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Left to right: Mili Co-Founders Chirag Gandhi (CEO), Siddharth Bulia (CTO), and Vennela Miryala (CPO). [Photo: Mili]
Plano-Based Mili, an AI Meeting Assistant for Wealth Management Firms, Emerges from Stealth With $2M
by Lance Murray | Jan 7, 2025
Mili's "invisible AI assistant" features deep integrations with major wealth platforms including Salesforce, Wealthbox, Practifi, and Salentica. By automating meeting documentation, it aims to save wealth advisers "more than eight hours weekly," the startup says.
by Lance Murray |
Nov 7, 2024
Some two dozen new murals of performing artists from Post Malone to Edie Brickell to St. Vincent will be going up at Deep Ellum Art Park, located at the gateway to the historic neighborhood underneath Highway I-345. Attendees of the Deep Ellum Block Party on Nov. 23 will have the chance to pick up a brush and join in.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 29, 2024
The Deep Ellum Foundation is installing new streetlight pole banners on Elm Street, Main Street, and Exposition Avenue that celebrate the neighborhood by highlighting business owners, artists, musicians, and other stakeholders "who have invested their talent, sweat, and tears into the incomparable Deep Ellum Cultural District," the foundation said.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 27, 2024
Hosted by THEM! Texas Car Club on Oct. 26, the free-to-the-public Invasion Car Show will feature pre-1965 cars from across Texas and beyond taking over a quarter mile of historic Deep Ellum. The car club and show were inspired by the cult classic '50s sci-fi film about the atomic age—and an invading gang of supersized ants.
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Hari Mari's new Deep Ellum HQ [Photo: Squire Haskins Inc]
Dallas Flip-Flop Brand Hari Mari Steps Into New Deep Ellum HQ
by David Seeley | Jul 17, 2024
Just months after raising $10 million to spur its growth, and weeks after partnering with the Dallas Cowboys' Zack Martin, the Dallas-based footwear, gear, and apparel brand is sliding into a new home in the heart of Deep Ellum.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 14, 2024
The surf's almost up in Deep Ellum, the historic neighborhood just east of downtown Dallas. Next Thursday, June 20, Goodsurf—a culinary and surf concept and subsidiary of Urban Entertainment Concepts—will open the doors and waves of its new venue at 317 S. Second Avenue.
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by David Seeley |
May 1, 2024
After acquiring the North American and Caribbean rights to Germany-based citywave "standing wave" technology last year through its parent, Urban Entertainment Concepts, Goodsurf is ready to start rolling nonstop waves in one of Dallas' most entertainment-oriented neighborhoods.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 4, 2024
Immersive Gamebox, a London- and Dallas-based group gaming company with two North Texas locations at Grandscape in The Colony and in Deep Ellum in Dallas, launched its new Tetris 1991 experience in late January and invited a special guest to kick it off: 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who earlier that month became the first person to "beat" the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Tetris.
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Rest's smoking detection system sniffs out cigarette smoke where it's not supposed to be. [Image: Rest]
Dallas-Based Rest, Newly Rebranded from NoiseAware, Lands Its Smoking Detection Solution on Oracle Cloud Marketplace
by David Seeley | Feb 9, 2024
Based in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood, NoiseAware went beyond its mission to detect noise-blasting guests by offering smoking detection technology. Now rebranded as Rest, it aims to help hotels and short-term rentals nip cigarette and marijuana smokers and vapers in the bud.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 16, 2023
From noon to 8 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 18, Dallas' Deep Ellum is continuing its 150th birthday celebration with the Deep Ellum Music Festival. Free and open to the public, the festival will benefit Foundation 45, a local mental health nonprofit born in Deep Ellum and serving musicians, artists, and the entire community with free group therapy.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 27, 2023
Saturday's event is one of many marking this year's 150th anniversary of Dallas' historic Deep Ellum neighborhood. Saturday's event will begin just down the street from the center beneath an overpass, where attendees will experience the Center’s outdoor installation, “Invisible Deep Ellum,” followed by a live music performance at the new center by the Light Crust Doughboys.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 12, 2023
The neighborhood just east of downtown will be the home of Goodsurf Dallas, a new entertainment concept that combines surfing with a bar, restaurant, and beer garden experience. It will deploy "standing wave" technology from Germany-based citywave—from which Goodsurf's parent company just made a major acquisition.
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Bird 3 model scooters are being deployed in Dallas beginning May 24, 2023. [Photo: Bird]
Rental E-Scooters, E-Bikes Return to Dallas as Part of City’s New Micromobility Program
by David Seeley | May 23, 2023
Like a flock returning to a favorite haunt, electric rental scooters and e-bikes from Bird, Lime, and Superpedestrian will begin appearing on Dallas streets Wednesday. The move comes three years after they were banned from the city due to safety and clutter concerns. The focus now is on providing a more sustainable, safe, orderly, and equitable experience. See what's different this time—and how riders could get slapped with fines up to $200 for breaking the rules.
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by David Seeley |
May 1, 2023
Slutty Vegan got its start in Atlanta in 2018 when founder and CEO Pinky Cole began selling her signature plant-based burgers over Instagram. Now, after raising a $25 million Series A and opening 10 restaurants in Georgia, New York, and Alabama, she's opening her first Lone Star location right here in North Texas—and aiming to build "a billion-dollar brand."
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 14, 2023
Known as the “birthplace of the blues in Texas,” the district just east of downtown Dallas regularly buzzes with live music, street art, galleries, restaurants, clubs, and culturally creative retail. But all this year, Deep Ellum is kicking it up a notch. Here's what's in store over the next several weeks.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 21, 2023
Stelmarksi has been the design director of Perkins&Will's Dallas office since 2011. According to Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster, "nobody has done more to shape the city’s built environment this century."
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