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Tahmineh Maloney is Katapult's new general counsel [Image: Katapult]
New York Fintech Katapult Makes Executive Hires Following an HQ Move to Plano
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.
by Alex Edwards |
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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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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Riding the Funding Wave: These DFW Startups Got the Money in 2020
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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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 10, 2021
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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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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Now Open: The Bosai-Tech Open Innovation Challenge Is Looking For Startups in Emerging Tech
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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by Alex Edwards |
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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by Alex Edwards |
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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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 15, 2020
Founder and CEO Benjamin Vann says the startup accelerator aims to create more diverse and inclusive ecosystems.
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Dallas-based Exgratias co-founders Emanuel Green and Thomas Langehennig [Photos: Megan West via Exgratias]
Impact Ventures: Meet Exgratias, a Financial Platform for Entertainment Gig Workers
by Alex Edwards | Jul 16, 2020
Dallas Innovates is highlighting startups in Impact Ventures' accelerator program, which aims to assist the underrepresented startup community. First up is Exgratias, a first-of-its-kind financial platform for the entertainment industry that helps contractual workers get paid quickly and effortlessly.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jul 16, 2020
Founder and CEO Benjamin Vann was motivated by the opportunity gap: "As of 2018, just 2 percent of minorities received venture capital funding and 2 percent of minorities were represented in the tech industry workforce,” he says. A Dallas Innovates series highlights startups in Impact Ventures' first spring program.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 30, 2020
AT&T and UT Southwestern Medical are among Zirtue's corporate partners. The startup wants to help businesses collect more and write off less with its relationship-lending app.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Mar 10, 2020
Solovis, founded to help asset allocators make better investment decisions, will be available through Nasdaq’s eVestment group, broadening eVestment’s capabilities. Solovis, which grew by 300 percent in 2018, will continue to operate out of its offices in Irving.
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