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Hampr founder Laurel Hess [Photo: hampr]
Dallas-Based Hampr Turns a Household Chore Into a Startup Success
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | Mar 4, 2025
Four years and about 600,000 laundry loads later, founder Laurel Hess has scaled to 33 major metros across 19 states.
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Feb 26, 2025
The southern half of Dallas County is home to just over 1.05 million residents. That’s about 40% of the total number of people who call Dallas County home—and roughly 200,000 more than the entire population of San Francisco....
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Nov 4, 2024
Grant Thornton weighs in on perception versus reality of dealmaking in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 7, 2023
A web portal for the Texas Small Business Credit Initiative goes live on Oct. 9. Small business owners, it's time to engage with your lenders to explore this new avenue for financial support.
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From left: Brian Davis, Nicolas Baca-Storni, and Jayme Byrd [Photo: Courtesy of Inclusion Cloud]
Bridging the Tech Talent Gap: A Deep Dive into the North Texas Tech Scene
by Inclusion Cloud | Sep 12, 2023
Amid a booming tech surge, U.S. companies grapple with a pressing issue: a tight pool of tech talents. Even an innovation powerhouse like Dallas-Fort Worth can't escape the crunch. Here's how companies can navigate to ensure continued growth.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 9, 2023
At the recent Entrepreneur Showcase in Dallas, four emerging startups were spotlighted alongside Biden Cabinet Member Isabella Casillas Guzman, who leads the Small Business Administration, and Mark Madrid, the driving force behind SBA's Office of Entrepreneurial Development. “I feel like I’ve just been to a TED talk with these entrepreneurs' words of wisdom,” Madrid said at the event powered by Dallas College and The DEC Network.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 25, 2023
More tech jobs were added in Texas in 2022 than any other state, and Dallas-Fort Worth continues to be a major driving force in tech, according to a new report released by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce....
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 11, 2023
Roam in Grandscape is the company's eighth location and the first outside the Atlanta metropolitan area, the company said. The Colony location—Roam’s largest workplace—offers 17 luxury meeting spaces and 70 private offices complemented by a member-only shared workspace. Take a look at how Roam is shaking up how work gets done.
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Left: LinedanceAI co-founder Mohamed Elwazer; Center illustration: leonello/iStock; Right: Lantern Pharma CEO Panna Sharma
16 Biotech Companies in Dallas-Fort Worth ‘Putting the Tech in Bio’ to Drive Breakthroughs
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 1, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth is well known for its tech expertise. Now it being recognized as the place where technology meets life science—a convergence that’s driving rapid growth in the biotech ecosystem. Leaders in the industry attribute this success to the unique convergence of the region’s exceptional tech talent pool and cutting-edge developments in life science....
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 19, 2022
“More intense innovative activity leads to higher rates of economic progress," researchers for an international conference noted last year. That's certainly true of Dallas-Fort Worth, which had the No. 5 fastest-growing economy of any U.S. metro this year, according to the American Growth Project. DFW and the other top four metros on the list share a key distinction: They're all hubs for tech and innovation.
The report says DFW's attractiveness helps bolster its existing “diversity and strength across industries,” while noting that health care is a “major driver of economic growth” in the region.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 14, 2022
According to Dallas-based CBRE’s most recent annual Scoring Tech Talent report, Dallas-Fort Worth now stands in the No. 9 spot, jumping up four places from last year’s report—one of the biggest gains seen by any metro area. The region also ranks No. 5 for women in the tech workforce.
Over the past five years, DFW’s talent pool has grown by nearly 15%, with close to 188,000 residents employed in the industry.
Over the past five years, DFW’s talent pool has grown by nearly 15%, with close to 188,000 residents employed in the industry.
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by Dave Moore |
Jul 27, 2021
Spot Parking, which creates a digital twin of parking spaces in cities, universities, and more, is looking to set up operations in Dallas-Fort Worth to back its strategy for entering the U.S. market.
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Reality TV star and entrepreneur Catherine Lowe (left) and HerTexas founderJasmin Brand, talk at WEDallas [Image: Courtesy Capital One]
The DEC Network and Capital One Equip Mompreneurs With Business Basics at WEDallas Event
by Capital One | Jul 7, 2021
Powerhouse women honed in on investing and marketing as well as their personal stories on balancing motherhood while running a successful venture. Find out what reality television star Catherine Lowe and other successful entrepreneurial minds had to say.
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by Dave Moore |
May 11, 2021
Nonprofit BUiLT is hosting the event to highlight the success and possibilities of Black tech talent in the region. “There is no talent pipeline problem,” says Peter Beasley, co-founder of the Blacks United in Leading Technology International. “Black tech talent is widely available, especially in North Texas.”
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 19, 2021
Here's a round up of resources that can help in North Texas' unprecedented winter storm.
You'll also find updates on funding, grants, and assistance for navigating the COVID-19 crisis in Dallas-Fort Worth.
You'll also find updates on funding, grants, and assistance for navigating the COVID-19 crisis in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 11, 2021
Here are 32 North Texas startups that successfully pulled in capital to back their ventures.
Fitting the digital demands of a global pandemic, it's a tech-heavy group, with liberal doses of biotech and healthcare-related firms.
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