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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 David Seeley |
May 31, 2023
Arlington-based Six Flags Entertainment wants to make it easier for its guests to buy food and drinks in a frictionless way. So it's partnering with Amazon and Coca-Cola on a joint venture to pilot Amazon's Just Walk Out technology at a New Jersey Six Flags theme park beginning June 1.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 4, 2022
SKU Dallas set up shop in North Texas in 2020, partnering with DFW CPG as a local arm of the Austin-based CPG-focused accelerator. It's graduated 12 companies since then, including local plant-based jerky brand All Y’alls Foods, along with Texas-based mmmpanadas and Meli’s Monster Cookies.
Now it's announced its third lineup of CPG startups. All female-founded, they range from a Brooklyn sexual wellness and body product company to a California-based Vietnamese cold-brew coffee brand.
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 3, 2022
The Fort Worth-based startup already engages with fans at college and NBA games and PGA Tour events. Now, as it raises a $5 million funding round to accelerate its growth, it's seeking to move beyond sports contests and into big concert events, a Digital Student service, and even suicide prevention.
Dallas Innovates talked to Co-Founder and CEO Cameron Fowler about his vision for his technology as an "all-in-one solution."
Dallas Innovates talked to Co-Founder and CEO Cameron Fowler about his vision for his technology as an "all-in-one solution."
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‘Biggest World Cup Final Watch Party’ in Dallas Planned for Klyde Warren Park
by David Kirkpatrick | Jul 12, 2018
The event is the only official FIFA World Cup watching party in Dallas and will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Klyde Warren Park.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
May 25, 2018
The impact of the more than 15,000 food and beverage businesses in DFW is substantial, accounting for roughly 370,000 local jobs. And, DFW remains a center of invention in one of the most competitive sectors in the nation.
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by Lance Murray |
May 1, 2018
North Texas nonprofits and educational institutions receive financial backing from foundations and businesses to further their work, while scholarships help further DFW students' educations.
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by Bottle Rocket |
Jan 30, 2018
Q+A | Musings on innovation from the region's paradigm-shifting companies and organizations
sponsored by Bottle Rocket
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