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Caris Life Sciences Debuts on Nasdaq With $7.66B Valuation

The North Texas-based precision oncology firm raised $494 million in its IPO. Founder David Halbert is now a newly minted biotech billionaire worth an estimated $3.3 billion, Forbes reports.
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Capital One Has an Enterprise Software Business—and It’s Launching AI‑Ready Data Security Tech, Led from North Texas
by | Apr 23, 2025
The banking giant’s commercial software group is scaling cloud-native tools for enterprise, led by a North Texas executive. Its second launch, Databolt, uses tokenization to secure sensitive data and help companies adopt AI with confidence.
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How Ex-Army Helicopter Pilot Kathleen Hildreth Co‑Founded a Billion-Dollar, Denton-Based Defense Contractor
by | Feb 19, 2025
Innovation, competence, and confidence paid dividends for the Michigan native, who helped start and build M1 Support Services en route to becoming one of America’s richest self-made women.
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Fort Worth’s EECU Surpasses $4B in Total Assets
by | Jan 3, 2025
Not-for-profit EECU, the second-largest credit union in North Texas, has doubled in asset size since 2017, when it crossed the $2 billion-in-assets threshold.
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Baker Tilly Elevates Strategic Leader to Drive Growth in Tax Operations

Baker Tilly, a leading advisory, tax, and assurance firm, has promoted Chris Johnson to managing principal of tax operations, effective June 1, 2024.

Johnson, who joined Baker Tilly in 2019 through the strategic acquisition of Montgomery Coscia Greilich LLP, has played a pivotal role in the firm’s success, particularly in his positions as central region tax leader and Baker Tilly International tax leader....

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The Last Word: Gemma Robotics’ Elizabeth Williams on Her Startup’s Autonomous Makeup Application Machine
by | May 31, 2024
Dallas-based Elizabeth (Whitelaw) Williams leads Gemma Robotics, a women-led, international beauty tech startup based in Texas and Haifa, Israel. Founded in 2022, Gemma is building what it calls "the world's first automatic makeup applicating machine."
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The Last Word: HundredX’s Rob Pace on Partnering with Forbes on the 2024 Best Brands for Social Impact List
Dallas-based HundredX, a mission-based data and customer insights provider, partnered with Forbes to create the newly released 2024 Best Brands for Social Impact list. Powered by HundredX data, the list recognizes the top 300 brands for social impact based on over four million pieces of consumer feedback on more than 3,000 businesses during the past year.
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A Taxing Situation: The IRS Has Billions in Enforcement Money and Increased Scrutiny Is Expected in 2024 

Dallas-based tax experts have tips for both corporations and startups.
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Dallas-Based HundredX Partners with Forbes to Create 2024 ‘Best Brands for Customer Service’ Rankings
by | Nov 30, 2023
HundredX said the top five brands for overall best customer service outperformed competitors in all categories measured including people, speed, services provided, and problem resolution. This is the fourth Forbes list powered by HundredX to date.
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The Last Word: Robert Sturns on MP Materials’ Rare Earth Magnet Plant at AllianceTexas
by | Jul 11, 2023
Through a long-term agreement with General Motors, MP Materials is bringing its MP Magnets division to AllianceTexas in Fort Worth. The company is building a new, 200,000-square-foot rare earth magnetics and materials manufacturing facility which will "re-shore" critical components for America's EV batteries, robots, drones, defense systems, and other tech.
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List: Ranked No. 1 in the U.S., Dallas-Based Bestow is Reshaping Life Insurance
by | Jul 11, 2023
The fast-growing company took the U.S. lead on Forbes’ World's Best Life Insurance Companies list. We caught up with Melbourne O’Banion, Bestow's Co-Founder and CEO, (left) for insight into what has driven the startup's rise to the top.
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‘The Upstart Entrepreneurs’: Locals Recognized on the Third Installment of the Forbes Next 1000

by | Sep 27, 2021
Here are the North Texas entrepreneurs who made the Fall cohort of the first-ever Next 1000, which spotlights resilient founders with under $10 million in revenue or funding who 'redefining the American Dream' amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BeautyBio CEO Jamie O’Banion Advises ‘Women of Innovation’: Don’t Let Doubt Get Under Your Skin
by | Sep 1, 2020
O'Banion shared industry lessons she has learned in a decade of entrepreneurship during Dallas Startup Week's Women of Innovation Summit.
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Two North Texans Made the Forbes List of America’s Richest Self-Made Women
by | Jun 7, 2019
Meet the women from Dallas and Aubrey who were two of 80 to make Forbes' 2019 ranking: Poo~Pourri's Suzy Batiz and M1 Support Services' Kathleen Hildreth.
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UTD Ranks First Among Texas Public Universities on Forbes’ List of Best Value Colleges
by | May 6, 2019
Forbes' "definitive guide" to getting the best return on a college investment is here. UT Dallas ranks No. 1 among public universities in Texas. Among public and private universities in the U.S., UTD ranks No. 31, up from No. 61 last year. See what other Dallas-Fort Worth schools made the list.
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