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From left: Calvin Carter, Derek Wilson, and Bob Bennett, the operator-entrepreneurs behind Dallas Opportunity Partners—a new Dallas-based investment platform built by and for family offices—outside their base at Old Parkland, one of the region’s most concentrated hubs of dealmaking. [Photo: Michael Samples]
As Y’all Street Rises, Dallas Opportunity Partners Bets on North Texas’ ‘Outsized Advantage’ With New Investment Gateway
by Quincy Preston | Mar 25, 2025
Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs and family office investors Calvin Carter, Derek Wilson, and Bob Bennett, Dallas Opportunity Partners taps decades-deep local relationships to provide flexible, strategic access to North Texas deals. It's the investment platform they wanted but couldn't find—so they built it.
by Lance Murray |
Dec 13, 2024
Katie Schuck comes to the role at Visit Dallas from Georgia after more than eight years with the Savannah Regional Film Commission, a division of the Savannah Economic Development Authority. Her movie credits include location scouting for Marvel's "Captain America: Brave New World."
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 15, 2024
Molly Ward spent seven years developing clean energy and sustainability programs and projects at Apple before coming to Dallas-based Divcon.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 19, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 4, 2024. 153 patents granted include: 7-Eleven's feedback and training for a machine learning algorithm configured to determine customer purchases during a shopping session at a physical store, Apple's enhanced RACH (random access channel) design for 5G CIoT (cellular internet of things), ATT Intellectual Property I's facilitation of voice over new radio for 5G or other next generation network, Avohdah's automated gesture identification using neural networks, Bank of America's dynamic unauthorized activity detection, and more.
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Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media CEO Sam Bloom (left), and PMG CEO & Founder, George Popstefanov [Photos: Business Wire]
Fort Worth’s PMG Acquires Dallas-Based Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media
by Lance Murray | Oct 12, 2023
Fort Worth-based PMG has acquired Dallas-based Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media, one of the largest independent agency buyers of video, OTT, and CTV, and leaders across business and marketing transformation for more than 40 years.
Camelot, whose marquee customers include Intuit, Charter Communications, Experian, Michaels, and Whole Foods, will join PMG, an independent, global full-funnel marketing and technology company....
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 15, 2023
Investor and tech pioneer Steve Case, best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, made this call to action yesterday while visiting North Texas at Dallas Startup Week in Frisco. The pandemic "created an opening that's a unique, maybe even once-in-a-lifetime, kind of opportunity," he added.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 6, 2023
Texas still reigns as the state hosting the most Fortune 500 companies. Plus, this year's list breaks a glass ceiling with 52 women at the helm of Fortune 500 companies.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Dec 28, 2022
Meet the 10 promising startups that took the stage to demonstrate their potential to disrupt healthcare.
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Renaud Casanova is CTO of Dallas-based Stellar. [Photo: Renaud Casanova]
Maintenance Marketplace Startup Stellar Has Eyes on ‘Next Phase of Growth’ With New Name and New CTO
by Kevin Cummings | Oct 20, 2022
Dallas-based Stellar connects contractors with property managers in the single-family rental market. With $15M in funding to date, it's punching up its tech with new CTO Renaud Casanova—whose Silicon Valley background includes stints with Facebook and the San Francisco 49ers.
"We're on a continued trajectory to build world-class software to power one of the market’s top managed maintenance marketplaces," says Founder and CEO Dustin Marx.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jun 27, 2022
Beating out potential sites in Ohio and South Korea, the city of Sherman was selected today by GlobiTech for a new $5 billion, 3.2 million-square-foot silicon wafer facility. The plant could eventually produce more than 1 million silicon wafers monthly when production begins by 2025.
It's Sherman's second big manufacturing win in a month. Just weeks ago, Texas Instruments broke ground in the city on new semiconductor wafer fabrication plants with a potential $30 billion investment.
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 17, 2022
Dallas-based STEMuli was founded by CEO Taylor Shead to create a gamified 'metaverse' where kids can earn tokens and have fun while they learn. Piloted since last summer at Dallas Hybrid Prep, it's given both remote and in-class learning an avatar-packed boost.
Now, with a new $3.25 million seed funding round, STEMuli aims to expand its metaverse platform in schools nationally.
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 4, 2022
Dallas-based Open Realty—a retail-focused real estate investment firm that's helped companies like Apple, Warby Parker, and Bonobos bring brick-and-mortar stores to North Texas—has been acquired by New York-based Newmark Group.
Open Realty will now join Newmark's retail services business, joining the public company's global team of more than 6,300 worldwide.
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Beatriz (Betty) Manetta [Photo via Apple]
Why Apple Chose Plano’s Argent Associates for Its Impact Accelerator Program
by David Seeley | Aug 30, 2021
Apple selected Argent Associates to be one of the 15 Black- and Brown-owned businesses on its first-ever Impact Accelerator class. The goal: combating systemic barriers to opportunity, while advancing innovative solutions for communities most impacted by climate change. Founder and CEO Beatriz "Betty" Manetta reveals the secret to her company's success.
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by David Seeley |
May 5, 2021
The optical tech firm produces iPhone laser technology that powers Face ID, Memoji, Animoji, and Portrait Mode selfies.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 27, 2019
You’ll also find news from Align Capital Partners, Mark Cuban, Hidrent, TPG, Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group, Apple, and Drive.ai in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies in North Texas.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 15, 2018
You’ll also find D.R. Horton, Finisar, Mr. Cooper, Mark Cuban, Pacific Union Financial, KAI Texas, Savhera PBC, HIG Holdings, Crestline Capital, Southlake Equity Group, and Texas Pride Impact Funds in this roundup of investment, merger, and acquisition activity by investors and companies with ties to North Texas.
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