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From SaaS to Coding to Social Impact, See What Awaits You at Dallas Startup Week

by | Aug 2, 2022
Dallas Startup Week is only days away. In addition to three big summits, the DEC Network's flagship week-long event will offer sessions on 21 different "tracks." From social impact to startup funding to esports and emerging tech, here's a look at what the week holds in store.
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‘Affecting Every Aspect of Our Society’: McKinney Startup Aims to Identify Mental Health Issues
by | May 31, 2022
Many who are diagnosed with a mental health condition had no idea the symptoms they suffered were related to mental health. McKinney-based Connected Mind aims to change that with technology that screens people for the most common types of mental health conditions. “It's like being interviewed by a psychologist, but it's a computer,” says CEO and CTO Christian Lehinger.
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DI People: Techstars, Critical Start, VolunteerNow, Corganics, and More Make Moves
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from the Richardson Chamber, PICKUP, BPS Technology, the Frontiers of Flight Museum, UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, and Giving DNA. Plus, Governor Abbott appoints three North Texans to the Governor's Commission for Women.
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After Opening a New Office in Miami Beach, CourMed is Bringing its Concierge Health Care Platform Home to North Texas
by | Feb 23, 2022
McKinney-based CourMed, a concierge health care services delivery company, has expanded with a regional office in Miami Beach and a growing presence in several Western states. “There's an opportunity for us to really create something new in the marketplace that doesn't exist,” its founder and CEO Derrick Miles tells Dallas Innovates. “This is a totally different type of care. We call it the antithesis of seven-minute medicine.”
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Here’s How Dallas-Based HealthTech Company VivoDoc Plans to Simplify Healthcare With AI and ML

by | Jul 14, 2021
VivoDoc is striving to reestablish the patient-physician relationship by offering tools that manage the business side of healthcare and aid patients—all in one platform. In cutting out the middle man, the technology provides a “one-stop-shop” that makes healthcare easy, accessible, and affordable. Set to launch in the coming weeks, the platform is already backed by $1 million from physician investors who plan to use it in their own independent practices.
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Recuro Health’s At-Home COVID Rapid Test Platform Featured at Census Bureau and HHS’s TOPx Solutions Showcase
by | May 27, 2021
The new Richardson-based digital health startup, led by several leaders from Teladoc, aims to offer consumers a "personalized digital medical home." It recently closed a $2.9M funding round and acquired telehealth startup SupDoc.
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Berkshire Biomedical Wants To Transform Virtual Patient Care through Novel Medication-Administering Device
by | Nov 24, 2020
The Dallas-based startup's tech is set to prevent medication non-adherence, which accounts for avoidable healthcare spending in the range of $100 to $300 billion.
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Dallas’ Signify Health Acquires Tech Company PatientBlox To Accelerate Value-Based Care Transition
by | Nov 23, 2020
By using PatientBlox's blockchain technology, Signify Health also hopes to build its prospective provider payment capabilities out faster.
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Fast-Growing Telehealth Startup Expands HQ With McKinney EDC Innovation Fund Grant

by | Oct 12, 2020
The incentive-based innovation fund, launched just this year, continues to fuel the growth of tech startups in McKinney. The latest is MyTelemedicine, a SaaS platform that powers modern remote healthcare technologies.
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DFW Leaders Discuss How COVID-19 Has Fueled Innovation in Health Care, Philanthropy, and More
by | Oct 12, 2020
"The downside of a pandemic is that it's frightening. The good thing is, sometimes it speeds up things that probably needed to happen. Like telemedicine," Nicole Small, CEO of LH Capital/Lyda Hill Philanthropies, said during the event.
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Children’s Health Innovators Program Lifts Veil on Health Care Research and Breakthroughs
by | Oct 6, 2020
Health Wildcatters CEO Hubert Zajicek, Perot Jain Principal Cindy Revol, Lyda Hill Philanthropies CEO Nicole Small, and others will be on a panel about how the health care and tech industries have been innovative during COVID-19 as part of the new Children’s Health program launch on Oct. 8.
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Experts Share Five Things Health Care Startups Need to Know About Securities and Health Care Laws
by | Oct 5, 2020
In a recent Dallas Startup Week discussion, Polsinelli Shareholder Adam Hull and Gray Reed Senior Counsel Matthew Lipton gave advice on regulations, insurance reimbursements, and intellectual property issues.
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Workforce Wellness: Dallas’ Catapult Health Launches a New Program That Brings Virtual Checkups Home

by | Jun 25, 2020
The clinically based Virtual Checkup program gives employers with remote workforces and satellite locations a new option of preventive care for employees.
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Follow the Money: Door Gets $5.4M, Ikonopedia Nets $2M in Series C, Muzooka Notes $3.9M
by | Feb 28, 2019
You’ll also find news about EnTouch Controls, Sea Pine Technologies, Worksoft, TPG Capital, and SanoTech 360 in this roundup of investment, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies and investors in North Texas.
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Medtech Phynd Technologies Raises $8M in Series B Funding
by | Jan 29, 2019
The investment will further support Phynd's embedding robust provider information in internal and external systems across its clients' businesses.
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Tessa Hoskin: Mentor, Author, and Alpha Female Gives a Real-World Perspective
by | Oct 15, 2018
A mentor in a wide variety of industries and disciplines, Tessa Hoskin uses her educational and business experiences to help startup founders. She's even found time to be a published author.
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