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BlackRock Launches $30M Texas Electrical Workforce Initiative, Partners With Dallas College and IEC Dallas
by Sandra Engelland | May 6, 2026
Over three years, grants funded by The BlackRock Foundation will be used to help train more than 12,000 Texans for high-paying electrical careers, boosting the workforce needed to support Texas’ rapid growth, BlackRock said.
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by Quincy Preston |
Apr 23, 2026
In a Bloomberg interview with Julie Fine, the former congressman laid out TXSE's timeline: trading this summer, listings in Q4, and first IPOs in Q1 2027.
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Reports: Texas Stock Exchange Settles Trademark Dispute Over ‘TXSE’ as Backing Grows to $270 Million
by Quincy Preston |
Dec 16, 2025
The Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange has resolved a trademark dispute with the Toronto Stock Exchange over its “TXSE” branding, The Texas Lawbook reported. Separately, Bloomberg reported that total funding for TXSE Group, the exchange’s parent company, has reached $270 million with new backing from Goldman and Bank of America.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Nov 6, 2025
TXSE’s launch will spur needed competition and smooth the way for companies to go public, the strategic advisor said at the 2025 Venture Dallas conference. And, over time, he says it will help make Texas America’s ‘center for capital markets’ and become a defining chapter in the state’s economic history, alongside Spindletop and the integrated circuit.
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North Texas’ Aligned Data Centers To Be Acquired for $40 Billion by BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, Microsoft, and Others
by Lance Murray | Oct 15, 2025
A consortium of big industry players called the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) and other partners are snapping up Aligned and its 50 data center campuses across the U.S. and Latin America. AIP's first-ever investment aims to help meet "the growing demand for the infrastructure required as AI continues to reshape the global economy," said BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 1, 2025
Toni Broberg will lead Gigapower’s strategic engagement with local, state, and external stakeholders and support its broadband infrastructure expansion and public policy initiatives.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 24, 2025
With "Y'all Street" gaining momentum by the day, now there's a way to buy into nearly 200 Texas companies with a single ETF. And dozens of North Texas companies are included in TEXN, BlackRock's new exchange-traded fund.
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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.
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The Last Word: TXSE Group’s James Lee On His Planned Launch of the Texas Stock Exchange
by David Seeley | Jun 5, 2024
As we noted in our top story today, Lee's TXSE Group plans to launch the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), focused on Texas and the Southeast U.S. The group says it will provide "a venue to trade and list public companies and the growing universe of exchange-traded products" as a "fully electronic, national securities exchange." That's caused buzz across the Lone Star State—and especially on Wall Street.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 5, 2024
Watch out, Wall Street—a Dallas-based stock exchange is bucking its way into U.S. equity capital markets. And it's already lined up around $120 million in funding from BlackRock, Citadel Securities, and other investors including "prominent business leaders from around the country."
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 24, 2022
The wholesale fiber services provider, Gigapower LLC, will be led by CEO Bill Hogg.
AT&T will be a joint owner and anchor wholesale tenant. As a commercial open-access platform, Gigapower will allow multiple ISPs and companies to rent or lease its fiber network on a wholesale basis.
AT&T will be a joint owner and anchor wholesale tenant. As a commercial open-access platform, Gigapower will allow multiple ISPs and companies to rent or lease its fiber network on a wholesale basis.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 15, 2022
Plus, Dallas real estate startup Nada raises $5.7M, Arlington's Wonder Works Studios raises $5.53M, Exela Technologies in talks to sell off $200M-revenue business unit, PE firm Crossplane Capital closes $325M second fund, and more North Texas deals.
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