investment

Flying Green: American Airlines Boosts Investment in ZeroAvia, Orders 100 Hydrogen-Electric Engines

by | Jul 11, 2024

Fort Worth-based airline industry giant American Airlines has agreed to buy 100 hydrogen-electric engines intended to power regional jet aircraft from clean aviation innovator ZeroAvia. The engines produce zero inflight emissions except for water vapor, the airline said.

“Advancing the transition of commercial aviation to a low-carbon future requires investments in promising technologies, including alternate forms of propulsion,” American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said in a statement....

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Plano-Based Zips Car Wash Soaks Up $70M Investment From New York PE Firm
by | Jun 10, 2024

Plano-based Zips Car Wash has secured a $70 million investment from Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity firm known for its hands-on approach with lower middle-market companies....

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Nashville PE Firm Invests in Dallas Medical Management Consultancy OccMD
by | May 6, 2024
Council Capital said its investment will be used to scale OccMD’s workers’ compensation and injury benefit services and introduce the company into more states and lines of insurance business.
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Dallas Real Estate Fintech Backflip Raises $15M in Series A Round

by | Apr 29, 2024
Backflip's "all-in-one" platform aims to give fix-and-flip investors the technology, data, and financing strategies to successfully flip houses at scale. Led by New York-based FirstMark Capital, the Series A round comes after Backflip said it crossed $10 million in net revenue run rate—"reaching near profitability."
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Dallas’ Crow Holdings Snaps Up Six-State Manufactured Housing Portfolio, Plans $30M Improvements
by | Apr 1, 2024

Crow Holdings, a Dallas-based national real estate investment and development firm, recently announced acquired the acquisition of a privately owned 46-property, 9,838-pad, all-age manufactured housing portfolio across Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, and Florida....

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Jerry Jones Makes Additional $100M Investment in Frisco-Based Natural Gas Producer Comstock Resources
by | Mar 21, 2024
Jones, who's already the majority shareholder in Comstock Resources, has agreed to make an additional $100.45 million equity investment in the company via two entities he controls.
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Crow Holdings Closes Its Largest Fund Yet, Raising $3.1B for Real Estate Bets

by | Feb 21, 2024
The $3.1 billion mega-fund from Dallas real estate investment firm Crow Holdings arms the company with financial firepower to target assets in high-growth markets across the country.
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Dallas-Based Valesco Industries Sells Its Interests in Drug Free Sport International
by | Feb 12, 2024
DFSI is an international third-party administrator of drug prevention/education and drug-testing programs for professional, collegiate, and amateur sports organizations. It's also a third-party service provider for clinical and mobile health services.
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Dallas’ Trive Capital Is Taking a U.K. Bowling and Entertainment Company Private
by | Feb 8, 2024
Tenpin offers customers a unique experience via a mix of bowling lanes, video arcades, escape rooms, karaoke, laser tag, pool, table tennis, and soft play across 53 centers. The partnership with Trive will allow Tenpin to accelerate its expansion strategy in the U.K. and continue to invest in its site portfolio to enhance customer experience, the Dallas PE firm said.
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Dallas-Based Venture Capital Firm Growing With Third Fund

In 2023, founders searching for venture capital found fewer investors and less money. Pitchbook reports that the number of U.S. deals in the first three quarters of 2023 was just slightly higher than the number made during the same period in 2018.  ...

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Dallas’ NexPoint Capital Invests $2M in Dallas-Founded Bioplastic Manufacturer PlantSwitch

by | Nov 28, 2023
PlantSwitch, founded by two SMU students in 2020, has a carbon-negative production process that upcycles agricultural waste to produce biodegradable and compostable resins for single-use products. The NexPoint investment is part of a new $7.7 million early fundraising round.
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Dallas’ Grey Rock to Invest Up to $100M in CarbonCycle’s Carbon Capture and Sequestration Platform
by | Oct 5, 2023

Dallas-based private equity firm Grey Rock Investment Partners is making a controlling investment in Colorado-based CarbonCycle LLC via a capital commitment of up to $100 million.

Grey Rock said that it’s making the investment through its affiliated investment vehicles and that the money will fund additional growth of the company. Founded in 2013, Grey Rock seeks to make positive environmental impact investments....

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