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Brazil’s Zallpy Digital Expands to North Texas with New U.S. HQ at The Star in Frisco

by | Feb 22, 2024
CEO Marcelo Castro cited Frisco's "significant presence in the global tech market" as just one reason for making the North Texas city his company's U.S. home base. Zallpy provides custom software development, digital solutions, IT consulting, and outsourcing for companies from startups to Global Fortune 500 brands including BMW.
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How Plug and Play Aims To Spearhead Innovation in North Texas, One Startup and Sector at a Time
Sherif Saadawi, VP of partnerships at Plug and Play, calls his platform "the most active VC in the world by volume of deals"—and that's just one of three pillars it's bringing to Frisco and McKinney, along with corporate-startup matchmaking and sector-focused accelerators. "In almost every metric that we look for that makes a good ecosystem, DFW really ticks all the boxes," he tells Dallas Innovates.
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The Last Word: Steve Case On a “Once in a Lifetime” Kind of Opportunity
by | Sep 15, 2023
Investor and tech pioneer Steve Case, best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, made this call to action yesterday while visiting North Texas at Dallas Startup Week in Frisco. The pandemic "created an opening that's a unique, maybe even once-in-a-lifetime, kind of opportunity," he added.
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A Texas Delegation Is on a Business Development Trip Across Europe This Week
by | Sep 26, 2022
The delegation—including Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott, Texas' secretary of state; leaders from TxEDC, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and EDCs from across North Texas; and more—will travel to London, Paris, and Frankfurt in the next few days. Its mission: sell three of Europe's leading business centers on doing business in Texas. "We look forward to strengthening our business relationships in Europe as well as developing new ones," says Robert Allen, TxEDC president and CEO.
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