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Gig Wage Raises $2.5M Follow-On to Its Recent $7.5M Series A Round

by | Jan 19, 2021
The latest round brings the Dallas-based fintech's total Series A funding to approximately $10 million, the startup told us. Founder and CEO Craig J. Lewis plans to quadruple his team by the end of 2021.
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Meet the Future 50: Dallas-Fort Worth Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know in 2021
These standouts—entrepreneurs, leaders, inventors, creatives, and educators—are disrupting industries, solving challenges, and making Dallas-Fort Worth (and beyond) a better place in a year like no other.
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ICYMI 2020: The Q3-Q4 Archives

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Tuesday, Dec. 22

THREE THINGS

⓵ EXPANSION: About a year after making its debut in Fort Worth, Air Pros USA is expanding its North Texas footprint with a new office in Plano....

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Startups Are the Key to Fort Worth’s Economic Recovery, New HSC Report Shows
by | Nov 17, 2020
New research funded by HSC and released by Sparkyard shows that startups created 155,307 new jobs in Tarrant County from 2013 to 2018.
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North Texas Coffee Innovators NuZee and Farmer Brothers Team to Expand Manufacturing, Scale Sustainably

by | Nov 12, 2020
The Plano-based startup and the 108-year-old Northlake-based coffee company want to brew up success with a new strategic partnership. The vision? To change the way single-serve coffee is enjoyed in America.

Advanced machines in a zero-waste facility could ultimately produce up to 300 million eco-friendly alternatives, including single-serve tea bags, coffee pouches, and pour-over drip cups.
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ActiveOps’ Performance Benchmarking Tool Uses AI to Give Companies a Competitive Advantage
by | Nov 5, 2020
Using live operations data, OpsIndex measures and compares performance across back-office teams to answer the question: How good are we?
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Qorvo Wins $75M Navy Contract for Next-Gen RF Semiconductor Facility in Richardson
by | Nov 4, 2020
Qorvo's Infrastructure and Defense Products, led by James Klein, will develop advanced microelectronics products and technologies in a next-level RF facility.

The DoD project, known as SHIP, is aimed at national security and U.S. technology leadership.
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Dallas-Based One Network Enterprises to Modernize the U.S. Navy’s Supply Chain With a New $43M Contract
by | Nov 4, 2020
One Network, which recently also was awarded a $62M contract by the Air Force, will provide the Navy with a modernized global platform that will support both ashore and afloat capabilities.
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Adaptive3D Closes on a Series B Investment to Scale Up On Materials for 21st Century Manufacturing

by | Oct 29, 2020
Dallas-based Adaptive3D, a startup spun out of UT Dallas, wants to change how the world mass manufacturers plastics and rubbers. The company, which has a team of inventors and a large IP portfolio, plans to use the funds to scale production and distribution to deliver photoresin parts at a fraction of the weight and cost.
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This New Dallas Firm Offers ‘Concierge-Level Service’ With its eDiscovery Platform for the Construction Industry
by | Oct 28, 2020
Founded by former construction company lawyers and specialists in electronic discovery, Construction Discovery Experts (CDE) uses AI and machine learning to help make litigation less painful.
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Navigating a Prolonged COVID-19: 6 Tips For Your Small Business to Survive a Masked Economy
by | Oct 28, 2020
COVID-19 cases have continued to rise, causing many to suggest that another shutdown is looming. Small businesses should be preparing for how to survive—and thrive—if that's the case, experts say. Here's six tips from Dallas-based Vista Bank on what small business owners can start doing, which includes information on a potential new PPP program and new guidelines for PPP forgiveness.
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Mayor’s Star Council Announces Its 2020-21 Class of Emerging Leaders
by | Oct 26, 2020
This year, 40 young Dallas professionals in eight areas of cultural and industry influence were picked to join the Mayor's Star Council. Here's a look at MSC's ninth class, dubbed #Redefine9.
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Smoothie King CEO Wan Kim to Star on ‘Undercover Boss’ This Friday

by | Oct 20, 2020
Coppell-based Smoothie King is the latest North Texas brand to send its top executive undercover to see what truly happens on the front lines. Tune in Oct. 23 on CBS (and get an early sneak peek with our photo gallery).
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When COVID Struck, the Sidley Austin Law Firm Shifted Toward Employment Law, Bankruptcy Work
by | Oct 15, 2020
Sidley Austin made an action plan that emphasized areas of legal work that it anticipated would ramp up during a downturn as the pandemic began to make its way to the U.S., says Dallas office managing partner Yvette Ostolaza.
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Dallas-Based Arcosa Makes $87M Acquisition That Could Reduce Transportation Costs, Carbon Footprint
by | Oct 12, 2020
The acquisition, a follow-on to another one Arcosa made in January, will expand the company's recycled aggregates platform into the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
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DFW Leaders Discuss How COVID-19 Has Fueled Innovation in Health Care, Philanthropy, and More
by | Oct 12, 2020
"The downside of a pandemic is that it's frightening. The good thing is, sometimes it speeds up things that probably needed to happen. Like telemedicine," Nicole Small, CEO of LH Capital/Lyda Hill Philanthropies, said during the event.
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