AI to Examine What Affects Our Emotions
by | Jul 30, 2019
Participants in this 45-day study will track their emotions in real time using the Mindcurrent app and Apple Watch data.
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Kid-Focused VanGo Rideshare Startup to Launch this Month in Dallas
by | Jul 11, 2019
Safety comes first with VanGo, which lets moms know where their children are during rides, while many of its drivers are mothers themselves.
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Dallas-based Robotic Lawn Mower Startup Robin Exits to Fahey Group
by | Jul 10, 2019
Robin has been able to cut a strong swath through the lawn care industry with more than 1,000 customers in the U.S. using the robotic mower technology.
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Dallas Animal Services’ App Rakes in $200K Investment at Innovation Showdown

by | Apr 25, 2019
Once the potentially life-saving been refined, DAS plans to share it with shelters nationwide to take a bite out of the number of animals euthanized each year.
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3 DFW Universities will Vie for $100K in TCU’s Values and Ventures Competition
by | Apr 3, 2019
Teams from 56 universities from around the globe will pitch conscious capitalism ventures that make a profit while solving a problem.
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SMU-LIFT Game Design Team Wins $2.5M in Adult Literacy XPRIZE Competition
by | Feb 11, 2019
SMU-LIFT's People ForWords, a game design team focused on promoting literacy, won $2.5M for its app, 'Codex: The Lost Words of Atlantis,' which helps tackle the pressing problem of adult illiteracy in North Texas and beyond.
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New On-Demand App Brings Bartenders and Servers to Dallas Events
by | Feb 4, 2019
Sásta, which bills itself as "Dallas' first on-demand bartender and server app," provides a network of trained service industry professionals available for hire to work in-home, corporate, and personal events.
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