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Arlington’s First Rate Launches $25M VC Fund to Boost Seed-Stage Fintech Startups
by Alex Edwards | Dec 8, 2021
First Rate Ventures says it's the first fintech-focused venture capital firm in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that will focus on investments in early-stage startups in wealth, investment, regulatory, and mortgage technologies.
by Alex Edwards |
Dec 7, 2021
Zirtue's Alternative Payment Solution—operating in stealth mode to Fortune 500 corporate partners since early 2021—is now open to all businesses for consumers to pay their bills. It's a "new level of convenience," CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Cail says: The product gives those who are struggling a way to lean on friends, family, and loved ones to make payments, while providing accountability and trust to the lender.
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by Alex Edwards |
Nov 2, 2021
The coalition—dedicated to hiring, promoting, and retaining more Black professionals in fintech—has doubled its number of partners and participating firms and served more than 250 students from four cities just a year after forming. Executive Director Michelle Williams leads the coalition from Dallas.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 20, 2021
Dallas VC-turned-entrepreneur Joe Beard and financier Joel Radtke are innovating debt capital delivery at CollateralEdge.
It's a mission: The founders want to reduce the barriers for businesses to access lower-cost bank financing. By partnering with the banks, the founders can solve problems for all stakeholders with their tech solution that's backed by high-powered capital partners.
It's a mission: The founders want to reduce the barriers for businesses to access lower-cost bank financing. By partnering with the banks, the founders can solve problems for all stakeholders with their tech solution that's backed by high-powered capital partners.
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Alkami CEO Mike Hansen [Photo: Michael Samples]
Alkami Makes First Acquisition Since IPO With MK Decisioning Systems Deal
by Alex Edwards | Sep 13, 2021
The Plano-based fintech plans to expand its total addressable market and gain new cross-selling opportunities via the strategic acquisition.
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by Alex Edwards |
May 26, 2021
Like the fast-growing digital life insurance company says, "we do things a little differently around here."
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by Alex Edwards |
Apr 27, 2021
The VC arm of Northwestern Mutual, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, invests in financial technology startups that are focused on historically underbanked and underfunded populations. That's Zirtue's bread and butter: The growing startup touts the first and only relationship-based lending app that drives financial inclusion and freedom.
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by Alex Edwards |
Apr 26, 2021
Katapult, a growing player in the "buy now pay later" market, is also getting ready to go public following a merger with SPAC FinServ Acquisition Corp.
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Plano-Based Alkami Plans IPO Launch at $2B Valuation
by Alex Edwards | Apr 5, 2021
Alkami, under the ticker symbol ALKT, is looking to raise $141 million by selling 6 million shares of its common stock at an expected price of $22-25 per share.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 25, 2021
By integrating with Money Dashboard, a free personal financial management application based in the UK, Zabo will allow users to view their cryptocurrency balances and transaction history in a single location that includes information on any existing bank accounts.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 11, 2021
Fintech in Action will advance the hiring and promoting of more Black employees in finance and financial technology. Founded by Dallas-based Apex Clearing and its parent company, PEAK6, the coalition will be helmed by local Executive Director Michelle Williams, who previously led The DEC Network's efforts in Southern Dallas.
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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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Craig Lewis [Photo: Jae Oates]
Gig Wage Raises $2.5M Follow-On to Its Recent $7.5M Series A Round
by Alex Edwards | 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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by Sandra Engelland |
Jan 10, 2021
With an increase in call volumes during the pandemic, Illuma Labs' flagship product offers credit unions real-time voice authentication powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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by Riley Farrell |
Dec 9, 2020
CardNow acts as a cyber-Saint Nick, delivering gift cards that consumers can load and activate in a pinch for presents.
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by Alex Edwards |
Nov 24, 2020
Applications are open until Dec. 16 for the contest, which involves four leading Japanese firms on the search for foreign enterprises in IT, IoT, AI, fintech, sensors, satellites, healthcare, drones, and robotics.
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