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‘The Next Fintech Unicorn’: Dallas-Based CollateralEdge Emerges From Stealth With $3.5M and a Stellar Investor Group

VC-turned-entrepreneur Joe Beard and financier Joel Radtke co-founded the new fintech to solve a "massive problem" in middle-market lending. CollateralEdge aims to help community and regional banks overcome collateral shortfalls, improve credit risk management, and drive profitable, long-term customer relationships. Capital partners include VC firm Perot Jain, Capital Factory CEO Josh Baer, and Kneeland Youngblood, the founding partner of Pharos Capital Group.
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Alkami Makes First Acquisition Since IPO With MK Decisioning Systems Deal
by | 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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Dallas-Based Bestow Named To 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50
by | May 26, 2021
Like the fast-growing digital life insurance company says, "we do things a little differently around here."
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Dallas Fintech Zirtue Receives Investment From Northwestern Mutual, Bringing Its Total Seed Funding to $4M
by | 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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Local Auto Fintech Car Capital Launches Operations With $8.8M Series A

by | Apr 6, 2021
Grapevine-based Car Capital recently launched to provide technology that gives dealers the power to approve 100 percent of consumers that enter a dealership, regardless of credit history.
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Plano-Based Alkami Plans IPO Launch at $2B Valuation
by | 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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Dallas-Based Zabo Is Bringing Cryptocurrency International Through a New Partnership
by | 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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Founded by PEAK6, This Action-Oriented Fintech Coalition to Fight Systemic Racism Is Led in Dallas
by | 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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Dallas Fintech Startup Takes the Awkwardness Out of Lending to Friends and Family

Dennis Cail launched Zirtue to reimagine lending. Its patent-pending app has been downloaded by hundreds of thousands of users. Ongoing access to Google engineers will help the fintech scale faster.
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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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Plano-Based Fintech Uses Voice Authentication as Quick Means to Prove Identities
by | 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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Irving-Based Fintech CardNow Reimagines Gift Cards With On-Demand Activations
by | 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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Dallas Fintech Gig Wage Raises $7.5M Series A Led by its New Infrastructure Bank Partner Green Dot

by | Oct 27, 2020
Gig Wage and Green Dot want to bring modern banking to the gig economy. In leveraging Green Dot's Banking as a Service technology, Gig Wage will be able to design and deploy its own customized banking and money movement solutions, as well as its own debit card.
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Frisco Fintech Payrix Extends Its Series A Financing, Surpasses $50M in Investments
by | Oct 1, 2020
Payrix, a one-stop-shop for accepting and sending payments, is backed by Jerry Jones-founded Blue Star Innovation Partners and Boston-based Providence Strategic Growth.
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Entrepreneurs celebrate a 2019 Impact Ventures' cohort, photographed in the time before COVID. [Photo: Impact Ventures]
Apply to Accelerate: Diversity‑focused Impact Ventures Opens Applications for Fall 2020 Program
by | Sep 15, 2020
Founder and CEO Benjamin Vann says the startup accelerator aims to create more diverse and inclusive ecosystems.
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Richardson Fintech Launches Credit Building Solution in Response to COVID-19
by | Jul 30, 2020
The duo behind ImpactX Partners has developed a credit-building loan service making it easy and affordable to prop up lagging credit scores without going into further debt.
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