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Capital One Has an Enterprise Software Business—and It’s Launching AI‑Ready Data Security Tech, Led from North Texas

by | Apr 23, 2025
The banking giant’s commercial software group is scaling cloud-native tools for enterprise, led by a North Texas executive. Its second launch, Databolt, uses tokenization to secure sensitive data and help companies adopt AI with confidence.
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Cypress Growth Capital Doubles Down on North Texas Tech With Two New Investments
by | Oct 9, 2024
The Dallas firm's latest bets: Airspace security and multi-vendor IT support. Cypress Growth Capital adds AirSight and Xcelocloud to its roster, boosting local innovation.
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Charisma’s Next Level: How UT Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth and AWS Are Using Gen AI and Gametech to Boost Social Coaching
by | Sep 24, 2024
Charisma, a social coaching program developed by the Center for BrainHealth, uses generative AI and gaming technology to create realistic virtual environments, helping individuals improve social skills with the guidance of a coach—and now it’s scaling up with AWS.
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AWS To Host a Gen AI ‘Digital Inclusion’ Hackathon in North Texas in September
by | Aug 14, 2024
"Breaking Barriers: A Generative AI Hackathon for Digital Inclusion" will take place September 20-23 at the AT&T Foundry in Plano. WIth over $15,000 in prizes, the event is sponsored by Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip market, and Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the Claude AI chatbot.
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Dallas-Based KaarTech Names President of North America, VP Position

by | Nov 24, 2023

Dallas-based KaarTech, a global SAP and digital transformation consulting company, has named Prabhakar Prasad president of North America and Rajesh Raj vice president and head of enterprise business.

The leadership announcement coincided with the company revealing its “North Star” plan for long-term expansion in North America.

Maran Nagarajan, KaarTech’s CEO, expressed enthusiasm about the leadership additions and the five-point expansion plan....

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Irving’s Pieces Technologies Launches ‘Sculpted AI’ for Health Systems
Developed with the latest generative AI services from Amazon Web Services, Sculpted AI integrates with patient records to reduce repetitive manual reviews and admin tasks, while monitoring patients and flagging risks. Pieces says it's "tailor made" for health systems right down to the individual physician level.
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Innovate Faster: AWS Launches New Accelerator to Boost Generative AI Startups
by | Apr 10, 2023
Generative AI could revolutionize industries ranging from film and healthcare to tech and manufacturing. The AWS Generative AI Accelerator seeks to be a gamechanger for entrepreneurs already developing minimal viable products in this space, offering valuable resources like production assistance, customized mentoring, networking opportunities, and connections with potential investors. Deadline to apply is April 17.
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Fort Worth-Based American Airlines Orders Up to 20 Boom Supersonic Aircraft
Nearly 30 years after the last Concorde flight, American Airlines is betting on a supersonic future. The Fort Worth-based airline has ordered up to 20 Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft, with an option to order up to 40 more. But don't book your flight yet: Denver-based Boom doesn't expect to roll its first Overture off the production line until 2025, and the first passenger flights are slated for 2029.

When they do take flight, the Overtures are expected to fly up to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water, reaching destinations in as little as half the time of subsonic airliners.
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Addison Tech Firm Securonix Raises Nearly $12M in New Funding

by | Feb 7, 2020
The new funds bring the total funding for the Addison-based cybersecurity and threat detection technology provider to more than $40M.
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Data center
Dallas is No. 3 Among Global Data Center Markets, C&W Study Says
by | Jan 21, 2020
Cushman & Wakefield evaluated 1,162 data centers across 38 global markets in its just-released Data Center Market Comparison.
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funding
Linux Academy, Cloud Assessments Secures $6.8M Series A Funding
by | Oct 26, 2017
The funds will be used to continue expansion of Linux Academy’s content catalog, and grow its Cloud Assessments' platform with new training and hiring tools.
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